Good morning everyone. I return to work this afternoon. I am back on Cambridge. I feel a sense of relief now that the celebrations are over. Next weigh in will be at the doctors office at the end of the month. I am hoping to make some real progress with no major issues on the horizon. There is an anniversary celebration and a wedding dance. I don't have to eat or drink at these events IF I even go. These events give me an incentive to work hard this week. Everyone have a great day.
"Give me an incentive "
Posted by Me on 5/14/2018, 6:57 pm, in reply to "Day 1"
Way to go on that.... I can see below that you have posted again. I didn't go in and read it yet because I just wanted to say, we are here. But I guess not until later huh. Ha! I'm liking the sound of "No Major issues" That's right up there with "Want to make God laugh, make plans" So be strong. Be prepared with Plan B They had a report on Twiggy yesterday. How skinny that girl was. I wanted to yell at the screen "Eat a donut will ya" but they said she ate like a horse. Didn't clarify if that meant she ate a lot or if she only ate hay, oats and sugar cubes. I was born in 1955 so,.... So I was a child/teen in the sixties, she was a roll model. She was only as big as one of my legs. Not counting my foot. Thank goodness, now at being in her mid seventies, she has ballooned up to 98 pounds. All I am saying, we don't have to let our minds control how we feel about ourselves. Yes, we or I look in the mirror and I am not, weight wise where I would love to be, But it is not all consuming..... Great days, perfect days, semi good days, off the chart days. Just like everything else in our lives. Kids, work, husbands, grocery shopping, interacting with people and some that don't act that way. But we take it all into stride. Let's not put our eating into a category all of it's own. That we place higher value on judging ourselves in that regard. Good, bad, Ugly. All the time in many situations. We can handle this. We may need to come in here and vent or brag!!! But That's what it's here for. Gotta go, Have people coming over. (Hugs)
Me, what you said about Twiggy cracked me up. Seriously though, when I was a teenager I felt pretty good about my body until I started comparing myself to Twiggy. Yeah I was a chubby little kid but I wasn't a super obese kid and I grew out of the chubby stage as a teenager, only I always thought I was really fat at 5'3" and 125 pound. Throughout the years I have succeeded in dieting myself up to over 250 pounds! plus I shrunk an inch in height from old age.
YES!!!!!!!
Posted by Me on 5/15/2018, 9:53 am, in reply to "Re: Body Image"
That is sooooooooo true............... Man, to go back to those picture when so much time was wasted on "I'm so fat, I need to diet." We can get down to 125 pounds, but there will always be someone skinnier than us. Someone will always always be heavier than us. We need to learn to let it go. Yes, take the wake up call on health and your BEST body image that you can be in the moment, on that day, for that week. We lose sooooooo much precious time of not being in the moment, and enjoying life. They did a study a few years back. They took several women that hated their bodies. That were self conscious of a thigh, a butt, an ankle. The researchers took pictures of them out and about. Showed them to people and asked them to write what was the first thing they noticed about these girls/women. Not one in several hundred said any "Flaw" that the woman always saw in the mirror. What people said, Their hair their eyes, their smile, teeth. posture...... men and women were asked. We see things there that no one, NO ONE ELSE SEE's. (Oh Pam, Remember See's Candy?) When we look in the mirror.... Having that reaction is OK. Really it is. Human nature to want to look good. Ok maybe not human nature but society makes us look at ourselves that way. So, look in the mirror. Do some self talk. Come in here to get talked off the ledge. We were NOT put on this earth to be an ornament to it. We are here to help each other. A young mother putting her groceries in the car, ask her if you can take her basket for her,. She doesn't say "Oh no, your butts to big." See someone in a wheel chair or a walker struggling with a door, ask them, can I hold that for you? They will not say, "Ummmm no, have you seen your thighs???" We also have to be thankful that we do have the tools to be healthier. Grateful I don't need a walk or wheel chair, and soooooooo very thankful I don't have a baby. (Guess how many kids I have) Our health is important, how we feel about ourselves is important, especially those of you that are in the work force, But Who we are, and how we act, is far greater than how we look. Let's be kind to others. Be kind to ourselves. Be the healthiest we can be today. And the weight loss will follow. (Hugs)
Re:Mid Day Not so good
Posted by MaryL on 5/14/2018, 1:59 pm, in reply to "Day 1"
Mid Day I am not a sparkling example what to do if you are starting at Day 1. There are too many leftovers in the house and I succumbed...three minutes of mindless eating is damaging but not major.
Going to work I have shake mix and water. The rest of today will be better.
Plan B!!!!! You are doing great MaryL. Coming in here, putting it out there..... Make the power of the action powerless. It is not a "Dirty little secret" There was left overs, you ate some, and on to plan B You go sweetie!!! We are here. Well, I won't be, got those people coming. But you are in my thoughts and prayers.... {Hugs}