Milestones (Amy's diary)

Thanks, Cate and Emily! :) Yes, I think it was being so active that helped - I can even see my next mini-goal approaching!

I had the gooniest dream last night - or half a dream, because I was half-awake. It was two in the morning, and I dreamed I was eating a slice of the (real) cake in the kitchen, and then dreamed I was thinking (or really did think, if I was awake) about the possibility of getting up and actually eating some of the said cake, and then worried (in my half-dreaming state) that thinking about eating the cake was actually scientifically equivalent to really eating the cake, and that - oh no! - I'd have gained weight in the morning.
And then decided not to worry, and went back to deeper sleep (and didn't eat any cake!) and this morning - good heavens! actually a shade down. :D
 
:rotflmao: That´s the kind of thing I´d dream. Such a relief to wake up and find it was all nonsense sometimes :rotflmao:
 
Hi Amy well done on remaining under 13st . That's my next target which I'm a few lb off now. Hoping by end of the month I'll get there or close to. Oh to be in the 12st target again . I'm 5ft 7 so it's not a bad weight for me. Haha I often dream of eating something and wonder does it affect the weight loss lol
 
Good to know I'm not the only one, LaMa! :)

Hey there, Petal! :) I just wrote on your diary about plateaus - and yes, I'm still (just) under thirteen stone, but now I'm starting to feel frustrated that I'm not going down lower, to my next mini-goal - so it was good to read your diary and have a check on that! :)

But that mini-goal... it's to get under 180 pounds, and I'm so close! By Monday, maybe?
 
Hi Amy —

I’ve scolded myself quite a bit for having “food fantasies” haha! Sometimes my face flushed because of the guilty thoughts.

Fingers crossed for you over the weekend!
 
Amy good luck with mini target. I am looking forward to going under the 180 lb too but I a tiny bit further to go. Stayed really focused today .
 
Thanks, LaMa and Pam for the crossed fingers! I'll report in after Monday's weigh. :)
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Haha, I have often wondered if the fantasy of eating something makes it real for the body!! The human mind is mad.
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And powerful. I wouldn't put it past the mind, dreaming of eating food, or powerfully visualising food, to sway the body into accepting that it had actually been fed - though to be realistic I can't see it working longterm!
Oh, cheers, Petal, for being someone else working down to be under the 180. Will the September four pounds take you there?

I bought a new-to-me vegetable yesterday! I was at the market, and there was a vendor with (amongst other things) the most beautiful trays of yellow-and-green pumpkin tips (or marrow tips, or similar) - baby leaves, and curling green tendrils, and tiny unopened yellow buds, looking like the buds of banksia roses. And I instantly thought how lovely they'd look, lightly stir-fried, with tofu, and bought half a kilo (far too much for one, of course). I was a bit regretting it, when I got home, because pumpkin tips can have that unpleasing scratchy texture, but I went ahead and did as planned (with onion and garlic and a dash of soy sauce and lime juice) and they came out beautifully - not scratchy at all - either because it wasn't pumpkin at all, or because it had been picked so young. So that's my most recent vego-culinary news. :)

(I'd attach a photo if I knew how.)
 
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I´d love to see a picture of that meal!
aiminglow said:
I wouldn't put it past the mind, dreaming of eating food, or powerfully visualising food, to sway the body into accepting that it had actually been fed - though to be realistic I can't see it working longterm!
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That´s a thing WW recommended us doing when we were struggling with cravings: close your eyes, imagine the thing you´re craving in the most minute detail of all your senses, imagine biting off a piece and slowly chewing it, etc. It sometimes works for specific cravings but if the reason for your cravings is a large calorie deficit the effect won´t last long.
 
Amy the 4lb would take me to about 181 on a morning weigh in. I usually weigh myself the morning after the class as I like that figure better . Weird I know.
Your meal sounds good .
 
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Here you are, LaMa! Not the meal, but the flowers and tiny buds and tendrils on a dinner plate; I've already eaten the meal I made last night, stir-frying them with garlic and ginger and tofu. Aren't they beautiful? Would it not tempt anyone to turn them into dinner? I'll make the remnant into something or other fairly similar tomorrow.

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Petal001 said:
Amy the 4lb would take me to about 181 on a morning weigh in. I usually weigh myself the morning after the class as I like that figure better . Weird I know.
Your meal sounds good .
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Hey, great that you're down in the lower 180s, and will be nearly out the door of the 180s club by the end of the month! Nothing weird about choosing a special time and place to have your for-the-record weigh-in - which day will that be? Let me know, and I'll be standing by for the news, ready to cheer. (For some reason I think you're in Ireland - true? I'll have to get my head around the time-zone.)
The meal was good - and I hope you like the picture of the main ingredient. :)
 
:D or looking green-and-yellow, with curly tendrils! (But than, I did say I would have liked naturally curly hair!)

And a Monday report: I went to bed with high hopes, thinking that I usually drop a bit overnight, but this time - no. So that was disappointing.
 
Hey Amy, nice picture, what exactly is it?

I think I missed congratulating you on passing the 13 stone mark that is great!

Food nightmares, another thing to worry about. When I have been successful with dieting in the past I have had anxiety dreams about falling off of the diet, those dreams have always been profitic. No such dreams this time, not yet anyway.
 
Hi, Amy. That's a bugger about not losing weight when you feel that you should have. I'm scared to get on the scales as I eat better when I think I am losing & get so disappointed when I don't.
 
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