Bina - You are doing so awesome!!!!

Cassie - LOL that is funny!! On my weigh in day I don't eat dinner until after I get home lol.

Bina- That's great! I weight everyday. It really keeps me in check and keeps my weight in the front of my mind. I take it with a grain of salt since it can fluctuate.

Cassie- LOL about the poop! I think that is a good idea, though.

I was 1lb down today- FINALLY! I had this big 5lb drop week 1, then gained 3.5 back and it's taken me two weeks to lose that! I'm SO into instant gratification. I don't have the patience for this!

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Cassie I always weigh after my morning BM! LOL

Okay so we were SO BAD this morning! Dh is off for the rest of the week so he wakes me this morning and says can I take you to breakfast? He knows I love to go to breakfast since we NEVER go. So I said sure and we went to this country food cafe. I ate french toast and eggs with bacon Now when I say french toast I don't mean one tiny piece I mean THREE slices on the extra thick bread. I bet I ate my daily allowance of calories at BREAKFAST. Geez but it was so good. We never do that and both our tummies hurt now. Not good. So needless to say there will be no lunch! The kids had fun too and Riley ate her french toast. OH and she learned how to suck through a straw. I normally give her the stuff out of the bottom of a straw and she wanted Carter's cup with lid that had milk in it so I handed it to her and she sat there with it in her mouth for a min then started sucking away. Dh and I were nearly in tears. Isn't that silly?

I got a run in yesterday afternoon and hope to do something again today. My IPOD died halfway through my run and messed me all up. I CAN NOT run without music. So I gave up early and ran back home. I still got in a good 2.5 miles so not too bad and three BIG hills.

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Robin - Yeah I eat after I get back!

Karen - I wish I had a daily BM routine. It's hit or miss with me!! Your breakfast sounds YUMMY!!!

My tare has been doing well and not bleeding. I haven't been doing anything for it.

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Karen- The only 'restaurant' within 30 miles of my house is a "country cafe" and they do the BEST breakfast and the kind of french toast you are talking about (with homemade bread no less). I can't be good there-no way. But you know what? If you can't have a wonderful "day-off" breakfast with the family once in a while, then what's the point, right? I agree, though just skip lunch.

Cassie- I know this is TMI, but: no daily BM routine? OMG, I'd die! I'm so regular you could set a watch by me!

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Cass, doing the same thing every day helps. Also, if you make sure to eat a good portion of green veggies with dinner every night, that will help too, and bonue, it keeps your digestive tract moving, giving fats and things like that less time to hang around and be absorbed. From the wisdom of DrKayla. One of those things I did by accident.

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Karen - have a salad or some fruit at lunchtime.

Bina - great job. I weighed this morning. I was a little scared, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Cassie - glad the tare is doing better.

I just got in a run and it's much later than normal for me so I was hot.
I've got to go cut up some fruit and get it in the fridge. We have good foods to eat but I ate pudding for breakfast and a (low-fat, high fiber) brownie for a snack.

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Claire - what is funny is EVERYONE else in my family goes a FEW times per day!!! I probably eat the healthiest of them all too!!

Steph - yeah I must be doing something right to keep my stools soft on their own since my tare has been under control.

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Certainly a good indication!

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Cassie- Yeah DH is always in RR! I'm sorry, but what is your "tare"?

Just got a call from Dr's office....OMG this is SO NM. My last B/W showed my bloodsugar was high, right? Well, I knew she was going to call and bug me about diet and excercise. This call was actually to tell me that there was something out of calibration at the lab and my blood sugar is FINE! LOL.

Obviously this is no reason to slack on the diet, but DUH people.

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Claire - that's great news about your blood sugar! Stick to the diet anyways! LOL! My "tare" is an anal fissure tare. It's either from stiches popping (my episotomy) OR I had a TERRIBLE BM after I got home from the hospital and it tore then. Everytime I have a BM it tares open and bleeds. It gets flared up sometimes and is really painful. Like I said though, its been doing better.

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No ma'am, no reason to give up on the 'EATING WELL' plan.

I swear, Rhea, I haven't felt hungry or deprived once since October when I kicked into gear. BUT, that's really good that you don't have a blood sugar prob. Yay.

I think I eat more now than I did before, but I also think I can't eat as MUCH as I could sometimes before if I was overeating -- or not even overeating. But the thought of eating a burger, and onion rings, and a drink...I can't imagine being able to put all that away now. And THAT happened on its own over time. Plus, the thought of all that greasy, heavy food, and the volume of it...almost makes me feel sick to my stomach. Not that I don't have the occasional burger, and SURE not a judgement on anybody else, it's just something that happened TO me over time, I guess because of the different ways I was eating. If I go to Taco Bell, I always get a bean burrito without onions, and a double decker taco without lettuce and add taco sauce. Well, I had a little 'affair' with it a few weeks ago, I probably went there five times in two weeks, but I still didn't usually finish those completely. The type of food is having a lot more to do with the volume I eat, now that I think about it. Boy this body science metabolism stuff is hard to keep track of. I think I eat more volume-wise when I'm eating well, and in turn, less frequently and am not hungry, nor interested in snacking.

I'm babbling...I'm kinda thinking through this out loud.

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Cassie-OIC. Wow, how terribly uncomfortable! Ouch! I didn't realize that could happen.

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Steph- yeah, sorry. I'm confused. My main thing I think is that-if left to my own devices- two mc muffins and hasbrowns for breakfast, a double qtr lb'er and huge fry for lunch and then eat the entire plate of chicken parmisana from olive garden for dinner with tiramisu- would be a normal day's worth of food for me. I dont snack all day, but when I have a meal I eat enough for a small continent.

So, I'm trying to eat 1/2 of what I normally would portion wise and eat heathier, too. I can't imagine to hope to ever NOT crave the junk. I mean, I'd love it if it happened, but it's kinda like any addiction I think. I think I will always WANT a smoke. I think alchoholics will forever WANT a drinnk.

Just a theory.

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Weeeell, smoking and alcoholism are two very different things. Similar in just a few aspects with some of the addiction stuff, but the psychology of it is way different. As someone who quit completely for 6 years, I'll tell ya, it took about a year for the cravings to really go away. After that, they were gone. I was one of the people who didn't mind being around smoke, like with friends or in bars; some people develop a major aversion to it after they quit. No way to know in advance. But it doesn't trigger any craving after a while.

One of the ways I explain being an insomnic to people is to liken it to alcoholism. I will ALWAYS be an insomniac. But sometimes, I'm 'on the wagon'. I will be one my whole life, but it is often managed. I have some tools, and my actions can affect it greatly, but sometimes, given the correct stimuli, it's an illness that is out of my control. I never know exactly how far I can push my behavior before it kicks it off, so the safest thing is to always be in control of my behavior. Which I'm not. But I have been. And it works pretty well to keep me 'on the wagon'. Anyway, blah blah blah.

Rhea ~ It doesn't sound unusual to me to have eating habits like that! I think many, many people are members of the 'clean plate' club. Socially, we've gotten really screwed too with the portions and all that, mixed with clean plate syndrome, ooooh, tough combination. Portion control sounds like it could be a great thing for you. For me, it wasn't cutting down on what I was eating that drove my 180 turn, it was changing what I was eating and that drove the rest; I actually had to teach myself to eat a lot of breakfast (I think I eat a huge breakfast, but to a big breakfast eater, it's probably not). There are many things that happened on their own, or I guess secondary to another change I made, like my portion tollerance decreasing, or greasy food tollerance and cravings decreasing. I wish I knew it all. I wish I'd had a nutritionist following me around for the past eight months so they could make it all make perfect sense. It's going to be a tough chapter to write. I'm really going to have to think it through a LOT.

Gawd, I'm babbling a lot today.

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Sonnavabitch, I just figured something out. I was having so much trouble with my shoulders and back and taking the muscle relaxors, and I ended up sitting on a cushion and getting my workspace as ergonamically proper as I could. And it helped for a while. But for the past few months it's been really bad again. Feeling my shoulders up around my ears. I chalked it up to stress. I just figured something out. I am an idiot.

My a$$ is smaller. My thighs are a lot thinner. I'm further down in my chair than I was before. Henceforth, my seated position is no longer ergonamically correct, and it's aggrivating my shoulders and back. The desk/keyboard hasn't moved. But I have.

OMG. I'm freakin dense.

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