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hillbillylee1
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Cannon I took some time off when I stopped losing and even gained back a few. It wasn't much since the voice in my head was still stuck in watch my calorie mode. We still have a long road ahead since we have so much to lose. It gets frustrating when it slows down or we get roped into a buffet or just whatever. It's strange when I come off my diet it's like the weight comes back so easy. Once we get small enough and we can jog or ride a bike it will take care of itself. When you weigh 350 or 400 There is only so much you can do to burn calories without messing up your knees or back so our option is mainly walking. The only plus side is being larger we burn more calories when we do anything at all. For us cleaning the house or doing dishes burns the same as someone doing some cardio for 15 minutes. I'm in the same boat; I want to do more but there is just so much you can do.....
If it gets too frustrating or you just want to talk about it all... I'm always around........
If it gets too frustrating or you just want to talk about it all... I'm always around........
cinderelly
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Hey Cannon M2M and Hillbilly spread some good wisdom...takin a lil break is fine as long as you dont sink and get back into the groove...I took a 2 week break, LOL...I did ok the first week second week was a free for alla nd I am not exercising agian yet and still seeing my non results, LOL...you knwo what you need to do and your body knows...good luck to starting agian and getting outta the watter...(does that make sence) LOL
Cannon 2006
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I am now about 419.2. I don't think I really gained 12 pounds. 407.6 was awfully low and I think it was a hiccup. I probably should have been about 410 and I know that I ate a lot of salt last night. I'm guessing I probably went from 410 to 416. I can work with that. Plan is in place and though I am limited in what I can eat until I kick this cold, I do know my calories will be very good this week.
pinkydolly
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Have a great week ahead!
Cannon 2006
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Thanks, the worst part is I go back to my prepless day. So kids all day other than 15 minutes for lunch tomorrow. The good part is that I've had 2200 calories today so I'm right where I want to be. Day 1 is accomplished.
Mahatt
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Hey Cannon,
Hope the cold isn't bothering you too much, I hate being cold, so you've got my sympathies (or is it empathy, I can't remember the english for "I feel your pain")
Anyway, sorry you went up, but heck, your cannon, they will soon give in to your determination! Just remember we are all here by your side and if the going gets rough just think of all you have accomplished so far. Remember when you told us about the you some years back, the you now and the future you, and what might have been, remember that and you know you are on the right path, doing it for the future you, when the present you was able. (hope it makes sense) Anyway, hope you get better soon and have a nice day
Hope the cold isn't bothering you too much, I hate being cold, so you've got my sympathies (or is it empathy, I can't remember the english for "I feel your pain")
Anyway, sorry you went up, but heck, your cannon, they will soon give in to your determination! Just remember we are all here by your side and if the going gets rough just think of all you have accomplished so far. Remember when you told us about the you some years back, the you now and the future you, and what might have been, remember that and you know you are on the right path, doing it for the future you, when the present you was able. (hope it makes sense) Anyway, hope you get better soon and have a nice day
beckster123
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Hi Cannon!! Want to encourage you to keep going!!! You'll get those pounds off in no time!
Cannon 2006
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Thanks folks. I'm starting to take them off. Now, last year I had a cold that literally lasted from October until June. My chiropractor has been telling me about the ileocecal valve for sometime now and I've been paying it lipservice. Its a small valve between the intestines and if it isn't working properly waste gets backed up in your system causing things like colds. I finally got to the point where I was willing to try anything. He put me on a diet where I couldn't have cafeine, chocolate, alcohol, whole grains, anything with seeds, raw fruit or veggies, nuts, or anything spicy did some manipulations and then I took a chorophyll complex. I swear that stupid cold cleared up in 2 days. I've had a cold now for all of Christmas break so I'm doing it again. That makes watching what I eat even harder, but I started this diet way back when under similiar conditions. I hope I am correct in that it does feel like the cold is getting better now.
MissJellyBelly
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Hello Cannon! I hope you knock that cold out quick, your method sounds interesting. Let me know if it works really quick again, I might have to try it. Congrats on your Masters!! You go!
changeforlife
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Learn something new everyday. Interesting. Hope you start feeling better!
hillbillylee1
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wow that is unusual. Was it a doctor in a white coat or was it the kind that had a feathered headdress and bones around his neck and shook a rattle at you??????
Cannon 2006
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LOL, there is some information on the different symptoms that this condition triggers. I swear last year I tried everythine for months before I finally went to him and it cleared up in three days. Sometimes chiroprators think kineseology can treat everything. I know he's a godsend for my back, but he's quite good at treating things like colds, headaches, and what have you.
Cannon 2006
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On AOL today:
By Geneen Roth for Prevention
My friend Molly called me today and said, "I just ate a blueberry muffin the size of my cat. And then I decided that since I haven't let myself eat such things in a long time, I needed to add yummy side dishes of potato chips and chocolate."
After an appropriate amount of murmuring and Oh, Sweethearts, I told her I was about to write this month's column. She said, "I have an idea. How about writing about the power of kindness and self-acceptance?"
"Good idea," I said. And here we are.
People often mistake self-acceptance and tenderheartedness with indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy -- sitting around the house in a bathrobe all day eating bonbons. This is simply not true. Think about it for a moment: When was the last time you changed your behavior -- for the long term -- because you threatened yourself?
Years ago I was living in an 8-by-10 shack with no hot water, an outdoor refrigerator, and an outdoor bathroom. Uh, well, not exactly bathroom. There was no bath (only a cold outdoor shower) and the toilet was in an outhouse that smelled like yesterday's cat pee.
Don't ask how I ended up there; that story is for another time. But suffice it to say that being the kind of girl who was the teeniest bit attached to indoor plumbing, I walked around generally out of sorts. I was lost and confused about what I was doing with my life.
So I did what I always did when I was lost: I ate. And ate. And ate.
And because I believed I shouldn't have been eating, and because I would never ever buy the food I wanted for myself (sweet stuff), I began inviting myself into my next-door neighbor's pantry whenever he left for work and helping myself to the granola stocked there in a big glass jar on the counter.
Stolen Granola Moments
I felt terrible about myself for stealing. My heart would be crashing as I slipped through his door; my hands would be cold when I reached for the granola, and then I'd eat it quickly, ramming it down my throat in case he returned unexpectedly. Those weren't some of my better moments.
My neighbor -- a famous psychologist -- was furious when he found out. Beyond furious. He wanted to wring my neck. He called me a leech, a thief, and a neurotic, dishonest good-for-nothing. And he was right to be angry. I was entering his house uninvited and stealing his food. But shaming me didn't help me; I began telling myself that what he was saying was true, that I was hopeless and a bane to society.
If either of us had thought to be curious about why I was stealing granola when I could afford to buy it myself, I might have begun understanding that my eating was a sign of buried feelings that needed attention. Instead, I -- and perhaps my neighbor -- subscribed to the cultural belief that kindness leads to indulgence and that acceptance can never lead to change.
If either of us had thought to be curious about why I was stealing granola when I could afford to buy it myself, I might have begun understanding that my eating was a sign of buried feelings that needed attention. Instead, I--and perhaps my neighbor--subscribed to the cultural belief that kindness leads to indulgence and that acceptance can never lead to change.
When, years later, I finally understood that being interested in and tender with myself wouldn't lull me into staying in bed for six years watching TV and eating pizza, something in me relaxed. I felt as if there were someone at home in my body--someone who accepted me as I was. Because of this acceptance and interest, I could, paradoxically, stop my behavior. I didn't need to keep acting out to get my or someone else's attention: I already had it.
I often hear a variation on this statement: "If I'm not intolerant of my shortcomings, how can I ever expect to change them?" The truth is, real change only happens when you're kind to yourself.
It's All About You
From childhood, we're conditioned to believe that we only change when forced. We learn to mistrust our intentions and think that if we give ourselves enough rope, we'll hang ourselves.
Karen Russell weighed 424 pounds when I met her. "Telling me I could trust myself with food or feelings was like handing an ax to an ax murderer. That's how I got myself into this mess," she said. "No," I replied, "you got yourself into this mess by not trusting yourself. By repeatedly depriving yourself and then bingeing. After enough binges, you felt like you could devour the universe. Who would trust a carton of ice cream with anyone who could devour the universe?"
After a few months of practicing self-kindness--such as telling her family that they weren't allowed to comment on her weight and eating exactly what she wanted--she got the hang of it. She started losing weight. Eventually, she treated herself with such kindness that she lost 300 pounds.
In Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Sharon Salzberg writes that we believe that "if we abuse our minds enough with self-hatred and self-condemnation, somehow that abuse will be a path that liberates us, [but] generosity coming from self-hatred becomes martyrdom."
The only way to learn the difference between self-indulgence and self-kindness is to experience what self-kindness feels like. Declare it "Be Kind to Me" day, and get out there and start treating yourself as if you deserve every good thing. Because, in fact, you do.
By Geneen Roth for Prevention
My friend Molly called me today and said, "I just ate a blueberry muffin the size of my cat. And then I decided that since I haven't let myself eat such things in a long time, I needed to add yummy side dishes of potato chips and chocolate."
After an appropriate amount of murmuring and Oh, Sweethearts, I told her I was about to write this month's column. She said, "I have an idea. How about writing about the power of kindness and self-acceptance?"
"Good idea," I said. And here we are.
People often mistake self-acceptance and tenderheartedness with indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy -- sitting around the house in a bathrobe all day eating bonbons. This is simply not true. Think about it for a moment: When was the last time you changed your behavior -- for the long term -- because you threatened yourself?
Years ago I was living in an 8-by-10 shack with no hot water, an outdoor refrigerator, and an outdoor bathroom. Uh, well, not exactly bathroom. There was no bath (only a cold outdoor shower) and the toilet was in an outhouse that smelled like yesterday's cat pee.
Don't ask how I ended up there; that story is for another time. But suffice it to say that being the kind of girl who was the teeniest bit attached to indoor plumbing, I walked around generally out of sorts. I was lost and confused about what I was doing with my life.
So I did what I always did when I was lost: I ate. And ate. And ate.
And because I believed I shouldn't have been eating, and because I would never ever buy the food I wanted for myself (sweet stuff), I began inviting myself into my next-door neighbor's pantry whenever he left for work and helping myself to the granola stocked there in a big glass jar on the counter.
Stolen Granola Moments
I felt terrible about myself for stealing. My heart would be crashing as I slipped through his door; my hands would be cold when I reached for the granola, and then I'd eat it quickly, ramming it down my throat in case he returned unexpectedly. Those weren't some of my better moments.
My neighbor -- a famous psychologist -- was furious when he found out. Beyond furious. He wanted to wring my neck. He called me a leech, a thief, and a neurotic, dishonest good-for-nothing. And he was right to be angry. I was entering his house uninvited and stealing his food. But shaming me didn't help me; I began telling myself that what he was saying was true, that I was hopeless and a bane to society.
If either of us had thought to be curious about why I was stealing granola when I could afford to buy it myself, I might have begun understanding that my eating was a sign of buried feelings that needed attention. Instead, I -- and perhaps my neighbor -- subscribed to the cultural belief that kindness leads to indulgence and that acceptance can never lead to change.
If either of us had thought to be curious about why I was stealing granola when I could afford to buy it myself, I might have begun understanding that my eating was a sign of buried feelings that needed attention. Instead, I--and perhaps my neighbor--subscribed to the cultural belief that kindness leads to indulgence and that acceptance can never lead to change.
When, years later, I finally understood that being interested in and tender with myself wouldn't lull me into staying in bed for six years watching TV and eating pizza, something in me relaxed. I felt as if there were someone at home in my body--someone who accepted me as I was. Because of this acceptance and interest, I could, paradoxically, stop my behavior. I didn't need to keep acting out to get my or someone else's attention: I already had it.
I often hear a variation on this statement: "If I'm not intolerant of my shortcomings, how can I ever expect to change them?" The truth is, real change only happens when you're kind to yourself.
It's All About You
From childhood, we're conditioned to believe that we only change when forced. We learn to mistrust our intentions and think that if we give ourselves enough rope, we'll hang ourselves.
Karen Russell weighed 424 pounds when I met her. "Telling me I could trust myself with food or feelings was like handing an ax to an ax murderer. That's how I got myself into this mess," she said. "No," I replied, "you got yourself into this mess by not trusting yourself. By repeatedly depriving yourself and then bingeing. After enough binges, you felt like you could devour the universe. Who would trust a carton of ice cream with anyone who could devour the universe?"
After a few months of practicing self-kindness--such as telling her family that they weren't allowed to comment on her weight and eating exactly what she wanted--she got the hang of it. She started losing weight. Eventually, she treated herself with such kindness that she lost 300 pounds.
In Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Sharon Salzberg writes that we believe that "if we abuse our minds enough with self-hatred and self-condemnation, somehow that abuse will be a path that liberates us, [but] generosity coming from self-hatred becomes martyrdom."
The only way to learn the difference between self-indulgence and self-kindness is to experience what self-kindness feels like. Declare it "Be Kind to Me" day, and get out there and start treating yourself as if you deserve every good thing. Because, in fact, you do.
cinderelly
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WOW that is a restricting diet great if it works though...dbl bonus if it gets rid of the cold and helps you loose weight