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Thanks for this post!!!Re: FINALLY losing the pounds!!!! How I'm doing it. (kind of long, sorry!!)From: thea (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:39:39 -0500 (CDT)
BOY, I NEEDED YOUR POST TODAY!!!At Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Christie wrote: >Thank you!, I love the way you look at life now. I will try to use your 20 pound goal instead of 20 pounds.. that is a lot and I bet I can do it with small goals!!So far I have lost doing nothing. I have just started taking metaform and have lost 13 pounds so far. I have notice a great change in eting I am not hungry the way i used to be. The only thing is I know now that I am addicted to carbs. Tha is still hard for me. but I eat less than half of what I used to eat. Thanks for your post!!! >Hi everyone, I hope you all are well. I haven't posted in a while , >largely in part that I just found out that my son has PDD-NOS, and shows >signs of Hyperlexia and Aspergers Syndrome. (In short, he is somewhere >on the autistic spectrum, but they won't know how severe his case is >until he starts getting older. He is only 4 years old right now.) So, >getting through the past couple of months has been a roller coaster >ride, to say the least. >O.k., sorry about being off topic. I have found a way to lose my extra >padding that REALLY works for me. First, I do not say that I'm on a >DIET because diet = failure for me. I am going through a "lifestyle >change" (how does that sound? hahaha) I have changed the way that I look >at food in that I don't see it as the enemy anymore, I see it as good >fuel for my body. I eat very healthily, however if I want a piece of >chocolate or some other indulgence, I let myself have it. I have a >smaller portion than I would normally have had, and that way I don't >feel like I'm being too strict and depriving myself. I LISTEN TO MY >BODY!!! I used to eat just because there was food in the house, hungry >or not!!! I also used to clean my plate, even though I was about to bust >out of my pants!! I figure, if you have to unbutton your jeans to give >relief to your full, swollen belly, you've deffinately gone too far.(for >me, anyway) Eating until you're uncomfortable is a good way to abuse >your body, and becomes a bad habit very quickly. I walk everyday for a >half hour, and I am hoping to slowly work up to an hour & a half. Before >I walk, though, I take a 5 minute HOT shower to limber me up so that I >have more energy to burn. (trust me ladies, this WORKS. try it once >and you'll always do it) My last tidbit of information is one of the >best things I could have began doing for myself. I no longer say that I >have to lose 100 ponds because it seems like an impossible goal to set. >Instead my goal is 20 pounds at a time. I worry about the 20 pounds >that I'm working on RIGHT NOW, and don't even think about any of the >other weight. I have lost 9 pounds so far on this new "lifestyle" of >mine, and I am only 11 pounds away from my first 20 pound goal! (see how >much better that sounds than saying I'm 91 pounds away from my goal >weight???) I feel WONDERFUL about myself!! Even my husband has commented >on my rising confidence level, and about how much happier I've been >lately. Now THAT'S better than an icecream sundae, wouldn't you say? :) >Christie Jackson
-- thea
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