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Yum! Peanut butter crunch cereal

Wave pool

A day late, but hey.

Raw cookie dough.

Ignoring the sink full of dirty dishes

Thank you for being encouraging. I guess when I see people promoting mindsets and behaviors that were undermining to my health and success I get uncomfortable; like I want to ask them to reconsider. At the same time, there’s no one-size-fit-all solution, so there’s no guarantee that what worked for me is right for others.…

Frozen 2

Bedroom eyes

Cat burglar

Fish sticks

Sword cane

The short answer is yes; the long answer is that it should, as long as you’re also eating at a calorie deficit and getting an adequate amount of protein.

I grock. At this point, I set my sights on maintenance from Thanksgiving though New Years. Past years have taught me that (for me, personally) trying to white knuckle a calorie deficit through the holidays is a sure fire way to trigger a binge, which makes me feel like dirt, which triggers a binge, repeat ad nauseum, and…

Update: it was in the lost and found! 🎉 I’m so relieved! Good sports bras are expensive, and that one would have been a pain to replace. I think I’m going to change one of the conditions of my “I will,” and it’s that on mornings when I’ve planned to go lift weights I’ll still get up early, but I won’t go walking that…

It looks like I’m the weirdo who’d rather drink than eat. That said, I’d drink the hell out of a salted caramel mocha frappuccino.

Not weird at all! I think a lot of people do it this way.

TL;DR - I used to have scale anxiety, but I’ve found a few tools and habits that help me weigh myself every day without freaking me out. I used to have strong scale anxiety; that number on the scale would dictate how I felt about myself each day, and in the worst case scenario I would sometimes see a higher number and…

Hotel California Roll

Spirit fingers

Checking in; I’ve been doing very well with my morning walks, but I’ve had to give it a miss today. Why? I went to lay out my walking clothes last night, and it looks like I left my sports bra in the locker room at the Y yesterday. (T~T) I’ll be stopping by after work to see if some Good Samaritan put it in the lost and…

Definitely. And there’s something about *not* recording that lets me Jedi mind trick myself into thinking those calories somehow didn’t count, especially if the food was eaten in secret.

I’m trying something new this season. It worked for me on Thanksgiving, so I’m going to try it on Christmas and New Years as well. Since restricting myself from something is the surest way I know to trigger my binging behaviors, the first thing I do is give myself permission to enjoy my holiday favorites, but with a few…

Thank you @RelCanonical, I couldn’t find it either. :|

Yum! Cilantro?