I'm finally going down for real.
The weight 77.7.
The diet today: A heavy lunch at work and a slice of cake to celebrate a workmate's birthday. Lots and lots of hot tea. Nothing after work.
The following morning:
An interesting test, really. Not having dinner or night snack worked wonders for my sleep. I don't remember when I would have slept so well. When I woke up this morning it felt like I had been gone from this world for ages and I felt really really rested. The weight had gone down to exact 77. However I don't really think that's real. It's probably totally temporary. You just can't lose 700 grams in one night!
Just to sleep so incredibly well I might skip dinner some other day as well!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Friday Night Success
I went out. I had a good time. I laughed and I talked. I saw how my skinny friends ordered all kinds of portions with sausages, pasta, potato salad and fries, fries and more fries. And I, I ordered a big salad. And a big water. And some more water. I came home all happy and tired. I'm going to make this into a habit, going out without drinking. I'm totally OK with ditching Friday night alcohol drinks from my "30 kg suitcase".
The weight is 78.4. 400 grams (4 days) and I'll be back to the weight I had reached and maintained for a long time in the fall. And after those 400 grams I'll start digging deeper and deeper into my heavy "suitcase" and keep throwing stuff out until I travel totally light!
Have a fantastic weekend everyone. Whatever your weight, may your mind be light and happy!
The weight is 78.4. 400 grams (4 days) and I'll be back to the weight I had reached and maintained for a long time in the fall. And after those 400 grams I'll start digging deeper and deeper into my heavy "suitcase" and keep throwing stuff out until I travel totally light!
Have a fantastic weekend everyone. Whatever your weight, may your mind be light and happy!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Mind Tricks
I was going to have a home office day today and those days are always very good for my health in many ways. I usually go for a run before sitting down for work, I eat well and in a healthy way and I stick to the set times (vs snacking all the time). Well, my office day was cancelled and I was called in to work, but surprisingly enough, it did not de-rail me today.
Going to work, working hard, solving conflicts, meeting people is all what I have chosen to do for a living and I enjoy it. However, it is relatively challenging and sometimes downright stressful. Today I made a very conscious effort to to keep my calm and when I came home and basically kept repeating a mantra in my head. The mantra went like this: Work is work, work is work, home is home, home is home, food is food, food is food. I'm trying to get rid of my existing mantra that goes like this:"Work is everything, home is where I think about work, food is a painkiller" .
Today my new mantra worked, I have had a totally balanced day. A good portion of work, family life, the internet surfing, exercise, eating right, drinking lots of water. Today, today I'm almost willing to admit that this kind of balance in life and peace in my mind is more important than losing weight... The weight today, by the way, 79.
Going to work, working hard, solving conflicts, meeting people is all what I have chosen to do for a living and I enjoy it. However, it is relatively challenging and sometimes downright stressful. Today I made a very conscious effort to to keep my calm and when I came home and basically kept repeating a mantra in my head. The mantra went like this: Work is work, work is work, home is home, home is home, food is food, food is food. I'm trying to get rid of my existing mantra that goes like this:
Today my new mantra worked, I have had a totally balanced day. A good portion of work, family life, the internet surfing, exercise, eating right, drinking lots of water. Today, today I'm almost willing to admit that this kind of balance in life and peace in my mind is more important than losing weight... The weight today, by the way, 79.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
More Baby Steps
79.6 That means 400gr in 6 days. Minimal baby steps anyway.
Less stress, better everything. But can there be life without stress? -No. Can there be stress without over eating? - Hopefully.
Less stress, better everything. But can there be life without stress? -No. Can there be stress without over eating? - Hopefully.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Working and Emotional Eating
Working and Emotional Eating
...are absolutely linked. If I come home after six pm it's almost for sure I have a great need to binge. Do I think eating a lot somehow makes my evening longer? Or is it stress release?
Today I have a home office day like the day before yesterday, and I'm positive eating will take a side track again. When I go to work, I don't think about food and often I also don't eat during the work day, but when I come home all hell breaks loose. I'm tired of this. I want some balance, please!
Lots and lots of new snow out there again. Looks good and makes the world light. But I miss the blue sky, it's been cloudy or very cloudy since Christmas. However, I'll go out to do my cardio before working at the computer. Fresh air will be a good start.
The weight today 80. Good, down a kilo from Monday. Nothing new yet, because during the Fall my steady weight was down to 78 for a long time. I'll go hurray and claim I'm back to business when I go under 78.
...are absolutely linked. If I come home after six pm it's almost for sure I have a great need to binge. Do I think eating a lot somehow makes my evening longer? Or is it stress release?
Today I have a home office day like the day before yesterday, and I'm positive eating will take a side track again. When I go to work, I don't think about food and often I also don't eat during the work day, but when I come home all hell breaks loose. I'm tired of this. I want some balance, please!
Lots and lots of new snow out there again. Looks good and makes the world light. But I miss the blue sky, it's been cloudy or very cloudy since Christmas. However, I'll go out to do my cardio before working at the computer. Fresh air will be a good start.
The weight today 80. Good, down a kilo from Monday. Nothing new yet, because during the Fall my steady weight was down to 78 for a long time. I'll go hurray and claim I'm back to business when I go under 78.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Baby Steps
The biggest goal for today is to keep figuring out how to stop emotional eating.
The small goal is keep the energy intake down by 750 calories so tomorrow's scale would show yet another -100 gr.
Totally cloudy today, minus degrees, but yes, I'll go out there and get my cardio done. Only home office work today.
The weight today 80.7, down 300gr from yesterday.
12/24 The day is half way and everything's still fine. A nice blend of work, exercise, lunch, net surfing...
20 /24 hours of the day done. And I'm done for today. It was a good day.
*Only spent a few moments here and there about thinking / worrying about my food intake or my weight
*got a little bit of strenght training done and some 30 min running in lovely crisp winter weather.
* A good breakfast, lunch and dinner. One apple, lots of vegetables, some meat and fish. Two wholegrain cookies were not the smartest choice as a snack, but the miracle is that it was just two cookies, not eight or ten!
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The small goal is keep the energy intake down by 750 calories so tomorrow's scale would show yet another -100 gr.
Totally cloudy today, minus degrees, but yes, I'll go out there and get my cardio done. Only home office work today.
The weight today 80.7, down 300gr from yesterday.
12/24 The day is half way and everything's still fine. A nice blend of work, exercise, lunch, net surfing...
20 /24 hours of the day done. And I'm done for today. It was a good day.
*Only spent a few moments here and there about thinking / worrying about my food intake or my weight
*got a little bit of strenght training done and some 30 min running in lovely crisp winter weather.
* A good breakfast, lunch and dinner. One apple, lots of vegetables, some meat and fish. Two wholegrain cookies were not the smartest choice as a snack, but the miracle is that it was just two cookies, not eight or ten!
I
Sunday, January 13, 2013
MONDAY
This would be the day number four, but it definitely feels like number one because it's the promised day of the new beginnings. It's Monday! I'm drinking my coffee now and then heading for work.
The scale, the scale says 81kg. Exactly 81. So four months of blah blah blah. Talking and thinking but no actions. I'm setting a totally minimalistic goal now. 100gr by tomorrow. Think I can minus 750cal from my intake? Yeah yeah, I know that even if it happens it's just fluids but still, that sounds like a small enough goal, and a short one. 100gr in a day.
Today's hours, 8 / 24 gone and nicely reading and sleeping, no eating or drinking in the middle of the night.
The end: an OK day on the surface, rode a bike to work and back, total of two hours of bicycling. 15 minutes of walking. Lots of water.
What I learned today? Under the surface. Well, this is not great news, but old facts. When I'm finally home from work, when I start thinking about work, I'd love to go to the kitchen and stuff my face with carbs. I absolutely use food as stress release. Now the bad news? I have no idea how to free myself from this behaviour. No idea.
The scale, the scale says 81kg. Exactly 81. So four months of blah blah blah. Talking and thinking but no actions. I'm setting a totally minimalistic goal now. 100gr by tomorrow. Think I can minus 750cal from my intake? Yeah yeah, I know that even if it happens it's just fluids but still, that sounds like a small enough goal, and a short one. 100gr in a day.
Today's hours, 8 / 24 gone and nicely reading and sleeping, no eating or drinking in the middle of the night.
The end: an OK day on the surface, rode a bike to work and back, total of two hours of bicycling. 15 minutes of walking. Lots of water.
What I learned today? Under the surface. Well, this is not great news, but old facts. When I'm finally home from work, when I start thinking about work, I'd love to go to the kitchen and stuff my face with carbs. I absolutely use food as stress release. Now the bad news? I have no idea how to free myself from this behaviour. No idea.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Day Three
8,5 hours of the day number three are gone. Kind of sad how easily time slips through our fingers. Kind of good, how this seems to be working. My goals are very minor now. Just make it through one single day, 24 hours without letting the food rob my day from me. The two goals for each day are:
* I don't want to think food all the time, I don't want to feel sorry for myself and for my overweight, I just want to live.
* I don't want to over eat.
Breakfast: coffee, coffee, coffee, one boiled egg and some sliced turkey meat.
at 21 pm The hours 12-14, 18-20 not good, after eating reasonable lunch / dinner, I also ate unreasonable white bread (at least three bread rolls) and this and that :-(
The conclusion of the day 3 : 20/ 24 fine, 4 /24 a bummer
* I don't want to think food all the time, I don't want to feel sorry for myself and for my overweight, I just want to live.
* I don't want to over eat.
Breakfast: coffee, coffee, coffee, one boiled egg and some sliced turkey meat.
at 21 pm The hours 12-14, 18-20 not good, after eating reasonable lunch / dinner, I also ate unreasonable white bread (at least three bread rolls) and this and that :-(
The conclusion of the day 3 : 20/ 24 fine, 4 /24 a bummer
Day Two
10 / 24 The day is almost half way. Well, I've slept through some eight out of those ten first hours. Drinking my breakfast coffee with sliced apples. Lots of new snow outside. It's pretty, but we'll go to swim in some thermal swimming pools, no skiing fanatics in this family.
12,5 / 24 So far so good. The lunch was vegetable stew and one half of a hot dog sausage diced up small and added to the stew. Now out and swimming.
20 / 24 A fun day. Turkey salad for dinner.
22 / 24 Hurrah, I made it. A fun and happy day. Thinking of food or overeating did not ruin this day. I feel good. Remembered to drink lots of water, stayed physically active.
Tuna fish and cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce as a night snack. Lots of tea.
I'm almost ready for bed so I dare to say 24/24 GOOD
12,5 / 24 So far so good. The lunch was vegetable stew and one half of a hot dog sausage diced up small and added to the stew. Now out and swimming.
20 / 24 A fun day. Turkey salad for dinner.
22 / 24 Hurrah, I made it. A fun and happy day. Thinking of food or overeating did not ruin this day. I feel good. Remembered to drink lots of water, stayed physically active.
Tuna fish and cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce as a night snack. Lots of tea.
I'm almost ready for bed so I dare to say 24/24 GOOD
Friday, January 11, 2013
The Day One... or maybe the Day 0.75
The Day One - not the Day Eleven (1/11/2012)
The first of January did not work wonders. No magic there.
This is my new beginning, 2/24 hours have gone OK so far :-D
Now 3/24 hours. Two things right:
*Not eating in the middle of the night
*Drinking plenty of water
10/24 Almost halfway!! I'm drinking my morning coffee with some sliced apple. It's already 10 am. I'll only work in the afternoon today.
11/24 Painted my nails and ordered L'Oreal Perfect Slim cellulite cream on line. Trying to convince myself I am worth taking care of. One more mug of coffee.
15/ 24 hours. More than half of the day number one. Worked for a few hours, cleaned and organized at home a little bit. Trying to convince myself my home is worth taking care of. Ate absolutely fantastic vegetarian dish for lunch. It was some kind of stew that had Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, celery, chick peas and it was spiced with garlic and fresh ginger. Yummy, yummy, yummy. I had two bowls of it.
18/ 24 Only six hours left. Had one more bowl of vegetable soup and a few slices of orange. Drank lots of water. Prepared (but not eaten yet) buttermilk, quark and fruit. Mentally prepared to have some red wine, too. Kind of scared of that, though. Maybe I'll skip.
the last six hours :-( Not that good. I did drink that wine and yes, as I was afraid, the wine made me relaxed to eat some rye crackers, salty sausage, regular crackers and rice crackers. And the wine led to some beer as well.
18/24 Good
6/ 24 Not that good, not that totally horrible either
The weight: Last time dared to check 80,1 (-2,3 since August)
The first of January did not work wonders. No magic there.
This is my new beginning, 2/24 hours have gone OK so far :-D
Now 3/24 hours. Two things right:
*Not eating in the middle of the night
*Drinking plenty of water
10/24 Almost halfway!! I'm drinking my morning coffee with some sliced apple. It's already 10 am. I'll only work in the afternoon today.
11/24 Painted my nails and ordered L'Oreal Perfect Slim cellulite cream on line. Trying to convince myself I am worth taking care of. One more mug of coffee.
15/ 24 hours. More than half of the day number one. Worked for a few hours, cleaned and organized at home a little bit. Trying to convince myself my home is worth taking care of. Ate absolutely fantastic vegetarian dish for lunch. It was some kind of stew that had Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, celery, chick peas and it was spiced with garlic and fresh ginger. Yummy, yummy, yummy. I had two bowls of it.
18/ 24 Only six hours left. Had one more bowl of vegetable soup and a few slices of orange. Drank lots of water. Prepared (but not eaten yet) buttermilk, quark and fruit. Mentally prepared to have some red wine, too. Kind of scared of that, though. Maybe I'll skip.
the last six hours :-( Not that good. I did drink that wine and yes, as I was afraid, the wine made me relaxed to eat some rye crackers, salty sausage, regular crackers and rice crackers. And the wine led to some beer as well.
18/24 Good
6/ 24 Not that good, not that totally horrible either
The weight: Last time dared to check 80,1 (-2,3 since August)
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