Little Differences

PL wrote:

I still have a looong way to go, though.

When I decided to change, I *never* set out to lose almost 100 pounds.
It never entered my head. It was an exciting adventure to get a new life
where one day I'd see someone rollerblading and think "Hey - I need some
of those!" and then DO it.

Enjoy *your* adventures!

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

On 21 Aug 2004 19:59:27 GMT, SnugBear wrote:

PL wrote:

I still have a looong way to go, though.

When I decided to change, I *never* set out to lose almost 100 pounds.
It never entered my head.

That was how I was. I just figured I'd see what happened, and that
losing even a little weight would be a good thing. If you'd asked me
then if I wanted to get down into the 140s, I'd have thought it out of
the question -- perhaps not even desirable.

Maybe I was a little strange in this regard, but I was never all that
unhappy with myself at 260. I just felt like I'd like to be a little
lighter. And one thing kind of led to another :-).

BTW, I bought a really nice Liz Claiborne suit today in a size 6 --
80% off the original price. I'd have never imagined that I'd ever
wear a size 6, either. (There was an Anne Klein one that I liked a
lot, but the top in the size 6 was a bit snug through the shoulders
and bust, and the skirt in the size 8 was way too big, so I decided to
pass.)

Chris
262/141/ (145-150)

SnugBear wrote:

When I decided to change, I *never* set out to lose almost 100 pounds.
It never entered my head. It was an exciting adventure to get a new
life where one day I'd see someone rollerblading and think "Hey - I
need some of those!" and then DO it.

Enjoy *your* adventures!

That's a good way to look at it. I'm trying my best to make this about my
health and living a fuller life instead of the numbers on the scale.

--
PL


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Chris Braun wrote:

BTW, I bought a really nice Liz Claiborne suit today in a size 6 --
80% off the original price. I'd have never imagined that I'd ever
wear a size 6, either.

Do you hear me giggle when you post stuff like this? I told my PM friend
I'd never be able to go lower than size 12 - and it was ok!

Love it - just love it.

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Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

I have ALWAYS believed in this "mind" thing (so to speak) as it IS my
mind which is going throgh the BIGGEST changes now. About 20 years ago
(I was 40) I started losing weight. I just cut back my food by doing
this:
I put the same STUFF on my plate except I ate 1/2 and stopped. I felt
this strength and it was inside my head. I went from 269+ (I had quit
looking at my scale) down 100+ LBS. That was a great journey and after
meds that helped my weight go up and a unchosen sedendary life I gained
about 20 back. Now I'm close to where I want and this took a long while
of getting my head changed back again. Yea, I agree with someone's
statement "thin tastes better than food" It's true!! Life is beautiful
when I shop in the regular lady's dept now!! I'm eating when I NEED to
eat. Never getting full is great . I FEEL incontrol PLUS I FEEL THIN
now.


glo

Gloria wrote:

I have ALWAYS believed in this "mind" thing (so to speak) as it IS my
mind which is going throgh the BIGGEST changes now. About 20 years ago
(I was 40) I started losing weight. I just cut back my food by doing
this:
I put the same STUFF on my plate except I ate 1/2 and stopped. I felt
this strength and it was inside my head. I went from 269+ (I had quit
looking at my scale) down 100+ LBS. That was a great journey and after
meds that helped my weight go up and a unchosen sedendary life I
gained about 20 back. Now I'm close to where I want and this took a
long while of getting my head changed back again. Yea, I agree with
someone's statement "thin tastes better than food" It's true!! Life
is beautiful when I shop in the regular lady's dept now!! I'm eating
when I NEED to eat. Never getting full is great . I FEEL incontrol
PLUS I FEEL THIN now.

That's terrific Gloria! I love reading about all the success stories here.
Very inspiring!

--
PL
(320/309/170)
(First mini-goal: 299)


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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:09:23 -0400, (Gloria) wrote:

I have ALWAYS believed in this "mind" thing (so to speak) as it IS my
mind which is going throgh the BIGGEST changes now. About 20 years ago
(I was 40) I started losing weight. I just cut back my food by doing
this:
I put the same STUFF on my plate except I ate 1/2 and stopped. I felt
this strength and it was inside my head. I went from 269+ (I had quit
looking at my scale) down 100+ LBS. That was a great journey and after
meds that helped my weight go up and a unchosen sedendary life I gained
about 20 back. Now I'm close to where I want and this took a long while
of getting my head changed back again. Yea, I agree with someone's
statement "thin tastes better than food" It's true!! Life is beautiful
when I shop in the regular lady's dept now!! I'm eating when I NEED to
eat. Never getting full is great . I FEEL incontrol PLUS I FEEL THIN
now.


glo

Hey, glo, that's good to hear Does this mean you're back down to
close to your goal?

janice

PL wrote in alt.support.diet on Sat, 21 Aug 2004:

Annabel Smyth wrote:

Don't think of how far you've got to go, or you'll give up in despair,
which is what I feel like doing when I think how far *I*'ve got to go!
Actually, it's what I feel like doing anyway, but never mind that now,
I'm not going to!

I'm having a bit of a rough day today and giving up in despair seems so
tempting. But I'm not going to either.

Just take each day as it comes, and if you have a bad day, so what?
It just means it will take another day to come off. And could people
please go on telling ME that, I'm having a "funny five minutes".....

Take it one day at a time. The five minutes will pass.

Thanks, PL. Yesterday was definitely not a good day, in terms of food.
Partly I woke up hungry, which I don't normally do. Then there was a
Residents' Association Barbecue in the afternoon. If you're trying to
lower the amount you eat, I don't recommend barbecues, because the food
comes in dribs and drabs, and before you know it, you've eaten at least
two more pieces of chicken than you meant to! Plus it was the middle of
the afternoon, and we had had no lunch, so were seriously hungry!

And, of course, eating in the middle of the afternoon put supper out of
phase, because we weren't hungry when it was supper-time. And I ended
up being hungry at bed-time and having a far more heavy-duty snack than
I would normally allow myself. Sigh.

Oh well, today is another day, and I'm well on track so far. And
although I had not lost any weight at my bi-weekly weigh-in this
morning, I hadn't gained any either. Shouldn't really weigh myself
twice a week, but I can never resist....
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88/80kg

Annabel Smyth wrote:

Oh well, today is another day, and I'm well on track so far. And
although I had not lost any weight at my bi-weekly weigh-in this
morning, I hadn't gained any either. Shouldn't really weigh myself
twice a week, but I can never resist....

Oh I'm right there with you. I have to really fight hard to break the old
habit of climbing on the scale every morning and letting the number that
comes up dictate what kind of day I'm going to have.

--
PL
(320/309/170)
(First mini-goal: 299)


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Annabel Smyth wrote:

Oh well, today is another day, and I'm well on track so far. And
although I had not lost any weight at my bi-weekly weigh-in this
morning, I hadn't gained any either. Shouldn't really weigh myself
twice a week, but I can never resist....

Oh I'm right there with you. I have to really fight hard to break the old
habit of climbing on the scale every morning and letting the number that
comes up dictate what kind of day I'm going to have.

--
PL
(320/309/170)
(First mini-goal: 299)


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