Is everyone feeling better? I haven't posted for a few days, been kinda sick, and very busy..
The water goal is pretty hard for me! Getting easier each day though. Here are a few suggestions, some I've read about, some I've discovered on my own though I'm sure someone has wrote it somewhere before.
1. Put all snack, or favorite foods up in a high cabinet. Or better yet store in the garage or some other hard to reach location. It's still there if someone else in the house wants it, or if you have room for a little indulgence after a really good day, but not in a spot to tempt you all the time.
2. Eat a small portion, then go do something else for 15-20 minutes before you come back to have a little more if you still want it. I love this one. I get my dishes done more often, and I'm usually fuller than I realized and don't even need the rest of what would have been a standard size serving for me. BIG calorie saver! Another version of this would be to eat a handful of veggies and then come back to eat your meal. The veggies need time to get to your tummy so they knock the edge of your hunger.
3. ONLY eat at your dining room table. You may not watch T.V. and you may not read. Your focus should be on family and food. We are much less likely to snack if we have to sit down at the table with it. I tried this, and was reading while eating. Big no-no for me, I eat twice as much when I'm reading because I'm not thinking about the food.
4. Stop eating 2-3 hours before bedtime. Your metabolism is already tucking in for the night and you will be packing those calories right onto your thighs! If you are used to late night eating (I am!) Cut off and hour before bedtime for a week or 2 and then move it up by 15 min increments as you adjust to new habits. I sleep better.
These are all helping me, though I'm not doing any of them 100% of the time yet. I am feeling better and anticipate huge rewards because of all the calories I'm not eating! Think through your day and find the weak spots then be creative and figure out ways to help yourself through them. One thing I just started doing is making myself breath deep and doing stretches for each muscle group before I allow myself to have a snack, even if it is a healthy one. I'm doing something good for my body, and it is making me work for food that I may not really want. I'd say 3 out of 5 times I focus on my body which reminds me of my goal, and I also am proud of myself for sticking to the plan of stretching, then I don't want the snack. The other 2 times I really didn't want to stretch, so I broke my rule and ate anyway. (If I stick to the plan of stretching everytime, will it be a 100% effective plan?)
I'm signing off here. I've got to start following my own advice. I've been doing more and more each day, and when I lost weight before baby #4 this is the main way I did it. I'm trying to follow W.W, but I'm finding it harder than I expected. I cook alot from scatch and don't know how many points the recipes are, or what the accurate serving should be. Then I just don't calculate my points for the day because I figure I'm so off.
Gotta go, baby wants to nurse. (I already made up for not posting for a few days anyway!
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Night all.
Jenni
). That way I can really watch what I'm eating, and enjoy what my husband makes, and I can enjoy fruits and veggies too.
I just weighed myself! I lost 2 more pounds YAY!!!!! I just need to keep on, keepin on!!! Hopefully I'll have enough will power to just indulge on the LC foods for thanksgiving. Mmmmmmm... Can't wait to have turkey with the skin!! MMM Salami and cream cheese rolls, mmmmmmm
