What worked for you today?

veggiepat

Eating more protein with each meal, which made me fuller. Yay!

Latrellis

2 eggs, onions, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, jalapenos with a little cheese and small sausage patty daily for b'fast

mssue18

Cooking the most delicious dinner I had no idea I was going to make. I had no idea how I was going to use portabella mushrooms, tuna and cheese. I stuffed the mushrooms and sautéed them with some spices. It really worked.

wanderinglight

I was super hungry after working out and *almost* ate way too much but I stopped, took a breath, pre-logged my food, ate a normal amount and waited 20 minutes so the "I'm full" signal could travel from my stomach to my brain.

GreenValli

My husband was given a coupons for free Jersey Mikes Subs. We are going to use them for dinner. Too many calories in a sandwich for me. So I am going to ask them to cut and wrap the 2 halves separately. I will eat one for dinner and eat the other half for tomorrow's lunch. I am looking over the choices online right now before we go and pick them up. I may end up going over calories a little bit though.

veggiepat

Got new dvd's from Gina B. Up to the Beat Fitness, and did binge exercise sessions over the weekend, instead of doing food binges. Woo Hoo!

jxwaters

I know I'm largely a night snacker (despite all the guidelines to make sure to stop eating at a certain time of night). I decided to pre-plan my daytime snacks and everything just to make sure I had enough calories left over for a little night time snacking, instead of getting to the end of the day and realizing I'd worked so hard, just to overdo it before bed.

kevin95630

What helps for me is to come on this board to engage rather than FB or tweeter.

I drink my own concoction of Sodastream no-cal, which really helps me to satisfy my need to "treat" myself. Carbonation make even plain water seem special for me. I add their flavor drops which do not add sweetener. But if I want more, I'll have various recipes that incorporate concentrated green tea, cayenne pepper, lemon or lime juice, and when I want to add sweetener, I use their diet lemon-lime (don't judge please, I know all about the debate over artificial sweeteners, the question was about what I do...). The lemon-lime seems to be a good general purpose base upon which to build.

Apart from that, I really do find that reading through this board helps me to focus on what's important, helps distract me from emotional eating and the stress-inducing discussions on FB.

We have horrific air quality due to the nearby fires, so indoor exercise while running a couple of HEPA filters 24/7 helps with that.

Be kind to yourselves. Love each other. Laugh often, from the belly.

colieblossom

I was not feeling my work out today. I did a slow hour. But because I needed to hit a number, I heard all the excuses in my head of why this work out was good enough. Then I asked myself am I in pain? No. Do I have the time? yes. So I got it done. 20 extra minutes and no excuses.

AlexandraFindsHerself1971

What worked for me today.... was not being on a "diet". It was terribly hot and humid today, and I looked at the kitchen and said, "Oh, I can't even." So we went to the local diner and picked up sandwiches. I wasn't even thinking about what I can eat and can't due to allergies, cause that's second nature now. And I wasn't looking at things to see if I could have them on my current food plan, because I can have anything on my current food plan. (And I knew whatever sandwich I got I could probably only handle having half a sandwich, anyway. I have shrunk my stomach a lot.) But I didn't have to worry about it. And that made it easier.

Individually wrapped things also works for me today. I may be better at portioning now, but I don't trust myself and that way I have to unwrap if I want more, and that's enough of a cue for me to wait.

wanderinglight

What worked for me today was intermittent fasting (I'm only eating between 12-8pm). It's 7:30pm here. I'm full from dinner, but I really want sweets. I know I will regret eating these empty calories and going to bed feeling uncomfortably full. Somehow, knowing that I only have another half-hour to get through before my window is "officially" closed is really helpful.

joyanna2016

What worked for me today was that my boys wanted me to get them an apple pie and vanilla ice cream at the store today. I love that dessert, but didn't want to spend all those Calories on it today. So, while I was in the grocery store I had the thought to buy myself some Caramel Apple Pie flavored light Greek yogurt. While they had their pie a la mode, I had my yummy yogurt with some granola sprinkled it. Way to anticipate a moment, self! You rocked today!

brenn24179

I wanted an oreo mcflurry but I dont eat after 6pm so I said No. Anyway, I looked it up and wow they have a lot of calories even the snack size. I have decided not to eat sweets but every 3-4 weeks so I will wait because it is a trigger for me, cant have ice cream very often.

AwesomeSquirrel

Listening to my body. I’ve been ramping up my exercise a lot in august and today I decided to dial it back and only do a short yoga practice. I used the extra time to go for a longer morning walk instead, getting almost 6000 steps before work.

I met up with my team for lunch. I brought some Tupperware and brought half the meal home with me for tomorrow. Bringing my own container really lowers the barrier!

AlexandraFindsHerself1971

Went and checked out a gym today. I realized that I'm a lot more confident since I lost weight, and so I was able to say, "Look, if your trainers can't handle the fact that I've got arthritis in weightbearing joints and exercise intolerance, I won't be working with you guys," straight up, and also forthrightly make sure the gym was okay with having someone transgender there, so that my girlfriend can come if she wants. (She heard they do water therapy/exercise, and is very interested.) So I'm pretty happy with the increase in confidence.

veggiepat

Getting in protein about 115 g a day. Really helping with my binge eating. Feelng full with the protein of about 20-30 g each meal. Yay!

charmmeth

veggiepat wrote: »

Getting in protein about 115 g a day. Really helping with my binge eating. Feelng full with the protein of about 20-30 g each meal. Yay!

That is really impressive. What are you eating as protein?

charmmeth

Saturday is my rest day, although I did some gardening. We ate breakfast and a midafternoon snack and then decided to have no carbsat dinner time. This has pretty much kept me within my calories for today: only about 10 over.

wanderinglight

Remembering this motto, as I was standing there with a bag of Reese's Pieces in my hand: discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

catmama256

planning and logging my meals the night before so I wake up ready for the day knowing what I'll eat already and that if I stick to whats logged I will have nailed it at the end of the day.

cyaneverfat

What worked for me yesterday? I went to four overeaters anoynomous meetings online, tracked my food, tracked dinner as 1000 calories because I didn't know what I was eating and went for a short walk and woke up a kilo lighter! it is a lot of weight, but it's my first week tracking after some time off so fast weightloss is to be expected.

mssue18

What worked for me today was walking and not stopping when I wanted to. Also cooking when I didn’t want to.

pandry15

Today I had to remind myself that 'slow and steady' is the right way to lose weight and give myself credit for the hard work I've done! Tomorrow is the weigh in day (every Tuesday), currently down from 300.4 to 262.0 since 7/7. I'm starting to see numbers I haven't seen in almost 20 years! Slow and steady - goal weight of 215.

siyeonsimpp

I was able to not overeat, and I also didn't eat too much sodium or sugar, which is nice, and I stayed within my calorie budget. I was able to exercise quite a bit (well I don't know if it's really exercise since most of the dance I was practicing was pretty low effort), and I wasn't even hungry for most of the day.

MadDogManor

Went to yoga class even though I really didn’t want to after a tough Monday at work. Wasn’t my best yoga practice, but I feel a little better both physically and mentally, so I can come home and do my second job

AlexandraFindsHerself1971

I was able to hold a plank today. Last time I tried the torn tendon in my ankle said ABSOLUTELY NOT. Last time I had shoes on, so maybe I will just have to do planks barefoot. Slow count of five is not bad for the first time.

dianegiefer

Choosing whole food plant-based foods that help me to feel great. Drinking water with fresh squeezed lemon juice. Enjoying cooler weather by walking my dog at a brisk pace for 4 miles.

Annie42019

Well it was yesterday but it was my “ reset” after vacation ( which consisted of a staycation with my daughter who I haven’t been able to see in 8 months coming to visit). We got lucky with weather and were able to eat out every night. I let myself fully partake and didn’t track. When I’ve lost weight in the past this would have been the beginning of the end of maintenance. But as I’ve done 3 other times since losing 75 pounds in the last few years after a vacation , I was ready to go back to tracking and maintenance by doing a Reset: a one day 500 calorie “ fast” day. This is a perfect way for me to get back in the proper mindset. And 1250 calories seems like a lot ( I do 1250 during the week and 1450 on weekends) after a 500 calorie day. . I know this wouldn’t be at all right for Everyone but it totally works great for me.

veggiepat

Calculating my carbs and protein together!

mytyglotz

Getting a wink more and better quality sleep last night -- I think my energy levels were at least bit higher!!