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I spent the bulk of my life very thin. I didn't start gaining weight until I was married and took on some of my husband's eating habits. I never dieted, but what I did do was eat like a bird. Somehow, American culture has taught us that we'll wither and blow away if we don't eat gobs of food. It's just not true.
Congrats again!
You are not kidding! America seems to think you need a full, high plate of food ...at home and in a restaurant. A third of that is quite enough and what keeps us healthy, in my opinion...I'm no scientist.
Hey, Lori, yesterday I stopped into a small Fitness Club next to my local market...how smart was that to make one there?
I'm going today at 9 am for a trial week...after that I could go over with a keycard 24 hrs.
I'm pumped to build more strength in this slender, but older body...the machines were
easy to figure out and worked the muscles I wanted! (All of them!)
I have an exercise room, but not those strengthening machines.
You are better/stronger than I, and most of the population. Congrats on the results, sounds like a do-able plan.
Not stronger..just could not STAND how I looked in clothes one more DAY!
Skinny jeans are my friend again...
There has to be a''point'' ya know?
When you're ready, you're ready...before that, you're just not.
Often seeing yourself in a dressing room or a photo does it...sometimes a comment from
someone...for me it's feeling the tightness of clothes...ugh.
Hey, I made a ''delicious' beet, garbanzo bean, onion little summer salad....bad idea...
I wanted to devour it it was so good.
I saw right there that my plan to make food just 'simple' is working...salt and
pepper, that's it for me.
So no adding delicious cheese to my omelets, for example...plain and simple is my new thing to
maintain.
The only thing that works for me is calorie counting. That way I can eat what I want, when I want. I have a lower and higher calorie goal. On the weekends I get more calories. During the week I get less. I have steadily lost 12 pounds.
Not stronger..just could not STAND how I looked in clothes one more DAY!
Skinny jeans are my friend again...
There has to be a''point'' ya know?
When you're ready, you're ready...before that, you're just not.
Often seeing yourself in a dressing room or a photo does it...sometimes a comment from
someone...for me it's feeling the tightness of clothes...ugh.
Hey, I made a ''delicious' beet, garbanzo bean, onion little summer salad....bad idea...
I wanted to devour it it was so good.
I saw right there that my plan to make food just 'simple' is working...salt and
pepper, that's it for me.
So no adding delicious cheese to my omelets, for example...plain and simple is my new thing to
maintain.
Love this post.
I don't see what's wrong with your salad, though. Seems healthy to me.
I think the transition trips most people up. We simply are not used to feeling hungry.
I work full-time and go to school - six meals a day is not happening here.
I don't see what's wrong with your salad, though. Seems healthy to me.
Yes, anything can be healthy.
The point was, as mentioned in my first post in bold...
it was too 'delicious'....so I ate too much.
May sound crazy to some people...but if something is just too tastey, I want more.
I don't need to eat way too much of something...so simple is better, for me... I don't think of a second or third helping...so far it is working.
You are not kidding! America seems to think you need a full, high plate of food ...at home and in a restaurant. A third of that is quite enough and what keeps us healthy, in my opinion...I'm no scientist.
Hey, Lori, yesterday I stopped into a small Fitness Club next to my local market...how smart was that to make one there?
I'm going today at 9 am for a trial week...after that I could go over with a keycard 24 hrs.
I'm pumped to build more strength in this slender, but older body...the machines were
easy to figure out and worked the muscles I wanted! (All of them!)
I have an exercise room, but not those strengthening machines.
The point was, as mentioned in my first post in bold...
it was too 'delicious'....so I ate too much.
May sound crazy to some people...but if something is just too tastey, I want more.
I don't need to eat way too much of something...so simple is better, for me... I don't think of a second or third helping...so far it is working.
I totally get this. My husband makes a taco salad that is very healthy, but I call it the 'over eating' salad because it is so good it is a struggle not to have as second helping. Because of the avocado, chicken or steak, and the few crumbled tortilla chips that are part of the ingredients I am now over eating and blowing my calorie consumption. We have a few meals like that where they are very healthy and low calorie but they taste so dang good they end up being over eaten.
Congrats Ms H., glad you found what works for you!
For myself, I have managed to slowly lose over 55 lbs by cutting my portions drastically, and cutting out MOST sugars or pastries, etc. I eat small portions of food now, but I do eat some chips, I do eat some chocolate almonds and I like my wine. I exercise a TON, and every day. I am now at a weight that I feel is perfect for me and just trying to hold it there.
Will power and patience are two keys to weight loss. And too, if one loses the weight too quickly (fad diets), they'll more than likely put it back on just as fast because they haven't taken the appropriate amount of time to develop new eating/exercising habits.
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