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Just for funsies...
I've been messing with my food journal to find out what I would weigh in 5 weeks if I ate at an extreme calorie range. Here are the results of my experiment: If I ate 15,000 calories everyday, I would gain 130 pounds in 5 weeks. If I ate 5 calories everyday, I would lose 25 pounds in 5 weeks. (Actually I think the result…
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Counting our blessings
Since I just had a total pity party for myself on a post I just created, I thought it might be good for all of us to talk about the blessings we have in our lives. It seems like a lot of us have a hard time thinking about the good stuff--we're too focused on the negatives. So, here are my blessings: 1. My son 2. My husband…
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So off track!
So for lunch today, my pre-planned salad turned into a chicken salad sandwich, potato salad, Doritos and 3 oatmeal raisin cookies. And a Coke! You bet your butt I tracked it all though and by making some adjustments to my planned dinner and snacks, I will be about 160 calories over for the day. I ask myself why? For one, I…
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Is it possible to love yourself while obese?
What do you all think? If I didnt really think too much about it, I would say absolutely not! How can you love yourself when you're slowly killing yourself. But...I started using food as a coping mechanism as a child. It has always been how I try to soothe myself. I dont think I had any other way. Now that I'm an adult, I…
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Can we talk about fear of success?
I had a great weigh-in for my very first week here. So why do I now want to go off plan? I totally believe one can have a fear of success. I was telling this to a therapist one time and he said its not possible to have a fear of success. (It goes without saying that I ditched him after that). Curious to see if anyone else…