Diet Coaches/Buddies Terrific on plan eating day, CREDIT moi. Big deal that I ignored factory-made cookies at social hour in the morning, bigger that I also ignored some broken cookies in the kitchen. Broken cookies are usually a done deal for snacking off plan since they call me big time, being a noble service to mankind that Im eating them. Then, empowered by my resolve, I wandered through a crafts fair where every booth had a candy dish with foil wrapped chocolates I ignored EVERY SINGLE ONE, Not About Me, CREDIT moi. I felt so good about my day that when top shelf dark chocolate appeared at dinner, I happily accepted a small square and relished it. Good stuff. Savored. My regular evening snack was a California Navel Orange the first of the year to be that unbelievable quality. (Yesterdays was a disappointment.) Another minor CREDIT moi for leaving some pita chips on my plate at dinner last night - I rarely leave stuff like chips.
Exercise was lifting the Christmas tree from atop the station wagon to the back yard to rest in a pan of water till it goes inside next week. I looked weird limping with my leg in a cast carrying a seven foot tree on my back, but it wasnt difficult Ive done it for years without a cast.
onebyone Sending supportive thoughts for the sadness of your fish sent to a new home. Kudos for making that choice given the weirdness of your landlord. Cashews by the handful were a daily event for me before my journey - I'm not fond of them being in the house these days.
Joy (gardenerjoy) Lovely notion of dealing with a holiday sampling. Like being reminded that holiday foods can be enjoyed if we keep our perspective. [Finally a terrific California Navel Orange - the one bought on Saturday. The previous were bought earlier. Took longer this year.]
Debbie (Lexxiss) Kudos for a preemptive tangerine. I, too, relish your name,
"crisco cake" - it helps me remember reality.
Nature Girl Congrats on those 23 pounds, especially since you did it the way that fits your style. Neat to think of you buying all those local, organic veggies.
Beverlyjoy Ouch for uninvited guest cookies. Yah for a DH who distributed them to the neighborhood kids.
Chickbury Such clear thinking,
"The pain is in the deciding. I can take it." Methinks your statement encapsulates why Beck is so insistent about planning. Good luck with
"decide about alcohol" - it's a challenging decision. Kudos for making the gingerbread house with your DS while he's still young enough to do that. They're never young again.
nationalparker Terrific memory to reinforce,
"when I was eating until just "not hungry" I did GREAT." Yep, credits for the half-full trump beat-ups for the half-empty.
Readers -
Quote:
chapter 1
The Key to Success
No Lost Causes
In the past, you may have been able to make short-term changes in your eating habits to help you lose weight. But when the going got tough, you abandoned those changes because you didn't know how to talk back to such sabotaging thoughts as:- Dieting is too hard!
- I have to eat this. I have no self-control.
- I don't want to hurt her feelings, so I'll eat what she made.
- I don't diet when I'm stressed.
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., The Beck Diet Solution (Pink book), pg 23.