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Hello all. I was wondering if everyone could give a status update. I have been wondering how everyone is doing:) I’ll go first:
I have gained a few more pounds. I haven’t weighed myself but I can tell. My family got moved finally and now we are staying with my parents until our house is ready. It was supposed to be ready in a week but is now looking like it may be about four more months! Living with mom and dad has been an adjustment eating wise. They have commented on how much I eat in the morning and also on how many bagels I eat. I make lots of bagel sandwiches:) (good ones) They eat dinner late and I have been trying to hold out to have dinner with them which I realize is a huge mistake. It has messed me up pretty good. I also feel like I have been causing a quality famine since I am not as in control of the food supply. My parents are out of town this weekend and I have stocked up the fridge with healthy delicious food and baked a bunch of super healthy delicious muffins and frozen them. I will not be caught without healthy delicious food again! It makes night time hunger come back which I hate! I will simply have to be more vigilant the next few months and possibly do all the cooking. I’m sure my mom wont mind:)
So how are you ladies doing?
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Wow, staying with the folks is TOUGH!! I would definitely take over the cooking if you can. You’ll do sooooo much better that way. (Or pick five nights and have mom pick two.)
I’m doing great. My jeans are loose, but I suspect that I’ve stretched them out. But I’m just having my life and not worrying about it. I ordered three new shirts today. I bought new clothes a few months ago, and they all still fit, but I bought t-shirts (nice ones) and they get shorter the more I wash them and I feel uncomfortable. So I bought some nice button down shirts from Lands End that I can wear with my jeans (mom clothes!) and I’m sure I’ll feel more comfortable.
I’ve discovered I have a massive mole problem in my garden, so I have to dig all the dirt out of each bed, put a layer of heavy screen down, and put the dirt all back. This is pretty heavy exercise and I did a bunch of it yesterday and today and had amazing energy for it. I also took my daughter to Six Flags for five hours the other day and walked and walked and walked. I feel like I don’t worry about my eating much anymore, I just eat and get on with my life. Love it.
(Did eat some ice cream tonight after my third shift of digging. Felt appropriate.)
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Thats awesome Annual! Sounds like you just might be over the hump:) If you wash your pants and they are still lose, you know it is you who has gotten smaller and not just stretched out the pants;) I have a long torso and have to air dry all my T-shirts or else so belly button. I know exactly what you mean.
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weight progress not so good, but i think my mindset is improving. I gained about 8 lbs in the first month, now have spent more than four months wobbling up and down in the same place. My body seems to really want to be here right now - if I overeat a day or two for whatever reason, all of a sudden bang! I’m not hungry, can’t even look at food for a day. Sure I’d like to lose weight, but whenever I try to push things along, I rebound.
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I am feeling a little depressed lately about some additional weight gain my body is doing. I thought I had stopped gaining, and now all of a sudden I have jumped up 8lbs more! I was out pants shopping today and was repulsed to discover I need a size 14 now. I realize that isn’t the end of the world, but I had put so much pride in being an 8 for so long, it seems like torture to be at this size. So much so, I couldn’t even bring myself to buy any pants which I need! I will have to get the courage up and go back to the store soon.
On the other hand, I have been very unobsessed with food, finding it hard to plan ahead for what to eat because when I am not hungry, its hard to imagine what I might want! I love the fact that I have no more disordered eating symptoms-they never came back in any way since starting this journey in March. I just wish the panic about being so big would go away. I was even daydreaming about a way to get liposuction this morning in the car during my commute. I wonder what a body would do, during the naturally thin process, if it just lost a lot of fat overnight. I have a feeling it would just put it back on and take it off on its own time. Or perhaps I could cheat the system? :) Just kidding…
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Hi Ladies,
Let’s see….....begain the NT way on November 12, 2010, so am about 9 months in. I’m staying at the same weight (210 Yikes) which is a 30 pound weight gain since beginning. I’ve bought an entire new set of clothes (at the thrift store) Things have kind of settled into a routine. Lately I am not hungry for HOURS (5 or 6) but do not eat UNLESS I am hungry. Cravings are gone, I don’t want sweets even when they are right in front of me (at work) So, now I just have to wait for “seasons” to pass and then begin going down in weight. After the initial HORROR of gaining the weight, I am kind of used to it now (no, I do’t like it, but that’s the way it is for a while) I am really looking forward to begin the next ‘losing’ phase of this process.
Happy NTing!
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Sounds like we are all in about the same place. I do want to be thin, but I have eased into an appreciation and acceptance with my body. I have given birth to three lovely very big babies and twice at home naturally. I have gained and lost and gained and lost for the last twelve years. I have always been very strong and healthy and my body has taken good care of me and put up with a lot of crap. I am willing to ease my judgement of myself while I allow my body to normalize and adjust to a more natural healthy way of eating. I think I have only gained about 8 pounds which is surprising since I just lost thirty pounds in February on Medifast. I expected to gain it all back and maybe I will.
I am still working on making sure I eat every time I am hungry and only when I a hungry. What a simple concept but sometimes a hard one to practice. As a mother it seems like my like revolves around food. Wake up feed everybody breakfast. Clean up. Snack time clean up. Feed everybody lunch. Clean up. Snacks clean up. Prepare and feed everybody dinner. Clean up! Blah. I can’t wait for school to start:)
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I am pretty new to this and am finding it to be a good fit. I have gained; but then, I was already gaining!
One thing I remembered from my “past”.....my husband used to go camping with his buddies on the weekend. While he was gone I would eat whatever I wanted so that apparently means that I had been denying myself foods I wanted. Maybe I was afraid of comments, I don’t really know. I remember making pie crust, sprinkling it with cinnamon/sugar and eating the whole batch. It was almost a ritual and I still remember some of the feelings. I was always quite thin in high school but started gaining weight during my first year of college when I ate at the chow hall or whatever it was called.
I am still exploring my hunger feelings. I have experienced a HUGE sense of relief to be rid of “dieting”. A friend of mine was telling me she has a brand new bottle of hhcg and is tempted to use it…..I told her I’ve been doing a LOT of reading and I advised against it. But, she will have to make her own choice. I know when I did the hhcg there were people who thought I shouldn’t…well, they were right but a person has to learn things sometimes the hard way.
So, I am working on accepting myself as I am.
Kate
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Pie crust has a lot of fat grams; it makes sense that that would make you happy if you were eating a diet too low in fat. I find if there are any store-bought pleasure foods in the house, they don’t interest me. But if I make ANYTHING my mom is famous for (chocolate chip cookies, rhubarb pie), I become a black hole and those babies just disappear.
On accepting ourselves: I remind myself (and have stated it here more than once) that I have a perfect body. I have all the right parts in all the right places and they all work. We have so much to be grateful for.
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THE SCALE MOVED!!!!
I haven’t gotten on the scale much, because I hate it so, but I decided to check, and for the first time in EXACTLY two years, the scale went in the other direction. Only a couple of pounds, but by golly, it moved!!!! I’m pleased.
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annual… jumping up and down for you!!!
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Thats incredible Annual!!!! I am so proud of you!:)
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Way to go Annual! You give us all hope :).
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Oh, Kelcy, you’re my perseverance guru!!!
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kelcy, you’ve been missed. Good to see you on here.
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I’m always around, I just don’t post very often.
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