Just hanging in there, and focusing on what I want to eat, instead of the things I don't want to eat. A little mental game that works for me...
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Just hanging in there, and focusing on what I want to eat, instead of the things I don't want to eat. A little mental game that works for me...
watergoddess: I've been busy, and so have not been weighing in, (so to speak). Also, while I'm not eating sugar, I don't really think of it as the main thing I'm doing. The sugar is not so hard, but I do miss the rice, pasta, and bread -- though more for convenience than craving. A sandwich is so easy, and often, if one of my kids doesn't eat their school lunch, I'll eat it. There's a ham sandwich my son didn't want that's been sitting in the refrigerator for days. It's pressing my "wasted food" button, but I'll just throw it out soon.
On Saturday, I got carried away with some leftover chicken and ate a lot of non-sweetened peanut butter. It looked like that bumped my weight up to 192 on Monday morning, but this morning, it was back down to 188, (I was 209 at the doctor's in mid-December). I never thought of my weight as being that variable. What takes discipline for me is to stop eating once I start, to have a handful of almonds and not a bag. I'm in a better mood this week.
My daughter made chocolate chip cookies again last night, and I didn't touch them.
I am still here. I am still okay with myself even though I have been into the chocolate. But only very low sugar, high cacao dark chocolate (so dark that other family members won't eat it) and not too much.
I have been enjoying the veggies though. Stir fried bok choy this evening; at lunch I pleased myself with half a plateful of broccoli and the rest of the plate had carrots, beets, and some ground meat...all left over except the broccoli, of course. Thank heaven for leftovers....I'd not make it otherwise.
This week has been ridiculously busy with work. In fact, I started before eight this morning and just faxed off my last report now at eight thirty pm. Days like that make it hard for me to NOT indulge my sweet tooth...so I did have some chocolate. But two evenings I have staved that off with a cup of herbal tea and I notice that I enjoy it just as much.
I did walk with difficulty for two days after my first run....tomorrow I take my first Pilates class (scary title of "Pilates for the Ultimate Core"....oooh). Overall I feel pretty good though I don't feel like I have dropped any weight. I suspect I'll have to take my carbs lower to drop weight but right now I am focused on those good vegetables even if they are higher in carbs. I have avoided weighing....January 28th is my three week date, when I can use the scales again.
Paul, I have to watch out for the almond butter. I overeat that stuff like crazy. It is okay on this current program but I am aware that I do overeat.
Also, that raises a question. Rosemary, do you know if "dry roasted" nuts are processed with oils? I read at the Bulk Barn that their dry roasted nuts have polyunsaturated oils....but the jars of almond butter only say they have "dry roasted almonds" and don't claim any additional oils. I am trying to avoid those PUFAs and so I wondered....yet another reason to avoid that yummy almond butter.
As far as I know, "dry roasted" means no oil. We buy dry roasted peanuts and almonds, but generally snack on raw nuts (well, unroasted, since most "raw" almonds are steam-pasteurized).
Here's a good summary of the impact of roasting nuts -- http://www.marksdailyapple.com/are-n...goods-healthy/
From that he seems to think it's mostly harmless. I've also heard some say roasting reduces anti-nutrients like phytic acid. So maybe it's a wash, oils versus anti-nutrients. Dry roasted do seem to disgest easier than raw, and I prefer the taste.Quote:
Here's a good summary of the impact of roasting nuts -- http://www.marksdailyapple.com/are-n...goods-healthy/
Well guys, I have had this on the mind. No progress to speak of, but consciousness is the first step, right?! :D Can't make a change if you don't even realize one needs to be made . . . I'll be happy when the rest of the Xmas crap is used up out of the house and we are back down to a bit of ice cream in the freezer and a dark chocolate bar in the fridge. I can pass on ice cream unless DH dishes it up for me and dark chocolate I can (usually) control myself.
In the past doing a "one sweet a day" rule helped me reduce, and I'm contemplating that. Not a detox, for sure, but baby steps . . .
As far as "using up" holiday sweets - if you really don't want them, pitch them or give them away. Or take them to work and let people there eat them. When they get "used up," they end up on someone's body. I tossed a bunch of stuff during and after the holidays. Better in the garbage than on my midsection.
I can know that intellectually, but I think it's too late - we polished off the last yesterday :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Rosemary
More successes, all! You inspire me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I threw away Christmas sweets this year, too. It wasn't easy, particularly the ones I made (that should tell me something). I just saw dollars in butter and sugar going in the trash and I hope I can remember the feeling next year when I think I need to bake.
Thank you for the link, Rosemary. In Sally Fallon's cookbook, she recommends NOT eating raw nuts but eating nuts that have been soaked and lightly roasted: she refers to them as "crispy pecans" etc. Actually I found them quite delicious and they FELT lighter than the raw nuts (maybe they were more digestible as she claimed but I can't say from my n=1 experiment). I do like her book, though, for all the various information on foods, plus the recipes. It isn't wheat or dairy free but the emphasis is on traditional foods, so meat and veggies. I made lacto-fermented sauerkraut from this book, among other things.
Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Tra...s=sally+fallon
I am so glad it is Friday! this week is the kind I was having every week before the holidays. I have to figure out some way to get my workload under control. I have more than a day's worth to do today if I want to actually have my weekend off. But diet is okay; I ate two squares of very dark chocolate last night but I noticed that I didn't want more, and maybe I could have just let that go, too...it wasn't a real craving, more like a habit. The days have been so busy I haven't sat for my meals and I know that's not good....scarfed down a big plate of broccoli and a little beefsteak for lunch yesterday but I was actually standing up at the kitchen counter, running between activities. If my digestion is off, it might not be due to the food!!!
Today is the 18th so in 10 more days I'll weigh in. I don't feel any lighter, smaller or thinner but my joints do NOT ache. I am sleeping pretty well. And I have a lot more energy than during the holidays.
Okay, now it is Sunday. I have fallen off the no sugar wagon. I am annoyed at myself that I can't even seem to stick with my OWN plan for three weeks. But this won't be a long decline. I just ate some stuff that should NOT have been in the house.
However, I am also making sure that there will be food this week (I am out on training all week and have to pack lunch and no time to cook in the evening). Crock pot beef stew, a pot of chicken stock soon to become soup, and I stocked up on meats and veggies and have a (hopeful, optimistic) list of things for DH to cook.