Destructive Behavior

Oh, Mary... you're my little dark chocolate covered almond. That is most definitely a favorite nut. If I call anyone a nut, they can know they're on my "A" list. I have friends I refer to as food all the time. There's Rod, who is my little vanilla cupcake with sprinkles. There's Dwight (aka Twigs - long story) who is my Tootsie Roll. I call people honey muffins, and all kinds of foodie nicknames. Mayhaps I are the nut.

Ummmm....Ruthie,  maybe it's just me, but I find it slightly "off" that a health crazed person such as yasself calls others by high fat, high sugar content names.  I would have thought that you'd have nicknames like, 'Granola' and 'Mango'!

But hey, it's good that I'm an almond, cuz theyze healthy and low carb.  I am an Atkins Girl, afterall!    

Mary

I tried calling my husband a nice side of beef, but it just didn't have the same romantic ring to it... AND, just a bit of trivia, while I was losing my lard, I used this body spray in "marshmallow" scent. I keep the bottle to remind me of that journey. I would sniff it if I had a sweet attack. Heck; it worked.

Now what kind of massage is that?  I'm gonna have to look that one up.  Thanks guys for the info.  I've been wondering about sea salt, just never looked into it much.  My dh is a salt fanatic.  He not only cooks with it, and then puts it on again when he prepares his plate, but I catch him bringing the salt with him to his seat!   

Holly, I get lymphatic massage because when you've had plastic surgery, you can develop scar tissue and that can make it harder for your lymph fluids to flow and cause swelling.  My massage therapist has been working on my incisions to break down the scar tissue and now they are nice and pliable and soft.  Now that she's fixed that, last week and yesterday I had a Swedish massage. OMG, that is like an hour long ******!  It's a deeper tissue massage and gets all of the fluids in your body flowing.   And it makes you pee a LOT!

Good grief, no wonder you are having blood pressure issues if your husband is putting all of that salt in your food that he cooks!  And another thing about salt that is so not good for a li'l scale ho'.  The sodium makes your weight fluctuate like crazy from fluid retention.  You'll never get an accurate reading the next day after you've eaten what your pillar of salt DH cooked!  

Mary 

A message that makes you go pee?!?!?! LOL, I've never heard of that before.  But then again, I've never had a massage before either!  Think I might do some research now on pee'in and massages.  I think that is just weird.  lol

  You crayzee nut!  What makes you go pee is the fact that your lymph system doesn't have it's own pumping mechanism like the heart pumping your blood, so Swedish massage moves it along in the right direction to get the toxins out of your body. 

But yeah, I'd love to hear the kind reaction you get when you call the spa and tell them that you want the massage that makes you go PEE!

Mary

The massage therapist might just start in massaging Holly's bladder.

yup, Mary - awesome post! I so agree with you on replacing behavior and I love how you phrased it - a REaction.

I replaced smoking with glasses of water - like you had it to be water and the rule was I held it rather than a cigarette.

I replaced eating, then and now with exercise (usually a walk). It works most of the time! I cannot gage how many cals have been averted by me STOPPING and thinking about doing anything different rather than dive into the fridge.

I replaced eating in the breakroom by making sure I brought MY food to work and eating that when they all start pushing birthdaycake/coffeecake/cookies into my face.  No exceptions. I made exceptions too many times. When I proved that I was the Boss, THEN I was able to allow it judiciously.

I will add that I have to viualize me making the right decisions ahead of time:  when I go out to lunch, I pretty much know what is on the menu and picture myself eating the better choice. NO variation. Me, sticking to my plan.

I am NOT 100%...but I come damn close to 100%. I forgive myself when i do blow it, right away...I never stay stuck on sorry for too long anymore. I leanr from what went wrong - and it's almost always that I get too hungry - went too long without good food. Only a very few of us here can withstand being too hungry!

Neecee, I love it when you tell your story about all that you've overcome in your weight loss battle!  I always seem to learn something new from how you did it.  I'm reading your post, agreeing with everything and saying, "Amen Sister, Preach it!"

Rock on, Mighty Bike Girl! 

Mary