Judgment Free Zone
Diatonic12
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Freedom to share about your weight releasing journey, maintenance, how you've stopped yourself from falling back into old patterns and habits that lead to rebound weight gain. How you were able to right your ship through. How do you handle food triggers. So much of food and weight stability is mental. How we think about things, approach them, work through them. How do you continue on. This is a judgment free zone.
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No one has all of the answers for breaking old cycles that are unique to each of us. We work better as a team. I just know that food triggers don't solve any of the problems that cause us to use food for self-soothing. Trigger foods lose their sparkle and allure, they have their limitations.
No one wants to go backwards and maintaining weight loss is a major achievement. I wouldn't consider that a good thing. I'd consider it a great, fantastic wondrous, terrific thing and a major thing a person could ask for from themselves when it comes to listening to your body. Maintenance success is very inspiring.
Remember the scale is only one data point. So just file away the data points if it's not happening soon enough and keep tooling along. We look forward to being on the other side of all this but there's really no such thing as the finish line.
We can't wish our lives away in giant month hunks. Let's celebrate your excellent day or week or month. Nice job all the way around. I hope for all of your efforts you got a little euphoria bump when all the work was done.
You deserve it. Much Love.1 -
Who in the world needs fortified gummy bears. They're everywhere. They're made out of straight sugar, corn syrup, upside down sugar, more sugar and something really artificial and more high fructose corn syrup all in the same product with some form of vitamins.
I have been known to sit down and eat half a bottle of those at a whack. Everyone is eating fortified gummy bears. Prebiotic and probiotic gummy bears, fiber gummies. They trip my trigger.
I simply don't bring the offenders into the house or eat them in my vehicle. It's not good common horsesense to eat more than one at a time.
Do you like Gumbo. That's what I'm having for supper.
Fish, fish, fish makes you feel good. I eat whopping boatloads of fish. Fishes are essential to my moods and 'tudes. I drink mossy green tea with a tad of macadamia nut oil added to it. It's satisfying.
Fishes and good proteins keep me from dumpster diving and diving back into bags of gummy bears for entertainment. Self-soothing with your food triggers only digs a much deeper hole that can never be filled with food rewards.
I've tried to moderate and manage gummy bears. It was a ridiculous and useless experiment.
My time is better spent on investing in foods with dynamic and dunamis power. Good food fixes everything.
Good food captures nuances of practical energy that turns into a really good feeling.
Just like music. Gumbo. It's what's for supper. Keep dancin' you Cajun queens and kings out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6qe9I0d5KA&feature=youtu.be[/url]
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I prefer vodka infused gummy bears but I see you failed to mention them! Have you not tried them yet?14
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I recommend the Haribo sugar-free gummies.12
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »I prefer vodka infused gummy bears but I see you failed to mention them! Have you not tried them yet?
Recipe?2 -
Gummy bear croutons, who knew.
I've used protein bars and granola bars for croutons. Especially those newer jerky beef bison turkey chicken bars but I don't really like them all that much. Yuck, I need a bucket.
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Everyone has a different Health Equation. I've found weight stability with my own Positive Food Management Plan. I am a veteran dieter and no longer call it dieting. I'm through with all of that.
I created my own plan with foods and exercise that I enjoy. I do everything on my own terms.
A judgment free zone is a safe place to keep it civil, not judge or assume without understanding each other's context. Anyone can use any diet as a cover for disordered eating or a food addiction. That includes trying to outexercise one. I don't want to leap and jump into conclusions about motivations or situations here.
Feel free to share your good decisions.
With weight releasing there are always two hormones at play. Leptin and cortisol. Leptin is the hunger and satiety hormone and cortisol is the alertness hormone. When leptin is low it wants more fuel.
Leptin and cortisol have circadian rhythms and they run opposite of one another when they're working properly.
Leptin is low when cortisol is high.
In the morning when cortisol should be at its highest, leptin should be low.
In the evening when cortisol is low to get you naturally ready for sleep, your leptin should be high so you will be fully sated.
So if you don't have any of these signals going on, your metabolic cues are all messed up from too many wild swings UP and down with your blood sugar, too much dieting or overrestriction...it take months and months to get everything back on track. Eating when hunger ensues naturally. I've skipped meals every day and it didn't turn any of this around for me.
Circadian rhythms matter. Animals have them, too.
https://www.consumerreports.org/dieting-weight-loss/intermittent-fasting-no-miracle-path-to-weight-loss/
Front-load your meals. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that obese women who ate the bulk of their daily calories (50 percent) at lunch lost 3 pounds more over the 12-week study period than those who ate most of their calories at dinner. We need more research looking at meal timing, but it may have cardiovascular benefits in addition to helping with weight loss.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/104/4/982/4557122
Many obese people who are trying to lose weight are used to eating a higher-energy meal at dinner because of work commitments during the day and believe that they can have their main meal at dinner in a low-energy diet without any deleterious effects on their weight management. The findings of our current study may have practical implications indicating that the consumption of a main meal at lunch and not at dinner could improve weight loss when people use a weight-loss program.
The principal strengths of this study are, first, that it was a randomized, outpatient, clinical trial, in which subjects were following a comprehensive diet plan for weight control. Second, subjects wished to lose weight, and the study included middle-aged overweight and obese women who were able to comply with a weight-loss plan; thus, the women showed that they were motivated to adhere to the protocol of the weight-loss diet (44). Third, the provision of a free diet plan and a daily telephone call from a dietitian to each subject was an encouragement for regular biweekly visits with the dietitian when compliance could be encouraged in both groups. Also, because this study was conducted in a free-living population, the results can be directly related to obese and overweight women who seek to lose weight. In contrast, the limitation of the current study is the short-term intervention period. Future research is required to examine the long-term health effect of a high-energy lunch relative to a high-energy dinner to establish whether the benefits that we showed are sustained and result in an accumulative, clinically relevant difference in weight. In addition, this study was performed only in overweight and obese women who were attending a formal weight-loss program. Longer-term studies are required in a broader range of participants both in subjects in a formal weight-loss program and in individuals who are attempting to lose weight with less formal, intensive support.
In conclusion, the consumption of the main meal at lunch appears to provide beneficial effects on weight loss and insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese women who are adhering to a weight-loss program. Longer-term studies are required in both healthy overweight and obese patients and in individuals whose insulin sensitivity is compromised (e.g., prediabetic and diabetic patients).
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There are only choices and consequences.
We want to see positive results instead of net negative consequences.
Blowing things off is a habit that leads to procrastination. There is no such thing as the perfect day or perfect month to start your Positive Food Management Plan. There's no such thing as the finish line.
It only takes one day and one decision to keep tooling along.
The true essence of a grape is revealed when it's been squeezed. I've been squeezed.
The body is bent on survival just like the grape.
Take the time to understand your potential and then gently coax it into its fullest expression. It's going to take constant care and attention...learning how to survive and thrive regardless of all past flops and failures and neglect.
We all have a unique flavor. Growing grapes is not easy.
You can be very thin skinned and tempermental. Sour. It requires patience with yourself and a good growing environment to reach your fullest potential. Breathe in your inspiration wherever you can get it.
Your health is a blessing and not a burden. Be honest with yourself and others.
How long has this been going on. How long have you been gutting it out with some brutal, overly restricted plan. Just give the results, NOW.
Deprivation is the mother of failure.
There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss. Rounds and rounds of dieting, falling back into old habits, eating it all back - has that changed everything for you then?
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Diet is a four letter word. Many are reaching the same conclusion at the same time.
Never let anybody take control of your nutritional decisions. Ever.
If someone wants to control who you really are, run. Master controllers control others because they cannot control or manage their own lives. It's a defense and a coping skill to make themselves feel better.
You choose. You decide. Don't let anyone take that from you.0 -
Repeat your personal protocol strategies over and over. You'll have to if you want lasting change.
Remain resolute. No one has to live in your body. No one has to live in your mind or thoughts. Don't let others consume or control you. You are free of the manipulation of others. Believe it or not, not everyone has your best interests at heart.
Maybe they want you for a 'food' friend. They think you're a soft soak. A real pushover. Always up for another insulin excursion and another bout of thrill eating. Tag, you're it.
There's a big red bullseye on your forehead. A walking billboard for more manipulation wanted here. Use me, all you gotta do is use me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZldnP0lhHA[/url]
Noooo, you're not going out like that. Don't let anyone tell you what to do when it comes to your personal relationship with food. That is the one baby that's yours. All yours. No one puts baby in a corner.
Not today. Not ever.
When you start thinking like that it translates over into your relationship with food. The food offenders don't control you. They can be sitting on your countertop looking all cute but you've created new habits to replace the old ones. The old offenders no longer have you in a vise-grip.
You might visit them tomorrow but it will be on your own time and your decision.
Learn how to enjoy the moment without following the urge. The urge of instant and impulsive gratification.
You use the thinking system because you've learned how to use your head besides something to part your ears with.
This means you can enjoy the moment without following someone else's urge, too. Let cooler heads prevail.
You've got your strategy and protocol. You've got to learn how to just say Nooo. You have to mean it with everything within your being or those old thoughts will run roughshod over you.
Why they'll figure you for a piece of milktoast. Put your resolute face on. Give 'em the eye. Simply close up the kitchen and go to bed. The kitchen is closed. Much love. Nite, y'all.1 -
I used to like gummy bears and then they changed the recipe...why mess with something that works?1
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »
Haribo. There is only one brand as far as I'm concerned. I'm in the UK though4 -
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »
Haribo. There is only one brand as far as I'm concerned. I'm in the UK though
There are only 2 brands of gummy bears Haribo and the rest of them.
That being said, Auntie anne's makes some pretty good gummy treats.
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Haribo gummies are really good. Did y'all ever try the ones shaped like cherries?2
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Freeing yourself of dieting is just the tip of the iceberg. You can use your dreams to teach yourself all kinds of new cognitive behaviors. They will give you confidence.
Thoughts always precede behaviors. Old habitual thought patterns create deep grooves in your brain. They can lead to overeating and poor eating lifestyle choices.
Your tolerance and indifference for lifelong cravings and food triggers is a muscle that will grow stronger with use.
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »Haribo gummies are really good. Did y'all ever try the ones shaped like cherries?
No, but I might. I like extra sour ones but there's too much sugar dusted on the outside. I like cinnamon, berry flavor and I always throw the green and yellow ones away. Some strange artificial twangy flavors are not worth the effort.0 -
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I am a DIY kind of gal, this recipe sounds like fun. https://www.thespruceeats.com/gummy-bears-recipe-5208961
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On the first part of my weight releasing journey I had some really intense dreams while tooling along.
I would always be floating near the top of a stadium or just about to sail away into the sky. It was liberating but sometimes it was scary. One night, David Letterman was in my dream. He was in the stadium trying to help me get down from the top of the ceiling. I was hanging onto helium balloons. He told me it was alright to come down from there. I don't know if I really wanted to.
Dreams are a wonderful escape but they're teaching tools, too. They're part of your new equipment, toolkit for the difficult times. The really important dreams you will always remember. There are dreams I had years and years ago, I can remember them like they were yesterday. Use them for your healing and problem solving.
I've been here since 2016, but I've just started sharing recently. I know how to encourage myself and I can talk to myself until the cows come home but connection with others is strong medicine. The brain is a funny thing. You have to keep tending to it like a garden. It is your garden. There are weeds and root rot hiding in there. Stinkin' Thinkin'....but there are tender shoots and little flowers, too.
While you're on your weight releasing journey, there will be days when you have to throw everything up against the wall to see what sticks. Talking yourself away from those old deep grooves in the brain and making some happy new trails.
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »Haribo gummies are really good. Did y'all ever try the ones shaped like cherries?
No, but I might. I like extra sour ones but there's too much sugar dusted on the outside. I like cinnamon, berry flavor and I always throw the green and yellow ones away. Some strange artificial twangy flavors are not worth the effort.
I also throw the green and yellow away! We're long lost sisters!1 -
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I'm free fallin', yeah baby. I'm headed over to the swimming pool and going to swim for a couple hours.
I'm a bad boy 'cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy, for breaking her heart
Those lyrics get me every single time because they are so truthful. Tom Petty. RIP, 'cause you are missed.
I've had my heart broken but I like what Salma says.
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Do you also like vanilla ice ? Not the food but the rapper !1
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