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Monday, October 11, 2010

Day 11 and 12 - Friend Makin' Monday

Kenz has challenged us all again with Friend Makin' Monday Questions. I like them; they give insight and focus to the thoughts that run through our heads as we struggle with weight loss and food. I have on the 12th day of my 100 day challenge -- weighed in with 4.6 lbs lost. I am happy because the first week was a struggle with myself that I am beginning to understand better.

1. 1) Do you prefer talking or texting?
It depends. I like talking with loved ones and texting for connection throughout the day with some. I like face to face talking and listening; I value it even more in the world of texting. But texting makes little moments of connection real and it is powerful.

2) Do you make your bed everyday?
I do. It isn't always perfect but it starts me toward an orderly day. I like to be neat and orderly. I try to encourage my kids to do the same, even if it isn't a perfect job.

3) What sounds do you hear right now?
I hear the sounds of traffic on Rt. 12. I hear voices talking softly in the office. I like the sounds because they are comforting and not intrusive.

4) List three things that you always carry with you:
I carry my wallet, my IPhone, and my makeup bag (and a mirror to put on my desk). Guess I could buy two mirrors. I often put my makeup on at the office very early in the morning.

5) What are your favorite TV shows?
I don't watch much t.v. I have been a fan of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice through all of their seasons. I vow everytime that I won't watch anymore because they are both over the top with nonsense and disconnected stories. I watched Glee because my daughter likes it and I'm not sure about it. I need a new show. I am addicted to the two old shows because my daughter and I watched them together.

6) Is there a hobby that you'd like to devote more time to? If so, what is it?
Reading and writing more than the blog.

7) What is your favorite drink?
I drink unsweetened iced tea. I drink lots of water. I drink coffee in the a.m. -- 2 cups. I drink NO soda or sweetened drinks -- never/ever.

8) Share a couple of cool facts about your family:
I have adopted children from all over the world. I have a son who can do anything and is really independent who is in a wheelchair.

9) List one thing that you will do for yourself today:
Today I have worked until just now and as soon as I post I am taking my children to a movie and for dinner nearby. They worked with me yesterday all day; I moved my office from one floor to another of my building.

10) Share something that you're thankful for today:
I am thankful for this beautiful day and for good work, good co-workers, good children, and a good life. I am thankful every day for all that I have. The days are good. I am thankful for wonderful friends. I am thankful for wonderful health. I am thankful for this week and for all who blog and share this journey.

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From the Daily Diary of a Winning Loser

Sometimes when the stress level goes way up and troubles rain down we search for a comfortable place to shield us from the storm. When our nerves are on edge we look for something to make us feel good again. We find comfort in food because it taste good and so many of our good memories are surrounded by good tasting food. Some people handle stress differently, instead of eating they go for a long walk and a good workout. For me and a lot of people the short term solution to feeling better is eating. It's a hard habit to break, but it's crucial to the life saving weight loss we desperately need. Instead of excuses why we can't possibly stay on track, we have to discover solutions to how we can. We have to understand that every choice is an important one. Remember that one bad choice often leads to another and it works the other way too. One good choice often leads to another. That's why I end every one of these blogs with “Good Choices”, because in the end we are the sum of our decisions, we can either be the victims of our poor choices or the champions of our good choices.

From Sean Anderson -- early in the journey.

Quote for the Day From Another Blog about Weight Loss

I know that facing everything that life throws our way and still maintaining our focus is crucial. It's crucial because I'm not doing this just to lose the weight. I'm doing this to change the way I handle food and exercise everyday for the rest of my life. I'm not saying that I'll count calories forever, but I'm teaching myself along the way how to eat...how to exercise...how to be healthier. I'm changing old habits into new positive habits, positive habits that will be with me through many days like today. And I will continue to learn these new ways of living. For me, depressing news can and often is as big of an eating trigger than anything. For some it has the opposite effect. I just know how I normally handle things. And I've always turned to food. Not today."

Sean Anderson -- The Daily Diary of a Winning Loser

What was your favorite moment this weekend?

Monday, September 27, 2010

My favorite moment this weekend was late Saturday evening at Alice's Farms in Gales Ferry watching two of my children
run headlong down and hill and around the fields, stopping to
look at animals and then to roll down the hill. It was a beautiful evening and they were amazing to watch -- free and
and graceful and just running in the sunset. It was a perfect evening; cool but not chilly and the air was moist and sweet.
People was watching a car show near by. Others were eating
hot dogs from a stand which was temporarily nearby. The usual Cows and Cones ice cream was available and the entire place was a sea of beautiful mums in all colors in Halloween
pots and hanging baskets. It was glorious!

Quotations Sent By Loved Ones and Friends.

September 15, 2010

Send by a friend who said, "This applies to the Higher Power of Anyone's Understanding."

Dear Higher Power of My Understanding:

I give this day to You.

May my mind stay centered on the things of spirit.

May I not be tempted to stray from love.

As I begin this day, I open to receive You.

Please enter where You already abide.

May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.

May I see the love and innocence in all mankind, behind the masks we all wear and the illusions of this worldly plane.

I surrender to You my doing this day.

I ask only that they serve You and the healing of the world.

May I bring Your love and goodness with me, to give unto others wherever I go

Make me the person You would have me be.

Direct my footsteps, and show me what You would have me do.

Make the world a safer, more beautiful place.

Bless all Your creatures.

Heal us all, and use me, dear Lord, that I might know the job of being used by You.

Amen

From: Illuminata: by Marianne Williamson

Sean Anderson From Early Posts About Food Addiction.

From early posts about being over 500 lbs.

So as you can see, it's not necessarily gigantic portions in one sitting that has made me this big, it's impulse eating throughout the day and into the night. Let's call it “over nibbling”, Ok---Let's call it what it is: Food addiction. There, I admitted it! They always say that admitting the problem is the first step to recovery right? I'm a food addict pure and simple. I very rarely eat because I'm hungry, I eat because I want it! You can tell that over the years I've become well acquainted with me and my dysfunctional eating habits. I've dug deep to understand my bad habits, but even armed with this information, knowing how I am, and the negative effects of my behavior, I'd still do it. I'd probably have to undergo professional psychiatry to go deeper into understanding why I developed these eating patterns, but I've gone deep enough on my own to identify them, and I think getting any deeper would just reveal “excuses”.

Quote from Blog "266" - Comment. 10/1/10

Anonymous said...

266, you are the most honest woman in the world. I am going to make a suggestion which you can ignore, but it helped me. We bloggers can share experience. The sugar thing is behind all of our troubles. Try for one week to eliminate anything that has sugar or sugar syrups in it -- particularly high fructose. Eat everything but stay completely away from white flour and sugar stuff. Your craving for sweets will go away and you can then find a pattern of eating that will not be driven by your pancreas trying to deal with sugar but by your own enjoyment and pleasure and relationship with food. Your will be driving instead of the sweets driving you. It took me until I was in my 50s to figure this out and I regained a 100 lb wait loss because I thought I could go back to cake and goodies. De-sugar/corn syrup your diet and the weight gain will stop. It is so sad that we feel so guilty about something that we really can't control once we start the craving cycle. It was the frontier in weight loss for most who have been truly successful. One week only? Join me in a challenge to stay away from the wrong stuff for one week and eat everything else at a calorie level that makes sense. Low glycemic food lists are all over the web. You are a really inspiring woman. Are you in Canada?

Goals and Challenges

I will have 4 sessions of strength building this week.

I will reach by goal of 145 lbs.

I will walk 3x a week on treadmill

I will write and blog and learn more about writing and blogging every day.

I will increase my followers on my blog and blog every day.

I will continue to log my food on My Food Diary everyday.

I will continue to get enough sleep every night.

I will drink 8 glasses minimum of water every day.

I not only will eat for weight loss, but I will eat healthy, densely nutritious and genuinely fresh and healthy foods and develop a relationship with them.

I will eat low hypoglycemic foods that give me energy and vitality.

I will develop more of my intuitive eating skills.

I will continue to look for wonderful thoughts and comments from other bloggers and to find the joy in being a part of the blogosphere.

I will, day by day, make this a lifestyle change.

On the 100th Day I will put my first photo on my blog.

Goals for the Month of May, 2012

1. Exercise 3-4x per week. Move more eat less

2. Complete work on back-log of personal paperwork

3. Write daily accomplishments in on blog.

4. Relate daily activities to both long and short term goals.

5. Leave office at 4:30 as often as possible.

6. Plan menu for family and me in advance.

8. Log food on My Food Diary every day.

9. Follow prioritized to-do list

10. Reduce Coffee consumption to 12-16 oz.

11. Increase water, vegetables, and fruit,

Big Goal: Under 200 lbs by August 1st.

Small Goal: 215 by June 1

Incredible Quotation from Sean Anderson

What has allowed me to break away from a lifetime of morbid obesity? A change in perspective. A different focus. A decision to stop believing the excuses and rationalizations that always made me feel better about myself and my bad choices. I decided to get real with me. 100% self-honesty about my choices and behaviors---calling an excuse an excuse and a rationalization exactly what it is, nonsense, these make the foundation for the success I've enjoyed. The food and exercise part is naturally the least of my focus, because when the real focus is on the mental aspects--the food and exercise part naturally and beautifully fall into place. That's exactly why I say and have said over and over---keep it simple in the food and exercise department. I think about how many times I allowed the food and exercise part to overwhelm me---I was complicating the process---I was fighting the wrong battle.

From the Daily Diary of a Winning Loser -- Sean has
lost over 270 lbs. Don't miss his blog.

Welcome

I have spent most of my life as a person who eats too much. It took me years to assimilate and to quit resisting the obvious science and mathematics of weight loss and to become aware of the glycemic reactions of my body to sugars. I used to joke about the fact that I only was emotional after 4 p.m. My blood sugar would fall late in the day and I would be ravenous and out of control -- often. The relationship between blood sugar and body chemistry and the food addiction remains a mystery to me and to others. I am most definitely an addict.

A drop-out of every diet, food program, diet book, and diet organization in the United States, I finally harvested enough accurate information to put together a lifestyle and eating program which worked! And after a spectacular weight loss of 85 lbs -- comfortable and easy -- I gained 30 lbs back and relapsed into the patterns of a lifetime. I call my blog "Wait Loss" because I am losing weight at an older age. I'm an older mom to adopted kids and the delighted and busy executive of a non-profit. Like many of my fellow bloggers, I'm seeing inner joy and a sense of having created unity between my body, mind and spirit. I'm committed to a permanent and happy relationship with food and exercise. I am an amazingly healthy woman and have plenty of energy -- there is no excuse! I promise to blog regularly and to share the new journey.

I weighed 285 lbs. I lost to 199 lbs and gained back to somewhere between 225-230. I have decided not to weigh myself until late September. Being addicted to weighing has been a problem in the past. I used to go the Bed, Bath and

Beyond, to weigh because I had to have a scale to affirm the results of my efforts. This is not about the numbers; but about the goal. The scale is not a daily friend. I do better without it.

The goal is to reach the right weight for my body and to maintain it and to move/exercise and make that a daily habit.

I want to thank Sean Anderson whose exuberant and honest blog inspired me to begin again. I found out about him on America Online.

I want to thank "Shrinking Kenz" for her emotional and open blog which is about starting over on many levels and battling with the emotions of this national problem that so many of us have with food.

Blogging connects us in ways I do not yet understand.

Links for Diet and Wait Loss

My Food Diary -- there is nothing else like it. It is a daily tool for journaling, keeping notes, logging food and exercise and finding resources

More to come -- this is under construction. I offer links without having any arrangment for affiliation; they are just links to people, places, blogs, and inspiration and some wonderful products that have helped me on the journey.

Diary of a Winning Loser -- Sean Anderson's inspiring blog

266 - The absolutely straightforward and beautifully presented blog of a woman who has lost over 100 lbs. Her anniversary presentation is inspiring. The video captures her many changes in body and lifestyle.

Alvarado Street Bakery -- global bakery in California that features organic whole grain breads and bagels. Available in many stores and very popular. Their Diabetic Lifestyles Low Glycemic Bread for Diabetics is perfect for anyone looking for a low glycemic bread with no rebound reaction from sugar. They also have two types of organic granola which is more like a muesli and is also low glycemic and without sugar.

They have excellent sprouted grain products.

Holmberg Market -- source of organic fruits and vegetables and next to the farm where families can pick their own fruits in the fall. On Rt. 12 between Groton and Norwich, Ct.

Christopher Westra - writer of many papers on many subjects about spirituality and spiritual living. In particular found his paper on "Harmony Earth 30 Day Energy Diet" to be a source of inspiration about finding new foods and a new relationship with food.

Anne Randolph -- Denver writer and teacher who runs "Soup Kitchen Writing" workshops. I ordered a 28 day writing program which she does by email and which has inspired me to get going with this blog. She has a great web-site and a way of getting people who are shy about writing into action and daily commitment. Her programs are wonderful and helpful. She knows about all of us who want to write but aren't sure how to get the words out of us and into writing. Look at Anne's websites for inspiration.

http://blog.soupkitchenwriting.com/ (click for free writing tips)

http://www.blogger.com/www.SoupKitchenWriting.com

http://www.blogger.com/www.WriteYourLifeStory.org

More to come.

My Current Long term Goals

1. Weigh 130 pounds! Maintain lifetime recovery from overeating, and any other addictive behaviors!

2. Write every day!

3. Complete the biography/oral history I am working on for an 86 year old community leader from my community!

4. Publish a book!

5. Live to raise my young adopted children!

6. Enjoy and savor and rejoice in each day!

7. Return to motivational speaking!

8. Achieve financial stability and security!

9. Live and work in the present moment and in centered awareness!

10. Find the innocence and essence in others -- always!

11. Find a way to write about those people who have shared themselves with me as I have been doing a "listening campaign" for the organization that employees me as a leader.

(Another subject for writing).

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Day 11 and 12 - Friend Makin' Monday

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