Pagan guy too
 

Just want to say hello to all you beautiful pagan ladies. thanks for the message thread!!

Welcome Ktjensen! :wave:

well I am just starting out so I hope you wonderful women can give me some direct encouragement. I will need lots of that to get myself to eating healthy.

Do any of you ever use recipe management, meal planning software?

Welcome ktjensen
 

Greetings:

Welcome to ktjensen!

Well, forgot to post yesterday; already reneging on my commitment to post here every day. But here I am now.

Last couple of days, I was hungry, tired, couple of frustrating reporting jobs, and in addition to still coughing a little and really resenting being sick for a week, got a raging yeast infection from the antibiotics. Bleah! I am keeping it at bay with B-vitamins and garlic vaginal suppositories.

I got hungry on Wednesday and dealt with it. I ate a little more than I'd been doing. I was careful to stop when I was no longer hungry. Then the next morning, I weighed myself as kind of a reality check to make sure I didn't go on blithely overeating. Yes, I'd gained, but one more day of being careful, and it was gone with perhaps half a pound of interest, so to speak.

And I am back on track, and I feel better for it. I actually think that little permitted lapse helped me stay on. I now feel sort of reassured that I don't have to suffer, that if I get really, really hungry like that, no one (and who would that be? <wg>) is going to keep me from eating.

So onward and downward, and a happy Friday to all.

Guess we are all reneging on post every day! :lol:

We had some snow this morning! :cb:

Plan is still good so far - :crossed: Still have not consumed any chocolate or candy for the season. :D

Exercise is not so good as I have been too busy to do anything lately.

I have got most of my shopping done and wrapped! :) I just have to go buy groceries now.

Reneging, something we all know about
 

Greetings:

Yeah, still coughing a little, and I haven't been great with the food for the last few days. However, I did not do too awfully badly yesterday -- more like treading water, minus the calories burned in this activity -- in a situation that is one of my downfalls, e.g., an all-day job with attorneys I've yet to work with in a location I'm not familiar with. And in thinking about it all today, I had an important insight. I realized that in a lot of ways, every time I go out to report a deposition, I'm in a situation that is kind of like the first day of a new job you're anxious to do well with. And I tend to overeat on the days I go out, as opposed to working on transcripts at home, to ground myself.

So I have a new project: being a lot calmer about my work situation. I need to fill myself up with affirmations to the effect of, "If this is not a great situation, I can make it great situation."

Onward, ever onward.

Discouraged, but still determined
 

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That's GREAT planning, Gaia Eternal.

Well, being sick and tired has taken its toll, and I see now that the amount of calories I've been consuming has crept up without my knowing it. I need to simply eat a lot less. That's it. Period. So often, at this point when I have to face the fact that I can't eat everything I want and still have the body I want, I get discouraged and quit. Well, I'm going to punch through that pattern this time.

With my work, I know if I do it, the check will come in (I don't get a regular salary like most people; I am a freelancer, and they come in irregularly). I don't worry about it all that much since I deal only with reputable agencies. I need to take the same attitude toward weight loss. If I do it right every day, the results will come.

Gaia - sorry about your great aunt - :grouphug:

That's the spirit
 

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Gaia, sorry for all your sad news. But you're doing a great job of dealing with it all. Keep up the good work, and you're in my prayers.