I figured out a great way to stay honest while baking the cookies for my Aunt’s Memorial Service. Easy. I went into my closet to find something to wear to the service. What I found was not good.:duh: Nothing fit! So trust me, since nothing fit, it was easy to stay honest in the kitchen.
I’ve continued with my daily exercises and weigh in again on Monday.
I’ve had weight issues all my life. I know how to diet. I’ve spent a lifetime on a diet. I’ve literally lost hundreds of pounds….only to find those pounds again as well as others that someone else must have dropped.
My theory: Weight is neither lost nor gained it is just simply redistributed. Some people have to gain weight so others may lose it. From my way of thinking lots of people should be thanking me for picking up their lost tonage.
Recently I read an article that really made sense to me. ( Leslie Sansone’s Eat Smart, Walk Strong . It was called “The Dirty Dozen” and suggests avoiding 12 food categories . The article states that you have to be very creative to gain weight without these (which are all sources of either artery-clogging saturated fat or insulin-spiking refined carbohydrates.) Here’s the list:
It made sense to me so I’ve posted these on my refrigerator as a reminder.
A Red Flag Food is a reminder that Danger Lurks in these shelves. Red Flag Foods are foods that I particularly enjoy and have a hard time stopping with the suggested serving indicated.
Pizza is a Red Flag Food for me? Do you have a particular Red Flag Food?
Went down town this morning and just being nosy decided to go into Boots the chemist and weigh myself….
BIG MISTAKE.
The scales there say I have put on 1lb. 
(yes I did it twice just to check….)
How? I have no idea…I have stuck to points everyday – going over only once but I ate less the following day to even it out. I have been drinking water, water and pretty much more water…in fact I have had only 2 cups of tea per day max! Ok, my exercise hasn’t been great – I have been out twice walking (over 10,000 steps each time) and just general running about after a very active toddler the rest of the time. I haven’t cheated, i swear! After all, it would only be cheating myself if I had.
I am so disappointed. one, for putting on a lb and two, for going to bloody weigh myself today in the first place when my weigh in day is TUESDAY.
Leigh mentioned that it might be that I am not eating enough points (?!) and that my body may be thinking its *starving* and holding on to all the weight because of this? ITs true the breastfeeding guide that they gave me isn’t overly clear on the issue…
It says add 10 if exclusively breastfeeding or add 5 if supplementing with solids….
Sounds simple enough right? Well, Savannah has maybe 1/2 tsp of “solids” per day as we have not long started her out on them…so would this count as supplementing? Even though we haven’t dropped a breastfeed and if anything I am “feeding” more as I am also expressing milk to mix in with the fruit/veg purees that we are giving her.
I took it that we were supplementing and have been giving myself 5 ontop of my normal – even with this 5 I have been feeling very hungry (I thought this would go after a couple of days, but it hasn’t) and I have been grumpy, feeling faint etc…. Leigh reckons I should be having the 10 for feeding instead of the 5. But now I am scared to up my points in case I put on more weight…
Oh, I am so confused!
and of course now I am also worried about going to my 1st WI with a potential 1lb gain. How embarrassing will that be? :shame:
I went to my WW meeting and I talked to my leader. We decided to not weigh me. Here’s why: I was so proud of my accomplishments this week of less diet soda, WAY more water and 60 minutes on the treadmill (which I have never have done before and it felt really good) and I felt like if the miserable scale showed a gain all of that would have gone down the toilet and the icky voices would come out in my head and tell me how worthless I was. So he weighed me but didn’t tell me and then wrote no weigh on my card. I know I gained but he said it wasn’t bad and I don’t know how much so I can continue to celebrate my successes with out the evils coming out to destroy me. I hope you all don’t look at this as a cop out and realize I am still struggling with my self-talk/self-esteem. Thank you all for your positivity!:hug:
I was able to resist the candy and popcorn at the movies. GO ME! I had one margarita and some chips. But I didn’t have dinner so that is something. The movie was really good.
Took the kids to MC’Ds yesterday. I had a yogurt. Was starving when I got home and had some soup. We went out for dinner and I could have done a lot worse, and I should not have had the cake. But today is a new day.
I have to get groceries, so I will plan away before I go. Dh and I ate lunch at home everyday. We ate better and saved cash.
I joined myfooddiary.com. It is working for me. I love how it tells me if I had too much sugar. How can you have too much sugar and no candy? it just doesn’t seem fair. There is so much sugar in everything you have to be careful.
I don’t have to go to the doc’s for a month. But, he hurt me and it still hurts and that is making me mad. But, health is coming S L O W L Y.
I have tried to read all the posts. I hope I got them all. I finally figured out a way to keep up w. you ladies and your posts.
Happy Weekend.
