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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 6, 2020 23:51:04 GMT
Wednesday, 10/07
How much is working against impulse actions, wanting immediate gratification, and using reasoning and looking to delayed gratification part of your weight management?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 6, 2020 23:51:26 GMT
This was a big part of it when I started on Weight Watchers to lose weight. I focused on my long term goals to help myself follow the plan. Now I have a lot of routines and habits and new behaviors in place that usually keep me from being impulsive when it comes to eating. The biggest thing was for me to keep sweets out of the house. I can still be impulsive about ordering desserts in restaurants but we don't go out to eat because of the virus now.
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 7, 2020 7:06:25 GMT
I remember it being a big thing in the past but since I have now been back OP and tracking while eating healthy foods since mid-May I don't seem to have the same hankering for sweets and other things. Last night I wanted "something" while reading so went and got the steamed cauliflower...could have been cheese or peanut butter or something else instead but the cauliflower was what I got...even though I first considered...a boiled egg....go figure!
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Post by luvvinlife on Oct 7, 2020 13:43:23 GMT
All of that...... is my weight management. Changing my environment and my thoughts about food, making mindless eating less possible, doing the work to create new habits that support my goals, observing my body’s responses to different foods/exercises and the quantities of each.
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Post by lani on Oct 7, 2020 15:15:05 GMT
Yes, same as bbbearsmom, it was a constant effort that I was aware of and sometimes resented. Now it is mostly automatic. My main focus is to keep remembering how important my good habits are and not take them for granted. |
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Post by mac on Oct 7, 2020 16:54:42 GMT
For the past three weeks I've been eating mostly whole foods and I'm finding I'm not hungry like when I was eating sugar and processed food. I don't have foods with sugar in them in the house as I don't buy them anymore which has also helped to cut down on the sugar cravings.
I read today on my Mayo Clinic app when journaling you should write down what you eat within 15 minutes after eating the food. I don't always do this and then forget at night what I've eaten so may give this a try. I don't like to journal ahead as I don't always eat what's written before hand and then I have to change it.
I wondered how many of you journal, if so, how and when do you journal?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 7, 2020 17:02:19 GMT
mac, I track my food. I eat pretty much the same things every day so I track in the morning except for dinner, that is opened until dinner time. Then after dinner I track that. There are times when I eat differently than I've tracked, and when I do that I go back and correct it. I too can forget what I ate so if I wait too long I have to guess. Good work on not having sugar in the house. I found that once I got away from sugar items and refined carbs I didn't have as many urges to eat.
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Post by mac on Oct 7, 2020 18:33:03 GMT
bbbearsmomYes to everything you said, so true! Thanks for moderating this thread, I love it, it's been what I needed to get the last 10 pounds off! I saw on another thread you had IBS. I also have been diagnosed several times with it, not a fun thing!
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 7, 2020 19:22:18 GMT
mac, I think mine was from stress. I didn't handle working very well. Glad you like the thread.
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