Beck Diet For Life/Solution – April 2009 – Support, Discussion, Buddy/Coach

[ChinaMaine]

Beck – WI-down .75 lbs. Exercise – off plan – fatigued today so did 30 mins instead of my planned 45 mins… Did not read my cards or write down a food plan. But I did mentally create a plan. I was feeling rather demoralized by the fatigue. I need to work on acceptance and acknowledging how much better I feel than a year ago, rather than focusing on the fatigue itself.

Food – off-plan. I was eating according to my mental plan until about 4 PM. Then sabotaging thoughts whispered by my adolescent fat-chick started threatening my hohum op existence. I did give in, but made choices that overall were within my usual calorie limits. In fact, I was almost 200 calories under my usual Friday calorie level because I made good off-plan choices. Credit! My dinner was delicious in fact. We made scrambled egg beaters, fried with onion and topped with a seasoned fresh tomato and feta cheese. We had garlic toast and fresh strawberries to round it out. We might actually add this to our usual dinner rotation. So the only bad news is the second day in a row I’ve had serious sabotaging thoughts on food, which is fairly unusual for me.

I’m having company over the weekend, which has been causing me some anxiety this week. I’ve foolishly been putting off coming up with a plan to deal with it. I think this is why I’ve been having more sabotaging thoughts than usual. So the solution is to stop procrastinating and come up with a plan for the weekend. - And it's done!

Jeanie Congrats on having a paycheck again – I’m just sorry to hear it means you have to go back to that job. When I wanted to develop a better work-life balance I went to a CBT therapist. In 12 weeks I had really changed how I viewed work. It may not be the path for you, but if Beck works for you, I’ll bet CBT would work on this issue just as well. If you don’t have mental health insurance coverage you might ask Anne about the book she mentioned a few weeks ago – CBT for dummies I think it was called. Anyway, I’m glad the financial stress is being relieved a bit and wish you the best.

one by one Credit for getting motivated about food and losing weight. This crazy chapter of your life is almost over. Ouch for eating to satisfy your hunger ‘with complete disregard for the calorie count’. Credit for getting into the weight loss groove again! LOL at being forced to stay away from school.

angelmomma Thanks for telling us what an ablasion is – very interesting. I do hope you have the surgery soon and you are in the majority that find it’s successful. Thank you for sharing the pic of your daughters, and am very sorry for your loss. You can see that they shared a deep affection…

Bill Re your meeting dilemma - kudos for making 2 out of 3 and skipping the one with the most calories. Wow that Pilates class sound intense – credit!

davidette Congrats on new low! Credit for the classes you did yesterday and the commitment to do the swim class. Sweating in the water is novel for me too. Here’s youtube video of a loon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1It3AlXmQ It’s very short, less than a minute. And this is almost exactly what our lake looks like on a cloudy day…

Tera I’m very sorry to see your pain numbers so high and that you woke up with pain this AM. Credit for getting so much done on plan when you are in pain; it has to be difficult both physically and mentally, so credit indeed! Sounds like you’ve got a few manageable things to do in the near future. Good luck!

Robin The loons have gotten under my skin unlike any other bird ever has. Their call speaks to the soul, don’t you think? Oh- and credit for a great pizza strategy!

hikergirl Baby steps! – sometimes that’s the key… Going to the gym – credit! Posting to 3fc – credit! Updating your 3fc weight profile - credit! Developing a plan B for a possible ‘rightsizing’ – Kudos! But hope you never need to dust off plan B.

Anne Credit for another hohum day! Feeling skinny (or skinnier) is nice isn’t it? Love your RC card. I may steal it to stick in my pocket for the weekend!

Re the difference between Arizona and Maine – I thought the same thing when I saw your pics of prickly pear, etc. It’s part of what makes traveling so rewarding, to experience ‘worlds’ different than your own. I’ve been wanting to ask you – have you ever rafted through the Grand Canyon? It’s something we did when my son was 15. It was an incredibly rewarding trip for all of us. Something that I remember about the climate there were the monsoons every August afternoon.

] athenawithheart Credit for the bike ride and the realistic view of weight loss. I find that a string of ‘down’ days are often followed by a day or two of ‘up’ days. And then the weight swings back down.

[BillBlueEyes]

Diet Coaches/Buddies - My job was to acquire a boneless leg of lamb for Easter dinner with the kids. So, walked to my favorite meat store with real butchers who own the place. Got it. CREDIT moi. I so value the remaining mom and pop stores; these guys have been selling meat in the neighborhood for a gazillion years. Just know it'll be good stuff. DW was pleased.

I still have to pick up oranges and avocados for the kids' Easter baskets. Already got lots of maple syrup and maple sugar stuff from my trip to Maine. Since I've been on my journey, Easter baskets have been resurrected full of healthy, interesting foods rather than the candy we filled them with for so many years. The kids are really in to it; they send requests and don't-want requests as do their SO's. There remains something special about getting something from mom and dad.


onebyone - Yay for a weekend of all art and NO ceramics. Kudos for "starting to notice again." Yep, you're on the path.

Robin (RobinW) - Ouch for a "brutal day." Yay for dog therapy; dogs are so good at that. Kudos for your stellar pizza strategy. It rings true to me that selecting the volume of food before eating and removing the remainder out of possible reach is a winner.

Will hold my tongue just so all day to help with your A-frame. Don't worry yourself a bit how silly I look all day, LOL.


Anne (wndranne) - Yay for feeling skinner. Ouch for stress pain. Can't wait to hear how you and Kindle get along - such a good reward.

That Response Card is one slap upside the head; brilliant!!!

Thanks for the comment about backward lunges - I'd never heard of nor seen them before. Maybe I'll find them easier once I get past the novelty. And thanks for offering the opportunity; CREDIT moi for "choosing core work over beverages."


Tera (twilit tera) - Ouch for starting the day with the pain. Good luck with your plans with SSDI.

And sending encouraging thoughts for contacting your MIL and getting that reunion issue off your list so that you can focus on the remainder. Can DH help you there?


Chris (angelmomma210) - Thanks for sharing the picture of your daughters - I do like how together they look with each other.

davidette - Congrats on new low, even if a rebound. Impressed that you do "Weights, spin class and then power yoga" all in one trip to the gym. Some good working out there.

ChinaMaine - Ho hum, ho hum.. Love that sound. Yay for loons - you got me so jealous with the thought of loons within sight and hearing. Enjoy - you've got a jewel there.

Love the idea of teleconferencing while doing Pilates. There'd be some heavy breathing into the phone, LOL.


Susan (jivingandthriving) - Neat distinction between urges and inclination. Yep, I also found that the inclination type eating was a large part of my overeating. With the serving dish on the table, I just had seconds. Just did. That's what happened. Just as you say it, "bowing to circumstances due to visual habit."

Susan (hikergirl) - Kudos for getting to the gym and updating your stats. And BIG Kudos for having a Plan B. Yep, that sounds like a neat new direction.

Athenawithheart - Kudos for the strong bike ride after the bummer of having the trip canceled. And Kudos for your sane response to the scale readings; Yep, they can't drop like a rock forever.

Readers -

reality check

If you are thinking: I deserve to eat when I'm emotional.

Face reality: If you want to enjoy permanent weight loss, you just can't eat when you're upset. You deserve to feel comfort, but find other ways to achieve it.

The Complete Beck Diet for Life, pg 89

[davidette]

tera Hope your call to Metrocrest was helpful. I've found most doctors will accept monthly payments as long as you're consistent with them. It is criminal how inflated medical charges are these days.

robin Timely pet therapy; serene part "B" of "A" frame. pizza epiphany! I estimate I've already saved a few million calories not bringing home leftover pizza anymore!

jivingandthriving Interesting comparison; inclinations versus urges. Especially since I've given up diet coke, I've become aware of all the cues I have developed for eating and drinking a coke, completely devoid of any physicality; pure habit. It really helps to recognize these are just habits that will evaporate as I stop reinforcing them.

hikergirl getting back into Beck program with some impressive credits! Major kudos "plan B" evening program, sounds like an exciting move!

anne feeling skinny - now that's a big advantage! shoulder/neck pain; lots of us hold our tension there - sometimes it takes a short run of anti-inflammatories, if the heating pad doesn't succeed. Can't wait to hear how you like the Kindle. CREDIT reasonable plan for Boston. I plan on stealing your card for my vacation; succinct yet says all we need.

onebyone progressing with project. CREDIT waking up to noticing your feelings versus impulsive eating.

chinamaine fatigue; CREDIT commitment to refocus. "The way you look at things changes the way they look" is one of my response cards, and it seems more true every day. Kudos making good off-plan choices; sounds like you were practicing flexibility versus all or nothing thinking? I know, it's a slippery slope for us all. CREDIT recognizing solution for procrastination - just do it! Sometimes I have to trick myself by saying "work on it 5 minutes then you can quit"; usually I do more than that once I get past that initial aversion.

Thanks for the video, how lucky you are to have a lake like that with such gorgeous wildlife! Fantastic. This may sound strange, but I miss hearing frogs at night! Maybe if I find a video and play it on the porch at night? (probably just get all the snakes looking for dinner!)

Bill Easter purchases! I took my DD the easter eggs handmade by a local church she always loved; pleased us both. BTW I didn't have a bite, all through the "church factory" purchase and the delivery trip.

You know I've got to try backward lunges now...I'm going to feel like an idiot at the gym today going backwards, but I need to weigh in on which is worse!

Got to get moving, weight machines and step this morning. Unfortunately meshing the gym schedule and mine forces me to cram classes together I'd rather be spreading through the week... oh well.

to all

[twilit tera]

I am giving myself permission to focus less on diet and weight loss. I must still try to eat sensibly (lean, satisfying and not stuffed) but no pressure.

focus on other things - getting my head in the right place, finding my way through getting my hip figured out and "fixed".

My thinking is that Dr. G's diagnosis was incorrect or incomplete. So all the things (stretching mainly) that have been intended to improve my hip may have been gradually damaging it more. I just don't know and won't til I have someone else give it a more thorough examination.

Metrocrest referred me to Parkland Hospital's Resident HealthPlus system, but we have to go down in person to apply. My hopes are not high there. Any kind of income-based public assistance usually rejects us for being just above the poverty level.

On Monday, B will be picking up my visit records from Dr. G's office. I can continue doing SSDI paperwork once I have them. I guess we'll have to go to PH elibibility center on Tuesday morning.

Robin: My first semester of college I took a speech communications class. We had to deliver a brief pursuasive speech, and I chose universal healthcare as my topic. It was an eye opener.

Chris: Thanks for telling us about the young ladies in your new avatar!

Anne: Great RC! I'll let you know if not drinking leads to less pain. There was no information on the inflammatory rating of whiskey on nutritiondata.com and a quick google search didn't go anywhere either.

onebyone: Y'know... reading about your macaroni art project made me think someone needs to come up with a java or flash macaroni art applet.

ChinaMaine: for staying within calorie limits, even 'off plan'.

Bill: Getting on SSDI could improve my chances of finding work from home. There is an agency that works with disabled people specifically, to put them in virtual call centers.

Loved reading about your family's easter basket tradition.

Davidette: Having recently completed a bankruptcy (medical bills were part of it) I am very shy of putting anything on a payment plan.

[Athenawithheart]

Weight: 183.5, up 0.5. I've been staying pretty level this whole week, so I'm really going to have to be extra careful tomorrow if I want any hope for a loss on my official weigh-in on Wednesday. I do plan to have ham, but I'm going to stay away from the soda, cakes and Peeps, but will allow a couple of pieces of plain chocolate if wanted. Also plan to bring my own fruit for a snack, AND to go for a walk if I start getting strong cravings for the gluten-free goodies.

Went swimming this morning, and I'm going to go for a short jog in a little bit.

The good news is this morning the lifeguard was talking with me, and she's planning to do some triathlons, too. AND, she's a massage therapist! I've been wanting to see a sports massage therapist for a while in the hopes of helping my foot pain/Achilles problem. So I definitely have to schedule an appointment with her.

Robin: Nice strategy on the pizza!

ChinaMaine: Company sounds fun - did you come up with a plan? I sometimes have eggs for dinner. I (when I'm not sleep deprived) like to go to the gym in the morning, so I don't usually have eggs during the week. So it's a nice treat sometimes.

BillBlueEyes: The lamb sounds good -- how do you prepare it? I love small butcher shops and farmer stands.

twilit_tera: That sounds so frustrating with the hip. Someone I work with just had a hip replacement. Keep fighting until you find someone who can help. And if you can't lose right now, then maybe you can focus on maintaining your current weight.

[AnneWonders]

Coaches/Buddies On plan day today. Dinner was out with the whole family circus. A few more calories than normal, but I'm happy with it. I did my last C25K run today. 3.1 miles. I ran soon after lunch and boy did my stomach feel it. A tough run. I was debated with myself if I had to stop and walk, if I'd consider myself finished, and worked out about 5 different ways it made sense to do that, but in the end I was unhappy with that and made myself back off a bit and push through so that there would be no question. Credit moi! I've officially earned my Kindle2 now.

Cards are read, plan is made for tomorrow. I'm liking the 100 Days of Weight Loss by Linda Spangle that I'm reading. I'm probably going to work through most of the exercises. I find having "homework" keeps me focused. Most of the exercises are very Beckian, and I'll probably share any insights here. I do need to make a couple of cards with the RC I shared yesterday. It is currently on a sticky on my keyboard.

For the readers here, I'm liking the Kindle2. While it doesn't match the reading experience of an actual book, it is better than reading on a computer, or any other electronic doodad I've experienced. Biggest drawback I've seen so far is that it doesn't always render figures well. But I can search the text of one or more books, make notes as I read, have some reference material (dictionaries, sigh Wikipedia) at my fingertips, and there are lots of classics that are out of copyright that are free or reasonable to download. I'm taking it on the trip next week, so I'll let you know if the ability to take a bunch of books in a small package is worth it.

Athena Sounds like a most excellent ride. Color me jealous. I need to do one of those myself, but events are conspiring against me. I'm doing a 27 mile race on 26 April, which I fear is going to be ugly.

Massage therapists are awesome. A good sports massage hurts so much, but then I walk out without any aches and pains. I try to get one monthly, although my therapist is getting really booked up lately, and my kids mess with my schedule.

onebyone Glad your pasta art is coming together. It is funny how the brain works about weight loss. For me I know what to do, but just can't get it together, until suddenly, boom, it's together. Some things help of course, CBT techniques, positive self talk, and visualization, but nothing substitutes for being ready. If I could figure out what "it" is, I'd sell it and get to retire early.

ChinaMaine I think you joined after I was dealing with this in a big way, but I was having major sleep issues and just not being really functional when DS was a bit newer. Unfortunately this is pretty normal with a newborn. I started rating my fatigue levels on a scale of 1 to 10 and used that as information for working out, impulse control issues, and general quality of life. I tracked it and saw it improve over time, so even on the bad days I could see the light. Could something like that help you?

Glad your off-plan excursion found you a new on-plan dinner option.

I have not rafted through the Canyon. I think about it from time to time, but it hasn't made my big list. Perhaps it should. We do have monsoons here in the late summer and it is one of my favorite times of the year. The thunderstorms are so interesting to watch.

Bill I'm getting great Easter basket ideas! I love hearing about how you walk everywhere to shop.

davidette Please use my ideas when they work. I routinely plagiarize from everyone here, and expect no less from each of you! Hope your backward lunges went well.

Tera I believe it is important to put first things first. I think focusing on figuring out your hip pain is a big deal and sounds to me like a good choice for priority one right now. This is pretty much the situation I was in when I was pregnant--just get through it and clean up the mess later. Hope you make less of a mess than I did, LOL.

I'm going to read a bit and then try to get a decent night's sleep. 7.5 hrs of uninterrupted sleep for me last night. Shooting for 8 tonight.

Anne

[BillBlueEyes]

Diet Coaches/Buddies - Hiked in the pouring rain over some conservation land an hour west of Boston to see some rocks dropped by the Wisconsin Glacier on its way out of here. The lichen covering them are magnificent - might take them a few more million years to finish them off, LOL. Got to demonstrate to myself that my rain gear is waterproof. As well as demonstrate that light cotton gloves are a poor choice for a rainy day - Duh!!!!! Lots of steps on my pedometer; CREDIT moi.

Made two stellar choices at lunch when I faced a plate of homemade oatmeal raisin cookies made by one of the most health conscious people I know. Chose to eat one to avoid that Desire to eat a half-dozen. And chose to merely taste a nibble from DW's selection of another treat. CREDIT moi for those.

However, in the evening, slightly tired from dancing, I consumed more from the refreshments table than my normal evening snack. The food itself was my type of stuff and the total calories weren't dreadful, but I experienced this unpleasant feeling of unbounded eating. I had arrived without any plan at all, so when I chose to take a snack I didn't have my limits in place. Gotta keep working the idea to truly make a plan for the reality I'm facing. Oh Well.


Anne (wndranne) - Yay for Kindle 2; Kudos for the last C25K step that earned it as a reward. And Bigger Kudos for conducting the debate whether to walk out the distance or run despite the stomach protest. Sounds like a good demo of your new Response Card

A) It's worth it.
B) It's not.
Pick one.

Thanks for the thoughts about the benefits of Kindle 2. It does seem like an advantage to have instant access to Wiki and stuff. And it certainly is an advantage to easily tote a dozen books on a trip; the issue for me there is predicting the mood I'll be in for reading. Obviously I'm debating it for myself.


Tera (twilit tera) - Sending supportive thoughts as you focus on your priorities.

It's such an appealing thought to get a position as a "virtual call center."


davidette - Kudos for weight machines and step, combined with sympathy that the reality of gym schedules make optimum muscle workout scheduling a challenge.

ChinaMaine - Sending supportive thoughts for your "work on acceptance." Ouch for the fatigue and feeling demoralized. Kudos for the exercise and un-planned onplan eating.

That's a great loon video!!! Thanks for the reminder of early morning Maine.


Athenawithheart - Yay for finding a kindred spirit in the lifeguard. Kudos for swimming, jogging, and making a plan for No Peeps.

Readers -

Success Skill 7
Plan and Monitor Your Eating

I really want you to take the pain out of dieting. The painful part comes when dieters are tempted by foods they know they shouldn't eat and struggle with the decision of whether or not to give in.
...
The Complete Beck Diet for Life, pg 89

[davidette]

tera Kudos for establishing priorities and eliminating pressure. Good luck with Metrocrest and SSDI; I know navigating the system is frustrating and tedious.

athenawithheart CREDIT reasonable plan for today and MUCHO CREDIT for dealing with cravings with exercise. what good fortune to luck onto a sports massage therapist; let us know if this helps your foot pain.

anne overcoming rationalizations and pushing through on run! Kindle sounds cool. Wonder if I'll live long enough to see virtual library downloads available for it?

bill hiking in pouring rain, sticking with one healthy raisin cookie, dancing to fatigue, and being uncomfortable with unplanned eating. I think the fact that you found unbounded eating an unpleasant feeling is a significant achievement!

[onebyone]

Hi Coaches

Well I don't know where my enthusiasm went yesterday DH and I went out to do groceries in the afternoon and I had planned to work on my project when we got home and I ... just didn't. I did everything but. So now I have to get to it today. Step one is deciding which image I'm going to do and then I need to paint my board as if it was going to be a painting; this means doing an underpainting and then cooking the pastas and laying them out where I want them (that part's very fun). I can't glue a thing until the pasta dries out so that means tomorrow.

I'm in the bad headspace I can fall into where I can't let go of an idea even though I can't do anything about it either. Detaching. This is what is tough sometimes. So I just need to do what I can and let it go. Believe things will get done because they always do and do things as they present themselves to me. I am full of everything I need to get done: photographs of the grad class on Tuesday, reading articles for Tuesday, getting ceramic room stuff done Tuesday...it's all Tuesday and then Thursday and our final video projects are due and I have yet to work on mine... I am just... quietly... freaking... out.

So to make things better I'd better go and start work. Yikes! It's already 11:20. I really have to go.

Wish me luck and have a good Sunday coaches.

[ChinaMaine]

We had my brother and their family over for the weekend. We did yard work, had a fire each day, and played with my 2 adorable nieces. My hubbie dressed up as the Easter bunny this AM, much to the delight of the girls. It really was a delightful weekend.

Beck – WI-down .25 lbs. on Saturday. No card reading since company arrived… Fatigue (Per a suggestion from Anne, I’m going to add a fatigue rating every day.) Today: 2.25 out of 5. Exercise – op. Planned to do 45 mins of aerobic activity on both Saturday & Sunday and did it. Did quite a bit more than that on Saturday.

Food – off-plan Saturday. Staying on plan when I have company is going to be something I learn in baby steps. I decided earlier this week to keep my goals ‘reasonable for me’, rather than making them too unrealistic. My goal is to get incrementally closer over time to being op when I have houseguests. As a young adult I learned to rely on alcohol as an integral part of social gatherings. Unlearning this will not be done in one fell swoop. So I made a food plan for their visit – with the fundamental goal of doing better than I did when they visited in February. I did great on food – was op all the way. (…even when folks were eating really tasty-looking chips.) I drank more than planned last night, but did better than I did in Feb. In fact I was only 300 calories above my goal for the day, so I consider it a qualified success. So, I will do a cheat sheet for this weekend and make a plan for our visit to their house in May. I hope to be even closer to plan at that point. I’ll post tomorrow about my adherence to plan today. I’m extremely hungry which I think is due to doing a lot more exercise than normal both days.

Bill I love the idea of healthy, interesting foods for Easter baskets. I’ll have to figure out how to incorporate something similar into a family tradition. And hiking in the rain – I don’t think I’d do that. Credit! Kudos for good choices at lunch, but ouch having more calories than normal as part of you post-dancing snack. I know – that feeling of unbounded eating is terrible, isn’t it? It reminds you every time of the value of a plan. Credit for finding a lesson there that’ll help you in the future.

davidette weight machines and step on the same day sounds challenging – credit! Re flexibility vs offplan eating, my concern really was the fact that I was having sabotaging thoughts, and they were insidiously effective on my psyche. But credit moi for making wise choices instead of having the pizza that was my first thought. I don’t remember where you live, but no frogs! That would be hard – they started up here the same day as the loons and I’m happy to have them.

Tera I think you’re absolutely right to focus on your hip right now. It’ll reduce your stress to remove your focus from weight loss right now. Re – cost: doctors here in Maine often have sliding scale fees. And I think davidette is right, they are probably willing to be patient so long as they see steady payments.

] athenawithheart Your plan for Easter sounds reasonable and flexible – credit!

Anne Earning your Kindle – credit! Almost op and happy about it – credit! I like the idea of rating fatigue daily. Fatigue is tough because it is multi-dimensional; symptoms are physical, mental and motivational. But I’ve come up with a way to do it though.
I’d recommend giving rafting down the Colorado some consideration. We took a 16 day hiking/rafting trip and saw some really amazing stuff. It was also a wonderful way to bond with our son at an age when he generally thought we were redundant and clueless at best.

one by one Good luck!

[AnneWonders]

Coaches/Buddies I guess you win some you lose some, right? I couldn't work up the slightest bit of interest in being on plan today. And sure it was Easter and we did visit a friend's house for the obligatory egg hunt, but there were LOTS of good choices there. I just didn't make them. I didn't make them all day before we went. Don't know what is going on with me today. I have a cough, which could be the result of pushing way beyond my boundaries on yesterday's run, or could be a cold coming on. So anyway, way, way off plan. I've got tomorrow's plan written, RCs read, resistance techniques together, exercise and dinner menu ready, and every expectation of it going well.

It's very weird. I tell myself, this is what I'm doing and why, and my inner voice is kind of like, "Yes, I know and that is all a good idea and very rational, but that's not what I'm doing today," and then just simply taking over. Not even like the normal lizard brain stuff.

I did brush my teeth, and am way past where I usually am on the hunger/full scale, so I think I'm pretty much done for the day. I should probably add that I had lousy sleep for no reason I can figure last night.

Bill The hiking sounds fun and the lichen sounds wonderful! Nice work on eating the single cookie. Sorry to hear your plan didn't meet reality very well; I often have that issue myself. Were you in denial about the need for it, or just sort of disconnected that activities outside the routine require plans outside the routine, i.e. clueless? I routinely get tripped up by both of these mental lapses, but they do require different corrective action.

BTW: you can take 1000 books on Kindle 2. I'm going nuts with the old out-of-copyright stuff, which is largely free. Wishing Beck's publishers would get with the program so I can give them another $20 and haul BDS and CBDL around with me as well. Also missing the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings.

davidette And how are you doing this weekend?

onebyone Thanks for the thoughts. Gives me some insight into what my own issues might be. Stressed about the upcoming trip and getting physically and mentally locked up over it perhaps? Whack me with a clue stick.

ChinaMaine Sounds like your off-plan food was quite a learning experience for you. I hope you are taking the credit for analyzing and learning from the situation.

I expect to be back tomorrow with a 100% on plan report. I'll need a and a from you guys if I don't.

Anne

[RobinW]

Wow what a day for food

Anne Im with you on this one....

I expect to be back tomorrow with a 100% on plan report. I'll need a and a from you guys if I don't.

Chores for before bed...toss the brownies, garlic bread and lemon cake! Oh and the whip cream in the fridge and the cream cheese icing!!! Its all gotta go! Talk about food porn?!?!? I'll keep the rhubarb/strawberry topping because it's sugar free. its excellent warmed and put on oatmeal.

K.......night everyone!

[twilit tera]

Hi, everybody! just a quicky because I can't sleep and we spent all day at mom's house visiting family. It was a really nice time, and my mom gave me some of her hydrocodone which helped me get through til after dinner. (knocked my pain level from a 7 to a 2!)

Mostly want to get a few personals in now. I'll do a more thorough post on my own day tomorrow.

Athenawithheart: for your new lifeguard friend! also for planning in advance how you'd indulge for the holiday and how you wouldn't.

Anne: Glad you're enjoying your Kindle... B tried to get me to do e-books on a palmtop once, but I didn't like the page size and since i do most of my recreational reading in the tub...

for getting throught a tough run.

Bill: hiking. (color me jealous) for selecting healthy, limited treats!

onebyone:

Thanks, everybody for the support over my health issues. Tomorrow I'll tell you about the kitten I almost adopted.

[davidette]

onebyone Hope you made satisfactory progress on your project. I'm sure once you got started you felt much better. It's the "5 minutes is better than 0 minutes" in action.

chinamaine picturing your Easter Bunny spouse - what a good sport! CREDIT following through and even exceeding your exercise goals. "qualified" success with company. Slow but steady improvement will get you where you want to be. Kudos for doing a cheat sheet and planning ahead for your next challenge.

I live on a river in Portsmouth Virginia, the same property I grew up on, and my mom says the snakes ate all the frogs. We had them when I was a child. I'd hate to think it was some kind of pollution effect, but I have heard about frog species disappearing being the canary in the coal mine. I've even thought about "importing" them! Pet frogs??!

anne If it's not your lizard brain, maybe it's your adolescent? The "I don't care" we all harbor? I have to scold myself I'm all grown up now when the teenager kicks in. CREDIT being totally prepared for tomorrow and sending that teenager packing.

[b]robin[b] Hope that x-rated food hit the trash can right after you clicked the "submit post" button. I'd even drop some coffee grounds on it to be sure it didn't crawl back out

tera Glad you got some respite from the pain, it required pain medication. Kittens are VERY therapeutic!

On-plan all the way here, but no real challenges so it's more a ho-hum, stay the course situation. I still feel like I want so much MORE food than other people; I'm only getting away with it as long as I select low calorie foods so I can have the high volume. I would like to reach a point where one small apple satisfied me as a snack. I suspect it's a combination of habit and a stretched out stomach. My diet is nutritionally sound, I take vitamin supplements, and my calorie count is high enough. It's not hunger, it's just not wanting to stop until I'm stuffed! My plan is to come up with some related response cards, keep working higher calorie foods in small amounts into my food plan, and talk louder than the inner fat chick who wants to pig out.

[BillBlueEyes]

Diet Coaches/Buddies - With my family for Easter Dinner I ate within my plan for celebratory events (more than normal, less than stuffed); CREDIT moil. Only real issue was to avoid seconds of the roasted leg of lamb, which I did. Along with my healthy appetizer of sugar snaps with hummus, I produced Manchengo Spanish goats milk cheese (thanks Anne (wndranne) for the recommendation) which I'd never had. Good stuff. And CREDIT moi that I sent the remainder home with DS so that I got to taste it and don't now face it in the fridge.

The kids loved their overflowing Easter Baskets: oranges, avocado, mango, anchovies, carton of individually wrapped dried plums [sic], Scottish Lemon Curd, Nutella, and a quart of maple syrup along with pure maple candies - in different combinations for each kid. What's not to love. So CREDIT moi for getting those all together in time (although I can't think of which Beck strategy that supports, LOL). The dried plums were just because they cracked me up when I saw them, but DD and DSGF both immediately ate one and declared them good. They looked a lot like prunes to me, LOL.


onebyone - Ouch for suffering about having a non-producing day. Would wish for you that the cycles of being productive and not being productive wouldn't hurt so much, since most artists seem to experience them. Sending supportive thoughts for the crunch time.

Robin (RobinW) - Ouch for that list of tempting foods; Kudos for getting rid of them. Lemon cake is a trigger for me.

Anne (wndranne) - Ouch for "way, way off plan." Is that a sign that you're pushing yourself too hard? Or just reduced defenses with good friends on a relaxing day? Kudos for getting right back on track; that's fast recovery.

Found the Manchengo cheese in two stores; Whole Foods had two kinds so I bought the less expensive one for only $15.99 per pound (but I was able to buy only six ounces, for which I'm grateful). Was new to me. Glad I tried it.

Yep, I "just sort of disconnected that activities outside the routine require plans outside the routine, i.e. clueless?" Rushed out for the evening slightly off stride with an early dinner and didn't even think about a plan for the snack table. But worse, I didn't think of thinking about it when I faced the table; I just dug in using my old style (gotta get mine, LOL). Disconnected covers it.


Tera (twilit tera) - Yay for a nice family day. And Yay for the reduced pain to enjoy it.

davidette - Waving back. Thanks for the reinforcement about unbounded eating.

ChinaMaine - My admiration for getting in both days of exercise even with house guests; Kudos and Kudos. Ouch for the fatigue, even thought diminished. Yep, "that feeling of unbounded eating is terrible" - if I keep typing that maybe it'll sink in.

Gotta think you're spot on with "keep my goals ‘reasonable for me.’ " That's a good one for me to remember also.


Readers -

Success Skill 7
Plan and Monitor Your Eating
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Planning what you eat makes it so much easier to reist giving in to temptation. It's very clear. Here's what I'm supposed to eat, and here's what I'm not going to have.
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The Complete Beck Diet for Life, pg 89