Finally the scale is creeping downward and the holiday regain is about gone! I’m hoping this continues. Still struggling to get motivated to exercise though. Perhaps I should focus on getting more sleep first, because the lack of sleep is hurting my want to exercise. When I am tired, the last thing I want to do is work out. I know I’m not sleeping enough but I have so many things I’m juggling right now that it’s hard to get them all done in the 24 hours I am given each day.
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Not surprised by this week’s progress, as it follows the pattern I have come to know over the last few months. I have made a few tweaks to my program in the past two weeks and I think they are paying off. Continue reading
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If you’ve seen the 1985 film “Real Genius,” perhaps you remember this exchange. Let me give you the context for it. In the film, Chris (Val Kilmer) has been vexed by a problem he’s encountered while building a laser for one of his professors. He has just thrown a fit in the dorm’s kitchen when he has a revelation about how to solve his problem. This epiphany causes him to celebrate, dancing and shouting, and in the midst of his celebration, he runs into his friend Lazlo (Jon Gries).
Lazlo Hollyfeld: Well, how’d you do?
Chris Knight: How’d I do? I passed! But I failed! Yeah!
Lazlo Hollyfeld: Well, then I’m happy and sad for you.
That’s how I feel about yesterday’s eating. I passed, but I failed.
Let me explain.
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This week’s loss was crazy good. Six more pounds gone. I’m starting to notice a pattern with my weight loss–I’ll have weeks where I lose 1-2 pounds, followed by a couple of weeks where I lose 5+ pounds. Consequently, my weight loss pattern looks a bit like a gently descending hillside. See?
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Tonight in our weekly support group meeting, we talked about what skill we had learned that has been instrumental in our success with weight loss so far. Mine: planning, no doubt about it. Planning helps me to ease any anxiety about what I’m going to eat, how much I’m going to eat, and whether or not I’m going to be able to eat what is available. Planning for physical activity also makes me feel good, and gets me up and moving, which I prefer to sitting still for long periods of time any more, because well, now I can get around so much better and I want to take advantage of that!
Here are some examples of ways that I use planning to succeed at this weight loss thing:
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Today’s Daily Bite:
Today’s food choices, clockwise from upper left: multivitamin and calcium supplements x2; lettuce wrap innards from Genghis Grill (lunch and dinner); Isopure Zero Carb; Sargento 2% milk cheese stick; 1.5 ounces Boar’s Head Maple turkey slices; turkey meatballs in marinara with mozzarella (breakfast).
The Daily Bite today provided me a good topic to write about today: going out to eat post-op. Continue reading
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La Guerra de La Gorda 