What worked for you today?

When I was at the grocery this afternoon, the bakery folks were making Cinnamon Rolls, so the whole store smelled like temptation. What worked for me was going home and making myself coffee sprinkled with lots of cinnamon and a dollop of light whip cream---yum!! That gave me the cinnamon/cream fix I wanted with less than 25 calories involved. Yay!

what has been working for me lately is weighing myself first thing in the morning. This is a tip I adopted from my husband who lost 26 pounds last spring. He says weighing gave him the focus he needed.

In the past, I have resisted weighing because the scale wasn't moving fast enough. In reality, I was eating too much. I wasn't comfortable being a bit hungry.

Now I look forward to weighing everyday. I see the numbers and they are like little wins for me.

I have been about 10-20 pounds over my decent weight for about 4 years. Not my ideal weight, my decent weight. Now after countless attempts and so many years of thinking there were shortcuts to cico, I am finally easily loosing weight. Said the Menopausal 53 yo. woman.

Finally. I think it comes down to self honesty. Weighing everyday definitely helps with that.

Staying away from foods ,that cause me painful bloating.

After 10 years in maintenance, I still have to be mindful. I like to eat at night, so I didn't eat until after I did an hour of cardio at lunch. Burned 750 calories and then had a big, but reasonable plant based meal (arugula salad with beets, goat cheese, buckwheat and walnuts w/ homemade EVOO dressing).

What worked for me today was keeping an eye on my fiber intake. When I focus on getting enough fiber, feeling satiated is a welcome side benefit (besides all the other health benefits).

I booked swimming sessions for the week on Monday. I’m not usually a planner, but I went to all 3 sessions in good time, and feel better for the swims.

my husb insisted on going thru Krispy Kreme, free donuts with vaccination card, but I took 2 bites. Glad that place is not near my house! I was eating some unhealthy foods today, cheese nips but ate 1/2 what I use to, 1/2 pc of cake.

What worked for me today was eating my own food instead of a friend’s gift of food.

What worked for me today was paying attention to body changes, doing what I reasonably could do and waiting patiently for the outcome.

Last Monday, I weighed in at my lowest number in awhile. I was very excited because I had been super focused and working hard to achieve my goals. The next two days I weighed in higher and then higher still. While 3+ pounds is a small amount of my WL goals, it was very discouraging for the scale to move in the wrong direction.

I stepped back to analyze and I kept going while I analyzed the situation. I determined that there was a possibility that my weight gain out of the blue was due to wheat/gluten consumption. So, I cut wheat out, continued with reasonable eating and exercising, and decided to wait three days for the outcome. I waited. On the fourth day, I was almost at that low number. On the fifth day, today, I measured exactly where I was a week ago.

What did I learn? Patience. I could have become disillusioned/frustrated, then given up like I have so many other times in the past four years. Instead, I kept going and made adjustments as I could.

Is wheat a problem for me? Honestly, I do not know. I do know that I am in a groove and I want this weight loss thing to continue. If wheat is a problem, I will take time to determine that, but for now. I am less than 15 pounds from my goal. I will leave wheat out until I reach my goal, then re-evaluate.

I feel really proud of myself for not giving up this week. I stayed focus despite this and other (life) challenges. That's what has been working for me

What worked for me today was SLEEP....lots of it!!

My scale had been stuck for a week, and so had the tape measure, and I was frustrated. My trainer suggested I might need to eat a little more, but otherwise to stay the course. I've been training hard at the gym, and this week I added an extra day, so this weekend I decided to take BOTH days off and rest as much as my body wanted to. That turned out to mean sleeping away most of the weekend, BUT the scale finally moved and I feel much better!!

I think I've been so afraid of resuming my couch potato ways that I haven't been letting my body rest enough from all the exercise. Tomorrow I start a new HIIT class, so that made me feel like I could let down my guard this weekend and know I'd get back to work on Monday. Overall my energy levels have gone up in the last few months, but apparently my body hit a wall and needed some downtime. Now I feel refreshed and ready to tackle the week ahead.

Foodwise, I've just logged and eaten normally, so the only difference has been the extra sleep. I haven't managed to eat more calories like the trainer suggested, but I'll work on that tomorrow when I go to the grocery. I need good options to fuel the workouts, and I love that my mind thinks that way now! Previously I'd have just taken her advice as permission to eat junk!!

Woke up feeling energetic and used that to make headway into my weekly step goal...

Keeping away from screens this morning, no phone app, no laptop websites, etc....just good old brekkie and get ready for work. Am actively trying to cut down screen time...

What worked for me today was planning my dinner meticulously. I have found that not having a plan for the next day in terms of (roughly) what I could be eating gives me anxiety as I am so worried about wasting all the effort by overeating on my calories. So for my dinner I had all the not-so-healthy things (fries and halloumi cheese) but in very small quantities so the dinner was actually only around 400 kcalories.

Planning ahead for everything I was going to eat today. Instead of looking to do a fast walk, took a long slow walk in the woods while listening to beautiful classical music.

Increased lemon water intake the day before, the scale moved today.