Goal reached: broke through the plateau

After all the work inside my head, I stood on the scale today and saw a lower number than anytime in the last 10 years. Good.

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Awesome progress

Not only did I sleep through the night, but when I went to the doctor today, she was highly impressed with my progress. Here are some of my accomplishments:

Blood pressure in normal range
Great blood sugar
Well over 20 kilo lost by learning and practicing normal eating
I was able to tell her effectively about my recent progress (she [...]

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How to stop mindless eating

See also my post on How to stop eating when you’re not hungry
Whenever you eat mindlessly or when you are not hungry, the root cause is simple: you are responding to your mind’s needs rather than your physical needs. This might be emotional eating, or habit eating, or whatever. The fact remains, it’s not what [...]

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Inside Out Weight Loss

You might remember from my Easter post that I was listening to a couple of podcasts, and could tell some improvement was happening, but didn’t know which podcast was helping.
It seems to be the podcast from Renee Stephens, Inside Out Weight Loss. So far, I’m able to work with the ideas of getting my whole self [...]

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Loyalty

On my honor, I will try, to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people every day, especially those at home.
- the Brownie pledge of yesteryear
Forty years later I still remember that pledge, even though I probably never said it more than 50 times as a child. But I was loyal, [...]

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Freedom Feelings

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
Something is letting go inside of me. I hope it’s not [...]

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Ask why five times

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yesterday was a great day for coping. I felt on top of the world all day, and didn’t need any throw-away therapy until nearly the end of the afternoon. Even then [...]

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One Post-It note at a time

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning - Oprah Winfrey

So I have these big goals of living a wildly happy life and losing my compulsive eating weight. But I have to [...]

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February Results: Mystifyingly Mixed

At the beginning of February, I decided to do a couple of things:
My plan: do a stomach hunger and lower calorie diet. All foods are still allowed, I’m just going to pay attention to eating less and getting fewer calories overall. Exercise is for fitness, not weight loss. I’ll weigh in once a month and [...]

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Intuitively overeating

Decide What Is Important to You
Take Action

Remember these items from my last post? Hah! Easier said than done.
For me, it was clear - the important things to me at the moment are intuitively eating to weight loss and re-engaging with my non-computer hobbies. Note: I noticed a gap in Colby’s list: she didn’t say “what is [...]

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