Sometime last year I told this story: I was looking for something to wear for a casual evening out and came across my tailored black wool trousers hanging in the wardrobe. I wasn’t in the best of moods – feeling like you do when you can’t find something you want to wear. I was “feeling [...]
30Mar10
Better than the Scales
29Mar10
Waiting for the Start
That’s the only way I can describe how I feel right now. I know there is only a tiny chance that I will get bad news at my appointment on Thursday – and yet I feel as though I’m walking towards a starting line and that things are going to be different on the other [...]
28Mar10
I Thought I Had It
The answer. I thought I had an answer to the question of “feeling fat” but it turns out I only had some disjointed thoughts that didn’t sound all that sensible once written down but I may try later. Instead I’ll bore on about stress management. Yesterday went quite well as far as stress relief and [...]
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Posted in Things to try, Thoughts on the Process
Tagged attitude adjustment, stress and eating
Tagged attitude adjustment, stress and eating
27Mar10
Restoration Project Begins
Back to the classic muscle car analogy, because I like it. If I was really restoring a classic car, I’d have to know how to wrench on it. That means instructions, which means my WW materials. And supplies, tools. That means the right groceries, measuring tools, kitchen gadgets, etc. And a way to know how much progress [...]
27Mar10
No Doubts
Thanks to daily weighing, I can now safely say without a doubt that eating and drinking too much and moving too little lead to weight gain. Yes, I know, D’UH. But there are still weeks when I’d like to “get away with it”- defy nature, as Donna said. Bizarrely, until I typed the words “defy [...]
23Mar10
Testing the waters…
For the last few weeks, I’ve been testing myself with various trigger foods. Last week, I brought a jar of peanut butter into the house, and have been eating it in very small quantities (usually with a whole wheat English muffin in the morning). After that, I scored some great dark chocolate (individually wrapped pieces) [...]
23Mar10
“I Feel Fat”
I’m thinking that my life’s work should be to discover an antidote to the phrase “I feel fat”. I know that even skinny girls “feel fat” once in a while. I know that weight/body/food strugglers feel fat (and feel thin) all the time – regardless of available evidence. These past couple of weeks for me [...]
22Mar10
Working on the Transmission
After my last Aha! moment, I haven’t made much progress. Transmission is stuck between R and N. No forward progress yet. I know that I can have some things in the house and not eat them all right now. I don’t know what things will cause a problem, but I suspect that large open bags of [...]
21Mar10
When Indeed….
Donna wrote this the other day and I’ve been saving it for a post: We have such a strange relationship with food. We know that we can eat quite large amounts of ‘good food’ (veggies, fruits etc) and we can also eat small amounts of ‘bad food’ (chocolate, fast food, wine). Instead of being content [...]
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Posted in Keeping Going, Thoughts on the Process
Tagged emotional eating, stress and eating
Tagged emotional eating, stress and eating
18Mar10
Post #154 – Cool Eh?
I didn’t notice #150 passing by so thought I’d pause to celebrate this milestone. (pause, celebrate) I got my hospital appointment for April 1st – two weeks from tomorrow. I was doing pretty well up to that point but now I just feel sick. Silly, really, because nothing is better or worse than before. Whatever [...]