THIRTYTONORMAL

How come …

2011
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I forget how good I feel when I’m on SB?

One day and I’ve got more energy than I had the whole of last week.

One day and I’m jumping out of bed at 6 am instead of rolling over for another hour of sleep.

One day and I don’t have any cravings.

One day and I decide to do another mile on my walk this morning at 6:30 am to do a total of 5.19 miles.

Which my thighs, knees and feet protested mightily the rest of the morning … I guess I should be increasing gradually.  ;)

I don’t give 100% of the credit to the diet change … the fact that we FINALLY have sunshine for more than one afternoon is a HUGE factor.  I feel like I’ve been stuck in this deep, dark, overcast, cold place for months and months and MONTHS.

As evidenced by the fact that I haven’t used color in my posts for months.

WELCOME TO SPRING!

Here’s hoping it lasts longer than a week.

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Have you ever …

2011
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read a blog post or an article and thought “wow, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing”?

That’s how I felt when I started reading this.  It clarified so many things for me that I believe.

Mainly that diets don’t work for me long-term.  I can lose the weight, but to keep it off I need to change my head and my heart.

I’ve started.  I’ve kept off 40 pounds for months without feeling like I’m being restrictive or punishing myself.

I need to move onto the second part, though, to lose the rest of the weight.

I need to free myself from thinking of food as good or bad.  It’s neither.  It’s just food.  Some food is better for my health than other food, but it still doesn’t make it good or bad and neither does eating it make me good or bad.

I need to make choices on food based on what is best for me … and recognize that sometimes those choices will be to eat that cookie and that’s okay.

I need to decide before I eat what I want, why I want it, and how much of it I’m going to have.

I need to start with eating only when I’m hungry.  Not because it’s lunchtime, not because it’s been x-number of hours since the last time I ate, not because I see/smell/think about some food.  I need to recognize when I’m physically hungry and when I’m psychologically hungry (or as Sunny calls it, “head hunger”).

As I said, this is a path that I’d already known I needed to be on.  I just felt with this article that it gave me the tools I need to really get into it.

The funny thing is in the South Beach diet (as well as weight watchers) they talk about this all the time … only eat when you are hungry, only eat enough to sate the hunger … the difference is that saying you should do it is one thing, showing me a way to do it is another.

One of my favorite phrases she uses is:  If you didn’t start eating because you were hungry, how do you know when to stop?

Well, I only knew when to stop when it was either gone or I was interrupted by somebody.  :(

It’s a tantalizing thing … thinking that the ability to only eat what my body needs … is within my reach.

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I need a plan …

2011
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for my travels so they don’t turn into travails.  :)

I’ve been kind of flying by the seat of my pants when I go on vacation because it’s vacation.  However, it’s totally not working for me to lose weight and then gain it over vacation.  This time I’m going to be gone from the 18th of February through the 22nd of March.

So here’s my plan:

  • Limit carbs to one a day.
  • Make sure you eat your vegetables (this always seems to be a hard one for me when I travel)
  • Drink your water..
  • Get in 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week (this will be not problem at WDW as there is SO much walking … St. Thomas is another thing as we are going to do lots of sight-seeing, thus being in the car a lot.  I plan to make sure I get in at least a 30 minute walk every day.)

Pretty simple, but really what I need to remember.  I’m more about the do’s than the do not’s.  I know if I can get my head into the right place, then my body follows.

Meanwhile I was feeling pretty good about myself as I hit 187 this morning.  Then I took a good look at myself in the mirror and realized I am still fat.  (I know I should know this, but I tend to forget until I confront myself.)  I can’t be satisfied over this vacation with where I am … I need to lose weight, not let another month go by with either maintaining or (even worse!) gaining.

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