Day 24 -- Another pound gone

Day 24 and 9 pounds gone

I was very happy to get on the scale today and see another pound gone.
(I'm now at 227.) Probably something that helped was going to bed
early last night and getting a good sleep.

My calories were lower yesterday – about 900 – and the last time I ate
was about 6:15, so I'm learning and practicing habits of positive
change. There is no hunger – and if I do eat extra calories, it's
because of availability of food rather than hunger. (I have a little
sign in my kitchen – "Thimk about it!" – and I tell myself that if I
can easily spot the error in that message, I can also easily spot the
error in eating extra calories.)

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and month!

Yours,

Caleb

236/227/190

Congratulations Caleb! Hey, you're almost halfway through the twenties.

Unchanged here.

Lazy 223/204/175

wrote:

Day 24 and 9 pounds gone

I was very happy to get on the scale today and see another pound gone.
(I'm now at 227.) Probably something that helped was going to bed
early last night and getting a good sleep.

My calories were lower yesterday – about 900 – and the last time I ate
was about 6:15, so I'm learning and practicing habits of positive
change. There is no hunger – and if I do eat extra calories, it's
because of availability of food rather than hunger. (I have a little
sign in my kitchen – "Thimk about it!" – and I tell myself that if I
can easily spot the error in that message, I can also easily spot the
error in eating extra calories.)

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and month!

Yours,

Caleb

236/227/190

Merci beau coup!

(Or whatever the exact spelling is -- I failed French in the 9th
grade.)

And, Lordy! Lordy! I think I'm going to try another mountain in three
weeks, so I have to keep on the straight and narrow! Next time it's
Middle Sisters. And again I KNOW I won't make it to the top. But
maybe, if I'm not looking, success (perhaps due to being a bit
lighter) will help ease the way!

Again, Thank you! And Congrats on your STELLAR performance! (I can
only hope to follow you!)

Yours,

Caleb

LazyEights wrote in message ...
Congratulations Caleb! Hey, you're almost halfway through the twenties.

Unchanged here.

Lazy 223/204/175

wrote:

Day 24 and 9 pounds gone

I was very happy to get on the scale today and see another pound gone.
(I'm now at 227.) Probably something that helped was going to bed
early last night and getting a good sleep.

My calories were lower yesterday ? about 900 ? and the last time I ate
was about 6:15, so I'm learning and practicing habits of positive
change. There is no hunger ? and if I do eat extra calories, it's
because of availability of food rather than hunger. (I have a little
sign in my kitchen ? "Thimk about it!" ? and I tell myself that if I
can easily spot the error in that message, I can also easily spot the
error in eating extra calories.)

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and month!

Yours,

Caleb

236/227/190

(Kalepa) wrote in message . com...
Merci beau coup!

(Or whatever the exact spelling is -- I failed French in the 9th
grade.)

It's "Merci beaucoup".

Caleb, I have been going nowhere by just using my calorie tracking
system in the last few weeks. I am back to 178 pounds which is way too
much. I would like to come back to 167 pounds like three months ago.
Vacations and a moving have screwed up everything. I stopped working
out, ate a lot of fatting food during my vacations and stopped cooking
because the new place where I moved in did not have a working stove,
so I started eating already-made food (a lot of it being cookies, ice
cream and nachos). The end result of this after two months are the
gaining back of 10 pounds. Thanks to my reducing my intake to 1500
calories (a lot of bread) in the last few weeks, I could go down to
173 pounds. But in the last week, I have increased to 2200 calories.
Yesterday I have reached a point where I have decided I need change
strategies.

Today I started to reduce my carbs while keeping it to 1500 calories.
For breakfast I had a glass of grapefruit, 2 slices of whole-wheat
bread with peanut buuter. For lunch I had 3 corns and a cup of green
beans. For dinner, two pieces of chicken and a tablespoon of almond
butter. The grand total is about 1500. I don't feel to eat anything
else for now, although the night is still young. Basically, I am going
back to what I was eating when successfully keeping it at an
"enjoyable" weight of 167 pounds. My new approcan is to eat most of my
food the one that has not been processed: Vegetables, fruits, meat,
eggs and nuts. Bread would be the only exeception, at two slices
maximum a day. In addition, I will drink 2 litres of water a day,
working out every day without ANY exception. If I consider for a
minute not doing any workout in a day, then I'll know there is
something wrong. If anyone has suggestion, please let me know.

Denis

And, Lordy! Lordy! I think I'm going to try another mountain in three
weeks, so I have to keep on the straight and narrow! Next time it's
Middle Sisters. And again I KNOW I won't make it to the top. But
maybe, if I'm not looking, success (perhaps due to being a bit
lighter) will help ease the way!

Again, Thank you! And Congrats on your STELLAR performance! (I can
only hope to follow you!)

Yours,

Caleb

LazyEights wrote in message ...
Congratulations Caleb! Hey, you're almost halfway through the twenties.

Unchanged here.

Lazy 223/204/175

wrote:

Day 24 and 9 pounds gone

I was very happy to get on the scale today and see another pound gone.
(I'm now at 227.) Probably something that helped was going to bed
early last night and getting a good sleep.

My calories were lower yesterday ? about 900 ? and the last time I ate
was about 6:15, so I'm learning and practicing habits of positive
change. There is no hunger ? and if I do eat extra calories, it's
because of availability of food rather than hunger. (I have a little
sign in my kitchen ? "Thimk about it!" ? and I tell myself that if I
can easily spot the error in that message, I can also easily spot the
error in eating extra calories.)

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and month!

Yours,

Caleb

236/227/190

Denis -- Your program sounds fine to me! A major goal is to find
something that you can stay with -- long enough for it to be
effective. You've put a lot of thought into it and have been
successful with it in the past.

Great! STICK with it! You can't help but be successful if you adhere
to what you've laid out.

Yours,

Caleb

(Denis Morissette) wrote in message . com...
(Kalepa) wrote in message . com...
Merci beau coup!

(Or whatever the exact spelling is -- I failed French in the 9th
grade.)

It's "Merci beaucoup".

Caleb, I have been going nowhere by just using my calorie tracking
system in the last few weeks. I am back to 178 pounds which is way too
much. I would like to come back to 167 pounds like three months ago.
Vacations and a moving have screwed up everything. I stopped working
out, ate a lot of fatting food during my vacations and stopped cooking
because the new place where I moved in did not have a working stove,
so I started eating already-made food (a lot of it being cookies, ice
cream and nachos). The end result of this after two months are the
gaining back of 10 pounds. Thanks to my reducing my intake to 1500
calories (a lot of bread) in the last few weeks, I could go down to
173 pounds. But in the last week, I have increased to 2200 calories.
Yesterday I have reached a point where I have decided I need change
strategies.

Today I started to reduce my carbs while keeping it to 1500 calories.
For breakfast I had a glass of grapefruit, 2 slices of whole-wheat
bread with peanut buuter. For lunch I had 3 corns and a cup of green
beans. For dinner, two pieces of chicken and a tablespoon of almond
butter. The grand total is about 1500. I don't feel to eat anything
else for now, although the night is still young. Basically, I am going
back to what I was eating when successfully keeping it at an
"enjoyable" weight of 167 pounds. My new approcan is to eat most of my
food the one that has not been processed: Vegetables, fruits, meat,
eggs and nuts. Bread would be the only exeception, at two slices
maximum a day. In addition, I will drink 2 litres of water a day,
working out every day without ANY exception. If I consider for a
minute not doing any workout in a day, then I'll know there is
something wrong. If anyone has suggestion, please let me know.

Denis

And, Lordy! Lordy! I think I'm going to try another mountain in three
weeks, so I have to keep on the straight and narrow! Next time it's
Middle Sisters. And again I KNOW I won't make it to the top. But
maybe, if I'm not looking, success (perhaps due to being a bit
lighter) will help ease the way!

Again, Thank you! And Congrats on your STELLAR performance! (I can
only hope to follow you!)

Yours,

Caleb

LazyEights wrote in message ...
Congratulations Caleb! Hey, you're almost halfway through the twenties.

Unchanged here.

Lazy 223/204/175

wrote:

Day 24 and 9 pounds gone

I was very happy to get on the scale today and see another pound gone.
(I'm now at 227.) Probably something that helped was going to bed
early last night and getting a good sleep.

My calories were lower yesterday ? about 900 ? and the last time I ate
was about 6:15, so I'm learning and practicing habits of positive
change. There is no hunger ? and if I do eat extra calories, it's
because of availability of food rather than hunger. (I have a little
sign in my kitchen ? "Thimk about it!" ? and I tell myself that if I
can easily spot the error in that message, I can also easily spot the
error in eating extra calories.)

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and month!

Yours,

Caleb

236/227/190

Hi everyone,

Congrats Caleb! I, on the other hand, have officially given up on my
diet! I ran 6 miles yesterday and did an hour of pilates and kept my
caloric intake down but NOTHING. It seems hopeless for me.

L

(Denis Morissette) wrote in message . com...
(Kalepa) wrote in message . com...
Merci beau coup!

(Or whatever the exact spelling is -- I failed French in the 9th
grade.)

It's "Merci beaucoup".

Caleb, I have been going nowhere by just using my calorie tracking
system in the last few weeks. I am back to 178 pounds which is way too
much. I would like to come back to 167 pounds like three months ago.
Vacations and a moving have screwed up everything. I stopped working
out, ate a lot of fatting food during my vacations and stopped cooking
because the new place where I moved in did not have a working stove,
so I started eating already-made food (a lot of it being cookies, ice
cream and nachos). The end result of this after two months are the
gaining back of 10 pounds. Thanks to my reducing my intake to 1500
calories (a lot of bread) in the last few weeks, I could go down to
173 pounds. But in the last week, I have increased to 2200 calories.
Yesterday I have reached a point where I have decided I need change
strategies.

Today I started to reduce my carbs while keeping it to 1500 calories.
For breakfast I had a glass of grapefruit, 2 slices of whole-wheat
bread with peanut buuter. For lunch I had 3 corns and a cup of green
beans. For dinner, two pieces of chicken and a tablespoon of almond
butter. The grand total is about 1500. I don't feel to eat anything
else for now, although the night is still young. Basically, I am going
back to what I was eating when successfully keeping it at an
"enjoyable" weight of 167 pounds. My new approcan is to eat most of my
food the one that has not been processed: Vegetables, fruits, meat,
eggs and nuts. Bread would be the only exeception, at two slices
maximum a day. In addition, I will drink 2 litres of water a day,
working out every day without ANY exception. If I consider for a
minute not doing any workout in a day, then I'll know there is
something wrong. If anyone has suggestion, please let me know.

Denis

And, Lordy! Lordy! I think I'm going to try another mountain in three
weeks, so I have to keep on the straight and narrow! Next time it's
Middle Sisters. And again I KNOW I won't make it to the top. But
maybe, if I'm not looking, success (perhaps due to being a bit
lighter) will help ease the way!

Again, Thank you! And Congrats on your STELLAR performance! (I can
only hope to follow you!)

Yours,

Caleb

LazyEights wrote in message ...
Congratulations Caleb! Hey, you're almost halfway through the twenties.

Unchanged here.

Lazy 223/204/175

wrote:

Day 24 and 9 pounds gone

I was very happy to get on the scale today and see another pound gone.
(I'm now at 227.) Probably something that helped was going to bed
early last night and getting a good sleep.

My calories were lower yesterday ? about 900 ? and the last time I ate
was about 6:15, so I'm learning and practicing habits of positive
change. There is no hunger ? and if I do eat extra calories, it's
because of availability of food rather than hunger. (I have a little
sign in my kitchen ? "Thimk about it!" ? and I tell myself that if I
can easily spot the error in that message, I can also easily spot the
error in eating extra calories.)

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and month!

Yours,

Caleb

236/227/190

Linda --

I sure know how it feels to have no hope of success. I was a fat kid,
a fat adult, and I'm still overweight (although I have learned to lose
weight myself in that last five years using methods that work for me).

I have almost no will power, as far as I can see, and I sure am not
the kind of person who can take just one half of a slice of pizza, or
one tuna fish sandwich from a plate of sandwiches. For me, it's easier
to avoid multiple meals a day, like Lazy does. (Also Dean Edell, M.D.,
nutritional expert Mark Mattson, Ph.D. -- who is starting some
fascinating research right about now -- etc.)

From my perspective (and I'm not a nutritionist, physician, nurses,
etc.) I think we have been led to believe that we are all incredibly
fragile and that if we miss meals, we will dissolve into a pile of
goo. (My restatement of this is a bit excessive, but perhaps you know
what I mean. Many people call breakfast "the most important meal."
Many think that if they don't eat a "healthy" lunch, their afternoon
will not be productive. Dinner is intended to carry people over to the
next day. etc. etc. The food industry and advertising in general have
triumphed while many of us are losing the health/weight wars.) Mark
Mattson has noted that if we were this fragile, we would have died out
as a species hundred of thousands of years ago.

Dr. Kelly Brownell of Yale University has labeled this a "food toxic"
environment, and he is absolutely right. I've been interested as well
in "toxic interactions" with people urging us to "just try a little of
this" or of that, or our own anticipated difficulty in various food
situations which then lead us to stray.

Anyway, enjoy your break from obsessing about food! I used to engage
in long-distance running and found that an effective way to control my
weight (but that was before back problems). Don't sweat it too much!
Losing weight sure doesn't make anyone a better person. And with the
armies arrayed against one trying to lose weight, perhaps it's a
miracle that anyone loses weight anyway – or that they can keep it
off!

One of the most repeated findings about dieting is that it takes
multiple attempts before once can lose weight and keep the weight off.

Anyway, just remember we're rooting for you!

Yours,

Caleb
(Linda C. T.) wrote in message . com...
Hi everyone,

Congrats Caleb! I, on the other hand, have officially given up on my
diet! I ran 6 miles yesterday and did an hour of pilates and kept my
caloric intake down but NOTHING. It seems hopeless for me.

L