Teri and Angel, you guys are doing fantastic. Keep up the good work.
Curly-I've wondered about your calories for a long time too. What does fitday say your BMR is? I'm sure you have calculated it. Are you eating at least that amount? I don't need to tell you this stuff. You know how it works.
Val-a half a pound is no big deal. See, I told you it was all water. Just stick to your program and do what you can in terms of exercise. Maybe some light walking?
BTW, I'm still suffering from my body sculpting class. I can still barely walk. I'm glad I don't have to work this week because I"m not sure I could get around well enough to work. I'm hoping I start to feel better by tomorrow.
I finished the commandments part of the The Thin Commandments today. I haven't read his food plan yet. I'm going to review some of what he says about deprivation thinking because it sounds like a couple people are struggling with this concept.
"Part of the reason that accomplished and successful [people] often falter and return to self-defeating eating patterns is because, although they've lost the weight many times, they've never changed their thinking. Dieting is a pain-motivated goal. We go on diets because we're unhapy, but as soon as we drop a few pounds, we become happier and the motivation fades.....We might all rally a little more motivation and commitment, and we might stick with our diets till the end if only--if only we didn't feel like we were missing something.
[I]This sense of deprivation is the mindset behind the behaviors--it's the self-talk that generates the actions. It often flies under the radar, eluding our awareness completely, but it's the greater problem.[I] This is the underlying thinking that says any guidelines are [B]bad[B]--you should be able to eat it all and still be thin. This way of thinking is akin to a child who has to have everything he sees and doesn't care about the consequences.
He also has a section called 9 Behaviors That Increase a Feeling of Deprivation. A couple of these stand out.
[B]Telling yourself that if you can't have it, you'll be deprived.[B]Behind this statement is the assumption that it's not normal; everyone else is having it. But over the years, everyone who's said this to me has overlooked one obvious truth: Their weight has never been normal because of the foods they're so worried about missing out on. I tell them to worry more about a normal weight, a normal life, normal health, and normal sizes than what everyone else is eating.
Forgetting that eating a food is not free.Once you realize the high cost of a behavior, it reduces the attractiveness of that behavior--meaning that eating a food that sabotages your weight loss or your control is not a "treat" but a costly decision. Don't confuse a "great taste" with a "great life." The major reason you have been miserable or unhappy with your weight is because of these types of foods. See yourself at your highest weight, and ask yourself the powerful question that breaks any feeling of deprivation: "Do I like it enough to wear it?" When you realize the fact that you may already be wearing several pounds of thisfood, ask yourself, "Do I really need another serving of such a 'treat'?"
of course eating all that all the time is why i am fat now as it is
charliekay , 01-22-2006 09:37 PM
Valerie Joy , 01-22-2006 11:14 PM
Quite the visual
Thank you Partners!!!! 
and get to it.
curlylocks , 01-23-2006 10:28 AM
angel-eyes , 01-23-2006 12:16 PM
) So no pizza for angel 
