Hi Yooly,

No rumble too?!

The complex emotional stuff certainly derails me here too & far too often.

I’ve been quite alarmed as have been totally focusing & concentrating on this area this last few weeks - been able to limit some /most damage this week and so am pleased with that - progress? Perhaps.

Some thought put in & Ive been aghast at how swiftly it happens from the event / stressor and my reacting - it’s like a quick bang” & before any thought has passed, my body is at the fridge, with my head in & my arm reaching in - and then there’s been a “ what am I freakin’ doin’ again?” moment that has caught it going any further so far…

Like said in post- this emotional self sabotage - think trying to reduce that has to be one of my main motivator as to why I came back to this community.

Hmmm complicated and not enough time.

By the time rumbling uncontrollable eating is more likely than not. Have to catch subtle cues (such as thinking about food or candy bars a bit more than normal--usually cross validate with logging to confirm--more often than not, yup, I should be eating something.

But the non hunger related? Crap, I still can't stop munching while on the phone! At least I don't have lunch on top!

We must all have a rumble as is part of digestive process; peristalis hasn’t stopped - or I’d burst! …biology - the release of the hunger hormones, the digestive juices released in stomach, but Yooley, Laurie - we must be deaf to it ?
hoping it’ll return, like it has with you Bella….

So the no rumblers - do you time eat?
Bella - you show such fortitude - I know, as Pav has hinted at - when have too large gaps & get that nauseous & dizzy feeling, I eat & have a tendency to eat too fast & then overeat before I know it.

Stuff to work on!
Going to stop snacking - again - do 3 meals a day & experiment with timing!

@Creamtea42 I confess to being a bit too self-disciplined at times....

I have almost entirely stopped snacking in between meals, because in my case that was where most of the damage was done. I found myself skimping on my meal calories in order to give me more calories for snacking, and as a consequence the overall quality of my diet declined, and I found I was hungrier than ever because of the greater amount of empty calories I was consuming.

So I gave myself a pep talk and decided to cut out snacking completely.

When it comes to weight management, I'm better with an all-or-nothing approach. It's when I try to moderate that things go awry. So if I tell myself NO EATING BETWEEN MEALS that's something I can do without too much stress and effort....but if I gave myself permission to snack if you're really hungry/snack if it's a special occasion/snack if your next meal might be delayed/snack because it's the weekend/snack because that cake looks sooooo good/snack because it's a healthy treat/snack because there's a Y in the day of the week.....well, then I'd go completely to pot and before I knew where I was I'd be back to skimping on my proper food to fuel that snack habit...

Five days a week I have 3 meals per day, and two days a week I have a large brunch and then a light dinner (still experimenting to see if a 2-meal day is a good strategy for me or not). If I'm hungry between meals I drink a glass of water or have a cuppa and keep myself busy until the hunger goes away again. By the time the meal is ready I'm properly hungry and I enjoy and appreciate my food so much more than I did when I was simply 'topping up' an already half-full stomach.

I roughly eat by the clock, though if I'm busy I can push back meals by an hour or two without noticing any appreciable difference in my hunger.

On a 3 meal day, my schedule looks something like this:
6am: get up and have a mug of tea then take Norman out for a long walk
9am: breakfast (usually porridge) with another mug of tea
1pm-ish: Lunch (usually a bowl of homemade veggie and bean soup)
6pm-ish: Dinner (usually my biggest meal of the day - always a protein-rich meal).
Once dinner is over that's all my eating done until breakfast the next day. No late night snacking, EVER!

On a 2 meal day, my schedule looks something like this:
6am: get up and have a mug of tea then take Norman out for a long walk
11:30am-ish: brunch (which will be about 60% of my total daily calorie allowance and protein-rich)
6pm-ish: Dinner (usually light, maybe soup or a jacket potato with tuna salad.

You all are inspirational. I've given myself allowance to get through this moving stuff around thing...which should be done this week. And then will give weight loss another go. NO SNACKS. That would serve me well. Good to just break the psychological addiction! When I'm busy I can go the day without eating. When I'm not. Not so much

Where did you'all say you bought that self-discipline stuff I hear so much about?????

Creamtea42 wrote: »

I’ve started tapering down the steroids now and in approx 6 weeks, will be free of them.

Steroids are powerful. I mean: powerful. Any progress or even just holding the line is good stuff in their presence!

OK:

Either @Creamtea42 's body is having conversations with her--possible in my world!
Or I need "emergency--what sort of English is this stuff they speak in England?--translation" maybe by @Bella_Figura ...

Or I am just missing something! --probably the likeliest issue. I mean I keep trying to figure out what sort of BRASS you gals are all wearing in varying sizes that requires frequent refitting as weight goes down... so there IS that!!!

But who is "Bods" later on referred to as "the Bods"

I am anxiously awaiting clarifications!

I'm liking this "bods" thing! Haven't heard it used like that. Only the "plenty of hot bods" usage. I'm going to introduce it to my life. I love you bods at MFP

Yep, docs would definitely come under the umbrella of bods....

It is funny... get enough sleep... more likely to see scale move down (at least for me), hr variability increases, higher chance of lower resting hr (again for n=1), better decision making. short of sleep... less good decision making.... keep eating to stay awake... need I say more!