The Intuituve Eater

I haven't posted in a while. ALOT has happened. Basically at the day before my weigh-in 336 the next day I was 335. So I gained 2 lbs, but Aunt Flo had been to visit. That was on March 15th. Last night March 20th I was 335. And since I usually lose a pound over night I know I am back to 334. Eating has returned to normal. No weird cravings. Working out has been a whole other story. I think that is because my schedule has been wacky so I can't work out at my usual work out time and I am trying to force myself to do it at the end of the day when I REALLY don't want to. One thing that is motivating me is my 800 minute excercise goal. I missed it last month by less than 100 min. So this month even if I only do 20 min a day I am trying to stay on goal. I am half way there so I should be ok. Posted on 3fc Eating has returned to normal. Jumped on the scale just to see and doing ok. Not an official weigh-in but I think the gain was more TOM than anything else. I seem ...

So this week I only worked out once on Monday. I think I've figured out what the problem was. I was supposed to be doing prevention fitness personal training, the weight loss track and I didn't like it. I think my mind just said well I don't like it so I see no point in doing it. I also think I just needed a break from my routine. So I skipped the whole week. Saturday I did an old WATP 2 mile and today I did Yoga Booty Ballet all the way through. I plan my workout for the following week on Sunday so I am doing 30 min of the quick fit kick boxing (more on that later) and the toning from the PF:personal training (20 min). Funny that I am doing the quick fit DVD. I bought it because I liked the kick boxing in the WALK kick (WATP) and thought i would try it with someone else. I bought quick fit and after reviewing it I just couldn't do it. So now 3-4 months later it looks like it will be challenging but doable...Nice.. Food wise. I have been eating intuitively. S...

Well this week end been a little wacky. I didn't eat anything I planned to eat. I didn't over eat and I think I made good choices all week. I only exercised once this week which I'm not entirely happy with, but I'm ok with that too. Back at it tomorrow (Saturday). So anyway. I know I haven't had the big 3-4 weight loss I had been having so I jumped on the scale. I'm down a pound( to 333) . Its nice because I haven't gained, but I would like to be firmly in the 320s by the end of the month. I have managed to stick to my lent goals with the exception of the 2 beef meals I've had. I will admit Applebees has been calling and it was rough avoiding the scallops with bacon but I'm ok. Funny who I can ignore the Ben and Jerry's and not the scallops. I wonder if it will get easier. Happy that I am not forming any new attachments with food. I do have a craving for hooter, but I think their salads (if you can call it that, more like salad dressi...

Added later: I skimmed my blog looking for something else and realized I've had the whole tastless much epiphany before (is it an epiphany if you had it before and forgot?) anyway...hopefully I won't forget this time. I wonder if I'll ever get to the point with IE where i am not learning something. Well my body went sort of on strike the last few days and I gave in to its demands. I just couldn't make myself eat another tasteless whole wheat English muffin. So I bought Cinnamon raisin ones. Yes they have more calories and yes they probably have some evil chemical in them, but they taste better and I am tired of tasteless dreck. Also I didn't eat my usual lean cuisine/Healthy choice prepackages rubber chicken. I treated myself to Indian and loved it. I have no idea who many calories I had yesterday ....probably quite alot, but I can tell today I am back in the drivers seat. I also had a donut and milk for breakfast So what have we learned boys and girls ......

Whenever I see a meal listed with more than 500 calories...I think oh wow that must be alot of food. I'm here to tell you it isn't. I had 1000 (hamburger, french fries) and a drink and I just got cookies out of the vending machine. So I am at about 1500 for the day. I will probably do over 2000, but thats ok because I know this is just a one day thing. Actually lookign forward to my mega veggie omelet tomorrow morning and trying the chicken marinade I got from 3fc and a the indian recipe from yahoo foods.

Why I love Inuitive eating... So For lent I was giving up Beef along with other habit foods. So Last weekend I had a hamburger and a beef fajitas.....BY about Wednesday or Thursday I had been wanting a hamburger....so today I went ahead and had one...and I realized the beef thing may be because i typically have low iron and thats where I'm getting the boost from. I know there are others ways to get it, but i think that was the way my body was used to getting it. I am pretty sure I won't have any real craving for beef for another week. We'll see...

This was a post by someone else on 3fc and I think it points out how I feel...losing weight and getting complacent...wanting it to be over and I love at the end how she manages to be positive when the scale god isn't showing you some love. I posted this on my livejournal, instead of rewriting it, I'm going the lazy way and copying/pasting. I've had a rough few weeks with the whole weight loss thing, and I'll need to edit the language, but this is the gist of whats been going on in my heart. So, I've been watching what I eat. Working out, although, in the last 2 weeks, its almost everything I can do to get off my fat butt and make myself walk, nevermind anything else. A few weeks ago, even if I had to wait until 11 pm to work out, I STILL worked out. Now, "I'll do extra tomorrow", but like Scarlett, I never face my tomorrows. Guess what? I'm not losing weight! I've let myself slide the last 2 weeks on calories. I've basically, gotten complac...

Well I am munching on bacon as I type this. Bad Venus...bad...not because it is bacon, but because it was a completely random trip to the whole food supper market to pick up sushi and ended up being my realization that I cannot be trusted around a buffet....one of those things i have learned. I also have realized if I don't have good stuff to eat I won't eat it. I will never be one of those people who is trying to lose weight and eats tasteless mush. When I got to the buffet I just wanted to try everything, they only thing that stopped me from over doing it is I don't eat eggs and just about everything had egg in it, so I got bacon turkey and pork before of course I must taste both.... and some potatoes and baked cheesy grits....Yup the breakfast of champions. So no more wholefoods in the morning.... As for the food at home. I had one more light english muffin and I have come to realize I don't like light/low/no fat foods. Give me all the fat and I will eat it in...

Posted on 3fc Well all week I have been praying for a 2lb (would put me at 339) loss which would put me in to the 330s. Weigh-in isn't until wed, but i got on the scale anyway....335...woo hoo. Make me much closer to the size I wanna be to buy summer clothes much more attainable. Well I can say it here. Next weigh in is March 14th. I would really like to be at 329 by then. My Official weigh-in isn't until Wednesday so I'll be playing the game with the scale until Wednesday morning. Also I am waiting for the time I get on the scale and nothing happens......blah...but trying to stay positive. Something else people would day the weight is falling off, but I worked this crap off. LOL

Well I was thinking this weekend, my blog is always so positive, nothing bad has really happened. Well here is a negative. Being jealous of other peoples weight loss. It isn't that I don't want them to lose, but I wonder why can't I lose the way they do..... I've lost 16 pounds so far (I take the lowest number I see on the scale) and that's good and all, but there are people who have lost 25 lbs.....why can't that be me blah...There is also a woman who was exercising every day and did everything she was supposed to and every time I read her posts rather than be inspired I felt like whats the point I suck. I think it was she just made it sound so easy. Then she feel off the wagon and I said OK ...she isn't superwoman. I guess what I am thinking is I need to do it the way I can do it...what works for me. She can't do what I do and I can't do what she does.....and hopefully we will both end up at the same place. But I think it is because the ...

Well applebees is one of my favorite places to eat...I have have absolutely no idea why, but it is....so this weekend i went and I wanted the riblets and chicken platter....2000 Calories, but I wanted it and I hadn't had the boneless buffalo wings in a while, easily 700 calories if not more. Here is the nice thing, 3/4 of the buffalo wings and all the chicken fingers are sitting in a take out bad in my living room (soon to be moved to my fridge). I ate what I wanted of the boneless buffalo wings and left the rest. I ate the fried and riblets and left the rest. No soda just water for the whole meal. Didn't have any desire for dessert. This is kinda of a big deal for me, because it means I've changed. I realized I was eating easily 3000-4000 calories when I went for one meal. I would have a couple glasses of some sugary drink, and appetizer, full meal, and a dessert....and eat all of it. Sometimes this was all I ate for the day, but still... Anyway, kinda of nice to know...

Posted on 3fc the Obie Plan Intuitive Eating-Helps with portion control and emotional eating Very unofficial calorie counting-helps me realize exactly what I am eating, avoid mistakes like eating a muffin I thought was 200 calories and it is actually 600 (yeah that happened). I might eat it anyway, but I like to know. I have calorieking book marked on my blackberry for when i am out. LOL Wholefoods/Education-Whenever possible I try and eat the organic version of something, but I refuse to throw out all the stuff I already bought. With the IE I started avoiding oily sauces and eating more fruits and vegetables.I takes me a couple of hours to do my big grocery shopping (and I live alone) I care more about what I am eating. I only drink water. No particular amount, but I have a 32 ounce water bottle that I fill up and I usually drink at lease one of those a day. I do drink soda and juice usually when I am out some where eating and I try to drink the soda/juice after I have finished a ...

I think when you are on a long life journey of some kind you usually come to forks in road that will decide how the rest of the journey will go. Obviously with weight loss everyday you make little decisions to eat better, exercise and so on, but then there are moments when you have to decide if your stopping your journey and getting permanently derailed. This week I had my period and I had been craving donuts. Thursday I went ahead and ate a donut and a danish, but I was ok with it and everything returned to normal. Last night I felt like I had one of those choices. I went to the supermarket to buy little things like eggs, milk bread. I wasn't hungry and wasn't even really thinking about food....until I got to the bakery section and saw the donuts. I know it wasn't PMS and I wasn't hungry...it wasn't even a special craving for sugar. I was just thinking i want 2 of those donuts and no one will know...its late...and in my head i was thinking they wouldn't co...

Well lately I have been noticing my clothes are loser so I decided to pick a dress I want to buy from a store I can't shop at now in my goal size. Size 18/20 So this is from Newport New Glamorous deep V-neck dress in soft polyester mesh over a nude nylon lining. Back zip. 30" from the waist. Hand wash. Imported. Women's 9H G9025 Was $84.00 Now $64.00

I think I am experiencing PMS for the first time. By that I mean I went crazy for chocolate last month and today I just had to have something other than my usual lean cuisine and fruit. I realized before I would just eat whatever popped into my head without thinking about why i wanted it. Now since I am much more attentive I realize I do have weird craving.....

Well I haven't posted in a while. Seems like I learn something new everyday. I went to my parents this weekend and just ate. I don't think I overate as much as I normally would have, but I ate more than I should have. I also had a few days where I went over my 2000 calories, but since I need 3000 to maintain my current weight I am still pretty ok. I kinda fell of the excercise wagon. I am trying to build up to Mon-Fri and weekendos off but just can't seem to get motivated to workout as soon as I get home. I have a part time job at night starting thursdays so we'll see what happens. I am guessing I am going to have to adjust to nights. So I weigh myself twice a month I know I have lost inches because the black jean that were once super tight even after I wore them a few times are now pretty lose. So thats night. But here is more proof the scale is wacky. Weighed myself last night 345. I didn't gain or lose. Weighed myself this morning after first bathroom t...

I ate alot today, more than I have in a good long while. I think it is the "in my head I am taking a break thing" I was pretty concious of it. I had some really bad pasta and a foot long subway sandwich (which I haven't had in months since I started IE). I was aware I was doing it and managed to pick thigs that weren't that horrible. I am totaled it to about 2300 calories today. I think I average about 1500 to 1700 so that is alot. I kinda feel like I ate all the stuff I had been craving. Next week I think we're going to limit my "break day" to just my meal at work and one meal on saturday and not the whole day. I also know how I was eating 3000+ calories a day. I had a muffin for breakfast. Normally it would have been potatoes, sausage, toast and so on, and then lunch and then a big dinner. I would say all of those are about 1000+ calories each. The othing thing is I feel like I really don't want anything else for the rest of the night.

Post on 3fc I did the big food shopping yesterday. You know when you wonder did you actually put all that stuff in the cart. Took me 2 hours since I read EVERY LABEL I think I did pretty good in terms of buying things that aren't processed. Funny story on my scale...I wanted to do a weigh in twice a month so the last night of Jan. I got on and had gained 3 lbs. I was ok because overall I am still losing. I shrugged my shoulders and headed to bed. Just for kicks I pulled the scale out from under the bed once again first thing in the morning and I was down 4 lbs. Eating has been ok.

Well I just couldn't what to weigh myself and I am up 3 lbs. Normally I would be devastated, but Everything 3fc has taught says 1. I should probably weight myself in the morning. 2. It is not the end of the world. I also have to admit i overate yesterday, and I had a big meal Saturday . So the plans is to stick to what I am supposed to do and weigh again Saturday morning. The guy I am seeing will be up Saturday morning, and it is Super bowl weekend, so eating is not going to be the greatest this weekend. Everything else is ok. Added Later I just realized I got cocky. I assumed since I had had all this great weight loss I could eat whatever. I have not been eating intuitively. So I am glad I did the weighin and will try and do better.

Well I am learning weight loss is a big numbers game. So I really thought what my first major goal is going to be. I want to lose 60 lbs by June. With IE I am supposed to just let things happen naturally, but 60 lbs would put me under 300 lbs and I SHOULD be in a 24 or darn close to it. This means I need to lose 10 lbs a month. Sign...lol. I would have to lose another 7 lbs this month to make that goal. I am DYING to get on the scale, but for this first month I want to ease into everything. I also am honest that I want the dimples in my thighs to go away. I really want to be able to wear shorts when I go to Jamaica in the summer. I took a picture last year in my bathing suit and I could have died. Hard to believe that the guy I am dating loves me, dimples in my thighs and booty and all.