One Week Leap of Faith
PamamaJane
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I've been sloughing off too much lately and getting down on myself way too much. And while I love the month long challenges like the Back to Basic ones, I'm finding I don't have the oomph to stick with them for a month. Hence, I'm starting today to do just one week -- seven little days -- of commitment to total focus.
Today is day #1 and it will be the most difficult. I will tell Jim this is what I want to do and he'll help me through today. Then he's headed out of town so I won't be tempted by the social life for the rest of this week long period.
If anyone else needs a short-term focus week for what ever change you want for yourself, join in and let's do this. Get ready, get set, GO!
(I'm starting by giving up my second cup of coffee with HWC. Then no more carbs at all, today.)
Today is day #1 and it will be the most difficult. I will tell Jim this is what I want to do and he'll help me through today. Then he's headed out of town so I won't be tempted by the social life for the rest of this week long period.
If anyone else needs a short-term focus week for what ever change you want for yourself, join in and let's do this. Get ready, get set, GO!
(I'm starting by giving up my second cup of coffee with HWC. Then no more carbs at all, today.)
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You'll succeed! Stay strong! One week from today you'll have reached your goal!
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I'm with you- for me it is day by day... We can do it!1
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I'm in! Good idea!2
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You can totally do this! Have an awesome low carb week!
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Excellent to start a one week focus group - I'm in and my goal is to drop one pound by next Wednesday. Thanks for getting us going @PamamaJane
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You've all got this!!1
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Day one is done and a complete success for me. Under on calories and under on carbs. Carbs would have been better except I started this after breakfast. No more fritatas until after this week is over. And Jim was a dear about helping me. YEAH all the way around. I'm stoked!
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Good job friend! You got this!3
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fantastic - well done to you - you can definitely do this. Will be following your progress3
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I like it. I'm currently in a month long challenge, and I found myself losing focus in week 2. Spent week 3 making up for week 2. Now I've got one more week to make some progress for July. I'm in.2
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I like it. I'm currently in a month long challenge, and I found myself losing focus in week 2. Spent week 3 making up for week 2. Now I've got one more week to make some progress for July. I'm in.
This is day two of the week and I'm sure I can carry through. But, like you, I lose focus when facing a whole month. When it's a month, my silly brain tells me there are still another two weeks to go and that is time enough to make up for any screw ups mid way through the month. When it's only a week I don't dare blow a day or two; every day counts!
Thanks to each and every one of you for your encouragement. I wouldn't be able to keep this up without you.
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I'm in too. Goal to be down a pound next Thursday
Yesterday was rest day so swimming or if darn heat wave breaks walking everyday till then.
You've got this panama mane
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woo hoo managed to get back on track today - going for the full week with you - going to push for losing all the weight I have put on this week by next Friday (tomorrow morning is weigh day)4
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Day TWO and I'm spot on! My calories and carbs are both down. More important, this is also day two of no alcoholic beverages. I was imbibing to be part of the crowd in my social life; but I'm managing to have ice water instead and live to tell the tale. For all who have joined in on this week long challenge, may the force be with you!6
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Me too back on track today.....great idea Panamanians!1
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treehugnmama wrote: »Me too back on track today.....great idea Panamanians!
Oh! I finally get it! You're reading my screen name as Panama Jane. Panama (as in the little country with the big canal.) Actually, it is Pa (as in the abbreviation for Pennsylvania) followed by mama (as in what a baby calls its mother) and then Jane (as in Jane Doe) simply because Pamama was already taken by someone else and I needed something to make it different. My given name is Adell and my business name was Gerri, neither of which has any relationship to Jane.
Not to worry, it doesn't offend me or anything and others have also typed Panama and it never occurred to me it was anything but a typo. Now that you've written Panamanians I finally get it about the little country with the big canal. How silly of me not to have made the connection before. Senior brain failure on my part. LoL
Good to have you back on track! I'm very glad the weekly focus seems to be working well for a few of us. For me this week is 2 down and only 5 to go. Eminently doable.1 -
PamamaJane wrote: »treehugnmama wrote: »Me too back on track today.....great idea Panamanians!
Oh! I finally get it! You're reading my screen name as Panama Jane. Panama (as in the little country with the big canal.) Actually, it is Pa (as in the abbreviation for Pennsylvania) followed by mama (as in what a baby calls its mother) and then Jane (as in Jane Doe) simply because Pamama was already taken by someone else and I needed something to make it different. My given name is Adell and my business name was Gerri, neither of which has any relationship to Jane.
Not to worry, it doesn't offend me or anything and others have also typed Panama and it never occurred to me it was anything but a typo. Now that you've written Panamanians I finally get it about the little country with the big canal. How silly of me not to have made the connection before. Senior brain failure on my part. LoL
Good to have you back on track! I'm very glad the weekly focus seems to be working well for a few of us. For me this week is 2 down and only 5 to go. Eminently doable.
I just realized that I was doing the exact same thing. I blame the hat.
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Way to go!1
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »I just realized that I was doing the exact same thing. I blame the hat.
Now that made me laugh out loud.
Just checking in to report another pound left my hefty frame yesterday. One more and I'll be headed into previously unseen numbers on the scale. It's fantastic that I'm losing closer to the rate I was when I first started LCHF. I'm having BPC for the first time this morning in stead of my typical coffee w/ HWC. BPC has a few more calories but if it means I can skip having breakfast food I'll be ahead. It is pretty darned delicious now that I know to whip it and not just melt the fats into the hot coffee. Live and learn.
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PamamaJane wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »I just realized that I was doing the exact same thing. I blame the hat.
Now that made me laugh out loud.
Just checking in to report another pound left my hefty frame yesterday. One more and I'll be headed into previously unseen numbers on the scale. It's fantastic that I'm losing closer to the rate I was when I first started LCHF. I'm having BPC for the first time this morning in stead of my typical coffee w/ HWC. BPC has a few more calories but if it means I can skip having breakfast food I'll be ahead. It is pretty darned delicious now that I know to whip it and not just melt the fats into the hot coffee. Live and learn.
Well done! Congrats!
After a sad week of trying to maintain both a Keto and a Low-Iodine diet, I get to ditch the latter. Back to Keto/LCHF, logging, and bacon! Yay!
Wishing you much success!
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Day 3 is past. Dang but if I didn't run my carbs up to 30. Sad story about the lady and a priest going out to dinner. Still, I expect to see the scale down a bit in the morning. Just glad to have this behind me.2
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PamamaJane wrote: »treehugnmama wrote: »Me too back on track today.....great idea Panamanians!
Oh! I finally get it! You're reading my screen name as Panama Jane. Panama (as in the little country with the big canal.) Actually, it is Pa (as in the abbreviation for Pennsylvania) followed by mama (as in what a baby calls its mother) and then Jane (as in Jane Doe) simply because Pamama was already taken by someone else and I needed something to make it different. My given name is Adell and my business name was Gerri, neither of which has any relationship to Jane.
Not to worry, it doesn't offend me or anything and others have also typed Panama and it never occurred to me it was anything but a typo. Now that you've written Panamanians I finally get it about the little country with the big canal. How silly of me not to have made the connection before. Senior brain failure on my part. LoL
Good to have you back on track! I'm very glad the weekly focus seems to be working well for a few of us. For me this week is 2 down and only 5 to go. Eminently doable.
LOL, this is exactly the reason we had a thread where people could explain why they picked their screen names on here. Sometimes we don't know what others intend. Much like how just about everyone misreads "Pen Island"'s weburl (penisland.net) -- of course, I think that was completely intentional. It's still funny.6 -
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Dangnabit! For all my talk about being able to do this for a week as opposed to pooping out during a month, well, yesterday proved that even a week is too long for me sometimes. All was well until the evening and I can't even remember what all I stuffed into my face. So I'm back at it and will make today within calories and macros come you-know-where or high water!
But I did recognize one of the damned lies I tell myself. I tell myself that if I just eat this up or if I just drink this up it will be gone and won't tempt me anymore. So I emptied the Manischewitz Peach Cream and emptied the Woodbridge Riesling and finished off the last Orange Crush, with a jigger of Smirnoff of course, then took care of the last two squares of 90% Lindt. . . Well, you get the picture. Of course now I have to make a trip to the State Store to stock up for company. I can do that and as long as they stay unopened I'll be fine. I'm not a lush but I am anal about some things and almost empty containers really creep me out.3 -
PamamaJane wrote: »Dangnabit! ... So I emptied the Manischewitz Peach Cream and emptied the Woodbridge Riesling and finished off the last Orange Crush, with a jigger of Smirnoff of course, then took care of the last two squares of 90% Lindt. . . I'm not a lush but I am anal about some things and almost empty containers really creep me out.
I'm laughing so hard I can barely type!My husband can't throw anything away and my mom also would eat/drink the contents of near empty containers but I'm a tosser. In the rest of my life I'm a packrat but when it comes to food I have no problem throwing or pouring it away.
Anyway, this little binge had less to do with your self control than it did those containers haunting you. You're still in it to win it!
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Uhh, back to your name-- I kept reading it as Pajamajane. My eyes make things up. Good luck and strength on your mini goals!2
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You can do this Pamamajane, yesterday is past and you start fresh today - I have faith in you.
I have managed to stay on track again, and seem to be back on a role again - although I do know it is possible I will end up binging again, I am seeing it as a small blip not as a huge obstacle. Just get back on the wagon and keep moving towards your goal.
You only fail if you give up, if you keep trying you will never fail3
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