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Food...control...the endless loop

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  • Yoolypr
    Yoolypr Posts: 3,530 Member
    None. Zip. Nada control today!
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,679 Member
    Uh-oh! Gently does it. First decide to stop overdoing. Then, a few days later, worry about reducing. Gently. Cause yeah. 🤯
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,679 Member
    Are you sleeping good?
  • Yoolypr
    Yoolypr Posts: 3,530 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Are you sleeping good?

    No! Fall asleep too early. Or wake up at odd hours and can’t go back to sleep. Yawning all day. Yeah - the answer is definitely NO.
  • lauriekallis
    lauriekallis Posts: 4,976 Member
    Seems like Good advice from PAV 😁 Imagine that! lol

    Try to find a stable place and get your sleep in order before trying to lose. And be gentle with yourself, Yooly. ❤️
  • Yoolypr
    Yoolypr Posts: 3,530 Member
    Doing better today (so far). Just trying to maintain- and not add more poundage! The days I lose control aren’t about hunger. It’s eating anything in sight to control the anxiety. Never been able to fully conquer that response to stress. But at least now it lasts only a day or two - or three.
  • lauriekallis
    lauriekallis Posts: 4,976 Member

    Okay - I'm back to where I keep coming and somehow this self awareness keeps slipping away :( no matter how reliable PAV is at pointing it out to me :)

    I'm not trying to "lose" weight at the moment. Like you wrote above Yooly, I'm just trying to maintain. But. I just don't have that gear. YET. As soon as I start paying attention I realize that my "in control" eating default is still "eating at a deficit" - sometimes substantial.

    I'm going to try hard to make "at maintenance eating" my goal - even now when I so desperately want to just pull off a chainsaw loss to get back to where I was two years ago. And to really internalize that. Not just use it as a way to concede to the hamsters.

    Not sure how exactly to do this successfully. But I think maybe setting up and devoting myself to a routine menu with routine splurges rather than chaotic eating with either binge type splurges or bodies screaming for missing calories splurges. Something I can fall back on without thinking too hard and switching to my default.

    I know this is weight loss kindergarten stuff. But I'm like one of those gifted kids ( 🤣 ) that keeps jumping ahead because I can, but then gets stuck because I got too cocky and didn't learn the basics.

    Maybe this time 🤞

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,679 Member

    It's the most difficult stuff actually Laurie. We get in the loss groove and everything works for a while.

    But controlling the hormonally induced rebound(s) (the hormones potentially also being either a secondary or, in summer cases, primary binge trigger) is where the game often gets lost.

    I still log because I LIKE my blanket now!! It's an lovely blanket 😎

  • lauriekallis
    lauriekallis Posts: 4,976 Member

    I always learn from you, PAV. "Blanket" does sound lovely.

  • Yoolypr
    Yoolypr Posts: 3,530 Member

    Fighting my meds. Apparently weight increase is a side effect! Oy!! I’m fighting the trend but treading water for now. No progress but no regression so 👍

  • lauriekallis
    lauriekallis Posts: 4,976 Member

    How does that work, Yooly? Do the meds make you more hungry? Or slow your metabolism? Sounds horrible either way.

  • Yoolypr
    Yoolypr Posts: 3,530 Member

    “How does that work, Yooly? Do the meds make you more hungry? Or slow your metabolism? Sounds horrible either way”

    It sucks! The meds slow my metabolism way down. That also results in a lot of fatigue and lack of energy. Brain fog too! The promise is I will adjust and get back to normal speed after the first year. But in the meantime I’m also aging so…. I’m back to the gym at least three times a week.
    Waiting for a miracle?

  • lauriekallis
    lauriekallis Posts: 4,976 Member

    &%#)(#

    A year!!!!!!

    May you manifest a miracle soon, Yooly.

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