Underanalysis
From your Sept post of your mother...
Too bad we can't choose our parents eh?
I think you have a good handle on it though
Sally Pineapple and Marina
Marina
"I'm going through some "hungry days". Those days make me want to dive into ice cream and eat tons of everything greasy and salty. Ugh! I'll try to maintain while i feel this way because i believe my mind needs a little rest from losing for a few days. Do any of you get this?"
Sally
"I am changing my goal from 15 lbs to 10 lbs. I got on a roll and lost a lot of weight in September and I became very ill the last few days. I am going to take it a bit slower and healthier."
VERY good idea Sally, placing health as number one !! It is easier to lose more weight in the first month or two, I like you tried to overdo it when I started. Then I learned that I MUST eat enough of the proper foods/calories or I would suffer for it by not feeling right plus the starting to fight hunger. Being hungry is NOT good. The body and mind both react to that. The body by not feeling right, lack of ambition, sleepiness, mentally draggy, and weakness. The mind gets torn between the desire to get that fat off rapidly and not wanting to feel "like this." You made the right decision go make health number one. And now you are on that slippery slope of finding the right balance. Good luck with it, you will figure it out. I am still trying to get the balance just right myself. But two things I did learn, to not allow myself to get too hungry, that sets off a binge trying to get rid of that hungry feeling.
Just a few weeks ago I had gone almost all day without eating hardly any at all by 2 PM. I was planning on eating but got a work call so I got ready and left to work. It should have been a very short electrical service call but it turned out I spent three hours there and by that time I was feeling exceedingly hungry. We stopped at the grocery store on the way home, as was usual when I have been in town working and I bought a fried breast of chicken to eat to get rid of that hunger. But the deed had been done, I had a hunger that just would not go away. I ate that breast and drank some buttermilk which was more calories than I would have eaten to take care of it. But I could not cure that hunger. After I got home I continued eating... I added it up when all was done some hours later, I had taken in over 3500 calories and had been getting by easily with less than a thousand. I vowed to not let myself get that hungry again no matter what.
A little note here.... With my "diet plan" which is simply to eat healthy foods of whatever I want but staying up with the calories and keeping inside of my calorie "allowance" for the week/month. I do not "go off" my diet as I do not have one, so after a binge like that it is back to eating as I was. No such thing as "going off my diet." But that is what works for me.
Eating more often of foods that leave you "not hungry" yet are not excessive in calories plus learning the difference between "needing to eat" and "wanting to eat" while at the same time not allowing oneself to get too hungry is the ticket. And that, my dear, is a difficult but worthwhile objective. I do not have it whipped entirely myself but I am trying.
That was for you also Jill. And anyone else that can use it. And frankly, it is a reminder to myself also.
And a little tip also.... many times it feels like I need to eat but it is only that I need to take in some water. Needing water can often manifest itself as feeling like needing to eat.
GLE
What an E ride we are on eh?
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underanalysis , 10-01-2014 08:28 AM
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Sally Pineapple , 10-01-2014 09:54 AM
Will Power Dust! Can i eat it? 
Oh, and you've mentioned lasagna, now did you? 
Big Fat Rooster , 10-01-2014 04:07 PM
