Good Morning coaches

I'm out to catch the bus in a few minutes. Just checking in to officially commit to my foodplan for the day: 3 meals a day and a snack-- plus a walk.
Just had breakfast, sitting down, eating slow, with one whole food(walnuts) included in my cereal mix to "health it up" I have to admit I am avoiding the asparagus in the fridge. It's on plan for lunch of dinner. But it will be consumed today. You know I like green things, I just think "oh man they take so long to cook/cut/prepare". I need less thinking, more doing here.

Okay have to go.

BillBlueEyes No giant sold sign... we prefer the discreet red dot beside the item sold. Cathy, who manages all things in galleries for the school, will have to drive out to the display, unlock the door, take down the piece of paper with my price list on it, and put a single red dot beside "Hi Mom". May the red dots mulitply!
One teaspon of salt a day. Wow. Not much eh? You can see how fast you'd have that amount plus if you are eating pre-packaged food all the time or eating out. Yeah I knew Coke was a killer. It's a whole lot of nothing isn't it?
I am trying to avoid eating nothingness... want the food I eat to count for something.

Everyone, enjoy your day

11pm check in: I didn't get my walk in but I did get plenty of exercise moving stuff around in the basement and hauling things out to the curb for garbage day. I've finally decided to tackle the junk in the basement. it's a big ugly job. I feel like I can't move forward with my weightloss or my cleaning sometimes so I am hoping that getting one moving will help me get past the weightloss hurdles too. And even if it doesn't, it'll be good to get my house together for once. that in itself should be inspiring. I did stick to no sugar today and ate wholefoods at two meals, had veggies on my sandwich at lunch. Asparagus remains in the fridge.

hello coaches! another quickie (getting to be a bad habit, huh?) today is make time for dieting. this is a cakewalk (pardon the pun) after trying to do it with my prior bandwidth!

other than that things are going well. still going to the gym every day - we're doing 5 day splits on weight training. it's really a treat. eating is OK - i'm taking in more calories than i usually plan, but it's generally from genuine hunger.

my advantage for today: it'll be easier to run!

Thanks to everyne for the welcomes and the feedback! .

I found this thread by trawling the "new posts" periodically on 3FC. I became intrigued by TBDS and checked out the web site, then checked out the book at the library.

I like the book because although I am already following most of Beck's advice, I was using some of the "sabotaging" thoughts for those that I didn't. And I buy her counter-argument that even if I don't need to adopt the remaining strategies in order to lose weight now, I *will* need them to be able to maintain down the road (obviously, what I've done in the past hasn't worked!).

Deciding to plan my food was very tough for me, but it's already paid off a few times. I have adapted it as suggested (I get to choose one of my standard breakfasts in the morning).

Regarding the end-of-day no-food-left issue, for now I've decided on a compromise. My food plan includes optional servings of veggies every two hours after the last "real" entry. That way, I can't eat them any time I want, but theoretically I won't have to wait until the next day for something -- although the odds that I will actually be awake for any of those veggies is quite low.

I haven't done the hunger exercises yet. I jumped ahead to food planning, as I knew it would be a big hurdle for me, but otherwise I am following the daily schedule and haven't gotten that far yet. Maybe I will be able to drop those optional veggies afterwards.

Thanks again, everyone!

Just checking in ,very busy with bad days at work.I will be leaving Sat-Mon eve for our little camping trip,I will check in upon my return.I have my healthy foods ready to go and some not so healthy that we always bring.I am getting a shower and getting ready for Greys Anatomy season finale.

Sounds like you're doing great! I think you'll be surprised about the hunger excercise. It was a complete revelation for me. Yes, hunger is uncomfortable, but it's not an emergency! After practicing that excercise I realized that I actually thought that is was! Sure it's an emergency if you have hypoglycemia or diabetes or you're malnourished. But not if you need to lost weight. I highly recommend the excercise. After you get through it you'll really be able to excercise your "saying no" muscle better. Welcome!

Hello All,

we have alot of wind along with very strong gusts-power off yesterday for hrs, today internet was down until just recently. Just a short posting as need to get some sleep-working hard on getting ready for the fair in two days. We are prepared but are the visitors going to come from San Francisco area for the long weekend?

Been a schizo Becker-on target during the day and mindless snacker at night. If I could just go sleep an hr after dinner I'd been fine. sure know what to do but am pandering to my cravings. It feels like addiction in that I am trading in long term health and personal satisfication for short term food awe.

congradulation to all you folks exercising, on a food plan and make healthy changes-plan to be doing the same soon.

sue

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