What worked for you today?

Eating only 2 big meals since I knew I was eating out on the road

Enjoying the strength and stamina I've gained so far. I'm probably undereating today because I spent today moving furniture and boxing things up (My 26 year old son is moving into the guest/sewing room for a couple months while he gets money saved for an apartment near his new job. He has a 40 minute commute from here versus an hour and forty minutes where he's living now) and while I'm tired and feeling some soreness in shoulders and back, it's so very nice to know that I can count on my body to handle these things and I won't have to do just a bit and call it a day because my feet hurt. I never would have dreamed that losing weight would help me this much in terms of pain control.

What worked for me today was not overeating after kayaking. I’m always ravenously hungry after being on the water and end up undoing the whole workout. Today I ate a small sandwich and gave myself time to digest it. 30 minutes later I was stil hungry, so I had celery with a tablespoon of peanut butter and that did the trick!

What worked for me today was tracking "weird" measurements. That is, keeping measurement records that go beyond the traditional ones (bust, waist, hips) including some really odd ones where I figured out ways to measure the little fat bulges that bug me the most.

See, awhile back I started worrying about my progress because the scale had stalled. So I did what everbody suggests. I checked my measurements. Still NO change even though I was SURE I saw a difference and felt a difference in my clothes. This went on for weeks. Honestly, I was starting to wonder if I was delusional because I couldn't find ANY data to validate the changes I THOUGHT I was experiencing. My clothes FELT looser, but I wear so many knits that nothing was really getting too big yet, so I couldn't be sure I wasn't imagining things. It was driving me nuts not knowing.

Then I happened to stumble on a slip of notepaper I'd written before I started losing weight. On it, I'd been measuring to knit/design a sweater pattern, so I had measured all sorts of odd spots--upper arm, upper bust, distance around the neck, etc. Most importantly, I had SPECIFICALLY measured my tummy pooch separately. Turns out, that pooch doesn't show up in my waist and hip measurements because it's located BETWEEN them, and THAT is why I wasn't seeing much change for awhile. But looking at my slip of paper, I was able to verify that my pooch was several inches smaller--halleluah!!!

Fast forward to today and I now measure all sorts of odd spots whenever I pull out the measuring tape. Like, I measure around my upper thigh as well as around both thighs held together. I measure from hip bone to hip bone over my tummy pooch at its biggest spot. I measure the little fat spot above my knees. I measure my upper bust right under the armpits as well as the full bust and the under bust. I measure around my upper arm batwing spot. You get the idea.

The result is that I can now get LOTS more information about what's happening with my weight loss and muscle gain. Thankfully the scale and the "normal" measurements have changed, too, but it's still incredibly satisfying to see those little fat spots go down and have the numbers to prove it!! Best of all, I don't have to worry that I'm delusional any more because I can observe and VERIFY all the oddities of my weigh loss journey. Today it worked for me because I was able to tell that my pooch is smaller and the fat around my armpits is almost gone. Some other measurements hadn't changed much, but these were apparently the latest whoosh area that showed up on my scale this morning.

It's fun seeing where the weight falls away, and it gives me confidence to be able to measure it. Nowdays I'm also experiencing the scale victories and the satisfaction of needing smaller sized clothes, but I still love being able to measure my odd spots.

Having snacks ready and on the kitchen counter with me, while I was preparing barbeque snacks and side dishes for my family. I enjoyed my snacks, managed to stay under my calorie allowance and still got to enjoy the special occasion with my family - I didn’t even have the smallest nibble of the freshest metre long French loaf that I was cutting up and preparing 🥖

Keeping to my commitment to plan my meals and log every bite that goes into my mouth.

Not getting lazy after my weekly high of weight loss as I did before and instead rejigging my diet to increase protein and decrease some carbs. The higher the fibre, the more full I feel and the longest lasting it is.

I went to my strength and conditioning class and worked through the tiredness

Although sticking to my calorie goal all-day, I frequently have carb-cravings in the evenings. I shifted my mealtimes around, so breakfast at 1200, lunch at dinner time then dinner later in the evening. I'm hoping this will kill off the carb cravings and keep me within my calorie goal...

I waited out a craving, it was raining and storming here so I decided I didn't need anything and then forgot about it. Later on I thought well I dont even want that now.