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I’ll take it! Almost a pound down for the week and the month. Not bad for all the pizza I’ve had! I’m the last 9 days we’ve eaten at braums, a steakhouse, chik-fil-a, a Mexican restaurant, 3 full pizza meals and at least 3 pizza lunches. Oh and a quesadilla front he smoothie place. By pizza meals I mean ranch and 3-4 pieces of pizza or calzone so not much portion control. By pizza lunches I mean 1-3 smaller pieces with a small amount of ranch for calzone dipping only. I still practiced portion control for the steakhouse and Mexican and got a smaller meal at Braum’s and ChikFilA. I’ve had cookies, cookie cake, chips and queso, protein bars and snickers. I even had a sip or two of hot chocolate that I didn’t log because I don’t log anything less than 10-20 calories even veggies now.
CICO works. Portion Control works. Do I find it tedious some days? Yes. Does it super suck to limit my portions when I really want to stuff myself with pizza? Yes. Does it help knowing that if I limit it to 3 pieces then I can have 1-2 for lunch the next day? Yes! Yes! Yes! I also balanced that stuff out with lower calorie meals like my chicken noodle soup. BUT then I added cheese and crackers which raised the calorie count lol. Ah well ya only live once! For a maintenance month I’m doing good. All forgiven and forgotten. Well that pizza will never be forgotten and I’m 🤤 just thinking about when I get pizza again!
As a kid I had it every Friday and Mexican every Saturday. Just a little tradition with my mom and stepdad so mom didn’t have to cook and we had two treats per week. After growing up poor this was a huge expense and luxury. Part of my food problems now I think. Same with snacks. My great aunts would buy boxed cookies and snack cakes when I visited. They knew I didn’t get those things much and wanted to give me treats. Then my stepdad decided a year after he and mom got together, that I should have them plus pop and candy on a daily basis. Enter pop tarts or honey buns for breakfast, candy bars and pop after school etc. I burned it off as a kid and stayed thin. Worked with animals and hauled hay for FFA, 4H and family. Didn’t have near the muscle the farm boys had but for a non athletic girl I wasn’t too bad. Hubby says no animals like that and my kids aren’t into showing so I’ve lost those activities. Family now hire the hay hauled or buy it because Granddad is 77 and my uncles are 49&50 plus Mom passed in 2013 and her and I were the main ones helping. My generation are mostly girls ages 11 to 27. The guys have no interest. My point is that my activity level decreased as an adult. My food intake stayed the same other than cutting back on some candy and I started skipping breakfast most days.
Along comes cancer and treatment and BAM hello weight gain! Currently the same weight I was at 24! I remember before having my oldest that I was 124# at 24 yrs old when I got pregnant with her. I’d have weighed probably May or June 2005. I’ll be 38 12/20. I haven’t wanted to tell anyone I dropped just below 125 because the 124 is significant for me. I’ve seen it a few times now so I’m confident I’ll stay 124-125 for awhile. Family and friends wouldn’t understand the significance for me. I’m a numbers person and most others aren’t.
However my tummy is upset. If I had to guess, my middle caught a tummy bug. She gets hit hard. She’s always so much worse than us. Mostly mine would be stress. Either way I know I’ll feel better by this weekend. I’m not actually getting sick yet so that tells me it’s more stress and anxiety. I stopped my antidepressant. I know I know, you shouldn’t do that. Oh well! My experiment gave me valuable info. I’m NOT addicted or had withdrawal from the meds as many say they do. I’m acting no different off of it as I was on it. My counselor explained Highs and lows and I should’ve had extreme lows this last week. My only bad stuff is the stupid anxiety. And I handled that well when forced to act in a high stress situation in public. I’m proud of myself. Hubby has turned into the loving man I married. By next weekend he will revert to the old grouch I’m married to now lol. He’s a grinch pure and simple! To me Christmas is watching my kids open presents and good times and food with family. For my kids it’s presents and getting to play at other people houses. For him well, it’s driving around seeing people he doesn’t care about mostly, missing his shows and naps and not being able to be the homebody that he is. He won’t even put on a happy face for a week for us. I’ve learned to deal with this by lashing back when he lashes out. This year I won’t. Or I haven’t so far! Self control like portion control sucks lol. But so far the last few days I just calmly call him on it or walk away. Walking away to calm down makes him angry but I need it for myself. Then he surprises me by bringing me coffee this morning. He actually talked to me at dinner last night rather than just scarfing down his food and wanting to rush home to his tv shows. He helped me catch Nugget so I could band her for identification. He is agreeing to let me find a Broody hen and hatch some more chicks. He dyed my hair because I handled the lice situation and he didn’t have to. He took me out to dinner because I handled the sick kid and he didn’t have to. My diet rebelled but my body praised him and the food haha. If I gain back to 125 I’ll be happy. If I stay at 124.4 I’ll be happy. If I drop to 120-123 I’ll be happy. I WONT be happy if I gain back to 127+ this month. I don’t think I’ve had a gain over a month yet so I should be good.
I have a question though. How do you handle not logging? It’ll be super hard to weigh things over Christmas. I’ll have to choose to not log which makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. OR log guesses that could be way off. Again the skin crawl but not as bad because at least something is entered even if not accurate in the least. Accuracy is big for me. Preparing myself early because I’m committed to a different Christmas this year. One where I don’t gripe back when being griped at. One that I stay as stress free as possible. And own that I eat everything and anything I want just to see how much I’ve changed from last year. I doubt I eat the whole second plate for dessert. I bet I skip the sandwich and just have the snacks foods at dinner. I’ll bet that I’ll have some dessert but not as much as I was eating a few years ago when I gave up dessert. And I see a ton of iced tea in my future rather than the pop from all other years. I also can see some basketball if cars are moved and it’s nice enough to play. I won’t burn much and I’m slow and old (haha) but I can still keep up with my 12 year old in that smaller space and she needs to be bumped and shoved around a bit so she learns how to shove back without fouling. Good practice on me since she’s not allowed to hit me in the chest hard. Or the sides for the next few months. Plus I’ll need the exercise and since she doesn’t like me with all her teen hormones this gives us something in common and lets her know I’ll do something I don’t like because she loves it so much. Plus she’s competitive with me so the pushing and shoving should be fun lol. Especially now that she’s taller and only about 10# less than me. She guards way bigger girls in her defensive post position (wing for offense) than me so she will be rougher in game. My 10 yr old is small and slight at 4’7 and 62# so my oldest knocks her over too easily. Basketball is the surprise activity on our Christmas IF the weather is nice. Last I heard we were looking at 40-60 degrees so not bad if it’s not windy! No wind blocks at home or my aunts house 😢.
Happy Monday FS friends! May you be blessed today and every day with good eating habits, good food, good health and family and friends that love you.
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