THIRTYTONORMAL

addendum …

2011
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As both Sunny and Marsial pointed out in comments, you certainly can crave foods that you have an intolerance to.  The difference with me was that I had no symptoms eating bread or sugar.  I just thought that since I wanted it that wanting meant allergy.  The disconnect was the no symptoms.

But isn’t that so counter-intuitive …  wouldn’t you think that our bodies would reject (like my mom’s does) anything that we have the slightest intolerance to?  I guess it’s similar to a mosquito bite, though.  You have an urge to scratch it because it itches, but scratching it actually makes it itch more.

I’m back in the 180′s again, bouncing around between 188 and 189 which makes me very happy.  So, so far so good, with the fruits.  I’m still keeping my bread at one oroweat thin a day, although I have a delicious stew cooking in the crockpot and it is absolutely calling for beer batter bread, so I may use some extra points on that.

SF really is making me think about what I eat which is exactly what I needed … to weigh in my mind what I’m willing to spend my precious few points on and what I’m not.

I have two trips scheduled the end of February, first week in March.  I’m going to Disney World again for the half-marathon with all the daughters and daughter-in-laws, and then Mac and I are going to St. Thomas for a week for some sunshine.  It’s only 5 weeks away, so I’m not committing to any weight loss numbers, but it sure would be nice to lose at last 5 pounds.  I’ll do everything I can to make it happen with exercise and eating.  :)

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week-end with friends

2011
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We’re spending the week-end with friends so it’s  been a little tougher to keep my act together.  Dinner was chicken fingers and fries … yikes.  I brought the salad, so at least I had that.  I did indulge in a few fries (and counted them) and ate the chicken sans breading (although I still counted it also.)

I did awesome on the drive over, though.  I packed dinner for Mac and I.  I had left-over filet, plain fresh cauliflower and then an apple.  (Mac had a ham and cheese sandwich with chips and two chocolate chip cookies … I prepared it for him and I really did prefer my meal over his.)  So hooray for me.  I also brought fruit and more vegetables for myself.

I did exercise before we left, but won’t be doing any more until we get back.  In fact it’s a really laid-back week-end where we pretty much are just sitting around and catching up on everybody’s life.

Tomorrow night I think we’re going out to dinner so I will try to steer them toward a restaurant that has great salads and yummy chicken.

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nine a day

2011
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That’s the recommendation for fruits and vegetables.  Nine a day.  I’m doing a 2:1 ratio … 2 vegetable servings for every 1 fruit which translates to 3 fruits and 6 vegetables a day.  It seems like a lot of fruit to me, but then I haven’t eaten fruit on a regular basis for months.  So I’m going to try it … see how the hunger and the weight loss shake out.  I can always do more vegetables than fruit if I need to.  Right now, though, I’m loving having the fruit.

Meanwhile I’ve switched from the Points+ on WW to Simply Filling (SF).  Tish, another BBF, has mentioned it several times since it was what she was doing, so I thought I’d try it.  I was doing well on the regular Points+ but felt I needed to get back to a more SB style of eating.  With SF the only things I count are the extras.  The first thing I noticed was that while my Oroweat thins didn’t count toward my extras, my peanut butter did.  And once I started thinking about what was worthy and what wasn’t, the peanut butter didn’t make the cut.  (My dark chocolate did … really the only thing that did.)

For me, it’s making me even more mindful of what I’m eating.  And I’m hoping that it becomes a way of life, rather than just a way of eating.

I like that I don’t feel like I have to do this in an exact, no going off, way, like I did with SB the first two times I did it.  I was perfect then … no going off track, no sugar, no goodies, hardly any fruit.  Lost the weight in a couple of months and the minute I started adding a few things in here and there I gained it all back.  Took me losing and re-gaining twice to realize it isn’t all about the losing; it’s about keeping it off.  So I’ll keep tweaking trying to figure out what works for me.

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