Posted in portion control on 31 August 2006 | No Comments »
For the last 5 days I was off visiting relatives. Not a bad thing at all, since they are very pleasant people and we made contact with many others.
The food pressure was pretty high, but I don’t think I ate more than about 1 roll too much per day. Plus more chocolate than I actually [...]
Posted in weight loss and diets on 26 August 2006 | No Comments »
I discovered this week that volume of food can change my weight by a kilo easily. I noticed significant weight loss, but this morning it was back up again. After reviewing my data, I realized that I had progressively eaten smaller and smaller volumes of food, but on Thursday evening and Friday I went back [...]
Posted in exercise on 24 August 2006 | No Comments »
My short bursts of exercise have led to an increased stamina. First came light exercise as a way of connecting with my daughter, then I started doing about 15 minutes by myself, even when she wasn’t around. What gives me pleasure is to do a little (5-15 minutes) of leg work like walking or cycling, [...]
Posted in emotions, portion control on 22 August 2006 | No Comments »
With regards to Kryptonite, I went home last night and proceeded to do things other than sit on the sofa. My family, as usual, had beaten me to the punch. DH got into his construction project, a mirror and shelves for the bathroom, and DD was still out shopping.
Then came the blow. After specifically asking [...]
Posted in intuitive eating on 22 August 2006 | No Comments »
We talk about peeling back layers of the onion to reveal new learnings, but I’m in the mood for something sweet, so I’ll peel off layers of a cake instead. A nice, fancy 10+ layer torte, with a layer of buttercream, a layer of marzipan and a ganache glaze to coat the whole thing. 10 [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 21 August 2006 | No Comments »
My life is wonderful by any reasonable measure. I have a happy family, good income, great living conditions, and interesting work. We are healthy and capable of doing the things we love to do.
Yet I sit on the sofa too many hours a day, burning useless web chatter into my head. If I could only [...]
Posted in binging on 20 August 2006 | No Comments »
Binges are certainly different now, far smaller than before. Yesterday I went through several fresh chocolate chip cookies and a half liter of milk. I only recognized it as a binge when DH asked this morning what happened to the milk.
This binge was the old “I’ve lost weight” binge. Still don’t understand why, but it [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, weight loss and diets on 18 August 2006 | No Comments »
Without having gone overboard on anything, I looked briefly back through my blog and assessed my progress.
Today my measured weight is lower than ever measured this summer. I was going to say, “in spite of what I ate,” but the reality is, my weight is what it is, DUE to what I ate. The scale [...]
Posted in binging, goals on 17 August 2006 | No Comments »
Freedom from obsessing about data is a great goal, but the last day or so has been scary to say the least. After deciding to not collect weight data so fastidiously, I found myself worrying about gaining, and eating in response to the worry. Mostly they were carbohydrates I was leaning towards, but I managed [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 15 August 2006 | No Comments »
I prefer to hide in a corner and wait until I’m perfect. Aha. There’s an irrational thought. Life don’t work that way. More on this later.
That was yesterday’s post. I spent quite a bit of time looking at the irrational in my life. OK, maybe not totally irrational, but certainly not delivering on my preferred [...]
