The Good, the Bad, and the Uglee!

So it seems that we all have busy lives and haven't been posting here like we used to.  I know I just haven't had the time but now that it's getting cold outside, I'll be sitting in this recliner hunckered down by the fireplace or rockin' around the Christmas tree and finishing my decorating.  So I thought I'd take this time to find out what is going on with everyone.  How goes the weight loss?  And yes, although it would be wonderful to hear how great you are doing, I'd also like to hear about it if it's not going so great, or if you aren't going at all, or if you are going backwards! 

I was doing great until life came along and reality slapped me upside the head and in not dealing with the emotions, after years of being so good at it, I gained twelve pounds.  I've gotten my wagon back in the groove again so I'm down six of that twelve and hope to get the rest of it off before the New Year.  So for me, I WUZ going backwards, but now I'm humming along again.

So hollah and give us an accounting.  I promise it will do you some good to get it off your chest! 

Mary  

 

Hi Mary, as you can see I just posted an update yesterday. I'm doing well. What is great about my new way of eating is that I was able to truly enjoy Thanksgiving without over eating or any fears of falling off the wagon. In the past holidays and vacations were always a problem because once I started to eat poorly I fell off the wagon, but now my tastes have changed so I find those foods aren't as great as I once thought they tasted. So I completely understand the problems and missteps that happen this time of year - it's like a mine field. Watch where you step or rather what you eat. LOL

Skylar

Same thing, Sky...Same thing!!!  Girl, you have got it goin' on when it comes to finding the perfect plan made just for you, oh, AND your husband.  No more falling off of the wagan must give you a warm fuzzy feeling! 

If you don't mind my asking, do you do any kind of an exercise routine?

Mary 

Well I should exercise but I'm very lazy. I try to walk 2 miles a few times a week at a local mall.

Hey, I posted a reply and this thing spit it out.

What I said was that I wish I could be a vegetarian if you can lose alla that weight with very little exercise.

Mary

The Ugleeeeee aka "confessional"

I've been doing very well... the last time I dieted I used to give myself one day to allow for whatever I wanted. I don't think I'm ready for that leasure at this point, though. Maybe once I wrap my head around my emotional eating, I'll be able to give myself a little room to play once a week... but not now.

I thought I could do it last night. We celebrated a family birthday... so I allowed myself to have 1/2 a slice of pizza, a tiny sliver of ice cream cake, and a handful of cheesecurls.

Well about a 1/2 hour later I felt sick to my stomach. I just wanted to vomit everything up. BLECH. I got hot, sweaty, my heart was racing... I know it was from the sugar spike. 

This experience DOES have its silver lining, though. Because I have been eating wholesome, healthy, highly nutritious foods... my body outright rejected the junk that I put into my stomach. I felt SO sick that I have absolutely NO desire to repeat this experience. Having consequences, physical, painfull consequences to "bad" behavior certainly helps to curtail such behavior...

Back on track today... even though there are leftovers, I look at them and want to barf (I'm getting nauseaus just THINKING about it to write this...) If my family doesn't take care of the leftovers throughout the day, I will be throwing them away tonight.

The worst of it? I was able to connect to my body so much, that I FELT what I have been reading about sugar, white flour, and BAD carbs. I've read that consuming these foods makes you THINK you are hungry right after you eat them, and makes you want more. MY HEAD wanted the jax after I had the slice of pizza, and my head wanted the ice cream cake after I had those two. JUST my head. My stomach, my BODY, my health, DIDN'T.

... pardon me... I have to go hurl,  now...

Sugar and white flour and bad overprocessed carbs are EVIL!  Especially if you have any kind of metabolic syndrome that makes you sensitive to the insulin spikes they cause, then they are TWICE as EVIL.  I know because I'm very insulin resistant so I ain't got no bidness even looking at them.  I can gain five pounds just smelling a pancake.  Ugh

I say throw away the leftovers now, they're not going to do your family any good, either, if you know what I mean.  Jessica Alba doesn't give her daughter sugar and when she is out with other kids and has it she doesn't like it because it's too sweet and fruit tastes better to her.  It's all definitely a matter of perception.

Well, it sounds like you are developing some pretty healthy habits there and I'm so impressed that you are LISTENING to your body.  So many times our bodies are trying to tell us to not eat something and we have to conciously tune it out to get that crap in our mouths, that's how we got big in the first place.  And of course, the worst thing we can do is to listen to our emotions, they have a HORRIBLE sense of what is healthy for us!

Are you done hurling, yet?  Hehehe.

Mary        

Mwy... I think we are long lost sisters... haha... I also have some sort of insulin resistance... nothing medically documented, but all signs are there regardless of the lack of testing. I also say that I can LOOK at a cookie and gain 5 lbs... (I must absorb things through my eyes -- I also joke that I can just look at a pen15 and get pregnant...)

Anyways... leftovers are thrown away. Had another good day, ON track, fought off my head-demons -- they DID try to taunt me a few times. And no scale damage from Friday. Horray! For today, Body -1, Emotions- 0

I like Jessica Alba's mentality, and that's the way I am with my youngest (the infant... I make baby food from fresh local produce -- will not give my child anything from a jar, or other processed product. Which, when I was planning out my child's meals... I thought, "I love my baby enough to give him ONLY the best vitamins and nutrients... why don't I love myself enough to do the same??" -- and thus, here we are now.) With the older ones, I don't exactly have that luxury, as they are my husband's children from a previous marriage, and I didn't get to "start from scratch" with them. Not to mention my husband is a metabolism machine and thinks he can eat an entire cow, and an entire potato farm and not gain an ounce. (He loses weight.. and I find it!)

Well if we're long lost sisters...we got the crappy genes in the family.  Why couldn't we have gotten the skinny genes?

Sounds like quite a brood you have there.  A whole cow, huh?  That can't be good for you if you're insulin resistant, he's scarfing up all of the protein and you're left with all of the carbs.  Sheesh!

Mary

My wagon got shoved off the road last May doing the prep for my colonoscopy and I have yet to get back on track - the weight just keeps creeping on a pound here, a pound there. I am just striving to maintain where I am through the holidays, hoping for inspiration to happen soon.

I got tired of not doing the last bit of the kitchen remodel (backsplash tile) so I broke down and called my finish guy and we might be done next weekend. So glad I called him - he spent 6 hours doing prep and 2 actually putting tile up. I would have just slapped it and and hated when it did not work out. What he got done this weekend is really nice. Pictures coming soon, Mary!
See how good I am at avoiding messy issues right now? I have my head in the sand (well almost, I do get on the scale every few days) and I am just not dealing with it. Then there is that scrubbing the eyelid twice a day thing - it's not doing the job & the doc gave me another med I hope kicks in soon.
sheesh I feel like a big cry baby.
Jan D.