I did it, i wrote down everything I ate today. I just copied all my little scraps of paper into my journal. It definitely wasn't the healthiest eating day i've had, but at least i kept track.
Laurie
There is no luckexcept where there is dicipline.
Posts: 1512 | Location: Adams, MA | Registered: March 10, 2004
Ok I am just posting to be a little more accountable. I gave myself free reign the last several days, and thats not good. Today I will write down everything I eat. I am keeping some paper in my pocket so I have no excuses. It will be a crazy stresful day, so this is at least a small step for the day.
Laurie
There is no luckexcept where there is dicipline.
Posts: 1512 | Location: Adams, MA | Registered: March 10, 2004
Drumcorpsmom, I thought I would let you know that you were a great inspiration to me this morning. We face similar struggles and I too used to be a voice of experience after loosing 65 pounds here. That was two years ago and I have seemed to find 30 pounds of it back after the birth of my beautiful baby last February. I wish you the absolute best on your new beginning and I know you will just love the recipies in your Cooking Thin book! My book hasn't arrived yet, but I will try to be more faithful and begin to read this thread each day during the week. Off now to do a little "flying" and then a little reading and hopefully a meal plan for the day before my little miracle baby awakes. He has a cold this week. Can't let it get worse. See everyone tomorrow.
stephanie
"Succeed! Because you have the opportunity to do so." - KD
Posts: 708 | Location: nashville | Registered: March 11, 2004
I gave myself a B- for last week (I am an easy grader). I got sick and used it as an excuse to let some junk food sneak in and not exercise as much. But I still watched the portions, even on the junk, so that's why my grade didn't drop to a C.
----------- Jen
Posts: 2868 | Location: Ohio | Registered: March 11, 2004
Well struggling a bit but that is typical with me and everything I try for a lifestyle change. Have been very tired lately so out of 17 days blew off 5 days of exercise and water not so good. I think I start to late drinking and sweets do well most days but dh took me to the Cheescake Factory this past weekend and we bought a cake... so there that in a nutshell spells trouble. But I iknow if i don't exercise no sliver of cake for me.
My posting here has been slacking too. I have been reading. Welcome everyone new who joined since then. So need to work on a better game plan. Kids all home due to bad weather so going to go work-out now while the house is quiet. Hey did we post our grades for last week? If we did I'm still a 'c' maybe a "c-" for lack of will-power on the sweets.
ttfn Patty
*Summer 7 Challenge Goals*: At least 45 minutes or more of exercise daily Get my water intake in journal stay motivated *If I splurge make ammends by exercisng more. *Eat smaller portions *NO LATE MUNCHING AFTER 10PM. My Hubby's idea
Posts: 230 | Location: poland springs, me,usa | Registered: March 13, 2004
My Game plan: eating out only once this week. Oh, no, I've just discovered I wrote my info on Week 2. So I will just switch the homework around! What a ditz I am!
Quality: More exercises, and spending time with my kids Quantity: More water half my weight in ounces each day, 121 ounces of water. Variety: YMCA and Irving after school workouts.
Gameplan: Small portions and only once eating out this week.
I had zucchini, yellow peppers and celery in olive oil as a side to my ham and cheese sandwich for lunch yesterday, it was yummy!
Well, we joined the YMCA yesterday and spent 3 hours there! It felt so comfortable, why hadn't I done it sooner!
We swam, played basketball, rode the bike and did the circuit weights. I can't wait to get back. I even met a new friend there!
I stepped on the scale and I had lost some more weight.
Oh, I started the Cooking thin book and I love it. It's like a journal, but not so much that I will get bored with writing in it. Can't wait to try some of the recipes though!
Can you tell I'm excited! And my kids had fun also...that was the best part.
Just wanted to post to say that I tried the chickpea salad from week three and it is wonderful. I don't normally like chickpeas but I'm determined to learn to like some new things.
Anyway, I made most of the salad ahead, but left out the spinach and salad greens because I didn't want them to get soggy. This let the chickpeas and other veggies soak up the dressing. When we were ready to serve, we put some greens on a plate and topped them with the rest of the salad. We had leftovers so we will do it the same way when we eat those.
This also worked because the salad was HUGE. I don't think any of my bowls would have held it with the greens.
We had some pan-seared grouper to go with it. I also made kd's cranberry-pecan bread from the first book, and we had the last of that with dinner. (By the way, that recipe is also great, even better the second day.)
----------- Jen
Posts: 2868 | Location: Ohio | Registered: March 11, 2004
Originally posted by DianaB: My goal is to get back in the gym every morning before work. I don't like spending much time on weights so I am looking for something that will interest me. Has anyone tried the "8 Minutes in the Morning" routine? diana
My first suggestion is that you give some thought to your reasons for why you "don't like spending much time on weights" and whether they are more about discomfort or fear or really and truly that you don't enjoy weight training. I know a lot of women have discomfort about going into the often male-dominated arena of the weight room. Weight training is REALLY valuable because it builds muscle--and muscle burns fat! Just a thought.
Second, DVDs aren't going to help you at the gym but, for those mornings you don't make it to the gym, I recommend the "10-Minute Soluntion" series of exercise DVDs. Each DVD has five 10-minute workouts that you can mix and match as you choose. I own several of the series and have rented several others. They're all good, but I especially loved the Kickboxing Bootcamp one.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7251 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
This weeks goals are: 8 glasses of water per day, exercise 3 days, break the chip and chocolate habit.
The eating habits I'd like to change are: 1. grazing for salty and crunchy when I am stressed. 2. Eating unplanned food at night. 3. Having seconds of non-produce dishes.
1. Better: having healthier foods available for munching during these moments Best: Finding other outlets to let off steam.
2. Better: Again, having healthy choices available for these moments Best: Having a true kitchen closing time that I can stick with.
3. Better and Best: Having all-you-can-eat veggie and fruit sides available at each meal.
I haven't tried 8 minutes in the morning but I've done a bunch of quickie workouts - like 8 minute abs and I have a bunch of exercise DVD's - all Gaiam and I like having them. Cue them up on the telly and it's hard to ignore the workout. SheriaV does DVD reviews on the site and will have great ideas for you. Welcome!
I also feel the need to count calories (actually for me, points) but I know that it works. I am now learning to combine the best of the information I know and incorporating it into my "diet" I love KD's diet tips and cookbooks. I find WW points work for me and it's what I know to do. My latest interest is in the real-age diet and the healthy choices it encourages. I add all this into my daybook. Kind of extra work, recording points in my WW log and also writing in my daybook. But the daybook is what I find so encouraging. The nutrition part of my weight loss journey is going well but the gym part is just so-so. I used the holiday as an excuse to sleep in and not go. My goal is to get back in the gym every morning before work. I don't like spending much time on weights so I am looking for something that will interest me. Has anyone tried the "8 Minutes in the Morning" routine? diana
Cindy, Just wanted to say "way to go!". You're doing a lot of the heavy thinking that helps us all think about what does and doesn't work for us. I encourage you to keep working that 'something weird' that happened when you dipped below 200lbs until you figure out what went on and even start composing a list of counter-strategies (or post a new thread on here and you'll get a list that'll knock your socks off ).
Good luck and congratulations on not gaining it all back!
Peg
PS) This type of sharing is very, very helpful to others on the board so I wanted to also thank you for that and encourage you (and all the newbies) to keep it up. It helps fellow newbies, those of us still in the process and those of us in maintanence. We are all trying to figure out a lot of the same stuff so sharing the process really helps everyone!
Originally posted by KimberlyB: I'm really excited to be joining the Cooking Thin Fit club. The only thing I'm worried about, is that I get really nervous if I'm not counting calories, and it takes a really long time to count them for each recipe. I'm an emotional eater, and a bored eater, and I really want to lose the weight. I'm discovering that I'm the type of person, that is going to have to work out 5-7 days a week, just to get my metabolism in order. I also have hypothyroidism. That is all straightened out, but I guess I will have to make sure I'm journaling in my daybook, and keeping everything together. I suppose its more about what you put in being healthy and not putting any more excess in, than counting calories, but honestly it still worries me.
Welcome to you Kimberly! If counting calories works for you, why not continue doing it? Lots of folks here on the board count calories. There is no right or wrong here, just finding what works for you!
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
I'm really excited to be joining the Cooking Thin Fit club. The only thing I'm worried about, is that I get really nervous if I'm not counting calories, and it takes a really long time to count them for each recipe. I'm an emotional eater, and a bored eater, and I really want to lose the weight. I'm discovering that I'm the type of person, that is going to have to work out 5-7 days a week, just to get my metabolism in order. I also have hypothyroidism. That is all straightened out, but I guess I will have to make sure I'm journaling in my daybook, and keeping everything together. I suppose its more about what you put in being healthy and not putting any more excess in, than counting calories, but honestly it still worries me.
Posts: 3 | Location: Maine | Registered: January 13, 2006
And that is a good thing. I am learning to look at things from a different perspective: not beating myself up, not considering myself a perpetual failure. So, a little overview is in order. (This is more of a pep talk for me than info for you all - please feel free to skip the bio/info )
My daughter had given me our first grandchild in 2000. Daughter is gorgeous. Tall, blonde, wonderful figure, smart, etc... how did I get a kid like THIS? She got married and took 8 years to give us a baby, so we were so excited to have little one come into our world. AND I am lucky enough to live in the same town as they do,unlike my grandmother, who always lived on the other side of the country from us.
Her pregnancy wasn't easy, and she developed post partum migraines as well. One of the meds she finally went on led to a gain of 20 pounds in less than two months -after she had lost all her pregnancy weight! Poor kid. She was finally able to stop the meds, and in March 2001 decided to go to Weight Watchers to shed the pounds. Lord knows she had seen her own mother go often enough!
I decided to go with her to keep her company. Unlike her mother, my daughter isn't a ham, and meeting new people is torture for her, so having mom at her side helped. I did well - in fact, in spite of 9-11, I lost 60 pounds.
After I went below 200 pounds, something weird happened. All of a sudden something that had been easy (well, pretty easy compared to WW in several of its other incarnations) I started struggling big time. I started bingeing like crazy. Then I would have to eat ultra low points to keep from messing up the weigh-ins. I returned to a bunch of the nutty behavior of the past: not eating the day before weigh in, no food or drink on WI day until I was off the scale, etc. My weight started to see saw big time. I would see 3 pound fluctations from week to week.
It had been so easy, and I had been so smug. I posted regularly on the WW bulletin boards and encouraged folks not to give up... and then when I started to struggle I was too prideful to ask for help, to admit that I was in trouble. I couldn't tell my WW lecturer, either. I WOULDN'T tell her. And then I quit going. I removed myself from a good support system because of my pride. Sheesh.
And of course the weight started coming back on, because in spite of the fact that I wrote every day that this is a lifestyle, not a diet, and that I must never allow myself to fall into a deprivation mind set - I had those two behaviors so firmly a part of my head that I couldn't recognize that I was indeed "on a diet" instead of making permanent changes in my life.
For instance: I complained to myself every time I had to fiddle with vegetables to make the palatable. See, I don't like 'em. And salad = punishment to me. "You don't deserve to eat ______, Cindy, 'cause YOU are FAT and YOU need to DIET. So it is SALAD for YOU!"
I honestly DO have issues with taste and texture,and I do have to work harder to get the veggies in. But in my rebellion, and my funk, I quit doing even the things I enjoyed: peanut butter on celery, peanut sauce on stir fry, V-8 juice, baby carrots with hummus...
So not only did I start eating football player portions of meats and breads, I quit eating veggies. I didn't take my vitamins.
So, that is where I WAS coming from. Having learned from FlyLady that I can do anything in baby steps, I now believe I can babystep my way into a healthier life. That is when someone directed me to Kathleen's website.
So what DID become a permanent part of my life since 2000?
* I drink water most of all. Getting in my hydration therapy isn't a problem. I actually prefer water to sweet drinks of any kind. * I LOVE whole grains. It is easy for me to eat whole wheat bread (it IS bread!)tortillas, pitas, english muffins, pancakes, and so on. I don't feel deprived, I like them better.
Those are two pretty good habits to have kept. I did NOT gain all 60 pounds back. I kept 17 of them off. I made it through the holidays without gaining, and have lost a pound since then. Behavior-wise, I have had a few binges since November, but not many - fewer than 5 - and considering that night time binges are the biggest behavior sabotage, that is a good thing.
Unfortunately, though, my body composition is such that I have lost muscle, so I am in the same size at this weight that I was at the higher one. So exercise clearly has to be a big focus. Babystepping that one as well.
My goals for this week: eat the veggies every day get on the treadmill at least 5 of the 7 days add at least 2 days of weight training
have a good week, cindy p in AZ
Luke 17:15-16 Be the one.
Posts: 4 | Location: Desert Southwest USA | Registered: January 12, 2006
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