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By Groovybabe • Dec 15th, 2007 • Category: being motivated, diet management, food, hunger, weightloss rulesAfter receiving a comment from John today in response to my last post I got to thinking that maybe I should not be so hard on myself. Yes I have put on 6lbs but maybe I wouldn’t have if I believed in myself more? So I went and read my other pages on my blog, pages I wrote when I set the blog up back in July and I listened to what I had to say back then.
I expect there to be highs and lows and struggles and rewards. I want to have something to look back on to remind me how much effort I have put in.
I have spent almost ten years putting this weight on so it is not going to come off overnight. But as long as I take one day at a time, I will soon be a Groovy Babe.
I need to spend more time thinking about what I have achieved and less on my shortcomings. This time last year I was over 50lbs heavier and my life was a mess. I still have a way to go in improving my life but I am in a MUCH better position than I was a year ago, I have to remember that.
I didn’t have breakfast today as I didn’t get up until 11am but at lunch I thought “Sod it!” and made myself a toasted bagel with omelette. This is a much bigger lunch-time meal than I am used to, not to mention using olive oil to make the omelettte, but you know what? Afterwards I was satisfied for hours. I didn’t eat again until dinner time at 5.30pm. Normally I’ll have a small lunch and then will be picking all afternoon, which makes me feel a failure. For dinner I ended up with a burger in a bun and curly fries, lol, but you know what I am not hungry now, over an hour after I have eaten. Normally I eat dinner and am hungry when I have finished and begin picking. Obviously I can’t eat like this every day as it will clog up my arteries but it has made me think about maybe allowing more calories at meal times in order to stop me picking between meals. I’ve had 1100 calories today and am feeling satisfied. I will just have some cereal before bed if I get hungry.
I’m feeling much more in control today.
Groovybabe is 14.9 stones today and has lost 2lbs at her last weigh in.
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Terrific! Glad I could help in some small way. Now if I could only apply it to my own issues… This next week is going to have to be a major push.
Yay for positivity! :o)
Glad you’re feeling better - I know boredom is a nightmare, I’m having issues at the moment and am going to change my eating habits in the new year - I am having three days (and three days only) off over xmas and believe me I am lookung forward to them!!!
John - you definitely did help me to put it into perspective a bit, yeah. And comments always do spur me on!
Jo - Its either positivity or undo all the hard work I have put in and I am not ready to do that yet.
I am going to try to eat normally over christmas if I can. I cant afford not to. It means no chocolate, no shortbread *drools*, no crap in the house which my son wont like but is essential for me.
I am going to start the new year with gutso too. I am starting to feel rather positive about it.
Dude, sometimes I have to go back and read my blog too. It’s hard to be positive 100% of the time. I aim to hit for 90-something% positivity though.
I’m so glad to hear you’re thinking more positively. I feel myself changing in the area of my thoughts, too. I look forward to the new year and to reading about all your future successes! You’ve come so far already.
That’s inspiring!
Susan, thanks. I look forward to reading about your weightloss too.
Queen B, Thanks.