alaskan: beautiful pic of the lake...and your DH is handsome
My DH is very overweight, more so in the last few years. I worry about him as he has the classic heart attack shape for a man. He's a couple of inches shorter than me and I can wear shirts he can't but his arms and legs are thinner than mine, so I'm guessing he weighs right around the same as me.
I am not trying to push the healthy lifestyle on him but he recently went to a dr for the first time in years. He didn't tell me how much he weighs, but I know Dr's office scale shock all too well, so when he got home that night I asked him if he wanted to do the July 10 lb challenge with me and he said yes. I know he's still eating junk when he's not home and drinkng mt dew all the time. But at least when he's home he's eating the healthy food I'm making and limiting his portions, so I'm hoping for a good outcome for him. I'm also trying to slowly reteach my 13 year old son healthier eating habits. He's unfit but not overweight, but I worry about his future health.
It's not very indepth of an article, but I have no doubt that there exists food addiction and that I have it! Much, much, much better now that I'm eating low carb though.
But not allowing people in your room/house for fear of people seeing your stashes/empties? YEP!!!! In college - big time. That's when it started.
Problem with food addiction is that you cannot live without food!
Last edited by berryblondeboys; 07-14-2011 at 08:52 PM.
what i liked about it was that it was on a big news website right up there with the other headlines...and not buried in a scientific journal or hidden where people need to search for it...ive tried to read about food addiction before but you have to LOOK for stuff about it...i hope that maybe people will see that just reading the headlines and perhaps it will help someone or get someone thinking "hey perhaps that's what *I* struggle with"
Hey guys! I'm coming in asking for your prayers. As I lay down in bed last night (on my back), I discovered a mass/lump right on the edge of my rib cage on my left side. I asked DH to turn the light back on and look at it and his immediate reaction was, "We'll be going to the doctor FIRST thing in the morning!" I've been feeling it for quite some time now (weeks)...guess I've finally lost enough weight now to actually be able to see it.
Soo, I went to Dr. today.....she wants to have a CT scan done Monday morning at 9 a.m. to see what it is (she saw it/felt it, too)....says it could be just a fatty tumor (it's soft and movable--not attached to anything). I'm scared....trying not to be, but I am......also having some pain in my lower back on the left side. Please remember me in your prayers if you don't mind. I'd truly appreciate it!
Oh wow, I hope everything turns out okay! I've heard of them just being fattier tissue/ lumps?? I hope that is all it is. Think positive, and keep us updated!!!
this is a photo taken in May in the rainforest/city where i live....this is a view of a lake and rainforest near where we live...my son is in the picture at the bottom
I had/have? I big problem with food. I would binge badly. Whole bags of chips, cookies, anything you could think of. Used to make a instant cheesecake in the morning....it would be gone by evening. It is still something I am very shamed about.
I don't know if it was an addiction or not, but it would make me feel so much better for a short time. And I couldn't seem to control myself. That it is like an addiction, so true...
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On another note, did good on the diet today, came in at 1014 calories, took a three mile walk with the Great Dane, and worked for 8 hours on my feet.
Hoping to be 162 lbs by the end of the month for the challenge...but crossing my fingers I can get to my 'healthy' weight range and get to 159 lbs at the end of the month.
That makes me think...if I work on my feet for 8-9 hours a day, I have a standing job, but not alot of lifting or walking, is that sedentry lifestyle or something else?
Congratulations to al of us who have made it through another successful week!! Celebrate your fantastic choices to live healthy
Today was another great day for me. My mom and I put up so much corn
I was unable to track all of my cals b/c I have no idea how many was in the food I ate, but all of it was from our garden!!
Cottage Cheese, Raspberries, Cheese Omelet 255
Greek Yogurt, Green Beans, Cream corn, 3 Cornbread Fritters ~512
½ Powerbar 180
Sautéed Cabbage with ground turkey, Green Beans, 1 Squash Croquet, Carb Smart Vanilla, Pecans ~617
Total: 1564 [too many]
(~ approximate)
OK, since Alaskan has AHHHED us with her gorgeous photos, I thought I'd share one from tonite I took as I was running downtown. A beautiful southern sunset overlooking the MS River, and if you look closely, you can see the Memphis Queen!!
ive had a nearly perfect day of eating...marred only by a few bites of the kids smores, not even a whole one, just a few bites of the last one that no one finished....besides that one slip its been a good, on plan day both in terms of calories and carbs
calories ended up at 1230 and carbs at 52, a little higher than i'd like on carbs but again, those bites were what put it a little higher
and OMG(!) i tried fage greek yogurt...mmmMMMMmmm with some sweetener and cinnamon...holy yum!! i even liked it plain but not enough to eat the whole thing plain....i have GOT to get me more of that!
DH is doing great...his back is feeling better and his knee is nearly normal except for the incisions still healing a little bit...he was running around with our son tonight too, which he probably shouldnt have been doing, but at least he COULD!
my sunburn seems to be healing without any blistering...still slathering it with stuff...it's rainy and foggy in my rainforest tonight, clouds down to the ground and obscuring the mountains all around
crap i just remembered i was supposed to call my sister...whoops
tomm as well as work Fri and Sat. I can’t wait 
