Als1855

I'm a professor and three days a week I lecture from early morning to about 10pm with about 15 minutes between classes. On those days, I found I was only eating about 600 calories which is just horrible on so many levels. My solution was planning. I bought a Crockpot and on Saturday or Sunday would prepare my lunches (in…

Congrats on this! I started off at 239 and am destined for ONEderland in December! Hope to see you there! Keep up the good work! This is a really great milestone and a new chapter for you!

I don't believe in cheat days, but I do have a cheat "time." I stay on track with my diet all other times. My cheat "time" is Wednesday night at Church and I hit the desert table (very small portions of everything) and have a cup of coffee with my friends. I think that cheat "time" should be focused on other things besides…

Lambchoplewis, I'm a big fan of NOT weighing every day and I usually weigh once a month, but lately I haven't been taking the corrective actions I need to quickly enough, so I'm moving my weigh-in date up to two weeks because I think you are right, you have to weigh-in at whatever level motivates you. If I find that two…

Wow, you just motivated me, JasonBrandt19! That is a very good and real world suggestion . . . if you are out of the house burning calories, then you don't have to worry so much about calorie counting because that problem is solved. Of course, you can't eat cake and doughnuts all day, either. I'm planning a 7-day hike in…

Jason, I just went through this last month. I don't know if my situation applies to your situation, but my sense of control is very much tied to my personality. I am an extremely high energy person (mentally), who can lack focus and gets easily sidetracked. I also have a lot of stress and time management challenges. If I…