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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 10, 2019 23:15:47 GMT
Friday, 10/11
What is your biggest problem/issue right now with losing weight/maintaining a weight loss?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 10, 2019 23:17:40 GMT
My biggest problems is my lack of food imagination and me dragging my feet to do the mental work that is needed. The book reviews assists me with the mental part and I've learned to live with the lack of food ideas. If I do get an idea about a new food or dish I hope right on it.
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 11, 2019 7:52:35 GMT
Waffling...almost a week on program then a few days off, getting back OP and...repeat. I know that when I string together more than a week then two and more...it will become a habit and that will be that. I am recording in my journal and there are more days on than off program so...it will happen.
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Post by surfgirl on Oct 11, 2019 17:18:35 GMT
Waffling...almost a week on program then a few days off, getting back OP and...repeat. I know that when I string together more than a week then two and more...it will become a habit and that will be that. I am recording in my journal and there are more days on than off program so...it will happen. Psychologists say that it takes about 30 days for something to become 'a habit', but it takes much much longer to break a habit than form one!
My biggest issue right now with weigh loss is still when I go away for a day or longer. I try to bring my own car snacks so I'm not tempted to stop somewhere en route, but I usually don't bring my own lunch, I try to find something healthy like a turkey wrap for lunch. One of the few times I eat meat...
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 11, 2019 20:43:13 GMT
Waffling...almost a week on program then a few days off, getting back OP and...repeat. I know that when I string together more than a week then two and more...it will become a habit and that will be that. I am recording in my journal and there are more days on than off program so...it will happen. Psychologists say that it takes about 30 days for something to become 'a habit', but it takes much much longer to break a habit than form one!
My biggest issue right now with weigh loss is still when I go away for a day or longer. I try to bring my own car snacks so I'm not tempted to stop somewhere en route, but I usually don't bring my own lunch, I try to find something healthy like a turkey wrap for lunch. One of the few times I eat meat...
Whether breaking old habits, trying to replace them with other habits or creating new habits...it is not easy. I am home most of the time and only go out once in awhile and on Wednesdays...you already know about Wednesdays...last Wednesday I did the math and it could have been over 1000 calories but worth every bite...Russian food I had never had before. Ah well...we only live once  |
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Post by irisinnia on Oct 12, 2019 1:33:23 GMT
My biggest problem is: not doing what I know I should be doing. I'm juggling too many things and I need to be doing the baby steps to make progress. Tracking, planning ahead, practicing saying "no" to cravings. When things get busy I throw my hands up in the air and say oh well then jump into old routines. I think it goes back to making the time to diet. It's a lot of work to get the ball rolling and requires crazy things like restocking fruit/veggies during the week (they go bad, unlike chips and cookies).
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 12, 2019 5:57:18 GMT
My biggest problem is: not doing what I know I should be doing. I'm juggling too many things and I need to be doing the baby steps to make progress. Tracking, planning ahead, practicing saying "no" to cravings. When things get busy I throw my hands up in the air and say oh well then jump into old routines. I think it goes back to making the time to diet. It's a lot of work to get the ball rolling and requires crazy things like restocking fruit/veggies during the week (they go bad, unlike chips and cookies).
Sometimes it is too difficult to tackle all of those things at once. There is a 100 Day Challenge (in about 30-some days now) you could join in the Simply Filling area. You set ONE habit to change in the 100 days and visit daily with a happy or sad or whatever face put down to say how it went. Anyway...this 100 days I am focused on fruit and/or vegetable at every meal and it is amazing how ONE change is beginning to lead to another...
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Post by surfgirl on Oct 12, 2019 19:47:26 GMT
I think it goes back to making the time to diet. It's a lot of work to get the ball rolling and requires crazy things like restocking fruit/veggies during the week (they go bad, unlike chips and cookies). Okay lady, some tough love for you, because I KNOW you can do this! First of all, I feel that if you're looking at this as 'a diet' then you're missing the point. It's a lifestyle change. A permanent 'for life' change of behaviors that led to you becoming overweight in the first place. Psychologists say that it take approximately 30 days to form a habit, so the 100 days Challenge that Cathy mentioned is a great time period to try to add one new, healthy behavior and embed it into your daily lifestyle. I think if you stop looking at this as a 'diet' and instead as a 'healthy life style change' that might help shift your perception and make you more open to making small changes.
Second, it doesn't have to be a lot of work to get the ball rolling. When I first started PP, I took a red Sharpie marker and my PP calculator and I went through every item in my pantry and my fridge and I wrote on it the PP # for one portion, and if it was something where I made the box and ate half of it, I also wrote the PP # for 1/2 box, and so on. That way, as I was trying to track daily, I didn't have to run numbers every single time I was going to eat or cook something. I could browse my pantry and decide if I wanted that thing based on the numbers staring me in the face.
Lastly, you don't need to re stock fruits and veggies more than once a week. If your fruit is going bad sitting out at room temp, then just let it ripen for a day or two then put it into the fridge. Buy berries and things you can snack on from the fridge throughout the week. Don't keep chips and cookies in the house for right now. And write up a list of snack combos that work for you, and make a menu for the week - write two breakfast and two lunch options to make it easier on yourself, and then play around with dinners a bit more! If you pre-plan your week, I think you will find tracking a lot easier than if you're winging it day to day (I don't know if you're doing that, I'm just guessing!). And remember the energy and enthusiasm you had during the double Beck review! You can do this!
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