Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 6. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

retiredlady

vixtress wrote: »

excellent, i will give it a go, thanks

Let me know how it turns out! I made blueberry muffins yesterday and my friend came around and had one. She didn't believe they had no flour, sugar or fat in them!:D

retiredlady

frogga wrote: »

Good Morning Guys :j ,

Hello RS, Tappy, Gran, Newlywed, Procccy, JoJo, floyd, rocks, shell, Marion, Vixy, Spugzy et al :beer:

If I can get through today and tomorrow I've managed to do 3 weeks!!! Yes, 3 weeks without bingeing ONCE! I rekon I aint done that for over a year.

Have a good day people xx

Yay frogga! Well done on the lack of bingefesting :T:T

taplady

back again!
have decided what to eat today

B - toast and reduced sugar marmalade(scraping of butter)

S - ryvita goodness bar

L - jacket spud, tuna with tbs mayo(light) salad leaves

S - banana

D - quorn bolognaise with linguini(no spaghetti) and a sprinkling of cheese and more salad leaves

S - mullerlight

fingers crossed it all goes to plan

vixtress

retiredlady wrote: »

Let me know how it turns out! I made blueberry muffins yesterday and my friend came around and had one. She didn't believe they had no flour, sugar or fat in them!:D

oooh, that sounds good, is it with the same recipe?

JoJoB

spugzbunny wrote: »

JoJoB - Can I ask you how you recognised your triggers? Do you rate them at all (ie. major trigger, minor trigger). And how do you try to combat them once you've recognised them?

Hi spugzbunny, I think I've just gradually realised over time my 3 major triggers:
1) Stress
2) Tiredness
3) Time alone

When you think about it these 3 are not suprising if you think food may be an actual addiction for you (as I am coming round to thinking in my case). When you are tired or stressed you have fewer emotional reserves to draw on and it's easy to turn to old comforts. And when you are on your own it's easy to fall off the wagon too because there's no-one there to see you shoot up - I mean, stuff your face.

Except yourself of course, and then the inner shame just makes you want another hit of cake. The worst thing is actually creating situations where you're more likely to binge, just so that you can binge! I used to do this all the time when I was quitting smoking - used to create arguments out of thin air for example, so that I could stomp off in a huff and somehow end up round the corner shop buying marlborough lights. And when OH was at work I would puff away merrily all day only to panic when he was on his way home that the house stank of smoke (which it did but he doesn't have too much of a sense of smell so I didn't get rumbled).

Bottom line - when I am left to my own devices I tend to be naughty. So am trying to bring out the parental side of myself to look after me and give myself a good talking to now and then - instead of relying on OH to parent me and stop me doing bad things.

I think it's called growing up. :eek:

Edit: Still doing ok today, grazed a bit but not on bad stuff.

Had 3 small bananas, an apple, a child's fromage frais, v small bowl muesli - 400 cals so far today.

spugzbunny

Thanks for that JOJOB!

I completely agree with what you say about food being an addiction. I think about food around 80% of the day! I plan, re-plan, worry, stress, convince, talk into, guilt, stress, worry. It's ridiculous.

I think my biggest triggers are stress - i think i deserve it; Drinking - I've had a few drinks so I loss my stress worry guilt thoughts; and boredom - I have nothing to do so the food thoughts go into overdrive!

I think the biggest of those is boredom - even if I have only a little time with nothing occupying em I can thin and think and think myself into eating something. I've tried hobbies and the rest, reading probably helps the most but I think maybe if I'm more conscious of what I am doing I can stop myself.

retiredlady

vixtress wrote: »

oooh, that sounds good, is it with the same recipe?

Yes, same recipe but used vanilla instead of almond and put in a punnet of blueberries instead of the apricots. Divided the mixture into large muffins tins and they made nice big muffins,. I did increase the sweetener by a couple of tablesppons cause the berries arn't as sweet as dried apricots!:j

JoJoB

spugzbunny wrote: »

Thanks for that JOJOB!

I completely agree with what you say about food being an addiction. I think about food around 80% of the day! I plan, re-plan, worry, stress, convince, talk into, guilt, stress, worry. It's ridiculous.

I think my biggest triggers are stress - i think i deserve it; Drinking - I've had a few drinks so I loss my stress worry guilt thoughts; and boredom - I have nothing to do so the food thoughts go into overdrive!

I think the biggest of those is boredom - even if I have only a little time with nothing occupying em I can thin and think and think myself into eating something. I've tried hobbies and the rest, reading probably helps the most but I think maybe if I'm more conscious of what I am doing I can stop myself.

Yes, boredom is also a biggie - I've made sure I get out of the house a lot the last few days so I'm not just in the house in the proximity of the fridge.

But another trigger I forgot until the symptoms started half way round waitrose - PMS. I managed to avoid the cake aisle but did get 2 weightwatchers desserts, one of which was intended for OH - but I imagine you've already guessed what's happened to that. Still, at least it wasn't 2 giant choc chip cookies followed by 2 tubs of vanilla toffee crunch icecream as has been my recent habit. :eek:

So i only have 350 cals left for dinner, best choose wisely!

floyd

Morning all

Had a good day yesterday, no slips at all and thoroughly enjoyed my HM fish and chips tea even though I was late home I held on and didn't eat junk

Hoping for another good one today so fingers crossed nobody brings in anything nice for teabreak

B: 2 wholemeal toast with cheese spread

L: Pasta salad with tuna

Veggie chilli and brown rice with a big salad

S: Maybe a skinny cappuccino with my friend later today and a rhubarb yoghurt

Have a fab weekend all, we have people coming over to watch the UFC fights on Saturday so curry all round (mines a veg samba and boiled rice) then I might go to the farmers market on Sunday and see if I can get some bargains for pickling/preserving

frogga

spugzbunny wrote: »

I think about food around 80% of the day! quote]


80%? Is that all? You're an amature Spugzy

Just a quickie to say I actually got through the week without bingeing again. That's 3 weeks now. Really don't think I've done that for months, maybe even more than a year So I am quite pleased. Last night was a bit tricky as I started to get "that feeling" so I phoned RS :A and we had a chat and then it wore off, thank goodness.

I've got to really watch myself now because the longer it goes on, the more cocky I get about having the bingeing beaten and then it comes right round and bites me on the bum when I'm not looking and before I know it I've eaten the complete contents of the fridge :rolleyes: SO watch yourself little frog

Right, hope you all have a good weekend, now hopping off to clean the pad, got an excited feeling about posting next Friday and declaring that I made it through 4 weeks

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