Wow Carol - I'm glad you are ok! Stay High and Dry!
jo

I'm rereading Gwen Shamblin's first book on Weigh Down. She had some good ideas there though the next books weren't as good. I'll go along good for awhile losing steadily and then it seems I get overly hugnry and gain some back. All in all, it's been downward but I wish it would hurry up.... the weight loss, of course.

Hey, IE Pals - Where is Obi? Shouldn't she be back from Jamaica by now?
Obi, where are you?
Well as for myself I have decided I am going to join the gym I had joined before and never worked out. They probably love people like me. But this time it is going to be different. I have talked myself into it, and I have no reason not to DO it. The reasons I had before for not going do not apply anymore so I am not going to fall into that mindtrap.
Also I just got a big raise at work so there is no monetary excuse to not join. So I plan on making the transition from the bar stool to the gym and I'll let ya all know how it goes!
jo

Hi, ladies. I haven't been here in waaaaay too long. But in just popping by to read your latest, I saw that carolr3639 wrote about her DH's vet work by Gays Mills, WI. My bro's family used to live by Boscobel. I know that SW & Central Wisconsin are extremely prone to tornadoes and other harsh inclement weather in season. My heart goes out to all of you there. We had some mighty powerful storms rip through Chicago on Thursday, including a tornado watch for the city itself, which is not common. But we had nowhere near all of your problems. Please know you're in our prayers.

I've been having a few good days. Just recently a sentence on the bottom of page 43 really jumped out at me. (from the first Weigh Down Diet book) I said we should welcome getting to empty because that is when your body pulls from your fat storage. I have had this book for 10 yr and this is a first. I always thought of hunger as the enemy and now I see it can be an ally.
I've just felt so much better and ate a lot less than normal. I've had more energy which I really need.

Am I in the right place?
 

Hi everyone. I started reading a book (for the second time) on intuitive eating and was wondering if this is where I should be hanging out?? Amazing how common sense it sounds, but today I only 1/2 heartedly followed the principles. Hoping to get more into it as the days go by and back into exercise as soon as the little men get back to school.

Please let me know if I'm lost and should be hanging out in a different thread.

Hope everyone had a great day.

Hi Shelby! Welcome!
Yeah, it is common sense, isn't it? What book are you reading?
I am looking forward to getting to know you here!
You mentioned exercise! - is there a scary font to use for typing that word? My biggest challenge. Tomorrow. I promise. Really.
Again, welcome!

Thanks for the welcome - nice to know I'm not the only one arond at this hour!!

I'm reading "Intutive Eating A Revolutionary Program that Works" by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch -- so far so good :D

If you exercise tomorrow, I will too!! It always makes me feel so much better, it's just fitting it in that kills me.

I'm hoping tomorrow to make better food choices to try to stop thinking about what I'm going to eat next all the time.

Well, I've lost my energy to work, so I'm off to bed. Have a great day tomorrow.

Hi Shelby. Good to hear from you.

Today has been a little more trying. The WD book says to switch thoughts when you find yourself thinking about food. That's a hard one for me. Seems like that's all I"ve been thinking about for the 20 yr. I've been obsessed with losing weight. I wanted to go longer this morning but was so hungry that I had a banana and toast. My mom always said that food is friendly. It sure is! And she wasn't even heavy. My dad was, though. He never dieted but lost a lot of weight in the end of his life. He had dementia and maybe just didn't care anymore. But my MIL is the same way (demetia) and she still loves to eat and weighs about 220. Interesting how the opposite thing happened.
Isn't it strange how you can think you have this thing figured out and about 2 weeks later you realize you didn't? You know how many times that has happened? Too many to remember. When we got the eliptical I thought now this will do it....I'll weigh such and such in a couple of months.....not!

"Eating like a Hot Chick???"
 

This is definitely not "my" kind of thing ("HOT" - not in a million years) but I thought it was kind of amusing - Maybe it belongs in the Lighten Up Category! -- and maybe a little bit of Venn Diagram Overlap with IE.

http://www.heydayproductions.com/book.htm

Hi Jo, Things are sure quiet around here. Recently I have been thinking how nice it would be not to think about food. That's where I can't wait to be. I was like that as a kid. Food was just food. No big deal. One of my problems is if the food I eat doesn't taste good I'm not satisfied. For example. Yesterday morning I had toast with peanut butter and strawberries. It tasted really good so I decided to try that again. I think the strawberries were starting to go bad and I was so disappointed. Then the thought came to me that there are millions of people starving around the world that probably eat spoiled food and who am I to be so pickey? Just a thought.

Yes, it is quiet here! Where is everybody?
Carol - I know what you mean. I am very picky about food. I'm picky because I'm fat, and I know I have to eat anyway, so if I'm going to eat it, it has to be good. I mean, if I was starving of course I wouldn't be picky. But if I am going to have x amount of calories a day, they had better be a good x rather than a yuck x. I would rather have two bites of a delicious homemade gratin with real aged cheddar than two bowlfuls of some yuck-o modification with fat free processed cheese that tastes like wax. So I'm kind of a snob about it.
And besides if it has a yuck factor, I'm not going to feel satisfied, as you say; I will still want to have something good.
Hey, did you notice I changed my avatar -- now I have athletic shoes on my feet, symbolizing that I have joined the gym and have begun exercising.
jo

Nice avatar, Jo, but I'm not sure those are athletic shoes. ha! How's the gym? I'm at least 30 mi. from a gym so we bought an eliptical. Right now the basement is kind of messy since we had all that water so I haven't used it for awhile. Eating is so so. My DH had an ice cream social at his vet clinic and we made 16 pails of ice cream. He does it every 2 years and gives it away. Last night 70 kids and teachers from a Waldorf school came and cleaned him out right at the end. Needless to say I think my weight is up a bit today. ugh.

The gym is great! (For a gym.) It's one of those that has everything. A 50-meter pool, squash and raquetball, three class studio areas, and even a BAR serving beer and wine. Well at least I will exercise first before sitting on a bar stool. Yesterday I swam. It is an outdoor pool and it was in the middle of the day and I could smell the wonderful aromas from the neighboring sourdough bread place and the spice factory place mixed together. And no, it didn't make me "hungry." That would be just silly.
Since I have no workout togs I went to a sporting attire store and bought some. Very un-fun shopping but I liked the store. What does it say when I am buying XL bottoms and a sports bra with an A-cup (only because they don't make a size 38AA.)
Anyway we're (suddenly I've become plural) getting into this slowly but surely. Those are athletic shoes! Saucony, "running" shoes, but I don't run. I have some other shoes I could use but I don't know, they look like marshmallows with space blankets on the sides; kind of funky.
Where is everybody?????????????????????????

I'm here!!! School started back this week, and the last five days have felt like 100! 35 weeks to go! I am so tired. I have dropped into bed right after my boys this week. Our enrollment is up so my classes have 28 kids in them. It looks like a good group, but there are a few that are already trying to test me. I told one today that I had no desire to argue with him, that I am the teacher and I will always win. This was all because I asked him to stop talking in line and to turn around! Those 6th graders!!!!
On a happy note, I am so busy that I don't have time to think about food. I am down three more pounds making it a total of 10 pounds lost since the middle of June. I am very pleased. I didn't make it to the gym this week. My dogs were screaming at the end of each day, so I spent my time before crawling into bed holding down the couch. I'd have to say I did a pretty darn good job.