Living the Lifestyle Wed 7 Nov

Jimb376mfp

We meet here to explore, share, celebrate, and (sometimes) agonize over how we do (or don't) incorporate weight loss guidelines into our daily lives. "It's a lifestyle, not a diet" is easily and often said, but sometimes not so simply put into practice.

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Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion. Thread starters for November below:

Monday - Imastar2 (Derrick)
Tuesday - whathapnd (Emmie)
Wednesday - Jimb376mfp (Jim)
Thursday - EliteCoachKal (Kal)
Friday - savignr (Bob)

Today's Topic: Do you incorporate LTL in a major hurdle for a one time event or efit? Like surgery or Thanksgiving?

Today I have surgery for pinched nerve today. Today will be hospital food so LTL will be interesting

podkey

We had some good food choices in hospital trauma/injury unit although my DW brought me hot sauce from home for my eggs. Not so bad.
Thanksgiving is tougher but only one meal. I make the better choice.

myallforjcbill

I try but for Thanksgiving, Christmas & Easter it is more the voice of moderation. When I come off a fast after an epidural, etc for my back, my son always takes me for a burger which is our tradition. But I suppose you could call all that our lifestyle. It is a lot healthier than it would have been in ye olden days!

imastar2

@Jimb376mfp 1st Jim good luck on your pinched nerve surgery today.

Do you incorporate LTL in a major hurdle for a one time event or efit? Like surgery or Thanksgiving?

I actually don't really plan so much for a special Holiday like Thanksgiving or Christmas. It usually is a one meal for me and DW that day. We snack for breakfast and dinner and have the main course for lunch. I do plan with my LTL that it's only one day and usually only one meal so I do enjoy eating whatever I want to eat and how much I want to eat. Let's face it I can only eat so much at one meal then you got to stop. My WI day is on Friday so depending how it falls in the year my WI day is close or on the day so I just figure I will enjoy myself and then figure it out later. I figure my body will despense with most of it and I'll figure out the rest. The main thing is not to keep it going the next and the next and next day(s). That's really where the problem can comes in. Turkey day is only two weeks from tomorrow. I'm already working on controlling my self but then I'm in the losing mode.

SW 400.8
CW 342.6 🙂 -4.4 lbs ?
1st 340.0 Goal
2nd 300.0 Goal
Final GW 185.0

58.2 lbs Total Loss

Jerdtrmndone

I don't plan. day to day hr.by hr. for me.

cakeman21k

I have not had a hospital stay in over a decade so that is not one I can speak to thankfully. As for T day Xmas etc. I usually try to be absolutly perfect for the days before and after the even, but pretty much try not to think about it the day of the event. The old WW saying its a holiday not a holiday not a holiweek comes into play

minimyzeme

@Jimb376mfp --hope all goes / went well for ya, Jim. Here's to improved quality-of-life on the other side!

Do you incorporate LTL in a major hurdle for a one time event or efit? Like surgery or Thanksgiving?

I try to when and where I can, for the most part. "Eating holidays", like T-giving, I do for sure. The truth is I can't comfortably eat as much as I used to pre-WW, and I really don't want to. I'm no saint, but I find I can still have more that enough food even minding the LTL lifestyle for the eating holidays. I choose that.

Something like a hospitalization, it's hard for me to say because I haven't had one since starting WW, but I think I'd probably make as decent choices as I was able, given the "restaurant". Under those circumstances, my priority would be just getting through the event, beginning to end. Food would be somewhat secondary. Or...my peeps would bring me something good from outside and I'd enjoy that.