BuffyBear's Journal, 08 February 2013

LOL Buffy..No you don't dear..unless you get some horizontal exercise.. Good luck honey...:O)...Hugs... 

P.S..oh yes my heart goes out to your DH's stall...:O) 

Bren - You are too funny! Wishing you an early spring! 

Awe poor DH. I was just wondering if it would be wrong to tell a hubby that if he's going to get his wife chocolates then he should make sure they are sugar free. Can you exchange boxes of chocolates without a receipt?  

DiaryFarmersWife - I'd hope our husbands would know that by now (but who am I kidding?). Re-gift the chocolate.  

I would think that if you know that is your "day", then try to plan around it...maybe make it the one day a week you have a little more and change your weigh in dy to Wednesday...that will give you a week between the one day and the weigh in. As for DH stall...poor fella..my DH has hit one as well...it's driving him buggy! Lol. As for Valentine's Day...nope. No chance so you may as well go with the flow. I can't eat the SF chocolates. The sugar alcohols make them run right through me! :( 

I know some people do lose weight with a "cheat" day. I've tried it in the past, but would find myself too eagerly awaiting it & going way (or should it be "weigh") overboard. You may be better at it, my friend, especially adding in the extra nightly exercise:)! 

Buffy, when things go well, my "Cheat Day" is around my RDI. I try to eat pretty well under my RDI for a week or two, and if I go a little over my RDI for my splurge day, then I'm golden. Everybody does things a bit differently. I think the RDI's are typically calculated rather liberally for most of us. Some of us set starvation level RDI's. I have found that it takes some experimentation to find that happy medium, and then a "Cheat Day" isn't so bad.  

I can't do a Cheat Day, as it too easily turns into Cheat Week. It's February and I'm still trying to get readjusted coming out of the holidays. Some folks do the splurge, or cheat day, and have great success with it, but not me. Another one of those YMMV type things. 

Stef - I think you are right, and that little word "plan" is the key. I should plan a low carb meal & dessert for Thursday nights and ignore the calories.  

Ruth - I hate the thought of planning a cheat day, but given the circumstances, a planned one may be better than an unplanned one.  

DK - Thanks - interesting view of total calories for the week (instead of by the day). Will have to do some math.  

Sandy - Yes, this can cause trouble - like my cheat day that started on Thanksgiving and lasted over a month!  

I lose a pound usually if I go off a day. BUT, if I know I am going out (which i don't do much of LOL), I don't eat breakfast or lunch or just have a very light snack. Then I keep my calories under controll. I for sure do the total calories per week math. I figure out how much I need for 7 days, then figure the 3500 deficite per pound of loss, then figure all the exercise I might do then figure calories. Then divide by 7.... daily average. then I hope I stick to it Hehehe 

I like that you came to the planning low carb "cheat-day" thing all by yourself...then, it is kind of not a total bust. Learning to deal with the curves life throws us, without enlarging our curves is hard to do, but sticking to "low-carb-cheats" is what I end up doing. 

Oh, & that poor DH, bad thing is the blood pressure, sure thing, (I hope) the weight loss will really help with that. How DO they DO that so darn quick...totally jealous! 

PS...snowballs are lasting a real long time in Wisconsin lately! 

Wow, Buffy, good job on your DH's loss. He deserves some extra "congratulations". You've got this food thing down pat, Buffy. I don't worry about you through Valentines Day 

I have a day off and so far I have been losing just fine. I refuse to call it a cheat day because that implies guilt and for me when I think of certain foods as forbidden it just makes me want them even more. I try to teach my little girls that there are no "bad" foods but healthy & unhealthy. We don't get or need them at all, but on occasion its okay. When I was a child my parents never talked to me about making healthy choices or what makes certain foods good for you. They would just forbid it and restrict all my food so instead I would hide it. Anyway so I'm still trying to work against that. I still plan ahead for what I'm going to eat on my free day. And if you are really strict during the rest of the week, you'll be surprised how much less your body wants that stuff. The day after is not really hard for me to get back on plan because I can tell myself, if you really want it, you can have it next Saturday. Whatever you choose you have to commit to it. Choose your free day & plan. Don't wait until there is tempting food in the room, and then suddenly declare its a free day. That is how 1 free day turns into a month. Just like on any other day PLAN ahead!