So I weighed myself this morning after a good water/sodium day and my weight was 227.6. Ok, it's going in the right direction. So I have 6 pounds to go until I make my Christmas goal. I had a talk with Justin last night about how I needed his help and support and for him to not enable me to make bad choices (um, PIZZA). And he agreed, so that's good but he has his own issues so I can't count on him to help me make the best choices. Ideally I would like to be a little less than 221 by christmas.
So, here is today's plan:
buy no salt added tomatoes for salsa today
Bake some chicken
stay under 1500 for sodium
zoo trip?
I have been thinking a lot about Thanksgiving, it's really the first holiday that I have been committed to weight loss. And although it could have gone worse for sure, eating pie and pumpkin roll and everything salty was delicious but now that good feeling from the food is gone but the weight remains. And the good feeling from the food didn't last it wasn't even 20 minutes after I ate that I wanted something else. I just am not the kind of person who eats one piece of pumpkin roll and then is done. Ug, well it's something to think about for Christmas. My mom was talking about her desire to eat the other half of the pecan pie and she said, "I only get pecan pie once a year, I should be able to eat it and enjoy it." Let me just tell you that of all the pies, pecan is the worst. Half of a pie, which is what she wanted to eat, is 2150 calories.
And I didn't know how to argue with that. Now it seems totally clear to me, the question is that is that pie worth a week or two of working hard to re-lose the weight that you gain. I think it must be about balance and everyone's scales are different. To me, (after the fact) It doesn't seem even remotely worth it to have gained 3 or 6 pounds. Maybe to her it is, or maybe she is regretting her holiday binge as much as I am. I don't know. The good news is that I know that given enough time and commitment I can and will accomplish my goals!
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I think a good question to be asking is where does it stop? My birthday's only once a year, I'll eat a whole cake, my anniversary is only once a year I'll stuff myself silly. My problem is that I can always find an occasion to eat and gorge myself. I think (and I hope I get there someday) that when you change your lifestyle you realize that a small piece of pecan pie is a lot better than no pie or too much pie. I think society as a whole needs to incorporate moderation into their lives and we all validate each other around the holidays to say it's okay to eat yourself stupid for a month, and then make a resolution in January to get healthy. I like your insight Mallory, it shows such good dedication which is a great example to me!
ReplyDeleteHA HAA HAAA - I didn't read any posts before I wrote mine and went to read yours and realized we had the same title. lol
ReplyDeleteYou're right, you WILL accomplish your goals and I think that as we understand more and more about our relationship with food, it'll (hopefully) be easier to not want to eat the whole rest of the pie b/c we'll weigh more rationally the effects of it. For me, it's hard to see the end at the beginning - see how much weight it will be and how long/hard to work it off.
And I think Carrie is right too that we'll just keep finding occasions to eat and eat - birthdays, holidays, dates, girls' nights, etc.. and then that (for me) turns into justifying gorging when I'm sad too.
What did Tara say on The Biggest Loser last season? Something like "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." I totally agree... however, again it's hard to see that from the beginning sometimes.
I think that's a great point Carrie! There is always something going on, especially when Thanksgiving turns into a 4 or possibly 5 day eating binge. That's how it was this time, not only was there the actual thanksgiving but there were days of constant eating that followed. Sadly, I think it's always that way too I just hadn't really put any thought into it.
ReplyDeleteLori, do you think that it will get better as time goes on? I mean if we weigh ourselves the day before Thanksgiving EVERYTIME and then after and then always see the 3-6 pound gain. Don't you think that sooner or later we will say before we eat those things, "I KNOW I am going to gain 6 pounds in one weekend I am not eating that."
Or will the siren's call of pie always outweigh our better judgement?
We shall see, but I have looked up healthy recipes for Christmas and I am e-mailing them to my dad. The great thing about my dad is he doesn't really care about that stuff and will do whatever I want mostly. I don't think that he has emotional attachments to food. So far, Bridget told me about a recipe for mashed potatoes that uses 1/2 cauliflower and half potatoes. Sounds pretty good. Also a green bean and red bell pepper dish. I need to not have rolls or white bread, because I LOVE bread and butter. Then if we do a dessert that I can say no to we would be home free.
Ah yes, today was a pretty good day. We exercised, Im under 1000 cal and under 2000 of sodium and I am on 3 bottles of water
ReplyDeleteMashed cauliflower is DELICIOUS! I didn't think you even needed to add potatoes if you cook it just right it mashes up almost like potato's. Have you tried butter buds? Mix that in with the cauliflower and it is a yummy sub for mashed potatoes!
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a good day, Mallory! And it's awesome that you're planning ahead to Christmas. I don't know about you guys, but I think the siren's call will always get me a little bit. The thing is that we've survived this year (Thanksgiving, at least) and are still going forward with trying to lose weight and not give in to the "I blew my diet I might as well eat whatever I want until the New Year and then I'll start over" thing. And maybe it'll get at least a little easier to say no to things or at least eat them in moderation. Because, while the 57,000 pounds of mashed potatoes and gravy I ate last Thursday were delicious, if I had had maybe just 1/2 a cup and savored it, it would have been much better. And maybe I wouldn't have had a stomache that night.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't think that the siren's call of pie will ever go away and we'll always give in a little, but I think that's ok - - as long as it's just some, not the entire pie. Or five days of pie. That's what I mean - more moderation - over time. Or at least that's what I'm hoping for. I know that in the past five years, I'm a lot less likely to eat an entire pie, or loaf of bread, etc. than I was before that. I give a lot of stuff away now or just don't make it. I know myself a lot more now and I KNOW that if it's in my house, I'll eat it. I think that that's one of the reasons that it's so nice to have my family here in town. While they aren't into eating healthy or subbing healthy foods for unhealthy ones, at least I can leave the pie at their house and go home to my pie-free home. If it was in my house, I'd eat. Absouletly. However, I also throw away a lot of stuff that IS in my house. Like if we have a party or girl's night or holiday or something, a lot of the left-overs either get put in Aaron's "office" so I won't eat them, or thrown out.
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