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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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