Share Your Day
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It's a new day. I got my hair washed and am now waiting for it to dry. (It's down to my tailbone, and thick, and it takes an hour or so to dry.) Then I'll brush it out and roll it up again and get on with my day.
Somehow that background hungry anxiety about food is diminishing. Interesting.3 -
Not feeling so good after yesterday’s covid booster shot. Headache and muscle aches mostly. Enough so I don’t feel particularly hungry all. Soup today and a good nap 😴5
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Enjoy the nap and take it easy! I need a haircut Alexandra! It hasn't gotten any better since my drivinggto Vancouver picture overlooking the river last month and I now qualify for the mad non scientist look!😹2
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#$%#%#$%# failed to plan
So instead of going to get a haircut... I stopped by the grocery store to get some pre-cut fruit since a friend of dad's was going to drop by to see him!
Grocery store. 1pm. Without having eaten a breakfast or a snack... and no @Yoolypr handy to apply the "motherly" slipper to the backside she previously almost advertised!!! And NOT EVEN a @Bella_Figura to inject some stiff upper lip! Or a @lauriekallis to at the very least steer me towards something HOT instead! (DON'T fall for Galen's frozen mini Kubano appetizers and the $2.50 in points when you buy two... not worth the money or the calories in my opinion. Not TERRIBLE. But nothing special -or filling- either)
And THAT is how you end up with over 600g of Hershey Kisses and M&Ms and ?winter sleigh themed? EGG shaped chocolates in candy shell!
I mean... I am going to be giving it away, right? :a
Because a smart person would give it away unopened and would NOT test first to see what would be more suitable for who, right?
I can now report that the Grinch milk chocolate Hershey Hugs are way way superior to the dual colored white/milk chocolate Hugs. It has only cost me 210 Cal to determine this .... so far! 4 -
If I eat chocolate it's usually German chocolate I get at Aldi's. Hershey's and a lot of the commercial stuff tastes underpowered and waxy to me these days. (Perils of being a supertaster, I guess.) And, of course, my other superpower in resisting the bags of chocolate is that I have that fructose sensitivity. Despite humans being wired to like sweet, eventually I do figure out that if I get a headache and nausea and feel totally rotten every time I eat sweets, they stop looking quite so good any more.5
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I agree to waxy. That's my main complain about the "white around milk" hugs. They are way too artificial. The milk one is a bit weird as far as solid milk chocolate; but much closer to expected. I am resisting the M&M's and egg-shell choco so far... cause not a low cal day so far.
I'm still lagging on the operant conditioning curve. Or maybe my negative reward is not immediate enough!2 -
PAV - what the heck is wrong with you boy? Do not bring kryptonite into the house! Any chance you can get dad to snarf down your chocolate stash?
What I’ve done with the evil cheesy poofs is break the bagful down into individual portioned baggies. I write the calories on the baggies with a sharpie as a reminder. Doesn’t always work but it’s a definite wake up call.3 -
I['m quite chuffed at being thought of as the stiff upper lip one, rather than the slipper wielding one!
Yep, I agree with @Yoolypr, whatever is your kryptonite, don't have it in the house. Certainly not 600g of it!
I only need a lightly stiff (flaccid?) upper lip when it comes to rubbish quality chocolate. Not much temptation in palm oil, tons of sugar and artificial flavourings. If I'm having chocolate it has to be the good stuff, with 70% cocoa solids, cocoa butter and natural flavourings. Proper, indulgent stuff. Not the stuff where sugar is the main ingredient. With the good stuff, a little goes a long way.3 -
Since Pav's post I've been thinking about trigger foods, and how different they are for different people.
My MIL is always very restrained around food, but all bets are off if you were to put an open family-sized bag of Kettles crisps beside her. Crisps are her Kryptonite...as are fresh squidgy jam doughnuts and hot cross buns. Once they've lost their first freshness the doughnuts and hot cross buns lose their Kryptonite quality, but for the first few hours after they've been made she's like a woman possessed...
For my husband it's plain biscuits. Put a plate of fancy chocolate biscuits by his elbow and he could resist until the cows come home, but offer him Rich Teas, Digestives or Malted Milk and he just can't resist. I can't think of any other food that he finds irresistible...
For me it's spicy or savoury stuff - Bombay Mix, veggie samosas, chilli rice crackers, seaweed peanuts etc.. - or (oddly) cold tuna pasta salad or cold giant wholewheat couscous with roasted vegetables. If I have leftovers of either of those two meals in the fridge they prey on my mind...
This is the reason why I daren't buy any spicy snacks for Christmas....5 -
Had to quit buying supposedly healthy granola bars. They are not a “meal replacement “ for me. Cheese crackers, Belvitas, wasabi peanuts. Any kind of nuts! Peanut butter is meh but whole nuts OMG. Hubby’s snacks don’t tempt luckily.3
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Do not bring kryptonite into the house!
Yes yes yes. I was to the point where some kryptonite was okay - I had some resistance. But I am coming to understand I am back at stage one again. Time to clear out.What I’ve done with the evil cheesy poofs is break the bagful down into individual portioned baggies. I write the calories on the baggies with a sharpie as a reminder. Doesn’t always work but it’s a definite wake up call.
Wow. I think this might work for me?! Portion control per se doesn't. It is just a waste of packaging materials (and/or freezer space)....Once I start I tend to keep going. But. That little reminder might break through the fog of determined mindlessness.
Thank you, Yooly!!!!
(and I just typed this with two hands. TWO! Starting to hurt now though so back to "hugs" .... but it is coming!
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So happy to hear your hands are both operational!
I don’t waste the snack baggies - at least not after one use. Rinse, reuse, x-out calories and enter new count. Depending on use they last a long time. I also reuse those small plastic containers that take-out sauces/dressings/salsas come in. Perfect for small crackers. Might be useful for PAV to portion the pesky M&Ms.
I have a basket of portioned items my son refers to as the “snack bar”.2 -
That "trick' was one of the first things I did back in 2014. Everything snack-like went into 15 to 30g ziplock bags with weight marked. I still had to log it before eating it and there was no eating in the kitchen or while attending, it had to go to the living room or table to be eaten. A second one was acceptable; but I would have to get up and go get it, sit down, log it and only then eat it. A third one was acceptable if I walked around the house to the alley and back up (about 5-6 minutes at the time). A fourth would require me going to Safeway to pretend to be going there to buy it. Safeway was about 8-10 each way. A fifth was a walk to Walmart 40 to 45 minutes each way.
I never had 5 in a row and I think that only once did I end up walking to Safeway.
Yesterday ended up costing about 700 Cal and zero deficit. We learned that candy converted eggs taste really good, and most Hershey hugs look good but miss the mark!
Little plain baggies instead of the colorful packaging while implementing a deficit is far from a terrible idea as I find my resistance is normally much higher when I'm not "pekish"1 -
700 isnt terrible...but still not smile inducing.
For me it would be a waste of baggies because any portioned kryptonite would not normally stay portioned for longer than an hour...max...then all portions would be in my belly and baggies would be tucked deep in recycling bin out of shame.
But maybe, just maybe the caloric reminder might result in some control???2 -
hamsters are weird. there exists a chance that if you hit kryptonite while having already eaten you might be able to get away with a more reasonable portion. do that a couple of times and there is a chance again you might start surviving the encounters. definitely not recommended if hungry or not at an emotionally solid spot (in my case if tired or agitated). and definitely if it is a true high value kryptonite probably.... I'm lucky to have so many that they have trouble claiming to be unique and special!
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There again being short, female and old all conspire against me. 😾 700 calories is nearly half my daily maintenance at goal weight. Or 3 hours on the treadmill! So regular kryptonite hits must be carefully controlled.3
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When I am in control and in a good frame of mind, no foods really bother me …I bake, cook, and buy snacks….no problem…BUT if binge mode rears it’s ugly head, all bets are off….I can eat anything whether I really like it or not…3
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I still need to learn the option of going to bed when tired and puttering around in a mood because I should do this or that before heading to bed. Sometimes it's not really an option. But many other times it actually is; I just don't take it. Guess I still haven't gotten out of the not going to bed phase 🤣2
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I still need to learn the option of going to bed when tired and puttering around in a mood because I should do this or that before heading to bed. Sometimes it's not really an option. But many other times it actually is; I just don't take it. Guess I still haven't gotten out of the not going to bed phase 🤣
that is a problem for me too. i think my hamsters know if they keep me puttering, i'll eventually break down and feed them.2 -
Hey all. Sorry I have not been around much. I was SICK last week. Like had to get a Covid test (negative), leave work early (and I work from home), and slept all the time sick. So food and nutrition and all that was not a focus for me last week. Eating whatever I could keep down or had the energy to ingest was the focus.
Still not 100% (Chronic Fatigue plus illness is not a good combo), but I am functioning at least.5 -
Hope this week brings wellness and energy and good nutrition to your table.4
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Glad you've perked up a bit!3
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Went for an 8 mile hike in the forest after breakfast - glorious! Refueled with a cornish pasty (shared with my husband and the dog) and a slice of carrot cake.
It's my husband's birthday this week so we have some meals out planned...going to our favourite pizzeria tomorrow...5 -
Today finished work & taking two days off to cone to Edinburgh to meet my son, Tom’s girlfriend, Carolina…. Tad nerve wracking! Especially after a 3 hour drive by OH through some tiny, hilly roads at his made speed in the pitch black dark!😵💫 Anyway here & pitched up, middle of the night, dumped the our nervy Jess on them & off to Bonvey Marriot & mini bar! Carolina may never speak to us again!
Anyway, Tom,Carolina are taking me off sight seeing & OH off to Glasgow to work! 🏴3 -
I'm doing...surprisingly well. It's almost as though something subconscious shifted about a week ago and my need to binge has dropped another level.
For a long time I've had the background desire to eat something because food is tasty just sort of running as a background track to my life. About two weeks ago it shut off. I didn't say anything at the time but waited to see, and...no, it hasn't come back. I get hungry. But the constant background, "Oh, you could eat something" isn't there.
Intellectually, I know I could. There's candy bars in the fridge, there's cookies on the counter, there's more hamburger patties so I could have another burger, there's packets of chips in the pantry and trail mix in a container on the counter...and I had lunch and I'm full and I don't want any and I'm only thinking about food because I'm writing about it. I don't know what I did differently, I don't know what will affect it, but I like it a lot.
And now I'm going to go watch a history documentary and work on some hand sewing. And not think about snacking. How very, very nice!6 -
Edinburgh is a breathtaking city! In more ways than one! Walked to see the Castle and am awed & knackered! Earned 900 kcals in exercise calories, ate amazing street food - falafal wrap that was massive & defeated me - got 1/2 left for lunch tomorrow!
Found a gem of a pub & with great company! Off back to Yorkshire tomorrow night 🙂4 -
How exciting! After an entire weekend of eating out and trying my first alcoholic drink, I only gained 0.7lbs./0.318kg when I weighed myself on Monday! (I still can't see the appeal of alcohol, by the way. It's so meh. So why do people enjoy it?)
I just measured myself again to move my measurement days to Fridays, and I lost everything I gained already and then a little more! What a shocker! Not bad for a week of trying to get back into the groove of weight loss and in the middle of fixing a messed-up sleep schedule! But what made me super happy today is that I'm already losing little measurements off my most desired area: the belly! Oh, what a cause for celebration! I'm losing weight and inches/centimeters while still enjoying good food. Such a bliss~! I'm so ready to enjoy the weekend!3 -
Hey, that sounds like the best of both worlds👍2
