Diet Coaches/Buddies - I spent the entire Maine weekend eating on plan, CREDIT moi - the best away from home on plan performance since my weight losing days. It was restaurant or cafeteria served food for all meals. I avoided all desserts, an extra CREDIT moi since they were the specialties; I left food on my plate, including scalloped potatoes dripping with yummy, and avoided the caloric beverages. And best, most unscheduled time was spent with friends around much snack foods and dark chocolates of which I ate NOT ONE SINGLE BITE just to demonstrate to myself that I could exercise my resistance-muscle when away from home.
Exercise included my Boot Camp at gym before I left on Friday, and some walking, and two Yoga sessions over the weekend - CREDIT moi for continuing to try to get these muscles into working order.
onebyone – Looking forward to seeing your garden ornament robot once it's fired. Kudos for jumping through all the hoops so you have your hands on a bicycle and are headed off to your water aerobics. Wish you well in figuring out what you want from WW.
Joy (gardenerjoy) – LOL at your Saint Patrick's day kiwi - yep, it's green after all. When you go to Ireland will you be tracking down the paths of James Joyce and Beckett? (Good grief, your head must be spinning over the number of writers you could chase down.) Yay for
"mostly flat."
Debbie (Lexxiss) – Amazing that you could sit through breakfast having only hot tea - certainly Kudos for that. Awesome that you spent eight hours hand sanding your maple floors - you are one Energizer Bunny.
Beverlyjoy – Oh, Well - you and your new GI systems need to learn about each other. Kudos for your dinner of 22 minutes.
maryann - Yep, some days seem to call for
"piddle around with errands" despite grand intentions. Yay for sauteed cabbage - I love a mounded plate of cabbage.
Tazzy - And now I'm drooling over
"poached lobster omelet" - you're making Kudos worthy restaurant choices. Especially like the frozen yogurt at home rather than restaurant desserts. Triple Kudos for being aware that food does not resolve teenage drama.
Woodland - Love your list of Sabotaging Thoughts,
"I'll start again on Monday", "I don't care", "I can't control this", "Food just tastes so good", "It is too much trouble to follow a plan" - you've created them all, LOL. Kudos for planning for tomorrow.
Donamari (fyreflie24) – Congratulations for sticking to your plan to
not track your weight - I couldn't do that. Kudos for continuing with your 40 day Yoga Challenge. I did two sessions of Yoga this weekend, just enough to remind myself that it's regular sessions that get the body working well.
Susan (hikergirl) – Kudos for sticking to your plans at the restaurant - Ouch for the hard candies. I, too, am wondering how useful you found the Cheat Sheet exercise. Yay for
"a good day over all," and Double Yay for 5 days with no compulsive over eating.
CatholicCajun – Glad you've already made your choice about not using your DH as Diet Coach. I use the good guys of this forum as mine; I use my DW for shared food, nutrition, and health interests, but I don't want to muddy our relationship with discussing or cheering my daily performance. Love the idea of using our non-dominant hand to slow down our eating - I might starve to death since I'm very clumsy using my left hand, LOL.
Readers -
Quote:
chapter 6 Stage 3 The Challenging Situations Plan
challenging situations skills
After the Event
12. Review the experience. ...
Stage 3 will bring lots of opportunities to create Memory Cards as you use your resistance muscle and feel good about staying in control. Maybe one will describe attending a social gathering and finding you enjoy yourself more than before because you aren't worrying about what you can and can't eat. Perhaps you'll create on when you feel triumphant instead of deprived because you didn't succumb to the high-calorie appetizers at a cocktail party. You might make a Memory Card when you leave a social event feeling elated and proud that you stuck to your plan - instead of feeling heavy, defeated, and sad because you didn't.
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., The Complete Beck Diet for Life (Green book), pg 137.