Back From Vacation

Back From Vacation Jan.25, 2012

Am happy to report the scale saying the same numbers it did BEFORE vacation! Must have learned something along the way here about healthy food choices.

Read a few pages in "Women, Food and God" which triggered an AHA moment that work I need to do by solving how to handle others jealousy. That has been a major problem for me since childhood. How do YOU handle it?

N~

On the Verge of Another Year

THIS is going to be the year to have control over our lives, friends!  It has been a lot of time of learning and practicing.... now is the time to reach the success of being on the top of the mountain, at our goal.  Let's remember that being interested in losing weight and making a commitment to do it.
BYE FOR NOW.....

Thanksgiving 2010

The first holiday of the season is behind us and I have to admit I feel pretty good about my food choices.  Didn't overeat and I don't expect the scale will upset me.

Am reading the book "Overcoming Emotional Overeating" by Geneen Roth and am finding helpful advice there even after all the years of reading Weight books and articles.

Happy Holidays to us all - where we stay in control.
Nancy

Friday 10/22/10 Thrown by the scale numbers?

10/22/10    Numbers Still Affecting my Behaviors!

The scale ead 280 this morning and I know I am retaining fluid but obviously some place inside me decided "what the heck" and I bought a carrot cake, figuring I'd have a slice as dessert = = wellll, I ate half the cake!  It is the size of a small loaf pan so it isn't a 3 layer huge 12" round, but    ~  come on.  Guess I can't have dessert in the house when it is more than one serving.  I bought a muffin tin the other day and the ingredients to make healthy portion sized muffins that one of the bloggers wrote about.   Thought that would be a good idea, and now I wonder abot that.

Keep thinking today was a little slip.  Seems the calories added up to 1600 so I wasn't all the way out of the ballpark and I guess that's progress.  I will freeze the other half of the cake after dividing it into 2 servings.  Have to keep in mind I amin control.//// not the food.

Now for a good nights sleep.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 21, 2010 3 MONTHS SINCE I STARTED BLOGGING

Thursday   October 21, 2010   Chosen Weigh In Day  

Down 3 pounds this week, .... Down 11 pounds in 3 months,
since July 20.  Progress not perfection.  Have been trying very hard to choose the correct foods to lose and have changed some automatic reactions to some stress.  Have been staying out of the mainstream a lot though, so don't have a lot of stress from others to deal with.  Reading the blogs has been very helpful too.  Decided to keep food prep simple after copying many recipes and realizing I HAVE many recipes that I've never used because I turn to the regular non sauced specialities.  Once in a while for super flavor might use a sauce, but otherwise will do what comes easily and the way I've cooked all my life.  It's going to be a GREAT day.



 

Each Day a New Start - ACCOUNTABILITY September 24, 2010 290

9/24/2010   EACH  DAY  COUNTS - 

I  WILL BE  ACCOUNTABLE  DAILY

Starting today I will write here daily and face the reality of where I am in this weight fight.  I was going to say "weight GAME" and correced myself in my thinking immediately that THIS IS NOT A GAME!  My life depends on it.  I am morbidly obese and will change that.

    Didn't weigh today because yesterday when I weighed in I was up 7 pounds from the Thursday before.  Some of that had to be fluid retention but I let it throw me.  I deserved a weight gain but not 7 pounds I thought.  Have to change that "reward--Punishment" thinking.  The scale is just a measuring tool to keep me informed.  Last Thursday I weighed 290.  That hurts me to have to write that.  Phew.  Hard to face.  I had been 283 the Thurs. before.  This is changing right now.  Each day I realize our bodies can weigh different from one day and ALSO one minute to the next the what and why we weigh what we do, but I am behind this weight train.  I am the engineer.  Knowing what works alone doesn't do it, it take ACTION.

FOOD EATEN TODAY:

Br:  Oaatmeal, raisins, Almond Breeze (milk)

Snack:  3 cris;y bars

Lunch"  2 Turkey Hot Dogs. 1 bread, with mustard, 1/2 Cucumber, 8 oz. G2

Snack:  1/2 Orange

Dinner:  Bowl Homemade chicken soup. 1 slice toast

Snack:  Apple

There you have it.  A new approach to DAY ONE!

   

Day 9 - Of Restart Counting Calories

After having a lapse (again) of many days, restarting (again) and today is Day 9

Had a 3 pound loss this past week.  Now to hold that and lose another 2 or 4 !    I am determined, as Sean of "The Daily Diary of a Winning Loser" to do this eating regular food.  My choices have to be supreme and tasty and healthy - and controlled.  Am starting down that road.  Have to remember that it takes time.  Loretas Journey Blog points that out again, using the planting seeds and letting them grow, analogy.  You can't keep digging them up to see how they are doing.  It takes time.
    Went out to lunch today to celebate my niece's birthday and her husband's belated birthday, plus mutual friend coming in to visit for a week.  Had a marvelous time and I think I chose well.  Had the lettuce wrap appetizers, a small piece from my nephew's luncheon plate of "sweet chicken plus veggies"and the small little larger than a shot glass dessert, filled with terimasu.  PERFECT  Everyone had s wonderful time.  I don't eat out often, but when I do I intend to do intelligent choosing, to fit my chosen journey map.
     Will be getting a phone with a camera in it tomorrow..  Will be able to learn how and then add pics to my blogs.  I have a lot to learn about this blogging.
      Another day of good choices and encouraging one another!  Fabulous.
Nancy