I am on day 12 of Beck and practicing Hunger tolerance today...I've had a nice breakfast and will be riding it out until lunch. I can remember the first time I did this just how worried I was but it turned out to be really quite manageable. It will be quite different this time as I will probably be put under some pressure to eat by the rest of my team and also our cook (she is quite keen on us eating large amounts of food). I may just go for a walk at lunch time and ask them not to wait for me.
Credits for yesterday
- Our meals are served family style and I had already had my servings for meat for the day by dinner time, I was quite tempted by the 'just this once thoughts' but I didn't cave
-Day 2 of Insanity
_ I made sure to as for extra veggies at dinner to ensure I felt full.
seadwaters Well done on the exercise LoseToAll I hope you get back on plan AZtricia Well done for being OP with your eating & I hope you avoid the pizza today bethFromDayton Well done for taking a fresh approach, sometimes thats all it takes. 50Lbs is an amazing amount to lose so well done nationalparker Well done for keeping it light at lunch and for finding out what may have caused you to be sidetracked at dinner...awareness is the first step to change gardenerjoy Well done for being 100% OP FutureFitChick Well done for getting your exercise done, those are some pretty impressive numbers onebyone Well done for being OP, great news for the Dr. flnu I have 100 days left as of today!! or 3 1/2 months (not that I'm counting )
Credits: I had a roller coaster ride this afternoon with initially some really good news and then some bad news in relation the big stress in my life. I was so so so tempted to drown it all in food but reminded myself that while I can’t control that part of my life I can control what I put in my body. Well done me!
Food ? 100 % OP; Health activities 100% OP? yes ; Drank 2L water? yes ; Went to bed on time? yes ; Streak count: 0
Seems like I can do water or bedtime - but both is really hard. Who knows tomorrow I might crack it. I have been having to work in the office a lot more than normal this week - and will have to for the next 5 weeks - so I am greatly looking forward to my day at my desk at home tomorrow.
Diet Coaches/Buddies – No shoveling. The snow that's here might start melting over the next few days. Three good walks, each with goals, CREDIT moi. Last night's walk was in Gore-Tex against the snow/sleet/rain with an umbrella under my arm in case the rain got serious, which it didn't. I pretended that I was British.
Eating was on plan, CREDIT moi, including no snacks so that my streak of staying with my plan of three snacks was met and the streak goes to 92. At my evening event I turned down liquid calories, biscotti, and two bowls of tree nuts that sat on the table in front of us for two hours. Occasionally the nuts were passed around so that I had to hold them while thinking Not About Me. Thanks for the nutrition info about purple potatoes (that I had called black) - makes the previous night's dinner sound even better.
onebyone – Sending supportive thoughts as you remember your late brother on his birthday. Congrats on getting doctor's reports that reflect your improved life style.
Joy (gardenerjoy) – Kudos for creating "complicated rules," following them, and then giving yourself credit - the Hat Trick.
CeeJay - Big Kudos for sticking to your plan during an overnight business trip - especially having to sit through coworkers eating pizza and burgers.
Debbie (Lexxiss) – Congrats on that new low scale reading. And Congrats on a ready tenant to push your project toward completion.
Cheryl (seadwaters) – Hope that Fitbit survives its dunking. Perhaps you can make the Fitbit Force a reward for your next goal. It shouldn't be hard to find someone who'd love to inherit your current model.
FutureFitChick – Congrats on some heavy lifting with your healing leg.
ladym0208 – Happy Hunger Tolerance Day! Look forward to hearing how it goes. Special Kudos for standing down the Sabotaging Thought, 'just this once' - insidious little beastie, that one.
nationalparker – LOL at eating fried pickles at a restaurant and bringing home the entree.
Beth (bethFromDayton) – Kudos for adjusting your goals to find your path. In Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus, the table of Programming Languages (Ada..LISP..SNOBOL) is adjacent to the table of Breeds of Cattle (Aberdeen-Angus..Jersey..Zebu). Thought you should know. Coincidence? I think not.
ForMyGirls - Yay for a backpack that stands up to serious rain - and your rain does sound serious. Gotta love, "not perfect" is actually a very ok and healthy life."Well done" indeed. Special Kudos for "I can control what I put in my body,"
LoseToAll - Ouch for chicken nuggets sneaking into your life. Yay for extra walking even if forced by lack of parking spaces.
Tricia (AZtricia) - Kudos for OP even with pizza.
flnu - Interesting observation about the naturally thin vs. formally fat. [Yay for anthocyanin.]
Readers -
Quote:
day 12Practicing Hunger Tolerance
did you know?
It's important to distinguish between "need" and "want." People have actually gone for more than a week without eating and haven't died. So, precluding a medical disorder, we definitely don't need to eat on any given day.
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., The Beck Diet Solution (Pink book), pg 124.
Credit for
-being OP yesterday and for planning my food today.
-No sugar streak=3
-weighed in: 270.1 today
My challenge today will be the ceramic studio with my guild members. I will have a good breakfast and then I'll get ONLY coffee with MILK not cream at the local coffee place we love (a local place full of locals!). Once I am in the studio I have the clay to occupy my hands and my mind.
When I get dropped off at home I'll make my lunch - actually reheat it as I have been eating turkey soup (made from scratch!) for three days now. It's a record! I added leftover broccoli to it last night to beef it up. (That broccoli=beef in any sentence of mine deserves a creditof its own.)
Today:
-update post tonight ..yes
-follow foodplan...yes
-read arc cards..yes
-planned exercise: no exercise today
1)weights at gym
2)WATP (this is Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone for the person who was wondering a few days ago...) DVD 30 min + 10 min at gym pre-weights = 40min cardio
-follow my decluttering plan for today
-one hour work on art submission/hunt down my deadlines of which I discovered I have FOUR not one! Ugh! ..yes
-listen to a meditation and/or affirmation 2x today yes
Update: I spent a few hours working on the cover of my sister's novel. She's all ready except for a cover. She sounded stressed so I took the time to try and help
But as a result I didn't get to the gym and I was really stressed about that BUT big credit I didn't eat over it.
I need to be vigilant tomorrow over my success tonight. Oh huge credit for turning down buttertarts home made date squares and doughnuts during my morning at ceramic guild. Also credit for getting milk in my coffee vs. cream.
BBE, I had a tremendous laugh at "I pretended I was British." Thanks! It fit right in because I'm reading LaurieHKing's series of the adventures of the retired SherlockHolmes. Kudos on continuing your streak, especially as you passed around those tree nuts multiple times.
3Ws (Weigh, Write a food plan, Write a post) streak: 17 Credit! I am noticing how freeing my written food plan is right now. When I get home and I'm tired I don't have to think....just read and cook. Credit. I always write my plan on a small piece of decorative paper and place it next to the fridge. When I'm done with it I have a clip that holds all the ones I've written. Last night I simply shuffled through previous days and pulled one out to use today. It was quick and easy....and super helpful while my brain is primarily focused on finishing this project.
Speaking of project, I'm headed up to meet the carpet installer.
Hi all, just wanted to check in. Exercised but did not do my 30 min anti procrastination. I had a urgent and surprising deadline (thanks, management) but maybe I could have done a bit less in order get my half hour in. Of course I could have. Procrastinating perfectionists here. Anyway, it stressed me out, and I observed myself immediately react differently to food, eating, and desire, and not in a good way obviously. I let it roll over me. I defiantly took the elevator once though. Which is in no way stress reducing so I have no idea why that became a hill to die on. I just strongly wanted to flaunt myself and my rules. So weird.
Since we were talking about trip-planning as pleasure the other day, I looked at hotels in London last night. Today, the ads at 3FC are all about London. A nice change from Jillian Michaels and Medifast.
3Ws (Weigh, Write a food plan, Write a post) streak: 17 Credit!
WI: -0.3 kg, Exercise: +60 930/1400 minutes for February, Food: 100%op, Read my Advantages and Responses: yes
flnu: I so relate to wanting to flaunt the rules (while, at the same time, finding them tremendously helpful). In the long run, I found my inner rebel more helpful than not. She's the part of me that says "I'll eat whatever I want whenever I want and you can't stop me." But she's also the part that's most sensitive to an awareness of the way the food industry has manufactured and marketed food in deliberate ways to make it addictive to many of us. She doesn't much like being manipulated. So, I recruit her to be my inner subversive. We work together to subvert the Modern American Diet (MAD) and we do it by restricting ourselves to home-made food most of the time. Being 14, my inner rebel also prefers stairs to elevators -- she's got all that energy to burn and encountering other people in elevators is awkward for her anyway.
I looked over my schedule today and realized I am totally booked. So, for now I am resolving to post daily, but spend only 10 minutes a day maximum to do so. In advance, I apologize for the limited person notes.
I didn't track. I finally found my BodyWear monitor after looking in the exact place that it was for 2 days. I drove somewhere by myself today. It felt good to get out, but on the other hands reminds me I need to be careful. Having regained some freedom, I will loose the protection for my diet that I have had. I'm glad I am aware of this though and can manage it.
NationalParker, I'm glad you are jumping back on track.
BethfromDayton, great job for being on plan!
CeeJay, great job of eating exactly what you planned at lunch! That is awesome!
AZTRicia, hope your P90X was great!
LoseToAll, sorry to hear about the chicken nuggets. Darn the person that invented them and their tastily little sauces!
SeaDWaters, how fun Zumba Aqua must be. It sounds great. Your fish market sounds like a great place to shop. How did the mackerel turn out?
LadyM0208, hope the Hunger experiment went well today.
ForMyGirls, sorry to hear about your bumps yesterday. I hope your day is better today!
BillBlueEyes, yuck! Your weather sounds terrible. You are almost to 100 for your no off plan snacking. That is great!
OnebyOne, yum, turkey soup! Also, fantastic job at planning your food for the day!
Lexxiss, great job on your 3Ws streak! It is interesting how "freeing" routine can be at times. I wish I were better at it!
flnu, great job for noting what you were feeling that was causing you to want to eat. That is tough when you are emotional.
GardenerJoy, your response to flnu makes me want to go start me spring seeds!
Good Afternoon Coaches!
I did it, resisted pizza for lunch. Had a salad instead. It is so warm here now that salads finally taste good again. I also already did my exercise DVD, and will of course walk pup several times. Also stretched my shoulder.
One thing I'm noticing with loosing slowly is that changes are not noticeable. I can wear a smaller size, but I "look" the same to myself and probably to others who see me at least weekly. Not that I'm going to let it discourage me, but it has reinforced to me how out of shape and overweight I had become. To loose almost 40 lbs and still have beluga thighs and tummy rolls Why did I do this to myself?!?!
LoseToAll Kudos for walking and working toward your goal for your movie reward. Bummer about the nuggets, hope you've bounced back to OP.
FutureFitChick Hope you've been better able to get up and keep track, great job working on your PT. Sorry to hear your Shiba Inu is being difficult about grooming. Teddy is now on an anti-inflammatory to see if that will help him allow grooming. Hurray for streak of 16! Glad you found your monitor.
ladym0208 Hurray for rain, if you get too much please send some here! Huge kudos for resisting unplanned food and pre-planning a snack before your late dinner. Love your countdown chart and focus to stay motivated. Great plan to walk during your lunch.
seadwaters Your beet kvass sounds interesting, I did not enjoy the Wildbrine sauerkraut, but do enjoy kefir. Hope your ferments all work great! I've always wondered how the water exercise classes are, did yours use the paddles and other resistance equipment? So glad your fitbit survived the soaking.
BillBlueEyes The purple potatoes are fun! We found an organic chip mix with them, sweet potatoes, and regulars...colorful! Funny thesaurus do you like to read dictionaries too? Hurray for snow throwers and down with slush! Brrr, your walk sounds dreadful, your humor and distraction (British!) made me smile.
ForMyGirls Kudos for healthy balanced eating and a good resistance muscle. Yikes for rain blocking your path, but I'm glad you made it home safely with dry gadgets. Great job applying Beck principles in your stressful news, and resisting!
Lexxiss Congrats for weighing and planning! Yeah for a new low!! Great job being flexible when your plan wouldn't work. Hurray for your healthy eating being contagious WhooHoo for 17 and for keeping your plans for re-use!
onebyone Kudos for OP, so glad your doctor visit went well. Sorry about the loss of your brother. As far as the broccoli, it is high in protein and fiber and was a good choice if you were still hungry, don't beat yourself up too much! Great job on 3 days w/o sugar! Hope you enjoyed your studio time.
nationalparker Bummer for sidetracked, hope you've been able to hop back OP. I have a difficult day if I don't eat enough lunch. I was reading the WebMD magazine at my dr. and it had an article about weight loss. Their evidence showed that successful maintaining was more common in people whose calories were higher earlier in the day and very low in the last hours before bed...will have to see if I can find the link!
bethFromDayton Hurry for OP, and exercise. So cool that you had the pilates trainer to yourself! Huge kudos for reworking your ARCs and taking time to plan. Sending you some sunshine to break up your winter
CeeJay Hurray for staying OP and eating your own food! Sounds like you've had a great healthy day.
flnu Kudos for exercise when you had a busy time and deadline.
gardenerjoy Hurray for 17! My ads are for cable and twitter, London sounds like more fun.
Not a great day to report. I'm allowing myself to sink into a funk, I think. Made the silly mistake of looking up lung and kidney cancer info on what I thought were legit websites and that further beat me down, but am waiting to hear what the specialist says about my father's situation. Did so-so during the day but was wiped out and we opted for the creole spot and I ate my entree tonight, didn't split it in half. I considered it ... but then thought the exact opposite of ForMyGirls and thought I needed it.
I will journal a bit tonight and reset my thoughts during a hot bubble bath and tomorrow is my day one for the new streak. I don't want to wait until Bill hits 100 to start!! ack.
Credits - I'm going to try to think of these since I'm always good or terrible in my mind. Hm. OP breakfast and lunch. Savored a piece of chocolate from DH tonight. He's helping me eat those and only a few left (I think it had 10-12 pieces to start with).
Storms are moving in and moving quickly, so hope they'll move through so I CAN take a bath. That's my relaxation.
Why and how can I do well enough on a cruise, but get back home, get bad news, and fall off my smaller portion program?
I gave in to a donut this morning when I stopped to pick up a fountain drink before work. However, declining the tray of cookies my boss brought around in the afternoon wasn't even hard.
Very little exercise today--my toe is really bothering me a lot. It was definitely warm enough to walk this evening so I was annoyed my toe didn't cooperate. I'm back to wearing orthotics every day and wearing my cork bottom sandals around the house since they provide more toe support than anything else I own. I may shop for and splurge on a pair of regular shoes with cork insoles or purchase a pair I can put into other shoes.
Instead of reading my ARC today, I wrote a new one--and it's a doozy. I labeled it the "Advantages of having lost 50 lbs". It really helped me to be looking at the list of what I've accomplished and the difference it makes in what I can do and in measurable medical things. I can cross my legs without using my hands to assist moving a leg up. And I can pick things up off the floor without needing to hold on to something for balance. And regular stores now carry my size of clothes so it's easy to find things that fit.
It also got me started thinking about a new set of advantages of losing more weight. The push to think that the advantages might change during the weight loss journey had never occurred to me. (Seems so obvious now)
I am pleased to report that I was able to practice my hunger tolerance yesterday and it was not as difficult as I was expecting. I took the walk I said I was going to at lunch and kept myself busy until dinner. Hunger is a funny thing as it has its highs and lows, instead of it growing and growing my levels of discomfort peaked at 4.
My credits for yesterday....
- Completing the full day of hunger tolerance
- Planned and spontaneous exercise
- I didn't over eat at dinner time after skipping lunch
Sorry for the short post...have a great day all xx
Not a lot to say really today - another ho-hum one. Went to work and sat at my desk most of the day. The weekend will be similar but I will go to gym on Sunday (or maybe Saturday) so that it fits in with next weeks activities. Semester starts next week so ramping up to getting organised and of course everything is last minute.
Credits: Made 5000 steps just; packed lunch, took it with me, and ate it - but I bought some hot chips at work - I had to walk a long way to get them though ; dinner planned but yet to cook it - got home really late (but I need to cook it or later I will be hungry and eat rubbish); shopped on the way home to make sure I had food for the busy weekend; checked in; weighed myself and logged it (down 2 pounds on yesterday); haven't logged food yet
Thanks for the suggestion of passing on my current fitbit and making the Force a reward BillBE - I never think of rewards and it is a good one and of course my sister could have my current one. The good thing about the reward idea is that I can't have it until I achieve the goal. Now I have to think of a good goal!
Your response to flnu is a keeper Gardenerjoy - I have copied it and put it in my great ideas folder. It is funny and insightful and helps to look at the positives in us. I have always like the idea of subversion. I love MAD - I tend to use SAD (Standard American/Australian Diet) - I wonder what the BAD diet is? The notion of things being either mad/bad/sad is embedded in my clinical area so it resonates
The mackerel is also a keeper - it turned out well. I thought it would be strong tasting and "fishy" (because it is good for you, you have to suffer) but it was delicious. I used a simple Neil Perry recipe and if anyone wants it just let me know!
Tricia - we didn't use any equipment in the zumba aqua class but I think they do in the other one given the cupboard is full of it. I have used it in other classes in other gyms. I like aqua and it is a surprisingly intense aerobic workout. I think you need to feel comfortable in the water or have a good instructor. My last sessions last year were deep water so you wore a flotation vest, but these classes are shallow water, which is reasonable for "dancing" but not sure about other classes
Diet Coaches/Buddies – CREDIT moi for making dinner from the reception after a lecture last night. Receptions are a challenge for me since they're usually an addition to a meal. This one I planned to check out and choose either nothing or dinner. Fortunately, there was plenty of raw veggies and humus to call it dinner. I skipped all the cheeses and crackers. Despite them looking good, they were standard fare that I'll see again. Came home and had an orange for evening snack. My snacks-under-control streak goes to 93.
Did gym, CREDIT moi. It felt good to wear shorts and a T-shirt to my exercise class instead of long-sleeved stuff. Walking only had the challenge of puddles as the snow melts rapidly in temperatures over 50 F. The sidewalks remain channels with foot high walls on each side.
onebyone – LOL at "broccoli=beef in any sentence" - love of words deserves recognition even if not covered by Beck. Kudos for being aware that you need to be vigilant after success.
Joy (gardenerjoy) – That's a section for Beck's Change your Environment that's not in her book: Search the Internet for something positive in your life so you'll be surrounded by positive ads when on the web. I join the chorus appreciating your response to flnu about your 14 year old inner subversive.
CeeJay - Yep, great list of credits for the day.
Debbie (Lexxiss) – Putting Sherlock Holmes on my reading list. Methinks that I read him so young that's there more left to appreciate. Kudos for your 3W's streak. Sounds easy, "I don't have to think....just read and cook."
Cheryl (seadwaters) – Would you be willing to post your recipe in the recipe section? I'm a fan of mackerel, but have a hard time convincing DW.
FutureFitChick – Yay for being able to drive - like you're sixteen all over again. (I've experimented with my new LED bulb, but the weather hasn't dropped below the threshold that made the front porch CFL fail - so I have no useful data. Perhaps I'll get creative and put the fixture in the freezer with the extension cord running outside.)
ladym0208 – Peak discomfort of 4 for the Hunger Exercise is neat. When I did it, I expected a 7 or 8 at least, but I had about your same experience. Kudos for completion.
nationalparker – It's a challenge to face learning about your father's health issues without the old comforts from food. Kudos for recognizing that that's what you're trying to do.
Beth (bethFromDayton) – Yay for celebrating the advantages of your success to date. Little things, like crossing legs unassisted, is appreciated by those of us who've been on both sides.
Tricia (AZtricia) - Kudos for resisting pizza. Big Catch-22 is to celebrate success due to eating and exercise on plan without falling into beating up on ourselves for needing to do so. Congrats on your nearly 40 pounds.
flnu - Ouch for management who's lack of planning becomes your urgent deadline. Kudos for surviving that, even as you had to resist the urge "to flaunt myself and my rules."
Readers -
Quote:
day 12Practicing Hunger Tolerance
what are you thinking?
During your hunger experiment, you might need to repeatedly confront sabotaging thoughts, such as, I don't want to keep doing this . . . This is too uncomfortable. Remind yourself that there have been times in your life when you've been hungry but survived: when you fasted for a medical procedure or religious holiday, when you couldn't eat because you were delayed in traffic, or when service was extremely slow in a restaurant. You'll always survive because hunger is never an emergency.
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., The Beck Diet Solution (Pink book), pg 125.
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Thursday
Why did I do this to myself?!?!
do you like to read dictionaries too? Hurray for snow throwers and down with slush! Brrr, your walk sounds dreadful, your humor and distraction (British!) made me smile.
WhooHoo for 17 and for keeping your plans for re-use!
Friday night!
- I had to walk a long way to get them though 
