Oh, Shannon, I do hope that TJ's does have a yogurt similar to Siggi's--their prices are so much better! I'll look next time I'm there (which will probably be Saturday).
Saef - how much do you have to exercise to feel comfortable? Is it a realistic amount or is it just pushing yourself too hard? I ask because I was exercising 1.5+ hours a day there for a long time and I just couldn't maintain that level of activity, for a lot of reasons. I slid into blowing off workouts several days a week because I was so stressed and felt like I was failing before I even started so why bother? I'm still working to find a good balance, but I know I can't let myself go back there.
Shannon, good question. Once I moved back into my apartment, I thought I could resume My Ideal Life, which presumably I'd lost with the flood. That meant going to the gym a lot, because now it was just two blocks away. But it also meant resuming commuting to Connecticut twice a week. (It's at least an hour to get there, more if I time the commute badly and leave later than planned.)
But I may have set up an exercise schedule that is, in the long run, untenable, if I want to have any other time for myself.
And like you, I feel badly if I am not living up to these self-imposed standards that I've set for myself. For example, if I don't leave for the gym by 5:40 AM or 5:45 AM, and then not by 6 AM, it gets harder to leave at 6:30 AM & accept I'll have to do less than the planned hour -- so instead, because I can't do it all, I tend it blow it off completely.
I thought I'd learned better about that kind of all-or-nothing thinking & that kind of perfectionism & exactness when it came to my diet. Well, no. Apparently I did with food, but what I learned didn't transfer over to how I feel about exercise. Or at least not automatically, not without a lot of self-talk on my part and thinking it out here, when writing about it on this forum.
Yep, my weight is now back where it was before dealing with the threat of Superstorm Sandy. In fact, it may be slightly higher, but I'm really sore this morning and weighed a bit earlier than usual, so I'm giving myself a bit of the benefit of the doubt.
Not where I wanted to be before Thanksgiving, but thankfully, I feel like my working life is in a little bit better control than it was. Not that I got that much more done but that I have a better attitude about it. I feel like it's doable rather than beyond me.
I'm beginning to brace myself for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. My brain automatically thinks of HUGE servings and multiple SECONDS. The pointless notion of stuffing oneself on Thanksgiving lives deep in my brain. Will be working today to try to alter such pointless old thinking.
I am going out to dinner,so that relieves me of having a kitchen full of left overs to nibble on. I really don't eat a lot at one time, it is the all day picking that is troublesome for me.
Both my sister and sister in law called last night for the exact same recipe! My Mom had a recipe for beans that is my absolute favorite and you know what? I had forgotten about it. I always make it for Thanksgiving and it's not on my menu this year. Well, it wasn't, but it is now! I'll just do a small batch of it, but this does necessitate another trip to the grocery store for bacon!
I do not see myself as taking huge portions. I have so many dishes I'm preparing so I see it more as tastes of this and that with a little more of my favorites.
See, I keep minimizing it in my head. I think: So much fuss over one meal, which takes, what? About two hours? Less, because I eat too fast. Yes, it's just another dinner, except it's eaten on nicer plates than usual. There'll be another dinner the next day, and another the day after that. The thing is to get out the house, away from the kitchen. Take a walk. Make it about something else, other than a sanctioned overeating occasion.
"One meal is no big deal" I found it may even give a reversed yo-yo effect if you resist to binging the next day - I mean I often find I've lost some weight 2-3 days after a cheat meal or even a cheat day. So don't focus on yesterday, keep your eyes on today and tomorrow.
And as far as maintaining is concerned, currently I'm facing the problem of "how to stop loosing weight". It's a time consuming (!) struggle
Last edited by MadProfessor; 11-21-2012 at 01:01 PM.
Looks like after we round up all the Thanksgiving remarks in the next couple of days, we're going to be facing down the 500-post barrier again. Maybe a "closing out 2012" type of theme? A tongue-in-cheek reference to the end of the world on Dec 21?
If this thread is still meant to be for those trying to lose 5-10 pounds to get BACK to goal weight: Maintaining Momentum through the Holidays.
If this thread is now about just maintaining: Maintaining Motivation through the Holidays.
Looks like after we round up all the Thanksgiving remarks in the next couple of days, we're going to be facing down the 500-post barrier again. Maybe a "closing out 2012" type of theme? A tongue-in-cheek reference to the end of the world on Dec 21?
What ?????? The world is ending on Dec 21 ????? That can't be, that is my goal anniversary day !!!!
I found it may even give a reversed yo-yo effect if you resist to binging the next day - I mean I often find I've lost some weight 2-3 days after a cheat meal or even a cheat day. So don't focus on yesterday, keep your eyes on today and tomorrow.
