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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 13, 2024 23:40:22 GMT
Sunday, 04/14
Today is the day we take credit for what we did this week and give gratitude.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 13, 2024 23:45:31 GMT
Today I take credit for tracking this week. I played catch up today to do Thursday and Friday so I could say I did the whole week. I also weighed and measured, kept the right food in the house, trigger food out of the house, kept up with my support groups, and finished the review of the Beck book. I am grateful that my husband and I are still healthy.
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Post by susan092907 on Apr 14, 2024 11:25:41 GMT
Credit for following my plan most of the week - eating per hunger/satiation/dealing with cravings. Credit for mostly eating healthfully. Credit for tracking almost the whole week. Credit for exercising as much as I was able to - 7/7 days.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 14, 2024 22:25:58 GMT
Monday, 04/15
I watched a video about weight loss and one of the points made was that the three triggers for overeating are: stress, habits, and boredom, and if you find ways to manage these three things in more healthful ways, you’ll lose weight. Does stress, habits, and boredom trigger you to overeat, and if so, how do you manage it?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 14, 2024 22:26:52 GMT
If I get so stressed that I can feel it in my abdomen I’ll eat something (preferably whole food) higher in carbs. Have found that will ease my stress and if I stay away from refined carbs I won’t keep eating. Other things I do for stress are meditating and hanging out on the computer. My habits fit into me possibly overeating because if it is snack or mealtime, I will eat whether I am hungry or not. The best thing for this would be to check with myself if I’m even hungry and decide to put off eating if I’m not. I know sometimes I’ll have thoughts about eating when I’m bored but I don’t keep snacky food in the house, so I usually don’t. If I kept cookies in the house I might be in trouble.
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Post by susan092907 on Apr 15, 2024 11:41:27 GMT
Interesting post, Judy, about those three triggers. I do respond to stress by eating, and I also eat by habit. Boredom isn't really a trigger for me. Focusing on those 2 triggers might be helpful to me. I know that the best responses for me are to remind myself of why I want to lose or maintain my weight, to think of what the outcome of overeating in response to the triggers would be, to distract myself with something other than eating, and to distance myself from food, especially because my overeating usually takes place in the kitchen where I sit at night after dinner with my laptop.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 15, 2024 23:06:52 GMT
Tuesday, 04/16 Today is the day we share our goals for the week and how we plan to spend our me-time.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 15, 2024 23:12:48 GMT
My main goal for the week is to keep up with tracking my food and drink intake, while also looking for ways to cut down on my eating. My me-time is my computer and reading time.
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Post by susan092907 on Apr 16, 2024 11:45:58 GMT
My plan for the week is to eat healthfully, per hunger/satiation/dealing with cravings. I'll track what I eat and I'll exercise as much as I'm able to.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 16, 2024 22:35:23 GMT
Wednesday, 04/17
When you were starting to lose weight how did you keep from being overwhelmed by the amount of weight you had to lose?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 16, 2024 22:38:08 GMT
When I joined WW back in 2006, they had you lose 5% of your body weight as your first goal, then 10% of your body weight as a goal. After that I set 10% of my current body weight as my goal until I got to my main goal weight. That way the idea that I needed to lose 80 pounds didn't overwhelm me.
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Post by susan092907 on Apr 17, 2024 12:18:06 GMT
When I first joined WW in 1971 at age 19, I had 8 pounds to lose. It was the first time ever that I was overweight, and it felt like a huge amount of weight that I had to lose. I just followed the diet as best I could, but it was a hard plan to follow at the time, and I didn't stay with it long enough to reach goal. Three years later, my weight was about 10 pounds below my goal, and not because of intentional dieting - it was just how I was eating/not eating at the time.
Since then, my weight has gone up and down by many pounds, and my goal weight has changed too over the years. And I was on and off WW so many many times - sometimes it felt overwhelming, sometimes not so much. The most successful time I lost weight before this time, it didn't feel overwhelming - I just followed the plan and stayed focused and determined. I gave myself a reward - flowers for my kitchen table - any day that I weighed in at my weekly meeting and lost weight.
This last time, I was overwhelmed by the number. I broke it down to 5 lb increments, and gave myself credit for staying on plan, and mentally celebrated each 5 lb loss. Once I got down to my WW goal weight and continued to lose toward my personal goal weight, I felt less overwhelmed, I stayed focused and determined, and I broke my loss down to 1 lb increments and celebrated those.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 17, 2024 22:47:03 GMT
Thursday, 04/18 How are you doing on eating meat?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 17, 2024 22:50:04 GMT
I eat meat, usually for dinner. I eat beef, pork, and chicken. I would say I have meat two to five times a week.
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Post by susan092907 on Apr 18, 2024 12:21:39 GMT
I've been eating less and less meat over the years. Now I eat beef a few times a year, I eat chicken about once a week, and I eat fish once or twice a week.
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