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Holy cow, I'm in the green! I didn't even notice. Several people pointed it out to me. Wow. No doubt it will bounce around until I reach my goal, but even to dip my toes into the green stripe for a day or two is amazing!
I think I was really "empty" yesterday after the prunes kicked in, so I'm not surprised to see a tiny bump up today. Another great calorie day yesterday still straddling 1000/day with that 5AM 20 minute dog walk daily in addition to 2-3 good 1.5 hour gym days.
I like the expression "lose weight in the kitchen and firm up in the gym".
Several people remarked that they have feelings of deprivation and struggle with that. I used to have that here and there when I first started, in the first few months of my journey (I'm not calling it a diet :).
It was very hard to give up refined sugar and everything that had refined sugar: every candy bar, cupcake, ice cream, cake, cookie, etc. But I thought of it like a game, the same way a lot of you take on these crazy "don't weigh yourself for 12 weeks" challenges.
To me, it's harder not to weigh myself for 12 weeks than give up refined sugar!
I was playing a game to see if I could give up refined sugar for a year. Partly, I wanted to see if I could do it. Partly, I believed it was evil and addictive, and partly I knew it would step up my weight loss like nothing else in the world would.
Then (huge shock), it turned out that giving up sugar was a gift because I was later diagnosed as an insulin resistant pre-diabetic and if I hadn't "happened" to give it up when I did "for fun", I might be dead or in a coma now.
A lot of you know this already. What you don't know is that I was only 3 weeks into the commitment on Halloween night when the first really pang of temptation hit me giving out Halloween candy to the little kids.
Five hours of handling Fun Sized candy. Opening and pouring bag after bag of candy into huge bowls sitting by the door. Staring at the bowls during the lulls while waiting for the doorbell to ring. ALl alone because my husband had a raid that night in World of Warcraft and was nowhere nearby to see me if I decided to "sneak" a piece.
But I didn't. Not one.
It was tempting. I felt a little deprived. It was the first Halloween in my entire life that I didn't have candy and it felt very weird and off. But I remembered that it was my decision in the first place that put me there. I remembered why I chose to lose the weight in the first place. And I knew there would be other Halloweens!
Once I got past the Halloween hump, it got easier. I didn't feel as sorry for myself, and I started to discover joys other than food to satisfy me. I believe that the big "ah-ha" came when I realized that it was going to be a long year and Halloween was probably the hardest holiday to get past and I did it!
Now it's (sorry for the fun) a piece of cake. I'm not even tempted and I wouldn't eat a piece of cake if it was the only thing in the room. It no longer holds any appeal. I'm just a different person.
On the other hand, I'm addicted to the steamed broccoli at The Outback, and I can't get enough of the Zuppa Toscana at The Olive Garden, so I have my own new weaknesses.
I know that deprivation leads to rebellion, so it's good to have coping mechanisms. A friend on here has one 10g piece of chocolate every day. That's her fix. I don't know how she does it. I can't have one of anything. I'm an all or nothing type. I can't even have one pistachio nut! LOL.
So glad we have each other to bounce thing off of.
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