Wow, CC, what a wonderful dinner you had and you get to enjoy it twice! We live about and hour from really good eateries so it's almost more work to go out than to eat at home!! As I get older I'm really getting to be a homebody, especially with the price of gas!
Hi Carol. I actually got to enjoy the meal 3 times, once at the resturant and twice today. The resturant we go to is about a 20 or so drive from home, but it has such fresh seafood, I am so blessed to live in an area where we can have it fresh.
I had a strange day eating yesterday. I had a great breakfast of toast with peanut butter and strawberries and a very small snack of 2 bites melon, half a muffin and coffee just before noon. Then we didn't get a chance to eat a meal until 9pm. and only a meatball, half a cup steamed asparagus, 4 chips, an apple and a small brownie. I definitely felt light. But it is so hot here again, you don't feel like eating much.
It's hot here too! Hubby is putting up a fence and sweating up a storm, of course, he can manage to sweat like crazy in sub zero degrees! I do not handle being in the heat well, we need rain so badly! My eating is better, had gotten off track a little, but doing better. Have a blessed day.
Morning Ladies! Got up at 5am and did our 3 laps, hoping to add a lap by the end of the week, getting ready for breakfast, oatmeal, honey and milk. Going for the diabetes education appointment today and I assume getting a meter too. I really want to lose weight to get off all these machines and meds, blood pressure pump plus glucose meter. Have a blessed day.
Hi everyone! I'm still doing pretty well with IE, loving it.
I have been keeping a "hunger journal" for the last week, just to help myself learn about my hunger signals and to help me make eating between hunger and satisfaction a habit. :-)
My hunger journal has the time, hunger level before eating/drinking, food/drink consumed, and hunger level after eating/drinking. I'm using a hunger scale from 1-10 and trying to stay as close to 5 (neither hungry nor full) as possible.
It's been hard to not get over-full. Even when I was on Weight Watchers, I would try to stay within my Points and not worry about hunger signals at all. Now that I've switched to IE, I'm trying to train my body to not like that over-full feeling.
I plan to keep this hunger journal around for awhile, until I feel like I've mastered "Honor your hunger". Anyone else keep a food/hunger journal?
I love that I'm no longer judging myself for my food choices, just as long as I listen to my hunger signals and eat what I really want to eat. :-)
Newgirl, after years of dieting, I really dislike keeping track of anything but it sounds like a good learning experience. CC, I just recently went off blood pressure meds and now take passionflower instead. Seems to work. It is so hot here that I can only manage orange juice for breakfast.
I can certainly understand that! I had some hesitation before starting the hunger journal, but I really think that it's an important step towards IE for me.
NewGirl, I think your hunger journal is a great idea, I think that if you do it long enough, IE will come second nature to you and you will not have to do it for ever.
Just got back from my diabeted education appointment. She showed my how to use my new accu check meter, after 2 hours from eating my blood sugar was 104 and she told me that was a good number, now I need to check it after we walk and before morning coffee.
We just keep getting hotter and hotter, breaking temp. records. But that is summer in south Louisiana, sure makes it uncomfortable to go outside and do stuff, that's why we get up between 4:30 and 5am to go walking and it's HOT that time of the morning.
I've tried to keep a hunger journal off and on, but I'm not very faithful about it and rarely make it more than a few days. I do try to stop eating when I'm neutral, rather than full. Being full is often a trigger for me.
I have realized that I SERIOUSLY need to work on putting everything on a plate and sitting down to eat it. Not so much the sitting as the plate, I suppose. I tend to pop 1 or 2 of this and that in my mouth and not really pay attention to it.
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Susan, I love to sit down to eat and would agree that when you graze around the kitchen it is not quite as satisfying. It's a hard habit to break, especially if you are really hungry and waiting for something to finish cooking. I find that a half a piece of fruit can hold me off and I get extra vitamins with that.
I almost never sit down to just eat. My eating is always multi-tasking, usually with at home with TV or at work (at my desk). I have learned how to still listen to my hunger signals while multitasking though, it's hard but possible.
What works for you, Newgirl, can help other people over some of their hurdles. The point is to eat when hungry and stop when satisfied....and not stuffed.
