LA Weight Loss - Beck Diet For Life/Solution – October 2009 – Support, Discussion, Buddy/Coach

:haphal:In the Cauldron

Halloween is here
Please have no fear

Old times are past
New ones begin

Reach into your cauldron
It's filled with hope

Boo, go away, run
It's your time for fun

gardenerjoy gg on not eating the dessert. I am sure you felt better for not doing it. I know that your walk was a nice one. :)

Nuxmaga you had a lovely day with many credits. :carrot:

RobinW yay for not eating the candy. You have a great weekend as well. :D

Shepherdess you can do this and I know you had a nice OP time. :)



Going to take Charley trick or treating. He is going as a cowdog! :devil:

Going to read the first chapter today. Taking some me time.

Have to go out for a bit today so will park far from the door.

May this Halloween be good to you all.
:mouse:

Diet Coaches/Buddies - At the home of friends last night I ate one plate full of food; CREDIT moi. The serving dishes remained on the table and others had seconds, but I wasn't tempted. Thoroughly enjoyed the cooked fruit compote for dessert - maybe the first I've ever had with no sugar even though it included cranberries and was a bit sour - but skipped the sponge cake portion; CREDIT moi. Kinda fun to be reminded that everything doesn't have to taste sweet.

Did gym - CREDIT moi - rather fixated on whether the guy who does crunches with a 100 pound dumbbell would be there; he wasn't, but it was nice to be motivated to go by the voyeur in me.

Still haven't bought the handouts for Trick or Treat'ers tonight. Simply procrastination, but with the benefit that I've not spent any time avoiding eating the stuff myself. Before my journey, DW had to hide the bags from me so there'd be some left for the kids.


Robin (RobinW) Wooza - a whole new business!!! Is there no end to your energy? Kudos for expanding your universe and for keeping your food "not too shabby" at the same time. I'm much too polite to notice lasagna blobs, much less to mention them.

Margaret (Nuxmaga) - Kudos for a fine evening at a Tapas Restaurant while meeting your calorie plan for the day. That's a great demo to all of us that we can live our lives even while we stay the course. Neat idea to use a smaller scoop that needs to be heaped and simple indulge my craving to mound the serving; gotta try that.

ChinaMaine - Good morning. I'm out of sync with your posts, LOL. It's still dark as I type, but I don't have an Eastern view to watch the sun come up. My fantasy is that you get to watch sunrise when you get up early.

Joy (gardenerjoy) - Kudos for adjusting your dessert to match an overboard snack; my take is that small adjustments like that is the thinking like a thin person thing.

Beach Patrol - Re: "SHOULD I EAT when I'm NOT hungry...?" Even though I'm drawn to the Intuitive Eating philosophy of "Eat when you're hungry, stop when you're satisfied," my own plan is to eat my three meals and three snacks a day without regard to state of hunger. My take is that I'm telling my head that I'm never more that a few hours away from a meal or snack, so any feeling of hunger can be ignored. I don't have the notion that this is the right way for others. YMMV.

Shepherdess - Hope you survived the "chokecherry daiquiris" at the Halloween party. Perhaps you could ask for a drop of her syrup in a glass of sparkling water to replace some of them. Kudos for your "jump roping " and thanks for forcing me to try rope jumping and jumping rope to see that you had chosen the only way to say that, LOL.

LADY WINDSONG - Neat that you're so psyched to read your new Beck books; that's a great bias toward a successful journey. My eating plan is a catch all that's roughly just portion control from whole foods. I studied calories intently when I started out to get my bearings but I don't actually count the little buggers. My gift is that DW prepares a healthy dinner each evening so my focus is on breakfast, lunch, and snacks.


Readers - day 5
Eat Slowly and Mindfully

Research shows that there's a lag - up to 20 minutes - between when your stomach fills up and when your brain gets the message that you're full. The more slowly you eat, the more time you give the "I'm full" alert to reach your brain so that it can signal you to stop eating.

The Beck Diet Solution, pg 79.

Bill, you ARE an inspiration.

Get out there and get that candy and if need be, which I doubt, tell your DW to hide it till the bell rings.

Kudos on the one plate.

Still haven't got into the book although it is sitting right here on my desk. :( I am reading and thinking about the daily quotes though. Today's really hit home as I had to force myself to remember what I ate for dinner last night. :rolleyes:
A late meal watching TV has to be eliminated from my habits. That proves it!

Good Morning :)

Im sitting here waiting to finish my coffee before I head to the gym. Looks like my new gym partner isnt going to work out. The gym has changed management and she is finding alot of what was promised to her when she started her trial is no longer available. She cancelled out today because of the problems but Im beig a good girl and still going! :cb:

Bill~ we found we needed to create an umbrella company. We keep expanding, but we are still in the business of getting your business noticed. So...our new company seems to have a better fit and gives us the opportunity to provide virtual and physical marketing (signs, tees, social marketing etc) Our first hands on workshop is monday night, and Ive already been invited by one of the chambers to speak and teach. This seems to be moving fast...and keeping up is going to be a challenge. Energy? LOL I havent a clue where it comes from. Because just when I think Ive reached the end, I come up with a new idea and we are off and running again.

One of my biggest struggles in the food category is wine consumption. I love my wine and I try to have no more than 3 bottles in the blue box a week ;) Here is the hitch tho...it isnt the wine so much as the food after the wine. I find I am eating almost a full meals worth of food after drinking. Why? I dont know. Right now this is one of my biggest struggles.

Ok.....coffee is done! Have a great weekend everyone. Only 9 more hours before the trick or treators arrive and all my candy will be gone :cb:

Halloween... candy, candy, candy. Rot yer teeth out! Give you a tummy ache! Ruin your diet! Make yer blood sugar all wacky! :devil: (what a dumb holiday! :crazy: )

No candy for the kiddies this year... I look at it this way: I certainly do not need the temptation, and why would I want to encourage ANYONE (especially children!) to eat poorly? Halloween should be canceled, nay - TERMINATED! LOL!!! :carrot:

I ended up eating a "brunch" yesterday about half past noon. And I was fine with it. I didn't overeat, I didn't notice a difference, really. I also was not much hungry for the rest of the day, and had oatmeal for dinner! - that was not really on my plan... I mean, it is on my plan... for breakfast... :dizzy:

All in all, yesterday was a good food day for me.

I'm still practicing/adhering to the basics of Beck... eat slowly, stop mid-way & decide if I need to keep eating, etc. I'm very YAY-ME! for that. But I'm still not doing the exercise portion the way I want to. I simply must get more motivated to move.

EVERYDAY'S A NEW DAY! :sunny:

Good morning!!!!

gardenjoy- Your numbers look great.

ChinaMaine- I can relate to the connection between eating and feeling stressed. Good for you for doing what you need to, despite stressors.

BillBlueEyes-Credit for eating and going to the gym. I really like that you post the quote of the day. Your reminder to eat slowly is something I have yet to conquor. Really that is very, very hard for me.

Lady Windsong- are you spending the weekend reading? I would be really interested in hearing your initial thoughts. Your question about which diets- I am calorie counting and eating fairly low fat, whole grains, lots of veggies, and as healthy as I can. Am eating 3 meals and 2-3 snacks per day.

Beach Patrol- I often make myself eat breakfast on weekends even though I am not very hungry. If I don't I find it throws my whole day off and I am too hungry later in the day. If I'm really not hungry I just eat my morning snack first and then eat breakfast at snack time.

Shepherdess- How did the Halloween party work out? Chokecherry daiquiris- that sounds great.

RobinW-Good for you for eating well and carrying on with the gym. We just finished some reno's too and it is good to be done.

Nuxmaga- Good for you for resisting pudding parfait and eating under budget.

Ruthxxx-I share your struggle to eat slowly and mindfully. That is so hard, especially after a life of bolting through meals.

Happy Halloween!!! To heck with candy, I am giving out loonies- not that we get many kids- we are in the country. Just did not need the temptation of all that sugar sitting there.

CeeJay

not ONE stink'in kid!!! I have 2 bags of candy left!

We get very few trick or treaters, so I handed out Ghirardelli chocolates. The extras are something I will enjoy in a planned way over the next few weeks. DH says the kids won't get to eat it -- their parents will steal it from them!

WI: -0.25kg, Exercise: +30, 1418/1300 minutes for October, Food: op, Read my Advantages and Responses: no

Lady Windsong: Hope you and Charley had a great time trick or treating!

BillBlueEyes and Beach Patrol: Scheduled eating and ignoring hunger works for me, too. I'm not at all sure that I'm capable of intuitive eating because my mind is pretty good at convincing me I'm hungry at the sight or smell of my favorite treats. Eating three planned meals and three planned snacks at roughly the same time each day works for me and my mind hasn't invented any tricks around it yet.

RobinW: good job going to the gym on your own!

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend!

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