Cannon's Journal

I totally agree with you! We are in control of what we eat. In Italy we say "you must eat to keep living, not live to keep eating."
Have a great week end!
 
Well I did weigh in and at 402.4 pounds it was a pretty good loss for the week. Considering last Friday I had gained considerably, I'll take a 6 pound loss at this time of my program any week. Once again, I don't care if I gained 6 pounds though because I know I did good. The weight will take care of itself. I just have to keep eating like this and continue to work on adding in more exercise.
 
getting closer to breaking 400 - well done -that'll be a huge achievement...

you know what you have to do - focus on one day at a time and you'll get there
 
sometimes just not falling into old habbits is enuff to celebrate!!!! somedays i just am good with the fact that i am trying to change and that is better than it used to be!!!!
focus on the positive dude and ALLRIGHT on almost breakin outta the 4's there bro!!!:p
have great day Big Gun!!!!
STAR:D
 
6 lbs wowie - great job and great attitude I need to borrow some of that off of you!!! I seem to have lost mine somewhere along the way here, lol...looking good as usualy cannon
 
Striking a weekend balance

I don't know how I feel about this weekend and if I was successful.

Friday
Friday was a scheduled doughnut day at work. I had my normal oatmeal breakfast because I didn't want to be hungry, but I also had a donut--something I fully intended to do. At lunch, another teacher generously bought me an individual sized stuffed pizza and I did dig into it. It was unexpected and delicious. I went with a smallish dinner to make up for those calories. Not a great day admittedly, but survivable.

Saturday
Had a small lunch and slept late so I didn't have breakfast. I had a snack and then went to a game night with my friends. There were snacks and I showed very good restraint. There was pizza and I did eat an OK ammount. It wasn't as small as it should have been, but also wasn't a binge.

Tomorrow is grocery shopping and I'm going to try and keep it light. I don't think I was as successful as I could have been with the weekend binging, but I also don't think I was bad. I'm going to give myself a C and take some pride in the calories I did leave behind and I'll also try for a solid B next weekend. There has been a lot of stress this weekend, but I'm going to try not to let it effect me. The weather here is starting to warm. This is good news for us reluctant walkers.
 
Hi Cannon!!! I have a thought for you, that might help you stop the see sawing you are trying to get under control. It isn't just about the food!!!
I hope you can start mentally seeing yourself as thinner. We all have a mental
thermostat of what we look like, and when we start to change ourselves, we can mentally stop ourselves because that's not our "norm". Thus we sabotage our diet changes, and condone any overeating we do..."that's who I am" kind of thinking. Start thinking of the success you have had at this, and that you WILL get into the 3's, and then down further!!! I hope I'm not being annoying. I found the mental aspect of changing my diet and exercise level was much larger than I ever thought it would be. I really struggled looking in the mirror after losing weight because I didn't recognize myself.
 
Thanks Beckster and that's just what I'm trying to do. I agree with you 110% about it not just being about the food. There is a fine line between over-indulging and making things so strict with yourself that the diet rules your life and you give up. This weekend was like I said a C. I put on 1 pound. I know some of it was salt. In past weekends I've put on 2-4. I hope to not put anything on and lose some next weekend, but its a definite help that I didn't go in the 2-4 range. When I look back at things I could have ate differently ths is the score card:

Doughnut - I think this was acceptable. Its the second doughnut I refuse to eat again. I will allow myself a first one.

Pizza (Friday) - Acceptable, but it was 4 pieces. I should have stopped at 2. Could have been better.

Pizza (Last night) - OK, but again I should have limited myself to one less piece

Snacks - Excellent! I avoided alcohol and didn't eat more than 100 calories of all the thngs there to nibble on.

Its progress, but I know I'm doing better. This is a faulty logic because the numbers get screwey at my weight, but at 403.4 pounds I need to save 11,900 calories over the next 5 days. That's just about 2,400 calories per day and supposedly I need about 4,400 calories per day to maintain. If this is correct, then if I keep up my 2,000 a day caloric intake I could get to the 3s this week--Yay!

However, I'm still trying to focus on change and not be married to that scale. If it comes this week or next the important thing is the changes. This week I want to eat as well during the week as I did last week and eat better than I did this weekend.
 
The scale must not become an obsession. You're on the right track, I'm sure you'll make it! Sometimes I tend to be a little too strict with myself, I must learn from you. :)
 
the right focus

Today I merely observed the scale but what I paid close attention to tonight was how I felt as I ate my dinner. I hope that focussing on the inner signals is the right focus.
 
I'm a bit of a lapsed Catholic. I have some very definite beliefs, but I'm not exactly practicing at this point. What I recognize is how much my Chicago Catcholic traditions are based on binge and purge or maybe that's feast and fast. Today is Punzci (Sp?) Day where everybody eats these Polish doughnuts. Its the same tradition that spawned Mardi Gras or Stove Tuesday. The whole idea being that come Wednesday you're going to be doing without something for 40 days so you should pig out now. After that we give up something for lent, don't eat meat on Fridays or this Wednesday and go crazy on St. Patrick's Day. There are so many moments in my life tied into food. I think its why it becomes difficult to change habbits. The good news is its getting warmer out. More exercise yay!
 
happy pancake tuesday - :D actually the 'binge' tradition started to rid the house of everything you aren't supposed to have during lent (because it's a sin to waste food - not that gluttony isn't a sin - so go figure :D

and the go crazy on st patty's day only applies if you are irish and no not everyone is irish on st pattys day :D
 
I did pretty good yesterday. It happenned just like I said and my sister was in the mood to "pig out before eating sensibly for Lent". I decided to go with her. My pig out was a chicken caesar salad from Leonas and a small soft serve ice cream cone. The ability to enjoy social gatherings and conversation without blowing things is very important to me.
 
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