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gg-girl's Journal, 26 February 2013
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Tuesday,
Food Yesterday = Good! So Day One = CHECK!!
Excercise this morning = 2.5 miles with doggie-girl
Food Today is all planned & logged
Trying to plan for this weekend & get my head in the real game WOE wise that is. I like to think that it seems I am "me" during the work week. I can plan my food, do my excercise & stay on track, AND be very happy about it. I don't feel deprived, I don't feel like I am dieting, I love what I am able to eat, I feel good about me.
Then on the weekends I turn into this other person, who I just really realized yesterday, reminds me a lot of my mom, complete with her food issues. All if this was very unsettling to me...probably totally obvious to anybody else. On the weekends I get this attitude that I have earned myself a "little treat", I should relax, enjoy...I deserve to eat this/that. I shouldn't have to deprive myself of this/that. I SHOULD be able to have this/that. Once I open that door, it seems it doesn't close until Monday morning.
Now the good news is that so far I have stuck to low carb foods, but I do worry that gradually I will allow other foods in, for just a treat you know, cause I am sure I could handle it....yeah, right! It is thinking like that that got me over 200 lbs.
Many of you know that my Mom & her issues were & still are a huge motivator for me to change what I was doing...I didn't want to end up like her & weigh 300-400 pounds & not be able to move, or live the way I want to. Scares the hell out of me that I can still allow myself to think like that...and let myself get away with it.
There just has to be someway to work this out, a compromise, a plan to succeed & maintain what I have lost. I am sure the answer is as simple as making myself plan my food, which seems so easy during the week, but turns into too much work on Saturday & Sunday.
Just do it I say...be honest about it & just do it & quit crying about it & just do it...I AM WORTH IT!
Diet Calendar Entries for 26 February 2013:
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1573 kcal
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Fat: 83.73g | Prot: 136.47g | Carb: 60.91g.
Breakfast: Eggs & Johnsonville Scramble - with cheese 1/6 of 9 eggs. Lunch: Cucumber (with Peel), Red Tomatoes, ground beef, kraft vinaigrette, salad, american cheese. Dinner: salad, green beans frozen, kraft vinaigrette, Tomatoes, Chicken - Outback Alice Springs = 8 oz chicken. Snacks/Other: Atkins Endulge Chocolate Caramel Mousse. more...
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2457 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Running (jogging) - 5/mph - 30 minutes, Sitting - 15 hours and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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 Comments
Yes, you are worth it and don't you ever forget that! As to "free weekends" everybody handles things differently. I believe that there is a difference between our diets when we are losing weight and when we have reached our goal. Maybe after we have reached our goal there will be a little more "wiggle room" and this can be one of our rewards after reaching our goal - but not before.
26 Feb 13 by member: BuffyBear
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I'm in the same boat, trying to find more appropriate rewards for myself. I find myself thinking "just this little bit won't throw things off," but it DOES!!! I WANT to let go of this white-knuckled control from time to time, but I guess that's what got me into trouble in the first place. I don't have a definitive solution - even for me, yet - but I know we'll get it figured out one way or another. Have a great week (and weekend!).
26 Feb 13 by member: Sandy701
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Plan, plan and plan some more. Focus on having the shopping all done and maybe start preparing your weekend foods on Friday night so when you open the fridge the delicious healthy morsels are staring at you and act as the reminder that YOU ARE WORTH IT!
26 Feb 13 by member: Neptunebch
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Its quite scary for the weekends coming up..I do the same thing..real good during the week and then when Saturday morning rolls around...I let my gaurd down..and then I feel guilty..YES YOU ARE WORTH IT..We all are..like Neptune says...plan,plan and plan more...Thanks for the names you sent my way for my baby calves...I'm writing them all down for the future ones that are coming this spring..:O)
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I can totally relate! Then I think , what would a naturally skinny person do, do they feel like they "deserve" a snack/eat this that, nope, it doesn't even enter their mind. Hmmm food for thought. Why do we feed success with food as treats? good journal!
26 Feb 13 by member: Lizzygracemusic
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Buffy, yes, I do agree, things should change between actively losing pounds & maintaining, I think I have a still have a very skewed vision/understanding of what calorie/carb level = maintenance. I always heard practice makes perfect, obviously I am still in the I screwed up, I need more practice phase.
27 Feb 13 by member: gg-girl
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Sandy...the white knuckle comment hits home. The natural tendency I have to overeat in general, is what I am struggling with now. The low carb WOE got rid of the part where I felt hungry, so that's why I ate I thought...guess I just plain like to eat too...go figure!
27 Feb 13 by member: gg-girl
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Neptune, You know what...I know that's what I have to do, I have been being lazy & indulging myself in ways that DO NOT FIT with my goals. I have only fixed one side of the equation, what I eat, I need to focus on the how much I eat & why I feel I need to or have to or want to.
27 Feb 13 by member: gg-girl
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Bren, I do feel guilty, I hate that...really just hate that!
27 Feb 13 by member: gg-girl
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Lizzygrace...I have often wondered who the naturally skinny people really are? I see people who appear to be a healthy weight, I just automatically assume it is easy for them...perhaps it is not. Maybe some people who see me now think that about me, that this weight is easy....well, it isn't.
27 Feb 13 by member: gg-girl
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