Hello today,it is Saturday,I had to say what day it was because they are all running together for me.Thanks everyone for the hopeful thoughts about my leg.I work in a psychiatric hospital and a violent patient was attacking a coworker and I ran to help,during the scuffle my leg got twisted and popped.I was unable to stand on it,had MRI and the tendon is ruptured.The therapy so far is to stay off it and keep it elevated and on heating pad.The osteo doctor says I won't need surgery but can perhaps start physical therapy next week.The employee health/workemans comp nurse is starting some funny buisness and we had some words.The other girl had her nose broken and fared worse than me.Ihave been doing psychiatric nursing 20 years and have never been hurt more than a slap or scratch,sign of the times,less staffing,sicker patients and little cooperation.
Anyway,it is good that it has given me time to focus on Beck and work through the new book.Had a good food day yesterday and so far today.Reading my cards before I get out of bed.I have a computer chair in the kitchen I can wheel around and I can cook some easy recipes.I have been trying some from the new Hungry Girl 200 cal or less book.I like both her cookbooks and she has a website.

wndranne-Wow what a work out,do you regularly work out like that? You probably enjoy it alot!

onebyone-6 pound weight loss,that is great!We will get there slow and steady.

twilit tera-Great job with declining the unplanned for cookies.I can understand being disappointed about staying home the weekend.I'm at home too on the couch surrounded by a mess my family is unconcerned about.It is very frustrating and the weather has been beautiful and I can't go anywhere!Were you injured or do you have Fibromyalgia?

RobinW-Sounds like you had a busy day but you were still able to use the skills you have learned to not overeat,great job!

BillBlueEyes-It is nice that you are still going strong supporting everyone here!Nice too that you let them put your DW elliptical where it would be best for her even if it could be a little in the way otherwise.

pattygirl63-When you said you were suprised how much you can eat on the plan I was thinking you must be using the Beck for LIfe book diet plan,I was suprised by this also.I get 2000 calories,that is quite a bit.I have just started the phase 2 also.

ChinaMaine-Great job staying on plan even after seeing a slight increase on scale,that always gets to me and throws me off so easy.

Hi. I can't switch over to kg on the scale. I can deal with it. I am thinking it's 2 x 5lbs and looking at it that way. Not "258 or 255" but "I have 5lbs to lose, then 3 lbs to goal" etc. So as of today I have 5lbs to goal. I'm just getting rid of the 250 completely. Thanks for the suggestion

Can someone on a different eating plan (like South Beach or Atkins) be part of the Beck group? I haven't read the book yet, but it sounds intriguing and helpful based on your thread. I understand the most recent book has an eating plan? Thanks! CJ

CJZee,welcome.Yes The beck Diet Solution can be used with any diet plan.It teaches cognitive and behavioral skills to help you follow any diet.The first book was Beck Diet Solution,then a workbook by the same same,the book on cd and the newest is Beck Diet For Life, which goes over the same concepts and a few extras and then gives a diet plan but the program works with any nutritional diet.

Coaches/Buddies Weight was up about a pound today, but with the extra (planned) food to support yesterday's workout, and being a little sore today, it is to be expected. I also haven't been sleeping well, and I'm absolutely wiped tonight.

I had no plan today, and I never know what makes me think that is a good idea. I had a fasting blood draw this morning for standard bloodwork for my physical Friday and that seemed to set the day. I skipped supper because I'm just not hungry. I'm too tired to eat. Calories came out on the high side of all right. I think I had one vegetable serving in the form of a V8, so not so great on the nutrition side of the house.

I have a plan for tomorrow, so I'm ahead of the game.

Trish Glad you had a great on-plan day and are happy with the amount of food you are allotted!

Bill LOL on your fashion sense. Navy and khaki never go out of style don't you know, in the sense that they are never in style.

Mmm, lentil soup. Too late for another batch of that here, so I'll have to live vicariously through you until about October.

Robin Busy day. I think always eating mindfully is a great goal, but sometimes you just gotta get unhungry and life intervenes. At least that is what I tell myself as I chase children. There are days if I waited to sit to eat, it wouldn't happen. I do pay attention though. No need to rush through lunch and not really be aware that I ate.

Tera Happy anniversary. Hope you found a nice pain-free way to celebrate such a big milestone.

I'm finding the Kessler book fascinating. I'll try to do a review sometime when life settles a bit. The Kindle is also great for making notes. I think the take away for me so far, is that a program like Beck's CBT based approach is essential for undoing all the brain rewiring that "conditioned hypereating" does. I think that is the term...too tired now to remember exactly.

onebyone Nicely done on 6 lbs gone. The 250s ain't nothin' but a number or 10. LOL on noticing my mileage discrepancy on the out and back. I took a different route home, for the record. I have not learned to bend time and space, although that would be real handy...

Wendy Your injury sounds very traumatic. Good that you are using this time to refocus.

I do triathlon as a hobby so I train a lot when I can. I do love it.

CJZee Welcome to our little group! The original BDS had us pick any reasonable diet we liked, and that is still a fine way to go about it. The strengths of the Beck method, CBT techniques, are in the psychological tools that help you stick to the diet (and if you want to know all the gory details of why that works, read the new Kessler book. Wow.)

Night everybody. It's 7:05 here, and I'm going to bed.

Anne

Diet Coaches/Buddies - DW asked me to help plant some stuff, so my exercise yesterday was digging and digging and digging. CREDIT moi. Unfortunately, that meant no time for my first test drive on Gerbilina. Oh Well. Move on. Let it go. Get over it. Never mind. [Foreshadowing, he is.]

Will make white bean and tomato salad with Rosemary vinaigrette for lunches next week. Hoping that will made it feel like Spring even if the temperature isn't that warm. Bought all the ingredients when shopping yesterday; CREDIT moi.


onebyone - Congrats on the six pound "shed." Kudos for recognizing your negative and sabotaging thoughts so you can meet them head on. Do you think it would help to review the Thinking Errors chapter in Beck? You might find some I don't deserve this type of thing. Good luck facing this.

Ouch for the lost classes; hope the remainder get resolved to your liking.


Robin (RobinW) - Ouch for whirlwind busy but Kudos for such dedication to immediate customer satisfaction. Mindful eating is like culture - a privilege for after the harvest.

You got me drooling with your "souvlaki." We have a Greek truck that shows up nearby around lunch time. Haven't had one in a while partially because it's so big wrapped in its large pita bread; might have to try your two meals technique.


Anne (wndranne) - Ouch for skipping supper and feeling "absolutely wiped." Hope you have a more comfortable day today.

Your post reminds me that Arizona alone, of the 50 states doesn't do Daylight Savings Time. If must feel weird remaining sane as the rest of us flip about each Spring and Fall, LOL.


Tera (twilit tera) - Congratulations on your tenth Wedding Anniversary; may you have many more. That means you're past the seven year itch, LOL.

Kudos for one bite of a 3 Musketeers bar; I'm impressed. That would work for me only if it were being held by a hungry pit bull.


Wendy (Wendylan) - Kudos for spending your down time usefully, like catching up on Beck. Ouch for that story of how you tore your tendon; hope you can keep on top of the relationship with the comp nurse to get yourself healed.

CJ (CJZee) - Yep, using South Beach or Atkins is just fine while pursuing the strategies of Beck. In her first book, there is no eating plan and you are required to choose two - a primary and a backup plan. Do you plan to read the current book or the first one?

Readers -

WI: +1.5
Pain: 1/4/7
Activity: 1

I've been pretty depressed lately. Yesterday I experienced the way foods alter my mood... truly only while I was actually eating.

I was able to find a website about tendonosis with a link to a medical journal website, with free access. I've printed up a couple of study briefs on tendinopathy and lateral hip pain. I'll take them with me to the chiropractor's on Tuesday and to the Golden Cross clinic.

I think I need to make a depression strategy to complement my diet strategies. I'm sure the lack of pool activity is contributing.

onebyone: For both of us...

Wendy: Yes, the days do run together. Sorry that your job has gotten so exciting.

As to whether I was injured, I guess that depends on who you ask. When the orthopedic doctor spoke to me, one of the first things he asked me was whether I'd had a fall. When I told him no, he apologized for the mistake and said that my records said that I was injured. What happened was that I was pushing myself out of a car... I felt this sudden stabbing pain, and I haven't been the same since. That sounds like an injury to me, but what do I know?

Dr. G diagnosed the hip with bursitis, but my reading keeps leading me back to tendonopathy - maybe from repetitive stress (?)

All of my medical bills have been paid for out of pocket, since I'm uninsured, mostly by my family. I don't think I'll have the whole picture without soft tissue imaging, but first I have to find both a doctor who will listen to me and the means to pay for treatment on our limited income. It takes a lot of work to keep me from feeling really sorry for myself.

(My apologies to everyone else who's heard the story already.)

CJZee: I read the Beck Diet Solution, and am counting calories. to the thread!

Bill: for planting stuff. Exercise plus changing your yard from one state to another - You must feel very accomplished.

A great morning greeting to all, dear Beckies.

Wendylan, welcome back. I am just floored that it has been since August for your last communication with us. When I saw your post, I just thought, "Oh, there's Wendylan." It just floors me the way time flies. I am also floored by your experience. I can't imagine being in such a situation, let alone being injured as a result. God bless you for what you do. I mean that sincerely. Mental illness is the worst illness of all in mho.

Does anyone else say "It floors me?". My mom used it a lot. I am wondering if it is a regional or a generational phrase. Am also wondering what the pundits are going to do analyzing "I'm like" and "like"...they are going to have to come up with a new part of speech for "like". The closest you can come is to call it an adverb, but it ain't no adverb in mho.

Tera, you asked what happened in '76. Well, see, it's like.....

That was the first Swine Flu scare. The gov't. said we all needed to be vaccinated for Swine Flu. So we all lined up like Lemmings plunging into the sea for a free and highly recommended vaccination. I was pretty much a Counter Culture Hippie Chick at the time; looking back, I can't believe I got the shot. Have wondered a lot in years past, though, what was really in that. Some kind of "stupid" serum, judging by the way we have behaved since! Well, maybe stupid is harsh; perhaps it was just "go to sleep and let the gov't. do the thinking for you. Just take the sound bites we feed you and let us take care of everything."

I was so Martha yesterday. Looking forward to a repeat performance. We got some major gardening done yesterday. Great joy. One day down, God willing another 180 (give or take a few) days to go.

Made my trademark Whole Wheat Banana bread with fresh strawberries. No- brainer, all. Take your favorite Banana Bread recipe, substitute WW flour, no need for any white flour at all. I cut down the sugar, but use the amount of oil called for. The 2/3 or so cup of fresh strawberries adds enough moisture to really keep the bread soft and moist for as long as it lasts. I use the strawberries that you always get in the carton that are not ripe enough to eat out of hand. Also baked Sweet Potatoes along with it, so have them smashed up with Clementine zest and fresh ginger ready to go for Sweet Potato Pancakes this morning.

Clarification, BillBE. The TJ's dressing is Cranberry Walnut with Gorgonzola. Only 70 cals. per 2 TBS..4.5 gms. of fat..so flavorful that is enough for a huge Spinach Salad with toasted walnuts, dried cranberries, a Clementine, fresh strawberries. See, I zested the Clementines for the sweet potatoes and then used them in the salad.

I was on a Martha roll for sure.

Now if someone could help us with the dawg training. *sigh. We installed the electric fence with the shocker collars for the two dawgs..they have both gotten off the leash and into the shock zone......while we are trying to train them to the flag signal..the warning signal. It is ugly. We have tried to follow the directions for training, but both these irrationally exuberant dawgs are big and fast, and both have shrugged out of their collars. Now damage done.

With spring here and the summer neighbors coming back, we have to contain them. Any suggestions, I am all ears.

Hello

Anne made this comment and I thought it rang so true. In the past however, I would have taken that opportunity to head over to the market and pick up something unhealthy to fix the hunger problem. Even when I had healthy planned food packed. Im glad I stuck to the plan, even if it just meant getting "unhungry" Thanks Anne!

Im off to home depot with hubby.....exciting eh?!

Hi Coaches

Well DH and I had a spirited discussion about finances.
He's feeling burdened having shouldered the load while I did my school thing but now I really have to start contributing. I know I have to. I planned to, but the knowing that I really have to is throwing me off. I don't have a good history of making money. Not really. I have a great history of making things that are great but don't bring in lots of money.

Wonder if I can change this?

Anyway I was a ball of volatile emotions, trying to keep it calm and all that. DH loathes to talk about this stuff and I think it's been eating him alive.
But I kept talking about going to Nova Scotia to the Folk Art Festival and he just had to come right out and say "No we can't go unless you can pay for it."

Realistically, I want to go somewhere over the summer. I need to. I don't care where or how far I just need some kind of a trip. I'll have to save for it.
Also, realistically speaking, I have more than enough to keep me busy cleaning out our place and getting rid of stuff and making things for the market and working at the school. I have to make myself do my 10 hrs a week at the school and really I have to focus on $. I also can't forget I am working on a "body of work" for gallery showing and that takes time.

Pressure. I responded by eating chocolate. And then stopping. And then putting it away and then later finishing it. I tried but didn't throw it away. I didn't gorge myself though and I am done eating for the day.

Credit moi? I am sure there are some credits. I just feel worried. This evening I am not sure I can measure up to anything but somehow I have to.
I, my coaches, am just saying this so I don't eat over it.

Second last class is over tomorrow. I still have to work on what I am presenting. On the plus side I have only 11 more linos to carve and I am done that part!

Coaches/Buddies I've been in a really bad mood all day. Just unbelievably irritable. I had a lousy run this morning, and it felt like I've been eating a bunch of garbage all day. In reality, my eating wasn't that bad at all, and I worked my Beck strategies pretty hard. It was just an atypical day, so it felt way off, when it was mostly OK. The food journal almost never works that way for me, giving me good news, but I'll take it. Got lots of spontaneous exercise chasing children.

I did get some sleep last night finally. I took a couple of Benedryl and that seemed to do the trick. I'm doing it again tonight and hopefully that will get a new, good pattern set up for me.

Swim in planned for tomorrow morning. I may try to get to my triathlon club meeting tomorrow night, if DH is up for kid watching alone.

Have I mentioned that DS is walking?

Bill Gerbilina?! LOVE IT!

Hope your big salad turned out yummy.

I love the lack of DST. I have to keep track of calling long distance so we don't wake people up, but we basically just go to sleep. Much more civilized, IMHO. I've heard some recent arrival rant about how stupid it is not to do it, but I basically think they are crazy.

Tera I'm always so impressed by how strong you are in dealing with all this. I think a depression strategy is a good plan.

maryblu I do occasionally say "I was just floored." Well, at least when something more colorful is inappropriate, LOL.

I once hired a dog behavioralist. Seriously. DH's dog and my dog fought, and it was fix it, or find a new home for one of them. It fixed it. Pricey, but worth it. Hoping this is better way to squander money than a Coach bag. Similar pricing come to think of it.

Robin Good on you for getting unhungry with healthy food.

onebyone Sorry about the discussion with your DH. Finances are always so stressful. FWIW, I think you did a really good job handling your stressors and eating. What would you have done in the past? You are making progress, like the rest of us, and when any of us get to perfection, we'll let you know.

I'm going to go plan and pack up for tomorrow, and probably grump at DH a bit before bed. Haven't figured out exactly what for yet.

Anne

CJ (CJZee)

And, in case you didn't get one of these when you joined 3FC exactly nine months ago,

How did you find out about the Beck books?

And how did you find out about the Beck thread on 3FC?

Candy (CandaceG)

And, in case you didn't get one of these when you joined 3FC some ten months ago,

How did you find out about the Beck Diet Solution?

And how did you find out about the Beck thread on 3FC?

Diet Coaches/Buddies - Took Gerbilina for a walk during a half hour window while DW was preparing dinner. CREDIT moi. She's quiet enough that DW only knew what I was doing because she heard music coming from the spare room. Have to figure out the heart rate monitor - perhaps the extra battery is in fact the only battery. DW is using her regularly.

Got diverted when clam fritters showed up at a quick event where I didn't intend to eat anything. Good grief they were tempting, and yummy. Haven't had fired clams in ages. Was a good diversion - I substituted it for lunch - but sure was surprised to see myself popping fried food. Oh Well.


maryblu - Like, it floors me that you aren't sure that we all talk this way. Of course we do, LOL.

LOL at "stupid" serum; yep that explains everything. Let's put flowers in our ears and go back to the good days. Thanks for the correct name for the T.J.'s dressing; hoping to get there this week.


onebyone - Ouch for spirited discussion. Those do seem to happen just when a transition is in place that is part of the solution. Good luck with the completion of your classes and getting on with your next thing. I hope the crowds are what you need at the art festivals this summer.

Robin (RobinW) - Waving back. Kudos for the exercise you'll get at Home Depot walking to whatever you're shopping for - even if you know where it is.

Anne (wndranne) - Yay for sleeping. Ouch for the irritables. Double Ouch that DS is walking and, with an adventurous big sister, capable of getting into real mischief. A rough period ahead for you until a little wisdom seeps into that brain sponge of his.

Speaking of the great isolated bubble of Arizona (in its own time world), a friend just returned after seeing a male Elegant Trogon. It blew his mind. You keep them all to yourself down there. That's one good looking bird. Of course he saw a zillion humming birds also, but wouldn't talk about them, just the Trogon. Have you ever seen one?


Tera (twilit tera) - Kudos for your persistence chasing down information about your hip; thanks for the link to the tendinosis site - an educational read for me.

Developing a depression strategy seems wise, since its first effect would be to install the I don't care thought so that it can remain. Beck's quote today may be applicable.


CJ (CJZee) - Ooops ... my post welcoming you yesterday seems to have been consumed by the ever hungry post monster. So I tried it again.

Candy (CandaceG) - Kudos for getting started with the Beck strategies to supplement your food plan and exercise plan even while you're a bit busy with college courses. You fit right in; as you can read, there are several posters here juggling courses and a healthy lifestyle.

Readers -