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Adding to my Journal: Just a short entry this morning... this week is getting away from me. Oh so many little things to keep up with! Saying my prayers for my youngest son who is knee deep in College Applications!!! ;)
Gotta run...but will be back later, after the gym! Much Love...
OK - I'M BACK... the gym was great! I did 33:33 mins on the treadmill hillclimbing. Alternating from 2.5 to 15.0 incline and speeds 3.8 to 4.4 !!! Whew!!! Makes you feel alive to conquer that workout!
Funny thing happened to me this morning... well, not funny ha ha, but odd...
So, I was getting ready to start my day, which includes taking advantage of being completely undressed and stepping up on the scale to measure from day to day where I am. And it occurred to me... WHO CARES!!!
Ok, now that's the odd part... coming from me! ;)
I know that most people are not, and can not afford to be in this mindset yet! So please hear me carefully... I am not recommending you stop using the scale as a tool. I did, and would do it again if I were back at the beginning or middle of this journey!!!
But while I was standing there... I thought, do I really want this little box to tell me how I feel? Have I given over my 'power' to this thing! Because I feel thinner. I feel I look thinner. I am happy with what I see in the mirror. I am eating - very well, and on plan... no indulgences, no backsliding to the nut jar! LOL!! So what is there to gain if I step on it...
if it says I have 'gained' weight... while feeling this good and thinking I am making progress ... that would be the worst case scenario... it's going to RUIN my day, my attitude, and my efforts! Now we don't want that do we?
And I am not going to change how or what I eat...based on that number, no matter what.
Ok, it is a bit of a mojo boost to see a loss... but I just saw one!
So, I decided to leave the thing lonely and empty for the time being. I have 6 more days before I 'officially' weigh in again.. I have 4 more workouts to be accomplished... 30 more 20 oz. bottles of water to drink... and 18 more meals, and 6-12 snacks to worry about!!! Not to mention Christmas is right around the corner, and I don't need to be discouraging myself or feeling blue over a stupid pound!!!
Not saying there is one 'gained'... I actually don't think so... but I just don't care! I feel good! I feel like I am losing... so who gives a rip what the stupid little box in the bathroom has to say about it?
Much Love!!!
View Diet Calendar, 15 December 2011:
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1230 kcal
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Fat: 80.74g | Prot: 99.02g | Carbs: 23.56g.
Breakfast: breakfast sausage links, eggland's best eggs (9AM) (overeasy), coffee (8oz) black, hidden carbs, water (6-10 AM). Lunch: Pastrami Brisket, pepper jack cheese, water . Dinner: broccoli, yellow squash, bacon ranch dressing, bacon pieces, romaine, cucumber, hidden carbs, water (4-6), fresh parm cheese (1 oz.), Pork Roast. more...
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1845 kcal
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Exercise:
Conditioning exercise (health club) - 15 minutes, Walking (brisk) - 6.5/kph - 33 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 12 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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Have a great time at the gym...Hope your son finds the college he likes....☺
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Congratulations - who cares indeed. You feel good, you know you look good, and as you say the number on that thing would affect your mood - up or down depending on whether it was up or down. So glad you are in a comfortable place with yourself. Hope your day continues to be as awesome as you are.
15 Dec 11 by member: sarahsmum
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Glad you got through your scale crisis. Everybody has to find the best tools to use on their own journey. I learned the hard way that I need "the Box", but view it as a tool and not a god.
15 Dec 11 by member: BuffyBear
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True enough, Buffy. Thing is...I do need it, in general. I will always use it as a 'measure' of where I'm at, and if my efforts are progressing or not. But sometimes, you just know if you've been doing ALL that you know to do... AND you are physically feeling like you are definitely losing... then the best thing for me at that point.. is to keep my nose to the grindstone, work hard all week, put one good day back to back w/ another, and not weigh in until my weekly date. Then it is what it is. And if it's a disaster, then I will have to analyze why that is... why I feel great, feel like I'm losing, but instead am gaining ??? But my hope is that my instincts are right, and this thing is starting to move again in the right direction. Some days, the scale becomes a distraction... because really, it isn't going to change anything... at least not this week! Much Love.
15 Dec 11 by member: jsfantome
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Paula, sometimes we can truly become obsesses with the numbers on that box. And we do let i dictate our moods, so I agree...once a week, because sometimes even when we do weigh everyday, it does not deter us from eating the things that cause it to rise, and if we have been doing all we should and it goes up, may even drive us "nuts"! lol Have a great day!
15 Dec 11 by member: ctlss
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Love you stef!!! those darn 'nuts'!! They get me every time!
15 Dec 11 by member: jsfantome
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I agree, Paula, that we often allow the scale to alter our mood from day to day...a loss, and we are winners....a gain, we are failures...and steady, we aren't trying hard enough.... I also agree that as someone still on the long journey that I need to use it as a measuring tool or I may find myself going in a direction that I hadn't planned on going. However, this morning when I stepped on it, I noted a slight rise...not enough water yesterday while out shopping. Instead of allowing the rise to defeat me, I got dressed....my comfy jeans are too big and need a belt....I decided to try a belt that I hadn't worn in years (too small the last time I tried) and lo and behold, the belt not only fit it was almost too big....that did a lot more to my ego than the scale provided me this morning....sometimes we have to remember that there are many other measures in life to determine successes. You, my dear, are a winner. Everyone on FS knows you, cares about you, and has watched you succeed time after time...talk about a meaningful measuring tool. Have a great day...hugs by the bunch.
15 Dec 11 by member: 2227Gwen
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Oh, thank you Gwen!!! hugs to you too! I just keep sharing 'cause I am sure as more and more new people come on board (and GEAR UP for the NEW YEAR's CROWD folks ;) they will sooner or later, go thru some of these trials, or experiences... and isn't it great to have people at all the different stages of this journey to bounce all of what we go through off each other??? Love you guys! Mean that w/ all my heart!!!
15 Dec 11 by member: jsfantome
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I like your attitude about that darn scale. It is just another number and isn't the most important number out there. I still use my scale but I judge how I'm doing more by the way my clothes fit. I refuse to be obessed with the scale. I did that a long time ago and really messed up my head. I either didn't eat for days at a time and if I did I threw it back up unitl I was the same number I was before I ate. And no matter what the scale said, I was never thin enough. Thank you for all your insight. You've helped many of us get through some tough times.
15 Dec 11 by member: davidsmom
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Paula...I came straight here after reading your comment on my journal! It IS funny...I love my scale today (today only), you decide you don't need/want to know what the magic wheel will say! I so understand how the power of the number CAN influence our mind...if we let it! I know I can get wrapped up in the number itself, my entry today shows that. I expected to see a gain, knowing it would be mostly water, but saw a loss instead...that was today, who knows what it would say tomorrow or Saturday? I TRY to use it as a guide, but sometimes it does get the better of me too!
15 Dec 11 by member: gg-girl
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Good for you. I love this new attitude! I think it is healthy to only weigh yourself once a week. It can be a buzz kill to step on it daily.
Wish you son luck on his applications. Have a great Thursday =)
15 Dec 11 by member: M.Trublu
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Thanks everyone... you know part of the 'odd' thing, is that normally, I step on it faithfully...the good the bad and the stay the same days, because of how strongly I feel about the RED LIGHT ZONE! I do think you have to watch, be careful...consider fluctuations, but also not let it get away from you. That's why I say..use it as a tool. But since I know that I am doing ALL THAT I KNOW TO DO... well, can't do more than that, can I? - Which is why I have gone back to the Work Real Hard for the whole week...then step on that bad boy and see what flies!!!
15 Dec 11 by member: jsfantome
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Thanks Sazy! just seeing you post a comment made me smile ;)
16 Dec 11 by member: jsfantome
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