Morena's accountability and "just talking to myself here" thread
Morena_2020
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So here I am. I have been a curvy girl all my life, and fine and confident with it since I hit 35, but over the past 13 years I've put on massive amounts of weight and am now obese. Phew. Just typing that out is a slap upside the head. It's been a combination of my life changing drastically from active to desk job, not really paying attention to myself, and let's face it, becoming a bit of a bon vivant. I am now the biggest that I have ever been, and the biggest I ever thought I'd be. And I know my health it at risk, particularly since due to an injury about 18 months ago I haven't been able to exercise.
These past couple of years, however, I've attempted changing things. I tried 5:2, which was successful up to a point: I lost a bunch of weight and then plateaued for what seemed like forever, and I gave up. Last year I also did what I thought I'd never do again and went low carb; I lost weight steadily and it helped my IBS but it just wasn't sustainable for me. (Days and weeks at a time, yes, but not over the long term that this amount of weight loss is going to require.)
Here's where the last couple of attempts have been useful, though: 5:2 taught me to fast, particularly since I was saving up my calories in order to have a relatively regular meal with the family. And my low-carb attempt almost cured my sugar cravings. Make no mistake: I love sweets, but I'm not addicted to them as I used to be, and I'm fine without them.
This is my sixth day on OMAD, and whoa - easy, doable, flexible, all of it. Everything I've been hoping for, in fact, and everything I've read tells me it's not one of those too-good-to-be-true things.
What do I weigh? Dunno. I have a very, VERY unhealthy relationship with the scales, to the point where stepping on them will trigger anxiety (you can chalk that up to my teenage years when I wasn't fine and confident about being curvy) , and although I know I will have to confront this at some point, that's not the priority. The priority is getting smaller. To that end, here comes the tape measure to the rescue!
HEIGHT: 165cm
MEASUREMENTS (as of today, not as of last Monday when I started OMAD)
B: 121cm
W: 115cm
H: 142cm
I'm taking Joe's advice and setting myself milestone goals, so my first goal is B: 116cm, W: 94cm, H: 126cm.
If you've read this far, thank you, and if you haven't, that's OK - just talking to myself here!
These past couple of years, however, I've attempted changing things. I tried 5:2, which was successful up to a point: I lost a bunch of weight and then plateaued for what seemed like forever, and I gave up. Last year I also did what I thought I'd never do again and went low carb; I lost weight steadily and it helped my IBS but it just wasn't sustainable for me. (Days and weeks at a time, yes, but not over the long term that this amount of weight loss is going to require.)
Here's where the last couple of attempts have been useful, though: 5:2 taught me to fast, particularly since I was saving up my calories in order to have a relatively regular meal with the family. And my low-carb attempt almost cured my sugar cravings. Make no mistake: I love sweets, but I'm not addicted to them as I used to be, and I'm fine without them.
This is my sixth day on OMAD, and whoa - easy, doable, flexible, all of it. Everything I've been hoping for, in fact, and everything I've read tells me it's not one of those too-good-to-be-true things.
What do I weigh? Dunno. I have a very, VERY unhealthy relationship with the scales, to the point where stepping on them will trigger anxiety (you can chalk that up to my teenage years when I wasn't fine and confident about being curvy) , and although I know I will have to confront this at some point, that's not the priority. The priority is getting smaller. To that end, here comes the tape measure to the rescue!
HEIGHT: 165cm
MEASUREMENTS (as of today, not as of last Monday when I started OMAD)
B: 121cm
W: 115cm
H: 142cm
I'm taking Joe's advice and setting myself milestone goals, so my first goal is B: 116cm, W: 94cm, H: 126cm.
If you've read this far, thank you, and if you haven't, that's OK - just talking to myself here!
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Welcome Morena
Keep it simple, eat your one meal a day and drink lots and lots of water. You got this!!! 1 -
Thanks so much, Brenda!1
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Dinner 18/1/2020:
- Pasta bolognaise
- Salad
- Melon slice
- 6 fresh lychees1 -
Hi there and a warm welcome😊 You can do this👍1
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Hello Morena and welcome. OMAD is very doable and it definitely works. We are here for you and you won’t be talking to yourself here. This is a great group. So here’s to your success.1
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Thanks so much, ladies! So happy to be here.1
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Today was the day I was waiting for: no hunger pangs! Absolutely fine all day until about 5pm, and even then they were manageable.
Cooked a feast for Sunday dinner. I’m bursting at the seams and I STILL didn’t get all my calories in!
- Oyakodon and rice
- Small servings of side dishes: kimchi pancake, shantung sweet potatoes, sambal eggplant
- Small scoop chocolate ice cream and 10 fresh cherries1 -
Hello Morena, great report. Your meal sounds good but I am not aware of what some of those dishes are. If you could take pictures of your meals, a visual would be wonderful.1
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Sure thing - that’s an even better way to be accountable.0
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Had a bit of a tough time today. Read somewhere that drinking apple cider vinegar helps weight loss, and I decided to do it on an empty stomach, COMPLETELY FORGETTING THAT I CAN’T DO VINEGARY THINGS ON AN EMPTY STOMACH. Oyyy... the nausea, the cramps. They were gone in an hour, but lesson learned: be gentle with the tummy while fasting!
So, dinner. Sausage and peppers, salad. Not pictured: a little fruit salad. I couldn’t finish! Soooooo full.
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OMG, salivating here...delicious
Oyakodon and rice, kimchi pancake, shantung sweet potatoes, sambal eggplant..my cup of tea
I can't take apple cider as it gives me cramps. Tried it before but after so many issues, I decided to stop
Keep up the good work..we are here for ya!
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Welcome Welcome to the OMAD "fam" loved your food pics, totally amazing!
So glad you are here and that you are sharing your journey with us. If you read any of our posts, we are all real people that aren't perfect in any way ---but we are all doing our best to find our healthy place.....one meal at a time
Can't wait to read more!
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Welcome!!! Your meals sounds amazing!!! And LOOK great!!! Welcome to our OMAD family, we're a supportive group!!! Let us know how we can help!!!1
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Thank you, thank you, and thank you! Everyone here is already my hero, and I feel so lucky to be among you all.
And yeah... the food. I love to cook and we love to eat! It’s one of the reasons we’re (hubby joined me yesterday and I’m STOKED) doing OMAD - the freedom to enjoy a delicious dinner as a family or go out.I can't take apple cider as it gives me cramps. Tried it before but after so many issues, I decided to stop
Keep up the good work..we are here for ya!
Glad I’m not the only one. Seriously it was the one negative in eight days of OMADing.
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Just a quickie because it’s getting late and I’m wiped out!
Date night with hubby so it was a bit of an indulgence but still - not too calorific and this level of flexibility is why I’m doing OMAD.
I smashed:
- A bowl of ramen
- A little agedashi-tofu
- A couple of gyoza
- A choc-top ice cream at the cinema!
And... somehow managed to eat it in just over an hour! 😄
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Heh. Just added it all up because it was such a feast and I was curious to see how much I’d gone over... it came to about 1200 calories. 😳0
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A bit late but... Welcome!!
Sounds like you're doing amazing so far
Those food pics and all your meals so far sound amazing! Yuuuuuuuum1 -
1200 calories is NOTHING!!! I can lose consistently at like 1500 a day! You're doin' AMAZING!!! Remind me how tall you are? I'm in the US and too lazy to convert to cms so if you could tell me in dumb-a** non-metric that'd be greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat
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The meal looks amazing.....
1200 is nothing so you are doing awesome!!!1 -
Thanks, everyone. I feel so great! And so positive! Particularly now that hubby’s joined me.
Re: the meal - I’m a little stunned, tbh. Because that was dinner, but what about the times I was eating a similar amount of calories three times a day PLUS snacks? Lots of factors got me to this weight but this one has been like a massive, massive penny dropping.mistymeadows2005 wrote: »Remind me how tall you are? I'm in the US and too lazy to convert to cms so if you could tell me in dumb-a** non-metric that'd be greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat
1.65m is like 5.4, almost 5.5. Hope that’s right!
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Another good day - nothing unusual to report! The only thing was a big penny dropping moment yesterday after my ramen feast: I like to eat until I’m full, but the overfull? I think I’m past it. When I was doing 5:2 I’d eat a big meal to see me through the next day, but I think I’ve actually made friends with the hunger pangs. Psychologically, I know a good meal is coming, and I also have associated the pangs (which are temporary anyway) with my body dipping into its fat stores.
Anyway, here’s tonight’s dinner for accountability.
- Steak with roasted garlic butter
- Ratatouille
- Sweet potato oven chips (DH went waaaaayyy overboard when he dished up and I didn’t finish them)
- Green salad (not pictured)
- Melon wedge and four fresh lychees for dessert (not pictured)
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The meal looks amazing!!!! WOW.....To be honest I am super hungry right now
I totally get it on the temporary hunger pangs.....for me it indicates that I haven't over done it. Times in the past where I have I literally feel miserable, my mood changes, everything. It is so awesome how OMAD really resets your mind as well as your body.
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Yuuuuum. That plate of food looks amazing!1
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Probably too much butter (too much everything, thank you DH) but it was soooo good.volgirl1322 wrote: »
I totally get it on the temporary hunger pangs.....for me it indicates that I haven't over done it. Times in the past where I have I literally feel miserable, my mood changes, everything. It is so awesome how OMAD really resets your mind as well as your body.
This is HUGE for me. I have a lot of weight to lose and I’m motivated, but it’s going to take a long time for me to get there and I can’t imagine how I will do it unless my mind resets, like you say.
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You totally will get there, it may take some time, but you will. If you go through my journey I have posted some before/after pics....they were horrifying to do, at my heaviest I was around 230ish or more......1
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Oh my goodness...am in food heaven...totally yummy yum yum Your food photos make me salivate..lol. You are much taller than me as I am only 1.58cm /5 feet 2. You can do this! Just keep at it and never give up We are here for ya 1
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volgirl1322 wrote: »You totally will get there, it may take some time, but you will. If you go through my journey I have posted some before/after pics....they were horrifying to do, at my heaviest I was around 230ish or more......
I will absolutely read through your journey - already I think you all rock, and the stories help me so much.Oh my goodness...am in food heaven...totally yummy yum yum Your food photos make me salivate..lol. You are much taller than me as I am only 1.58cm /5 feet 2. You can do this! Just keep at it and never give up We are here for ya
Thank you! I appreciate and absolutely need a cheering section. And yeah... the food. You can kinda see how I got here, can't you?
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We all got here the same way.....so much easier to put it on than take it off....especially the older you get....and for women wow way harder than men! But you are doing awesome!!!! 1
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Thank you so much.
Onto yesterday. It was a little challenging, for some reason. Hubby found it hard psychologically mostly, but we were also pretty hungry for some reason. Got home a little later than usual and when I arrived he said, “If you’d been five minutes later I would have eaten a chair!”
Instant pot to the rescue! Not a good looking meal but a satisfying one:
- Lamb saag (made with chops instead of boneless pieces - I was in a hurry and keen to keep my furniture safe!)
- Rice
- Sambal eggplant
- Green salad (not pictured)
- Three fresh lychees and five fresh cherries (not pictured)
And then all was well with the world. 😄
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Looks good to me
Oh and I love the title of your thread, I talk to myself a lot too!!! 1
