Day 47 - Food log

As mentioned earlier I will be charting my food log on my ww ap for my iphone, it is the easiest thing for me to do!

here's hoping a the end of my travels I will not have gained weight and that I feel powerful from making good positive choices and not being weak and letting the child from within out!!

Day 46 - comitting to a plan

So committing to a plan is definitely the right next step for m, I feel I am learning a lot but still need to loose some weight.

I am sticking with the weight watchers program as it works well for me and I can make healthy choices!

Just before you travel is never a good time to start but I dont want to wait till I get back i can track my foods on my iphone and make sure I stay on track while I travel,

Just got to make sure I limit those alco-pops!!

I am in a really good groove with exercising and I have been enjoying it more than I thought possible so that is a good thing, i feel like my mid is strong and feeling positive!!

Day 45 - losing weight step 2

So Laura recommends the following

In the Skinny Thinking approach, I advocate changing your diet rather than going on a diet. Changing your diet means eating healthy food and managing portion size. You can either eyeball your portions (if you know what already know how much you can eat to either lose or maintain your weight) or count calories.

If you eat healthfully, the way you plan to eat for the rest of your life, and just cut back a few hundred calories per day, you will lose weight slowly and change your eating habits over a long period of time. This increases your chances of making these changes permanent rather than temporary. What's the hurry? You have the rest of your life to shed your excess weight. It's our impatience--the desire for a large, rapid weight loss--that's kicked us under the bus in the past. Don't go there this time!

Current research shows that losing weight the old fashioned way, by counting calories, works. It's a simple concept based on calories in and calories out. You decrease the food calories you take in until they are less than the calories you expend during the day. Remember, if you don't know about calories, pick up a pocket guide at the supermarket or simply search the internet for the calories of the food you want.

Then reduce your calorie intake below your daily maintenance requirement. Many website calculators will help you figure that out. I used:

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm.

I am going to get back and try to "calorie count" and see how that takes me forward on the program.

I am reaching a vunlerable time, I am about to travel on vacation for 3 weeks and that is when I will be at my weakest, tired hungry and with peer pressure I crumble so I will need every reserve to ensure I stay on the program and not let my self go. This is a challenge but one I must win

Day 44 - weighing

Laura, talks about weighing yourself today, she recommends once a week, that is probably a good starting point.

I used to be obsessively weighing myself every day multiple times but now I have pretty much lost interest instead of weighing every day, I am weighing myself once a week.

I have not tried to cut out any calories, but probably should, but to start with i was just trying to control my eating and snacking.

Day 42 - hunger sensations

So today the challenge was to not eat till you are hungry ie getting body signs then wait 30 mins to 1 hr to see what happens,

Currently I held off having breakfast and my tummy started to rumble, I ignored it and now 45 mins later the hunger pains are lengthening, I am going now to eat some breakfast and i will feed back later

Record you experience of hunger. Compare the actual experience of hunger to your beliefs about it. Were your beliefs accurate? Was being hungry horribly uncomfortable?

Beliefs:

If I at a meal before I get the hunger pains then I will eat less at lunch and it will carry me through

Actual Experience: It showed I could wait till I had the pains and when i felt read feed myself with no more than I would have had earlier

day 41 - hunger

So we have been on this path for a few weeks now and I must admit the last few days I have been struggling a bit, a few added stresses and suddenly I am making the same old poor choices again.

Yes Mcdonalds and those Salt and vinegar crisps are indeed comforting me in the best way they know how - but giving me a few extra inches. I feel pathetic and week but the past 2 days I have been much better at portion sizes and I am back "meal planning" again.

So moving on

DAY 41 - Listing Your Fears and Beliefs About Hunger

1. What's the worst that will happen if you let yourself get hungry?

   I get bad tempered or agitated a little, I feel embarrassed as my stomach is making noises

2. What will happen to your body if you let it get hungry?

   I eat fast food, I binge eat, I feel regretful

   I try to stop myself by eating something little so counteract the hunger and then I dont act irrationally

day 39

I am managing to keep track and enjoy my food today.

It also forces me to take time for myself, out from the busy working day!!