Non Scale Victories
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I consciously avoided a binge last night!...this Is one of the first times I have been able to do this!...I was really hungry after so much swimming yesterday and it wasn’t a craving- I was HUNGRY!...I had 5 lite trisquits, a string cheese and a 60 calorie meat stick...I immediately felt better but my fat brain kept whispering for me to have a little more!...I resisted and decided to go to bed....I woke up this morning feeling pretty proud of myself for not going crazy!....oh the little thing that make us happy lol8
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Yay!!!! That's awesome!1
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Good job Connie! The going to bed strategy is a good one.1
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »I consciously avoided a binge last night!...this Is one of the first times I have been able to do this!...I was really hungry after so much swimming yesterday and it wasn’t a craving- I was HUNGRY!...I had 5 lite trisquits, a string cheese and a 60 calorie meat stick...I immediately felt better but my fat brain kept whispering for me to have a little more!...I resisted and decided to go to bed....I woke up this morning feeling pretty proud of myself for not going crazy!....oh the little thing that make us happy lol
That's a humongous victory for you, Connie! I'm very happy for you on that win!1 -
Big one here. I went swim suit shopping this weekend. 😱 I know I hate it too. I got a gift certificate to JCPenny for my birthday in February and needed to spend it before they closed. So off I went. I ended up purchasing 2 bikinis in a XL. While it’s not the most pretty flat belly around it didn’t look terrible either and having the confidence to wear them all weekend was amazing! The sunburn on the part of my skin that normally don’t see the sun is a big downside but totally worth it!7
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I got a couple of nice compliments at the gym tonight! It's nice because I've really only lost a couple of pounds in the last few months, but people who haven't seen me since covid started are apparently seeing something.
Also, I challenged myself with higher weights in my class tonight, and I did better than I thought I would.5 -
@bobsburgersfan That's great! Compliments and getting noticed for me are always confidence boosters. Who knows? you might find yourself a guy yet! lol
@gewel321 Way to go! I'll never wear a bikini myself, but it was a big deal for me 2 years ago to get the confidence enough to actually buy a one piece bathing suit and wear it - though I still wear it with swim trunks lol I don't swim very often - I haven't even had it on at all this year yet, but it took a lot of courage for me to even get one, let alone put it on in public. I'm like the girl with the itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka-dot bikini
And if you're lucky, that sunburn will fade into a nice tan!3 -
I bought bras at a normal store!! I've always bought bra's from Lane Bryant, they always have cute bras. Now I'm down to a more common size so they actually have cute and supportive styles in regular stores. And it's way cheaper, I just bought 2 bras for the price of 1 Lane Bryant bra.
How many times can one say the word bra in a post? lol
bra, bra, bra
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@papayahed that's so awesome! LB bras bras bras are so expensive that the last few years I have turned to eBay to buy the overstock ones because I can get them for only $30. I realize how huge of a victory this is! 🎉2
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Congratulations! I know I was thrilled when my band size and cup size got small enough that I wasn't having to order off Amazon anymore!
Well, until I hit a 46C cup, anyway. I've tried a lot of bras over the years, but my favorite that are the most comfortable for me are the Playtex comfort strap which are luckily sold in Walmart, but unlikely, 46C's are not sold. I'm getting down to a 44C and I'm suspecting that if I tried it, I might just be flirting with a 42C, and that's a little easier to find.
and what is it with bra sizing these days? I'm used to A,B,C,D, and DD - what the heck is J,H,K, etc?1 -
You could buy a package of extenders and wear the bras from Walmart...I can’t wait to stop spending a fortune on bras from lane Bryant!1
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I feel you on the Lane Bryant bras. The bane of my existence has been the underwire coming out and poking me during a time when there aren't any sales on bras. They're so expensive that I just patch with moleskin and deal with being irritated until the semi-annual sale.
The plus side of working remotely and working out more is that now I basically just wear sports bras out of convenience.1 -
So I have an embarrassing but true NSV...I can’t eat gluten, so I eat tinkyada brown rice pasta. I used to eat 3/4 of a bag a day ☹️Since I started tracking I just finished a bag and went back through my days and realized that I had 8 servings on 8 different days...the number of servings in the bag!3
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »You could buy a package of extenders and wear the bras from Walmart...I can’t wait to stop spending a fortune on bras from lane Bryant!
I can't stand using extenders - it always pushes the straps too far to the edge of my shoulders and makes them uncomfortable for me. But I wish they'd work - it would make life a lot easier!1 -
Kinda scale related but mostly not.
My family wanted fried chicken last night for dinner. I don't care for the place they like so I told them that I would just fend for myself. I really wanted pizza and they don't care from my favorite pizza place. I thought about it for my whole drive home and decided that since I was going to MO today I would forgo the pizza and eat better to "save" the calories for today.
So today rolls around and I know I am going to a clinic that is close to my FAVORITE fast food place. This is a place that is not located near me so I only get to eat it when I travel. It is by no means healthy and the majority of my calories for the day would be spent eating at this place. My meeting went long and it was lunch time when it ended. I sat in my car and thought about it and decided that I did not need to eat the most amazing fried fish sandwich in existence and I did not need the frozen custard. I got on the interstate before I could change my mind and off I went. I drove back to the hospital and ate my regular healthy choice meal! Was it as good as that fish sandwich and custard would have been?? Nope. But it was worth what the scale will say in the morning!7 -
Kudos to you for making good choices.1
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »My NSV for the week: I can now wrap a hotel bath towel around my body, tuck it in to secure it, and it covers me! I can't wait for it to be safe to get massages again. I can now probably fit into the spa robes they have there without flashing everybody!
That’s a great NSV....my beach towel could wrap around a truck driver!....( a big truck driver! )
My original beach towels could wrap around the truck!1 -
Kinda scale related but mostly not.
My family wanted fried chicken last night for dinner. I don't care for the place they like so I told them that I would just fend for myself. I really wanted pizza and they don't care from my favorite pizza place. I thought about it for my whole drive home and decided that since I was going to MO today I would forgo the pizza and eat better to "save" the calories for today.
So today rolls around and I know I am going to a clinic that is close to my FAVORITE fast food place. This is a place that is not located near me so I only get to eat it when I travel. It is by no means healthy and the majority of my calories for the day would be spent eating at this place. My meeting went long and it was lunch time when it ended. I sat in my car and thought about it and decided that I did not need to eat the most amazing fried fish sandwich in existence and I did not need the frozen custard. I got on the interstate before I could change my mind and off I went. I drove back to the hospital and ate my regular healthy choice meal! Was it as good as that fish sandwich and custard would have been?? Nope. But it was worth what the scale will say in the morning!
I suppose there could have been more sodium in the fish sandwich than the HC meal to influence the scale but generally speaking the scale is never giving you yesterday's fat related news.
However, this NSV is quite significant because you were being kind to yourself by by saying no. It sucks to use up so many calories that you have to go super light or stay hungry the rest of the day. Sometimes I have made the choice to have the higher calorie meal but I almost always regret it a little. I do not recall ever hitting the evening time feeling unsatisfied or hungry and saying "But it was worth it to eat the fish sammich and custard." Of course that does not mean I won't still occasionally choose the treat, I am just glad I do not do it as often.2 -
Kinda scale related but mostly not.
My family wanted fried chicken last night for dinner. I don't care for the place they like so I told them that I would just fend for myself. I really wanted pizza and they don't care from my favorite pizza place. I thought about it for my whole drive home and decided that since I was going to MO today I would forgo the pizza and eat better to "save" the calories for today.
So today rolls around and I know I am going to a clinic that is close to my FAVORITE fast food place. This is a place that is not located near me so I only get to eat it when I travel. It is by no means healthy and the majority of my calories for the day would be spent eating at this place. My meeting went long and it was lunch time when it ended. I sat in my car and thought about it and decided that I did not need to eat the most amazing fried fish sandwich in existence and I did not need the frozen custard. I got on the interstate before I could change my mind and off I went. I drove back to the hospital and ate my regular healthy choice meal! Was it as good as that fish sandwich and custard would have been?? Nope. But it was worth what the scale will say in the morning!
I suppose there could have been more sodium in the fish sandwich than the HC meal to influence the scale but generally speaking the scale is never giving you yesterday's fat related news.
However, this NSV is quite significant because you were being kind to yourself by by saying no. It sucks to use up so many calories that you have to go super light or stay hungry the rest of the day. Sometimes I have made the choice to have the higher calorie meal but I almost always regret it a little. I do not recall ever hitting the evening time feeling unsatisfied or hungry and saying "But it was worth it to eat the fish sammich and custard." Of course that does not mean I won't still occasionally choose the treat, I am just glad I do not do it as often.
There's a pizza shop in the town where my office is that makes fantastic calzones. The calorie count has to be significant, though, considering the size of the suckers and how much cheese is stuffed into them, and when I go there, I can't stop myself at half - I've tried. So on the very rare occasion that I will treat myself, I will eat lightly during the day to save calories for the evening - that way I go to be satisfied and not hungry. I do find it worth it once a great while to do it, even if I go over that day itself because it also gives me a break from trying to hit my numbers all the time.
However, there are other things that I just don't find worth it either. They might be enjoyable going down, but yeah, at the end of the day, I find that I'd have really rather had the calories than the fleeting enjoyment.5 -
Tonight is going to be one of those rare occasions @bmeadows380 mentioned for me. My partner and I remembered a little milestone last night and decided to takeout from one of the best restaurants in my city which also happens to be an artisan pizza shop and watch a date night movie to celebrate. I've unintentionally banked one to three hundred calories a day since I had a pretty light/not hungry week and was already planning on a pretty hefty workout today, even without the pizza, so I'm somewhat shockingly not feeling weird about it. As someone who has heavily restricted in the past, letting myself live my life and enjoy celebrations while still working towards my goals is a huge mental win.7
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emmyjaykay wrote: »Tonight is going to be one of those rare occasions @bmeadows380 mentioned for me. My partner and I remembered a little milestone last night and decided to takeout from one of the best restaurants in my city which also happens to be an artisan pizza shop and watch a date night movie to celebrate. I've unintentionally banked one to three hundred calories a day since I had a pretty light/not hungry week and was already planning on a pretty hefty workout today, even without the pizza, so I'm somewhat shockingly not feeling weird about it. As someone who has heavily restricted in the past, letting myself live my life and enjoy celebrations while still working towards my goals is a huge mental win.
You can’t live your life restricted. That’s how we fail. Sometimes you have to eat that pizza (or fish sandwich and custard for me). As long as it fits then it’s good! It’s when we get all rigid that we fail. Life is still life. Sometimes you can have your cake. And sometimes you need to eat it too!2 -
emmyjaykay wrote: »Tonight is going to be one of those rare occasions @bmeadows380 mentioned for me. My partner and I remembered a little milestone last night and decided to takeout from one of the best restaurants in my city which also happens to be an artisan pizza shop and watch a date night movie to celebrate. I've unintentionally banked one to three hundred calories a day since I had a pretty light/not hungry week and was already planning on a pretty hefty workout today, even without the pizza, so I'm somewhat shockingly not feeling weird about it. As someone who has heavily restricted in the past, letting myself live my life and enjoy celebrations while still working towards my goals is a huge mental win.
You can’t live your life restricted. That’s how we fail. Sometimes you have to eat that pizza (or fish sandwich and custard for me). As long as it fits then it’s good! It’s when we get all rigid that we fail. Life is still life. Sometimes you can have your cake. And sometimes you need to eat it too!
yup! So sometimes its a victory to resist but sometimes its better to enjoy it and move on 2 -
@jewel_1213 Great job on overcoming that temptation. I know sometimes it feels like I'm tossing a coin because I really don't know what I'm going to do when I'm in that situation...that's why it is so important toshareour victories with others as well as our setbacks....you should be proud of yourself!
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I painted the entire inside of my new 2000 square foot house in six days. I....probably shouldn't have tried to do that so fast. As I am now healing stress fractures in my feet. (oops.) But I couldn't possibly have handled doing that thirty pounds ago. The thirty pounds has made a lot of difference in my mobility and pain levels and energy levels.
Also, I'm ALMOST in a size 16. Not a 16 plus; I wear that fine. A straight 16. My current goal is to zip those jeans, and that's not quite happening yet.5 -
@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 We must be twins! I am waiting for the closing on my house-the entire thing needs to be painted...and just broke my foot this week! What terrible timing. Best of luck!!2
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Now that the contractors have been paid off and left, I have some touch-up painting to do. I think I'm going to wait a week or so and let myself heal.3
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emmyjaykay wrote: »Tonight is going to be one of those rare occasions @bmeadows380 mentioned for me. My partner and I remembered a little milestone last night and decided to takeout from one of the best restaurants in my city which also happens to be an artisan pizza shop and watch a date night movie to celebrate. I've unintentionally banked one to three hundred calories a day since I had a pretty light/not hungry week and was already planning on a pretty hefty workout today, even without the pizza, so I'm somewhat shockingly not feeling weird about it. As someone who has heavily restricted in the past, letting myself live my life and enjoy celebrations while still working towards my goals is a huge mental win.
You can’t live your life restricted. That’s how we fail. Sometimes you have to eat that pizza (or fish sandwich and custard for me). As long as it fits then it’s good! It’s when we get all rigid that we fail. Life is still life. Sometimes you can have your cake. And sometimes you need to eat it too!
Some people can probably live heavily restricted (food-wise) but I think they are very rare and probably would not gain enough to qualify for this group.
I firmly believe that the main reason I have lost so much is because I knew when to take my foot off the gas. My overly strict ways in the past always led to failure. By being kinder to myself and allowing more food on special occasions, holidays, vacations, and sometimes just for fun days it made it all more sustainable.
The occasional day(s) of more food is the life I want to live when the weight is gone. I have said it often, I do not want to be sitting in the corner at Thanksgiving eating celery sticks. I know that my vision of maintenance will likely involve some small deficit periods to offset higher calorie days. I can't speak for future me but present me doesn't see a problem with that plan.3 -
I love this NSV!Kinda scale related but mostly not.
My family wanted fried chicken last night for dinner. I don't care for the place they like so I told them that I would just fend for myself. I really wanted pizza and they don't care from my favorite pizza place. I thought about it for my whole drive home and decided that since I was going to MO today I would forgo the pizza and eat better to "save" the calories for today.
So today rolls around and I know I am going to a clinic that is close to my FAVORITE fast food place. This is a place that is not located near me so I only get to eat it when I travel. It is by no means healthy and the majority of my calories for the day would be spent eating at this place. My meeting went long and it was lunch time when it ended. I sat in my car and thought about it and decided that I did not need to eat the most amazing fried fish sandwich in existence and I did not need the frozen custard. I got on the interstate before I could change my mind and off I went. I drove back to the hospital and ate my regular healthy choice meal! Was it as good as that fish sandwich and custard would have been?? Nope. But it was worth what the scale will say in the morning!
I used to get fast food way more often, and I remember doing this (although I'm not talking about amazing food). But I remember sitting in my car talking myself out of it. I'd even leave my house sometimes, head down the road still trying to figure out where I wanted to go, and I'd end up talking myself out of it entirely and going back home. Cut to a couple of years later: the other day I was thinking about maybe stopping for fast food and I realized that most of the time now, I'd rather eat at home than eat fast food.
The more you practice a behavior, the more it becomes habit, and it's great!!!5 -
That is awesome!! Count me in as a fast food talker outer. It used to be soo easy to stop and pick something up on the way home from work. After a long and usually stressful day who wants to cook.
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