Weigh day & delayed gratification

I lost 2 more pounds. ;)
All my holiday weight gain is gone. Walking one more day a week. Watching old TV shows as I pedal the bike, great incentive for me. Portioning food is more attractive to me than exercise, it makes me tired.

Instead of denying myself certain foods, I'm eating them on a less regular basis.  Increasing the time between satisfaction. Will-power. The other night I really wanted popcorn. After a quick check-in with myself, I realised it was a mouth hunger and not a belly hunger, so I convinced myself to wait two hours and check back in. Sure enough, belly hunger and I satisfied it with air-popped corn sprinkled with Worcestershire sauce, garlic and soy lecithin. Delayed gratification.

Putting it off for a while, even with a strong craving. I notice my strongest craving are all mouth hunger and so about emotions, habits, addictions. This program of positive self talk is helping me develop will-power again. It feels gooooood. If I'm really hungry, I notice I don't care as much about what I eat, so soup or salad is getting to be the norm.

It's been a week without chocolate candy. Whew, at times the urge to eat chocolate is overpowering. I redefined my rules, mid week. No chocolate candy, no sugar or fat with chocolate, except on those two special days each month.  So I'm having non-fat home-made chocolate milk with cocoa powder and stevia drops. VERY satisfying and only 110 calories. And calcium along with the protein.  I just added that photo of candy. What a tease, eh?

Weigh day

So Monday the scale tells me I've lost another holiday pound. I'm delighted. One more and I'm back to where I was before Thanksgiving. 183#.

The 11th is one of my two days a month to allow myself to eat a "forbidden foods". This time it was dark chocolate with caramel and walnuts, a make-it-myself turtle. I've been missing the cocoa butter and this treat was out of this world.

Who Knew?

Who knew it was so much work to take good care of this body??
Somehow, I missed this lesson growing up. Or maybe I just ignored it.
Now, I'm trying to figure it all out. Like learning a second language at a late age, it's so much harder to do than when we were young.

Enjoyed my weekend watching Vinnie garden, while I did laundry. Winter sunshine, my favorite. What are you up to?

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4. Give Yourself Credit

So the holidays are over and it's time to get back on track........

How easy is it to say nice things to ourselves?  Nice job, good eye, that's great, etc. Postivie self-talk is VERY IMPORTANT. I'm trying to encourage myself to be especially gentle with myself as I dive deeper into these weight loss exercises.

When I sit down to taste, I can say, Good for you, Debbi. That’s much more effective than telling myself  I screwed up because I’m chewing while on my feet.  I can give my self  credit for resisting a second helping, ignoring sweets a coworker brought in and refusing free samples at the store.  How many things can you find to praise each day?

 I started reading another diet self-help book. Nancy Goodman’s “It was food vs. me and I won”    It’ll be on the Book list.  Please feel free to offer books and links that are working for you. Also, feel free to share this blog with anyone you know.

 I went out and bought my own copy of the Beck Diet Solution, so the library can have its copy back. It's time to start writing in the book as there is a daily to do list.