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| Health & Support | IM REALLY SAD Cruel comment triggers old ED feelings | Jul 21 2007 12:30 (UTC) |
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| There have been many supportive comments so far, but I was outraged that someone would treat you like that, so I had to drop in my two cents. First off, this guy is a total jerk. If possible, I'd be on the hunt for a new job. People like this often make criticism of others when they are truely misserable with something about themselves (it might be their weight, or something else) either way, comments like this are about them not you. Also, remember that at the heart off it, most eating disoreder behaviour is about control. You are seeking to regain control of the situation by controling your weight -- that's an illusion. If you starve yourself you are giving control to your boss. As you know, starving yourself requires a herculian act of will that you must sustain over time. That means that in you is a great deal of personal strength and will power. Use it for something that will truely benifit you rather than giving all that power to someone else to use against you. I hope this helps and I wish you the best of sucesss both in your career and your life. |
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| Weight Loss | . | Jun 28 2007 17:04 (UTC) |
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| I'm dealing with my own food issues right now (mostly not eating enoguh) but I've had beinge days and I've felt the way you describe so maybe I can help. First, try not to think in absolute terms. You shouldn't consider any food 100% off limits -- it just makes you want it more. Can you eat four boxes of cookies a day a loose weight? Probably not. Can you eat a few cookies when you have a craving? Sure. If 95% of the time your diet is healthy and you exerice your occasional indulgance will get balanced out so don't worry about it. Find a weighing schedule that works for you (some people weigh daily, others weekly). If you see the scale moving the wrong direction, make corrections to your diet and exercise. Don't beat yourself up. Instead congradulate yourself for taking action early and commiting to a healthy life. Think about the "old" you that didn't even bother looking to see how your diet was affecting you. Think of it like driving your car. If you tried to drive at the dead center of the lane of 100% of the time, and beat yourself up every time you drifted even slightly toward one side or the other, you would probably be a basket case after driving to work for a week. Instead, you drive by making small corrections all the time so that result is you stay in your lane -- mostly without even thinking about. It took time to master this skill, and it will take time to master healthy life style skills as well. Also, spend time enjoying your food. When I've gone on beinges I look back and realize that while technically I did eat whatver it was I wanted, I got very little real enjoyment out of it. I just raced from item to item making sure I got as much as I could of the "forbiden" food. And then there is the added "bonus" of feeling horribly guilty and sick when I'm done. It's just not worth it. Enjoy your meals. When I prepare a meal, I do my best not to just slap everything together and chow down. I try to actually set a plate - at the table no eating infornt of the computer or the TV (except for the occasional movie and popcorn -- but hey nobody's 100%). Once you have a plate of food and a giant glass of water, spend some time enjoying the meal. Appricate each food, don't just rush through it to get to dessert. A note about the water thing: yes it's healthy, but it goes with just about any food and it doesn't wreck your pallate for the subtle taste treats good food has to offer. When you just have to have something that isn't the best option for you, do the same thing: appricate the act of endulgance. Eat a small amout slowly without distractions and enjoy every bite. No guilt here. Instead of beating youself up for having "naughty food", remind yourself that you live a healthy life that allows you to balnce your bodies needs with your desires. Then give yourself bonus feel good points for not turing two cookies into one box of cookies. |
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| Maintaining | Snack foods for maintenance | Jun 22 2007 22:54 (UTC) |
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Hmm...I do use fruit as a snack a lot, but besides fruit here are a few I like. Air-Popped popcorn: You can get a lot of popcorn for not a lot of calories. Here are some of the ones I use Air-popping 3tbsp popcorn, use a spray bottle to spray it with soy sauce. For sweet popcorn: Spray lightly with non-stick canloa oil spray, toss with cinnimon and splenda Quick Grab em snacks: Cherry tomatoes Dill pickles Cauliflower, use a little mustard or spray with soy sauce Carrots (I cover 'em and give them a quick steam in the microwave) Low-calorie yogurt Low calorie wheat toast, top with sugar-free maple syrup Mini-muffins If you bake at all, I'd invest in a mini-muffin pan. Find a reduced caloire muffin recipie you like and make mini-muffins. Dark Chocolate squares: Hersheys and Gridelli both make induvidually wrapped chocolate squares. A serving is about 4 pieces, but usaully just one of them will satisfy a chocalte craving. Almond milk: Unsweetened Chocolate almond milk (45 cal, 8oz) Add Splenda or sweetner to taste and heat. Tastes like chocolate milk. 1/2 cup cottage chees with 1tsp cocca powder and no-calorie sweetener (or honey if you don't mind a few exra calories). Get a scale and pre-measure a cereal you like into 1oz servings into snack sized zip lock bags Kashi also makes some good snack bars. Many of them are between 120-150 calories and they taste pretty good. Trail mix: Mix up your own trail mix with your favorite nuts and a low-calorie cereal, put the scale to use and put the results in snack bags. Pretzels: Be careful as the various kinds have widely varying calorie counts, but if you get a good kind and pre-measure into snack bags they work well for the salt craving :). Frozen Yogurt: Just check the label info, but their are some tasty ones that are fairly low in caliores and as long as you measure a serving it should be fine. The smaller regular icecream cones only have 20 cal a cone so if you stick with one serving of frozen yogurt you can get away with putting in a cone. I don't do it personally, but I know someone who uses the Metemucial fiber wafers as a snack (they claim they taste good). The key for me is having lots of pre-measrued/easy to measure options already on hand. Craving salty? Grab a couple dill pickles or air-pop some popcorn. Sweet? Grab the pre-measured cereal or the single piece of *good* chocolate, or the yogurt. I hope these help! David |
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| Maintaining | motivating phrase? | May 29 2007 17:42 (UTC) |
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| When I'm tempted to give in on the exercise I just think: "When the day is over, I'll either be that little bit healither, or I woln't. Either way the day will be over there is nothing I can do to get it back". The other thing is when I catch myself thinking "I could exercise, now but I'll probably have time to go do it on lunch"... Then I remeber that I can't promise the future, but I can live right now. If I get a chance to exercise again in the day *bonus* if not, then I don't have to feel guility since I've already done my exercise for the day. |
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| Maintaining | Help with moving into maintaince mode.. | May 18 2007 22:08 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for the advice. The weight gain is my fear. I'm afraid one pound will become 3 and then... This is a real struggle for me because I know I need to build muscle (which means weight gain), but it's hard for me to get out the slave to the scales thinking... |
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