Bingeing

M&Ms, cannoli, mini ice-cream cone, animal crackers, pretzels. I threw out the Vienna fingers this a.m.

Tomorrow is another day.

I gained 5 pounds over the weekend

We went out for dinner and were going to have a class of red wine at an Indian Restaurant. We ate on program but I had two glasses of red wine. We had friends over after dinner, a little more red wine. Easter Sunday, I indulged a bit. I ate a little chocolate, lamb, shrimp and some cookies and champagne.

Today is a new day.

Sunday I'll be done with phase on of South Beach

I will have lost 4 pounds as of today. I am staying in the 139 to 143 range for the last 6 or 8 weeks. I did walk yesterday so exercise may be my last resort though I have no desire to be a gym rat. Anyway, I'll keep plugging away. I feel pretty good but am way far from my goal of losing 14 more pounds.

My husband wants to go out to dinner tonite and have one glass of red wine. I am stressing about the calories. Crazy that I am at this point.

140 lbs but look and feel thinner...how can that be?

Apparently it can be true. There are so many factors that keep the scale where it is. Glycogen levels that are higher, hold in water. Where are you in you menstrual cycle. Salt intake (I am eating a lot of salted almonds). How much water are you drinking. The less water you drink, the more you retain.

So while I was bumming this morning over weighing the same for nearly 10 days. I do feel thinner. While I was kvetching about my lack of weight loss, my son said "No one cares if you're fat or thin." I'm not sure how to take that comment...but the reality is, I care! And I'm working hard.

Yes, I am open about my weight troubles. I've read you are not supposed to talk about dieting, especially in front of daughters. But I say, "This is life, my life and I don't believe in hiding stuff from my kids." I don't believe that kids don't notice when there mom is dieting on the sly...kids know everything!

Six to Eight Weeks at the same weight. Is this my ideal?

I find it hard to believe a 5'3" person's ideal weight is 140 lbs. but so be it. I could exercise more but am not going to. I will continue to eat healthy because I feel pretty good and it is the right thing to do. If I go back to my bad habits, I will gain weight and feel crappy.

Lose your weight before you enter perimenopause!

This is very difficult, mentally. I am eating very light and the weight is hanging on. I am not craving because I am avoiding any triggers...and eating light, fish and veggies and keeping busy...

I probably should have done this before menopause

I am back down to 139 but probably because I didn't eat dinner last night. I made a dish of roasted veggies and shrimp for lunch. I was full halfway through (miracle of miracles!) and ended up eating the last bit at 3:30. I had some nuts at dinner time.

This feeling of hunger or not is what hunger feels like. Once you eat enough you get full and can't and don't want to eat anything else. A feeling of insatiable hunger is a craving. You want to avoid all foods that give you that feeling. For me it is not only sugary things, but anything with white flour, red meat, cheese, fried stuff like french fries and chips of all kinds. Read on.

The Rising Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Posted on March 10, 2011 by helenpapas| Leave a comment

March 04, 2011

Helen Papaconstantinos, R.N.C.P., R.O.H.P.

http://helenpapas.wordpress.com/category/glycemic-index/

Another reason to stay away – cheap processed food is biologically addictive:

Foods made ‘in a plant’ (rather than grown on a plant), as Michael Pollan would say, are biologically addictive.[17] Sugar stimulates the brain’s reward centers through the neurotransmitter dopamine exactly like other addictive drugs.[18] Brain imagining (PET scans) show that high-sugar and high-fat foods work just like heroin, opium, or morphine in the brain.[19] Both obese people and drug addicts have fewer dopamine receptors, making them more likely to crave things that boost dopamine and that feeling of reward. Foods high in fats will also raise opiate-like substances. And just like drugs, after an initial period of “enjoyment” the user starts regularly consuming them to feel normal.