Giving it a go again

Great job today, Parsnips! Things will get progressively easier from here :)


And metabolisms are rarely a set thing--they can be lowered/highered depending on how much exercise a person does. I'm sure I've done some damage to my metabolism over the years through fad dieting but I'm now quite happy to eat realistically and exercise everyday to try to level-off. And if you feel you might have gained [water weight] step far, far away from the scale!!
 
No idea what borscht is haha :) but keep up the good work. I think that is one of the interesting/sometimes fun aspects of this journey. Eventually you will learn how different foods affect you and your body and it will help the choice-making process get easier and easier over time. It isn't always easy at first but as long as you are doing the best you can, things will fall into place. Keep your chin up you are doing great!!!
 
Thanks, AvaTea!
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(Borscht pretty much = beetroot soup. and I had a dob of yogurt and some fresh dill on it.)


Well, I finished my two days of "eating normally", and my weight didn't go up, but it didn't go down, either. I'm glad I did it, just to see how my body reacts, and as you said, to "learn how different foods affect you and your body". But I'll stop now, otherwise I'll never make a respectable showing in the Club Challenge!
 
AThat sounds so delicious!!! Yum :)

I am of the notion that experimenting is half the fun(and can be truly fascinating!). In a way it helps me have a more positive relationship with food. It really is amazing how nourishing it can be! I am sure that you will end up doing fabulously in the challenge and I will be here to support you the entireeee way :) sorry if I seem annoyingly positive but sometimes we are too hard on ourselves. You are doing great, keep going!
 
Just posted on the Challenge thread... As I've explained there,, I'm about to disappear :leaving: for a few days, and I'm hyper-anxious that this will blow me right back to dunnowhere. :)


Cheers, and have a good weigh yourself for the end of the first week of the Challenge!
 
awww don't disappear!! It doesn't sound very fun!!


Hurry back and hope it doesn't knock you too far off course!
 
AWell noparsnips, I probably didn't catch you before you "disappeared" so hopefully, you are making good choices today, no matter what happened yesterday or the day before!
Stay focused and together we will reach our goal! You're helping me more than you know!

Sarah
 
Back from the bender! and whad'd'I miss? I'll have to go racing all through the diaries to find out. When the next person looks in, it'll say "noparsnips" all down one side of the page!


It wasn't a bender of binge-drinking, or binge-eating, it was a bender of glum -- I felt so disrupted and tired by last weeked (it was a four-day "weekend") and not able to put a foot right (complex social situations times food equals not able to put a foot right) -- and my morning walks got lost in there, too. But today (Saturday) I'm back, and have been for the walk, and am so glad that there's this gang of good folk to check in with!! Now, to start reading....


Oh! having now read the three messages above) oh, you are all such lovely people!! Thank you all very much! :grouphug:

Yes, the good choices have started again, and I've managed to have a satisfying weigh today (under 88 kg!). And onward and downward! (or upwards, if we're measuring fitness, and enjoyment of life, which is what I think it's about.)


I was wondering how is it that feeling good seems to help me lose weight, no matter what I eat, and the same for feeling badly -- I don't lose weight, no matter what I (don't) eat. Now, obviously, there's a bit of self-deception happening in there (should I confess to the pain chocolat last Thursday???) but honestly, it really seems to be a rough rule: feel good, lose weight. Hmmmm..


anyway... to much more exciting matters: everyone else's diary! I'm really keen to see what's been doing for you all.... (exits, eager to catch up...)
 
Hi noparsnips. Thanks for being so sweet in my diary. I have just caught up with yours. I love your sense of humour- very snappy! There is a great sense of community & mutual support in here at the moment & I know I am very grateful for it. Re the feeling good, losing weight thing. I think that it is very difficult to lose weight if you are coming from a bad place & your self-esteem is low. It is much easier to eat well & exercise & look after yourself if you feel that you are worth looking after. Thanks once again for visiting me in my diary. I am feeling ok mentally now thank goodness. The little black dog(depression) hung around for longer than usual & it did frighten me a little. Who knows how the chemistry got out of whack this time, but it sure did. I appreciate your thought of finding me a song. That is REALLY sweet of you! xoxo Cate
 
Welcome back noparsnips! Glad you are back and feeling good. I agree with Cate...feeling good and losing weight and improving fitness tend to go together..but sometimes a good physical brisk walk can be helpful to get out of bad places mentally. It's hard to know exactly why depression and mental illness happens...and it sure feels good to get out of bad places when we are able to ...the mind is a strange place and sometimes I feel like mine is out to get me! So glad today was a good day for ya and you are back on track!

Thanks for stopping by my diary and giving me encouragement...we all thrive on it you know!!


Good choices to you this day and one day and a time..sometimes, one moment at a time we can make our fitness and slinderness come through!!


Sarah
 
AHi Parsnips :)

I've just read thru your diary and i love it :) You are really funny and are great to read.

Glad you are feeling good in yourself again :)

Looking forward to following you on your journey. You go girl :hurray:
 
Just back from my morning walk, and I had to race in and share this with all of you! (I'll catch up properly later!) I was out on the walk and passing a gentleman I pass every day -- I don't know his age but I'm pretty sure a good bit older than any of us here. He does lots of keepfitty things in front of his house, and also goes for a run to the corner and back and then again and then again etc. etc.


Well... today, inspired by him, the sight of him running, and by the thought of all of you, especially the runners (scbibhouse, jjjay, katehunibun) I broke into a run! :eek: Yes, yes, it was only for ... I dunno... fifty yards, but it was a run. :biggrin: (You -- up the back, there! No sniggering!)


Thank you, old gentleman, and thank you all, everybody out there!!
 
Everyone is running now...I may need to hop on this train!!! :)


Welcome back! I was out of town yesterday...had been wondering about you so I am glad to see you are back!!! I should take after you and really try to get my exercise out of the way in the mornings. It would make the rest of the day go a lot smoother I think.


Anywho, I hope that you have a fabulous week coming up! So glad you have returned.


~Ava
 
AHey noparsnips!! A run??? A run!!! Wow...no matter how far it wasa run! I couldn't (or wouldn't ) do that when I was where you are...so proud of you! If you would like to do more, I recommend a book by Jeff Gallaway, called Marathon...not that you have to run a marathon..he really recommends walking and running combo, not just to get started, but even for 'serious ' runners! So proud of you and glad you were inspired by the old gentleman! Good job girl!!

Sarah
 
AHeya sweetie :)

I'm not saying go and read my diary (it would take you forever as i talk utter crap a lot) but i never ran when i started on my journey and i wrote about my fear of running for 3 minutes straight!!!! as well as the euphoria i felt with running for 20 mins for the first time. It is quite funny for me to look back and read it.

Do you have a smart phone? You can get an App called 'C25K' actually there are quite a few different ones but they all pretty much do the same. They get you running from 1 minute intervals to at the end of 9 weeks doing a 30 minute run. That is what i used to get me running. I would have laughed in your face if you had said that i woulld be able to run like i do a year ago but i can and it really is a totally awesome feeling :)

Ooooooooooh, by the way :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: well done on breaking into a run :) That is awesome!! :) I should have kinda said that first huh. I am all back to front in most things :)
 
Back after a week when i got totally snowed under by work. And I didn't run all this weekend... but at least I managed the walk again. I did run a couple more times -- just short distances. Thank you all enormously, for the support, and for not sniggering!!


and katehunibun I jolly well will read your diary! I bet it's a riproaring read! :biggrin: and thank you very much scbibhouse! i can't see "me" and "marathon" in the same sentence, but I will keep up the scattered bits of run in amongst the walk (mostly when nobody's looking, though). Avatea -- yes, it does help the rest of the day go better, I think, with an added bonus -- I've been sleeping better, too. (it was a very heavy week, workwise, though -- can't say it helped with that!)


and :seeya: to all of you... now to see what you've all been doing all week!
 
Looks like things are sitll going brilliantly for you, Noparsnips! Everyone slips up, it's jsut those who get back on the horse that make the difference! And congratulations on managing a run, that's fabulous news!

Have you managed it agian or have you not tried?! Does it make you ache after?

Again, great job! :hurray:
 
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