Bah Humbug!
Well, my tree USED to spin but my DH wasn't able to fix the stand so now I've called in the big guns...my Brother-in-law. I'm hoping he can MacGuyver it and put in a paper clip or sumpn't to fix it! I'll let you know.
OK Holl, time for some serious head work here. Out of everything you just said about moderation and different diet plans, what jumped out at me is that you have no manner of patience whatsoever! But I don't blame all of that on you, you come from a generation that has never had to have patience. You get your food fast, you get your computers fast, you don't even use snail mail! So I can understand perfectly that you want your weight loss fast, too, but, and damnit..."It Don't Work That Way!!!!!"
I personally think it SHOULD and it would be nice if it did, but there are so many things that cause weight fluctuations and stalls that you can't just demand a number on a scale every day. What you need is "Commitment". And not to remind you of the past, but I've seen you ready to take drastic measures before and that doesn't seem to be appropriate for you anymore, you have that little 'rebellion against plans' streak, remember? LOL Maybe just in the beginning, and to get you used to doing something different, you could start by not eating sugar and working out lightly five times a week and then after that start incorporating not eating refined starches and adding a little more intensity into your workouts. But you 'absolutely' have to make a commitment to do no sugar and light exercise five days a week. And then you have to make a commitment to yourself that you are not going to cut and run just because you didn't lose more than two pounds in a week. Losing any weight at all in a week is a SUCCESS, you just need to change the way you think about how fast you should be losing. Not gaining in some cases is a success.
So let me ask you this. You've been wanting to do portion control for a while now, what made you not be able to commit to that?
Mary
I did not know whether to laugh or cry at what you just said! LOL So..as to your question..I AM still doing it, I am still committed to it until I find something else. First of all, this was my husbands idea with the portion control. I came in it knowing I did not like it. I knew I was still going to end up looking in the back of my head, and I think?? I mentioned it somewhere even on here that I was not thrilled with it.
I have never been happy with diets that you have to count calories or measure crap. I flat out don't like it. I have always done so much better with diets that just give lists of do's and don'ts. But the past few years I haven't been doing very well with those either! :) I'm wondering if I just wasn't ready? or ? not sure. I don't know. Now you are making me second guess myself !! HA Another thing I have caught myself on eating this way is that since I'm "portion controlling", that means I can sneak around it and eat more food other ways! Like I just ate one thing an hour ago, but I can "portion control" a "different" food just a little bit later, whether that be ice cream, whatever. I find my ways going around only the rule "portion control".
Hmmm :( Maybe I'll crawl back in bed, life was easier there.haha Why do we have to make this so hard? Really stinks.
It used to be a matter of everyone trying to figure Holly out and we had the luxury of time. But now that your body is starting to give you health problems, if we don't succeed you will be like that girl Becky who was on the path to committing a slow form of suicide and that is the last thing we want.
Woman, you give a whole new meaning to the term "portion control". Isn't that kinda like...a li'l bit here and a li'l bit there??? I think in the surgical weight loss world, that is called grazing. All I know is that it's not a weight loss plan so don't go to feeling bad if you see no results on the scale! I blame your husband for that fiasco. Hehehe
So let's get this straight...you don't like diets??? I kind of get the feeling that deep down, you don't like being told what you can't do and somehow a diet is telling you what you can't do so you end up telling the diet to go to hell. Or is that just an assumption?
Mary
Hahaha...I WISH a diet was like a marriage, then I could make it do what I want to do and not have it telling me what to do every stinkin' meal of my life! But I'd also still weigh 320 pounds...maaaaan.
What I was trying to say is that everytime we go off of a diet plan, we are technically rebelling by not doing what we are supposed to be doing if we were following the plan. I wonder if that's a control issue?
Mary
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/04/fn.beck.griggs/index.ht ml
Mary
