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I also have been setting my weekly weight loss goal too high, then want to quit too soon.
Keep Looking UP! (to the Creation and the CREATOR)
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 1/3/13 2:20 P
My FBS was 241 this morning and the same as it was last night after dinner at 8:45...I am SO thankful. The weight is down a bit more as well and that's a blessing. I haven't seen 202.6 in probably a year.
I'll get back to work now. I have a lot of it today and am thankful for that too. Be blessed all.... Bren
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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CAROL3SAN
Posts: 12,562 1/3/13 9:10 A
Bumped up the exercise from 3 times a week to 6 times a week...I use a 10 minute chair exercise video
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Choffy! Ground cacoa beans steeped in hot water. Makes the most wonderful chocolate beverage. Hot and yummy. Relaxing, calming, soothing ... and 20 calories. Good-bye sweet tooth.
I love eating an apple with peanut butter on it. If it is a snack that is all I have, it is is lunch I have another fruit and 1/2 cup of non fat cottage cheese. I will usually have a light snack a couple hours later, a greek yogurt or 25 grapes.
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 1/2/13 11:34 A
Thanks Beth! I like that and tho I have mine set at around 1.5, I will do just that...reassess on the 1st of February...and each month thereafter...and tweak where needed. It's the quitting and stalling and back sliding that has kept me in trouble all these years! I have hope for positive changes and recovery this year!...for us all!
My blood sugar is really wonky right now and I have to get it down, pronto. I'll look at some info, adjust my PM meals etc, drink more water and exercise on purpose...and will be monitoring it closely. And...praying a LOT! Bren
Edited by: BLONDEE53 at: 1/2/2013 (11:49)
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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KATRMOSS
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Beth, I love all your ideas...my goal for the past has been two pounds/wk. and I was staying consistent with that weight loss...then weight loss stopped and now I think it is time to reaccess. So even though the smaller weight loss goals like 1/2 lb don't seem like much till you look at it in terms of a full yr. Thanks...that really helps get the stress and pressure off. ....thats why we all need each other...for others insightfulness. I have learned a lot from our team.
One thing I do to keep on track is to eat an apple with natural crunchy peanut butter at least once a day, sometime when having a hungry day I'll have 2 at different times or add more pb. It has helped me avoid junk food.
~KATHY~
Motivation gets you started, habit keeps you going. Jim Ryun
The difference in Try and Triumph is a little ump! anonymous
Perseverance is not a long race; it's many short races one after the other. Walter Elliot
Hebrews 12.1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us
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~INDYGIRL
Posts: 12,074 1/1/13 10:14 P
Where COULD you be in 2014 if you would lose a meager 1/2 (which most of us think is not enough) pound a week? 26 Pounds thinner! Where could you be in 2014 if you lose 1 pound a week? (another number most of us consider not enough) 52 Pounds thinner! 1.5 pounds a week? 78 Pounds thinner!
I personally lose at a rate of 1/2 to 1 pound a week. I've also lost at 1.5... Whenever I have shot for 2, I fall on my face, it is too lofty a goal for me. The trick is to know your limits. If you fail at trying to lose 2 pounds a week, try 1.5. Try 1. Try 1/2. Try until you get the formula that allows you to eat to fit your lifestyle. DO NOT try to adapt your lifestyle to the eating plan, try to adapt the eating plan to your lifestyle. It will give you a fresh perspective on real change.
Life is happening now, not 10 pounds from now. ~Indygirl
I'll be doing that tomorrow....and ON budget! I took my credit cards away from myself so I won't be tempted to go over what I "need"...I'll be getting more soup stuff as well, and have a list of things to cook and freeze for my off days.
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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CAROL3SAN
Posts: 12,562 12/31/12 11:46 A
Going to the store later today so I will have the ingredients for my soups for the week.
"You never know just how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have" Unknown "....This above all, to thine own self be true" Wm Shakespheare "If it is to be its up to me" www.authorsden.com/carolynsandswww.youravon.com/carolynsands
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 12/31/12 9:16 A
I like the cook once eat five times ideas! haha...I divy up my oatmeal like that too. Yummers...
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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JENAE954
Posts: 7,019 12/31/12 9:11 A
I make fritattas every week, portion them out and have a fast go to breakfast.
Also prepare a large amount of steel cut oats weekly. Yes... Portion out and now I have another choice for an instant breakfast.
The bonus? Time and money.
Jenae
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 12/31/12 6:12 A
I buy the packaged salad mix, and a bag of baby spinach to up the nutrition. I love the little grape tomatoes, sliced olives, red onion and peppers. For protein, I might have a boiled egg or some tuna. Salads are my go to lunch for summer!
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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STALEYK
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Packing a low calorie salad for lunch seems to help me...plus helps add the veggies to my intake. I even start to look forward to them. Especially the bell peppers!
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CAROL3SAN
Posts: 12,562 12/30/12 6:15 P
Geat plan JENAE954. I also like the low calorie soups and salads idea. I've been doing that a lot lately too.
"You never know just how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have" Unknown "....This above all, to thine own self be true" Wm Shakespheare "If it is to be its up to me" www.authorsden.com/carolynsandswww.youravon.com/carolynsands
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JENAE954
Posts: 7,019 12/30/12 8:52 A
One of the things that has worked for me is not bringing temptations into the house. My thought is if its not in the house its not in the mouth.
Jenae
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~INDYGIRL
Posts: 12,074 12/30/12 7:43 A
Brilliant, Njeana! I call that my ADDITION DIET!
I add in the healthy stuff and there is just no more room for the junk.
Life is happening now, not 10 pounds from now. ~Indygirl
I have a friend on another team who juices...and I cringed at the thought of "green" juice...I do like to eat my produce and without the benefit of a garden, I just don't think I could whir up a bunch of kale! She has a beautiful, bountiful garden and has made good use of it.
I do need to work on getting a couple of fruit in each day...I'll do a kitchen inventory, to see what I have, what I need and what to pass along to my brother!
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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NJEANA
Posts: 98 12/30/12 12:58 A
I have gotten best advice from this group!!! Adding freggies works!! At the end of the day I don't feel deprived because I have been focusing on adding MORE fruits and veggies not on what I shouldn't eat! Before I know it I am going to bed and have eaten healthy all day! Yay!! Thank you Team Indygirl!!!!
Another tip I got was to add baby spinach to my smoothies, I was VERY nervous about this! Then I tasted it and it taste exactly the same as it did before the spinach!! Can't believe it!! I added nearly 2 cups!! Try it! Just don't look at it before you take your first sip
Nikki
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I make a soup with colliflower, carrots, and spinich...plush I add oinions and green peppers and other seasonings. I usually have it about 3 times a week. I also like having a cucumber and tomato salad almost everyday.
"You never know just how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have" Unknown "....This above all, to thine own self be true" Wm Shakespheare "If it is to be its up to me" www.authorsden.com/carolynsandswww.youravon.com/carolynsands
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 12/29/12 6:10 A
I live alone...so when I have a cooking spree, I'll have 4-5 pots of things going at once. I freeze my goodies in one cup, rectangular containers that I stack 36 at a time in my freezer. I am down to one cup of collards and two of turkey chili from my last spree...so will be doing a new one on Tuesday. I plan to cook more turkey chili, black eyed peas, pinto beans, lentil soup, northern beans and pasta sauce w/turkey. With a well stocked freezer a "fast" meal is 6-7 minutes in the microwave!
Edited by: BLONDEE53 at: 12/29/2012 (06:11)
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 12/29/12 6:05 A
I LOVE greens...and veggies. I admit I am a tad lazy when it comes to hacking, dicing, chopping and slicing tho. So I buy baby carrots, and add to a snack bag with celery, cut up. I use a whole bag of wonderful kale, in my kale and bean soup. I cook collards fairly often...I buy the greens in the bag, already washed, cut and ready to use. More expensive of course but my lazy gene usually opts for this as opposed to the WORK involved in prepping! I cut up broccoli crowns for my bento boxes...One container has 2-3 snacks in it.
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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JENAE954
Posts: 7,019 12/28/12 10:45 P
Salad greens and lots of them.
Jenae
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~INDYGIRL
Posts: 12,074 12/28/12 11:25 A
ADD to your food plan and don't take away.
ADD veggies, fruits, water, lean protein, whole grains, fiber, and low fat dairy or substitute.
There will be less room for junk in your tummy.
Life is happening now, not 10 pounds from now. ~Indygirl
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Dearest Smidgon, my heart goes out to you...
One of the great things about this team is that we ARE a team thru thick and thin no matter what. So know that you are NOT alone and that we are here for one another. we struggle together and WIN together, yeh!!!
CAROL3SAN
Posts: 12,562 12/27/12 2:00 P
I discovered how to make sweet potato snacks. Just cut them into tiny pieces and pop them in the oven on top of a cookie type baking pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. It helps to keep me from eating something less desirable. Practically any fruit and veggie is a good thing to have if you absolutely have to binge.
"You never know just how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have" Unknown "....This above all, to thine own self be true" Wm Shakespheare "If it is to be its up to me" www.authorsden.com/carolynsandswww.youravon.com/carolynsands
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~INDYGIRL
Posts: 12,074 12/26/12 11:27 A
When in binge mode I allow myself free fruits and veggies- all I want of either to binge on.
Life is happening now, not 10 pounds from now. ~Indygirl
Have a few parties to attend during the holidays which include food. I will eat before going and not even try a bit of anything. I know this is all too new to me to even try to test the water so to speak.
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THOMS1
Posts: 9,591 12/24/12 7:03 A
The best one I can think of is to just keep the junk and treats out of the house. This is such a hard time of the year when people bring you treats. They just have to share the love.
Becky
"Anything is possible, It's your choice whether or not you choose to make IT happen."
"If a man really wants something he will find a way, if he doesn't he will find an excuse." Stephen Dolley, Jr.
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BLONDEE53
Posts: 6,407 12/24/12 6:53 A
Smidgon...you have more hurdles than some, more burdens to bear. I pray for strength for each task, new mercies each morning, protection, provision and peace. May you be comforted by the God of all comfort...and find rest, healing and hope...in the days ahead... Hugs, Bren
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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SMIDGON
Posts: 3,157 12/24/12 6:46 A
My problem is; I know all this. I was to become a WW leader after reaching goal. My DD1 was in a horrific accident not long after reaching my goal. Her companion was killed and she left paraplgic. I have stress-induced asthma; fibro., CFS, so, there is my down-fall! If only I could stay focus. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
"All things work together for the good of those who love the Lord, and are called according to His purpose."
Good tips....I have goals that these fit into for the year ahead...as in buying trash foods that harm me and don't satisfy my spirit...AND body....smaller plates etc.Things I know...and plan to DO. Knowing doesn't bring desired results!
Over the mountains to the sea, your river runs with love for me...I will open up my heart and let the Healer set me free.
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JENAE954
Posts: 7,019 12/23/12 9:39 P
Need to remember that nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Keep junk food out of the house, don't bring it in at all. If it's not there you won't eat it!
One drop of sweat is a dead calorie!
LEARN from yesterday LIVE for today HOPE for tomorrow
"Every single step is a choice." Jillian Michaels, Biggest Loser Season 14
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KELSEY54
Posts: 309 12/23/12 6:51 P
Instead of mindless eating or getting into treats, go brush your teeth you are less likely to indulge. Keep the portion sizes small and you won't feel so guilty finishing your plate.
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IAMAGEMLOVER
Posts: 18,004 12/23/12 6:45 P
I was brought up to clean your plate, waste not want not. You were lucky to eat there were people starving. It is a hard habit to break. Now if I don't want to finish something I don't.
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Walk when you get hungry
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I think we all treat our bodies that way from time to time, but we need to , think & react differently!
Nancy a.k.a. Teddybear
Psalm 121:2 My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. ================= When you choose the behavior you choose the consequences. (Dr Phil)
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when you feel hungry dirink a glass of water first before eating,sometimes thirst is mistaken for hunger.also the water will help to fill you up so you might eat less than overwise.
if i was worth my weight in gold i would be a millionair.my riches are measured by other standards and are worth far more than any gold.
we cant become what we need by remaining what we are.
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love mo
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~INDYGIRL
Posts: 12,074 12/23/12 6:10 P
Resisting munchies for me... I know that false hunger or emotional eating is a physical soother, so I need a physical soother to replace it. So, I ask myself what am I trying to achieve with food? Usually I want to feel warm and safe and relaxed. I bought a fluffy warm blanket, candles, and am collecting dvds that I love. These things are great for a night of staying in my room and babying myself. I've been known to get a fruit tray or veggie tray for such an event or even share the event with a friend or hubby.
Life is happening now, not 10 pounds from now. ~Indygirl
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My FBS was 241 this morning and the same as it was last night after dinner at 8:45...I am SO thankful. The weight is down a bit more as well and that's a blessing. I haven't seen 202.6 in probably a year.
So I buy baby carrots, and add to a snack bag with celery, cut up. I use a whole bag of wonderful kale, in my kale and bean soup. I cook collards fairly often...I buy the greens in the bag, already washed, cut and ready to use. More expensive of course but my lazy gene usually opts for this as opposed to the WORK involved in prepping! I cut up broccoli crowns for my bento boxes...One container has 2-3 snacks in it.
buying trash foods that harm me and don't satisfy my spirit...AND body....smaller plates etc.Things I know...and plan to DO. Knowing doesn't bring desired results! 
