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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began
my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Tonia |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
In article , "That T Woman" wrote:
It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Yup, it's not that cold here either, (southern california), but with it getting dark earlier, and needing a jacket, salads just don't appeal as much as a nice bowl of soup. Maybe you can switch to some high veggie soups? I make an adapted chicken tortilla soup (without any tortilla chips, cheese, and sometimes skip the avocado) that ends up pretty low calorie. I wouldn't be too surprised if you find out you do need a few more calories in the winter, but I think the hard part is finding how many more you can handle. Good Luck. |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
What are you doing for exercise? One of my problems is a bad circulatory system, but the exercise I do counteracts it in many ways -- no more cold feet, fewer migraines. If you exercise, you can eat more without regaining weight because you work off calories. Some of us have also found that aerobic exercise depresses the appetite for up to an hour. You should substitute hot veggie dishes for the salads. There are plenty of them: Chinese stir fry; India style recipes; colcannon (an Irish recipe, mashed potatoes with steamed kale and green onions). Soup is another hot food that is easily filled with veggies. You can even make completely veggie soup with fennel bulb as a base, but I wouldn't put cabbage in it because that's overkill. And I stick veggies in other stuff, like I stick baby peas in mac&cheese. The variety of veggies you get is probably also restricted because you're eating so many salads. This constricts your nutritional variety and that can contribute to cravings. That T Woman wrote: It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Tonia |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
Yes, I'm having the same problem. I'm very hungry. But I'm keeping it under
control. I have to say, though, it is a daily struggle and it absolutely started with the cold weather. Cat "That T Woman" wrote in message ... It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Tonia |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
That T Woman wrote:
Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Yes. I want hot foods, too. I've changed my salads quite a bit lately - I add steamed vegetables and warmed up meat on top now. I also sometimes just skip the greens and go straight for steamed veggies with some brown rice or bulgar and some meat all warmed up in the microwave. (I steam huge pots of veggies and eat the leftovers for days.) I've also been eating soup. I make turkey carcass soup: boil turkey bits with some onion, carrot, celery, sage, salt, pepper and what have you for a few hours. Let cool, remove all solids. Reheat the broth and add soup ingredients: chopped up turkey, frozen vegetables, rice/noodles/bulgar, etc. It's not that many calories but is filling. I often have two bowls of this for lunch! Wendy |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
"That T Woman" wrote in message ... It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Tonia As I gain weight - it occurred to me that oct-nov-dec are definitely my weight-gaining months. It's hard for me to lose weight under the best of circumstances, between the change in weather, the ability to 'hide' in bulky sweaters and the socializing that comes in addition to the holidays - I'm just a food vacuum. Working as hard as I can to be aware of that - and also trying to consume more no-cal liquids - and making time for exercise will hopefully keep me in check. Good luck to you. Teri |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
Tonia,
I KNOW what you mean as I'm having a problem just to maintane ! I want to eat ANYTHING & it's after dinner and I'm through eating for the day that I get the munchees! I feel I just want ONE MORE thing to eat. Hang in there and we can do this. WARMLY glo |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
I've been working out Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at the gym where I
walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes, then I do 20-30 minutes on the recumbent bike and then 20-30 minutes on the elliptical trainer. On the other days, I use my ski machine and I'm up to 20 minutes on that b*tch. I know I should get back to the dumb bells but I just don't seem to be able to. The salads I make are complicated things with lots of different veggies, romaine or green leaf lettuce, spinach, broccoli sprouts or mustard and alfalfa sprouts, tomato, green bell pepper, carrots, celery, mushrooms, red onion, broccoli flowers, califlower and sometimes baby corn ears, palm hearts and artichoke hearts, . It depends on what I have on hand and how motivated I'm to go to the big grocery store that has the fantastic salad bar. My problem with cooked veggies is that they don't seem to stay warm long enough and I hate eating cold broccoli or green beans and I have to feed my DH also and he won't eat anything "exotic". I'm managing. I got on the scale this morning and I'm down two pounds. It was six days since previous one pound loss and it took nine days to drop that pound. Overall, I've lost 16 pounds in 73 days or 10-1/2 weeks. "Patricia Heil" wrote in message ... What are you doing for exercise? One of my problems is a bad circulatory system, but the exercise I do counteracts it in many ways -- no more cold feet, fewer migraines. If you exercise, you can eat more without regaining weight because you work off calories. Some of us have also found that aerobic exercise depresses the appetite for up to an hour. You should substitute hot veggie dishes for the salads. There are plenty of them: Chinese stir fry; India style recipes; colcannon (an Irish recipe, mashed potatoes with steamed kale and green onions). Soup is another hot food that is easily filled with veggies. You can even make completely veggie soup with fennel bulb as a base, but I wouldn't put cabbage in it because that's overkill. And I stick veggies in other stuff, like I stick baby peas in mac&cheese. The variety of veggies you get is probably also restricted because you're eating so many salads. This constricts your nutritional variety and that can contribute to cravings. That T Woman wrote: It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Tonia |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
"Mieko" wrote in message ... In article , "That T Woman" wrote: It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Yup, it's not that cold here either, (southern california), but with it getting dark earlier, and needing a jacket, salads just don't appeal as much as a nice bowl of soup. Maybe you can switch to some high veggie soups? I make an adapted chicken tortilla soup (without any tortilla chips, cheese, and sometimes skip the avocado) that ends up pretty low calorie. I wouldn't be too surprised if you find out you do need a few more calories in the winter, but I think the hard part is finding how many more you can handle. Good Luck. I'm going to try some soups next week. We'll see what happens. Thanks, Tonia |
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Another thought on why I gained the weight back
"Ignoramus16936" wrote in message ... In article , That T Woman wrote: It was just about this time last year when I fell off the "wagon" and began my slide back to regain the weight I'd lost. I just realized that a big factor in that was the colder weather. The cold is making me extremely hungry. I'm still logging what I eat and even after I've reached my daily allocation of calories at which point I wasn't hungry when it was warm, I'm still hungry. So far I've been able to tough it out but it's so very hard. Hopefully I'll be able to overcome this by drinking a lot of non calorie hot tea and wrapping up in a blanket so I won't be so cold (and it's not that cold here in Lubbock.) Since my WOE is heavy on the green veggie salads, a change has to come right there. I want only hot food. Is anyone else suffering like this? Were you on a low fat diet? I read that cold weather makes you want more fat. If you were eating carbs instead, you were not satisfying the fat craving. I am not yet suffering like that, but we'll see. i Not particularly low fat but I try to moderate everything. I like a balance. This time around I'm particularly watching my carbs and trying to keep consumption of them to around 35% of my calories. I don't track the fat grams and I do eat meat but not excessively. My DH said he saw a newsreport that was about winter eating and it said it's normal to be hungrier and that's why along with the 4 big holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, that people party on, that most people gain weight during the winter. Tonia |
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