What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud? 1/4 Inch!
Geez, I've tried to post here three times so far. Hopefully this one will work or I give up. I'm glad to see that you found something to help you lose your little biddy love handle. I had no idea that the recumbent bike could help in the mid area. Go recumbent bikes! And good for you, 1/4 inch since Friday is excellent!
I have nothing to be proud about today.lol Sort of in my blue state still. Obgyn just stort of hit my nerves the wrong way this morning. It was all to do with being fat too. I hate this so much. One would think that if they leave the docs office feeling lousy about your weight you would go straight home and do something about it. Instead I caved into my craving of McDonald's. BAHH Well it's done and over with now. Tomorrows a new day, or this rest of the day actually! :) The thing is, I even felt SOOOO guilty going thru the drive thru. IT's like I knew I shouldn't eat it. I was already depressed at myself before I even ate it!! So why did I???? ARGHH This is something that I'm going to have to work on. I am such a fast food lover, it's like I crave the stuff. I have been craving it since Friday, then one bad moment and I cave. My mom has always told me if your craving has been around for so long, then you might as well feed into it, because you will end up eating everything else in sight just to get what you want. Although I've believed her for so long, I really wonder if that is true. I think I might have to go cold turkey on it. Lol, that sort of sounds funny.
My husband and myself sort of ate bad on Friday night and again on Saturday. He weighed in yesrterday and was all pissed off. He said pooey on WW, that he's mad and wants to quit.lol Think he got a taste of what I've been going through since we've been married. During the week I eat so good, but on weekends that is when he eats so badly. Of corurse I tend to tag along!! So now his eyes are open so maybe we can conquer our weekends together. So I guess something good came out of this weeekend. It was a learning experience for him, and a hope for me!
Another thing I realized is that I have been weighing myself daily (of course). I got down to losing ten pounds (supposedly) this last week. BUT when I stopped exercising and eating badly it almost all came back on. I know it's not really all the weight and jus****er weight and salt. But last week while exercising I noticed a DRAMATIC difference in the scale when I exercised. I kept emailing Sherrie, lol it was freaking me out it was dipping so much lower than normal!haha But over all, I lost three pounds this last week.
Holly Iam recovering fast food junkie!!! I used to eat out once or twice a day, It helped me slow down when we realized how much money it would save us if we didnt!! With it being winter I dont wanna go out and actually get the food, plus I would have to take my 3 kids out in the snow, I just realized it wasnt worth it. I am sooo scared of what will happen this summer I hope I am on a schedule enought to not crave it so much. Quitting it cold turkey works for some, but it only make me crave it more. If you crave it, only allow ourself a salad, or a wrap and a parfait. I know its not the best, but its better than greasy fries, and a big mac. Just work on getting your husband to get with you on the weekends, and dont let your OBGYN get to you, you are taking steps to loosing weight THAT IS WHAT MATTERS!!, so screw 'em!!!!!!! Love ya Holly, and be proud of where you've come so far!!!!!
Now, about this emotional eating you were doing through the drive-thru. Let me start by saying that it's not your fault that you are a fast food addict. The additives that they put in fast food is PROCESSED to be addictive. The bread has corn syrup solids in it to make it just a little sweeter. The hamburgers have way more sodium in them than a sane person would ever put on a hamburger. So do the french fries. And sodas from a soda fountain are just pure chemicals made to make you want more of the same chemicals. All of this crap is designed to keep you hooked so you will be coming back for more, and raise your li'l children to have the same addiction. And an emotional eater is doomed to hell and back if they don't get this junk outta their system. I know that Weigh****chers says that you can eat it within limits, but you know my hard ass, I say why expose yourself to something in moderation if it is going to keep you hooked on crap? You are a very intelligent person with an addiction, so I know that you know better, you just have to wrap your brain around the fact that if you are addicted to something that you will have to give it up or face the fact that it will always have a hold on you. Notice I didn't say it would be easy, but you have to start SOMEWHERE. Try starting with the bun. If you MUST stop at McD's, don't get the bun. That is the worst for being processed to within an inch of it's life and causes a blood sugar response. After you get used to not having the bun, the rest of it gets better because you don't have the insulin response. But I think the best thing for you is to go online and read the menu. Do you know how much sodium is in that kind of food. It will blow you up for days! And being blowed up is what causes all of your hard work in the exercise department to be null and void. You worked too hard to let that happen. I know I ain't giving up my 1/4 of an inch for a greasy, salty french fry! Oh, and it's any aerobic exercise that gets rid of visceral fat, not just the cycle. I just needed to do more of it to get my tape measure moving.
Two things. You can't make your DH do the right thing if he doesn't want to. You can only be responsible for what is going into ya own mouth. But I'm glad to hear that he has gotten a taste of your medicine! And I don't want to say anything ugly boutcha Mama...But yo Mama is WRONG! Instead of giving in to a craving...find something that you can substitute for what you are craving. I LOVE taco salad. I make a killer Atkins version without the shell. I've eaten it for that way for so long, I've forgotten that they come with a shell.
Love ya to pieces,
Mary
Trisha - I'm already over the obgyn. Well, maybe not so much, but enough. :) hehe I started doing dishes and ended up dancing in the middle of it.haha Man, I'm out of shape!lol But it was fun though! :) I LOVE dancing, love, love, love, it. If I ever get skinny enough, I would love to teach it.
Mary and Trisha- As far as fast food goes..I think I'm going to have to go cold turkey on it. I've really been feeling very strong lately, even though I've failed a few times this past week. Like we say, it's a learning process, over and over again. I am especially addicted to ice cream. I can't buy it in the house at all or I'll eat the whole gallon in one sitting. So I resort to eating it out on occasion. When I lost that hundred pounds before I had to go cold turkey. I did so well, although it was tough at times. WHen I had it for the first time in about a year I almost cried. It tasted just the same, I was hoping I wouldn't like it anymore.
I know I have to be responsible of what I put in my own mouth, I thought someone would say something to me when I reread my post.hehe Last night it was sort of funny. At first I wanted ice cream, giving into my craving. But then I would say no, etc. Dh kept saying, "I'll go get it for you, you just have to tell me to go". He wasn't worried about my craving or me, he just wanted ME to say YES to go, so that way it could be MY fault for going and HE would have some too!!!haha I thought that was pretty funny.
I do have to say I feel icky from eating it. The craving is gone, but I feel extremely heavy. I hate that feeling. I will admit though that I'm scared to death of saying out loud that I'll go cold turkey. This house of two teenage junkies and a husband that is a junkie, need I say more. But I know I have to do it. I just need to find the strength to get past the first month or so. I ..can....do...it!!!! hehe
I am convinced that it's addictive. I have been junk free for 12 days --HOLLA-- and feel very different. I do know that I have to watch it, yesterday my inner junkie started howlin like a cat in heat after a junk food commercial. If It was not for my anti craving tools, I would be nursing a whopper, fries and ice cream hang over.
The first week after going cold turkey, I'll feel cranky, dizzy and sorta wacky: AKA as withdrawals. I work in the field of addiction and I am convinced that the corn syrups, trans fats, salt and other additives affect our brain chemistries. One day a biochemist will win the Nobel prize after he discovers and proves that the junk dopes you up. For now I am proud to be junk free for 12 days, and grateful that y'all are here
