Once
again,
I'm stuck inside....we got hit with another 6" of snow
overnight, and
after shoveling out our driveway, hubby went to work, but reported
that our lane
isn't so great...it hasn't been plowed yet and I do NOT have
4-wheel drive. (He
does, though).
I'm sad to miss the gym....but then again, my exercise class was cancelled so I'd have to just use the treadmill at the gym and the weight machine circuit. And I could do that here using the treadmill in our basement (ugh, don't like it, there's nothing to LOOK at, but what can you do? At least I can plug my iPod Shuffle into my ears and SING my heart out! LOL)
BUT...I might not even do that, because I shoveled the outside stairs (and still have the deck to do) and my back, shoulders and arms are KILLING me! Who needs Body Pump? LOL.....
I'll get through another day inside....left to my own devices...because once again, I'm into PLANNING. BIGTIME!
I planned out ALL my meals...yes, even my MF meals (although I reserve the right to change them at the last minute since they're all interchangeable).
And isn't that GREAT, by the way? You can grab a bag of pizza bites or make yourself a brownie and either way you know you're OP. It's awesome when you stop and think about it.
Especially considering some of the 'diet plans' I used to get into....shakes that I may or may not like, weird combinations of soy protein isolate and wheat germ and God-knows-what-all-else, the cabbage soup diet (UGH!), the banana and cottage cheese diet, the grapefruit and hard-boiled egg diet....LOL...oh, the krazy things we DO to ourselves in the name of losing weight!
We're lucky. We have a well-balanced, easy to follow program that can WORK if we just stay on course. It all comes down to your DETERMINATION. During the weight loss phase, and even afterwards! Maintenance isn't hard if you bear in mind that you have to be ETERNALLY vigilant. It's never going to be 'over' for me. Not totally. I can enjoy good healthy foods, and more of them, sure...but I still can't eat JUNK, I still can't have sludge. Sugar+fat+salt+flour....ugh, a vicious combination.
We watched an episode of this 'Brain Game' type show on TV last night; it's fascinating, they 'test' you and explain why our brain functions the way it does...and they talked last night about how advertisers know:
-RED makes people want to take action
-KEY WORDS can attract attention, a simple thing like 'Limit 8 per customer' makes you WANT to buy it more
-Bright colors in general, and bouncy music, makes you HUNGRY and therefore makes you spend more in the supermarket!
Advertisers know all this. And they capitalize on it.
To make matters worse, our 'default' setting in our brain is to TRUST what we hear. So, for example, they did an experiment....they stopped people in a shopping mall and told them that there's a new law going into affect that says that couples under a certain level of income could only have 1 child. And what did they think about this?
You know that not ONE person said "I don't believe it"????
This boggled my mind. I turned to DH and said, "Well, -I- would've questioned that...."...and then I thought, "Wait. WOULD I?"
I mean, depending on how it was presented to me...a guy with a cameraman, and maybe a microphone with a news channel logo on it...who looked official enough...I might just believe it!
Bottom line? It's NOT EASY in today's day and age to eat healthy. Despite all the experts swearing we 'should'. How can we hold out against the barrage of ads and commercials and signs and signals crying 'Eat eat eat'!? Always with beautiful, young people advertising the sludge. (I always mumble under my breath, 'Yeah, well, she keeps eating THAT stuff she won't look so hot anymore...') LOL
We have a new Quick Check that opened down the street. I went in the other day. And there is literally NOTHING, absolutely not one single thing, in that store that I can eat. Even the sodas....not one bottle of water or Propel among them. Not even diet soda! (not sure what's up with that because you can usually find diet sodas in soda cases). But every aisle....and there had to be 6 long aisles...was filled to the brim with JUNK. Chips, candy, cookies, sludge of all types.
And in the front of the store? They sell cigarettes.
Suffice it to say hubby and I won't do any shopping there...the only saving grace they had was the bank ATM machine in front. Which we could use in an emergency as it's closer than our bank.
But that's IT! TOTAL sludge. The entire store.
And you know what? There are ALWAYS cars in the parking lot (and it's a big lot!) They do a brisk business.
That's SAD. It really is.
We jump up and down about exercise, but eat junk afterwards because we 'deserve it'. I've seen young girls killing themselves in Spinning class, and then hitting the smoothie bar at the gym and ordering chocolate peanut butter protein shakes. (they tell themselves it's OK, I'm sure, because of the protein).
"WHY BOTHER WORKING OUT?" I want to shout at them. (but don't)...
An older woman one time was at the front desk busily telling everyone, 'It's national DONUT day! The Dunkin Donuts down the street is giving away a FREE donut to everyone!'
I looked at her and shook my head...and kept walking.
'What?', she cried, looking after me. 'It's FREE!'
Oh, I get it. If it's FREE it 'doesn't count'.
Just like if you eat it standing up it 'doesn't count'.
Or if you eat it in the middle of the night, it 'doesn't count'.
Or if you're miserable or depressed or angry or frustrated or having a bad hair day, it 'doesn't count'.
GIMME A BREAK.
I'm sad to miss the gym....but then again, my exercise class was cancelled so I'd have to just use the treadmill at the gym and the weight machine circuit. And I could do that here using the treadmill in our basement (ugh, don't like it, there's nothing to LOOK at, but what can you do? At least I can plug my iPod Shuffle into my ears and SING my heart out! LOL)
BUT...I might not even do that, because I shoveled the outside stairs (and still have the deck to do) and my back, shoulders and arms are KILLING me! Who needs Body Pump? LOL.....
I'll get through another day inside....left to my own devices...because once again, I'm into PLANNING. BIGTIME!
I planned out ALL my meals...yes, even my MF meals (although I reserve the right to change them at the last minute since they're all interchangeable).
And isn't that GREAT, by the way? You can grab a bag of pizza bites or make yourself a brownie and either way you know you're OP. It's awesome when you stop and think about it.
Especially considering some of the 'diet plans' I used to get into....shakes that I may or may not like, weird combinations of soy protein isolate and wheat germ and God-knows-what-all-else, the cabbage soup diet (UGH!), the banana and cottage cheese diet, the grapefruit and hard-boiled egg diet....LOL...oh, the krazy things we DO to ourselves in the name of losing weight!
We're lucky. We have a well-balanced, easy to follow program that can WORK if we just stay on course. It all comes down to your DETERMINATION. During the weight loss phase, and even afterwards! Maintenance isn't hard if you bear in mind that you have to be ETERNALLY vigilant. It's never going to be 'over' for me. Not totally. I can enjoy good healthy foods, and more of them, sure...but I still can't eat JUNK, I still can't have sludge. Sugar+fat+salt+flour....ugh, a vicious combination.
We watched an episode of this 'Brain Game' type show on TV last night; it's fascinating, they 'test' you and explain why our brain functions the way it does...and they talked last night about how advertisers know:
-RED makes people want to take action
-KEY WORDS can attract attention, a simple thing like 'Limit 8 per customer' makes you WANT to buy it more
-Bright colors in general, and bouncy music, makes you HUNGRY and therefore makes you spend more in the supermarket!
Advertisers know all this. And they capitalize on it.
To make matters worse, our 'default' setting in our brain is to TRUST what we hear. So, for example, they did an experiment....they stopped people in a shopping mall and told them that there's a new law going into affect that says that couples under a certain level of income could only have 1 child. And what did they think about this?
You know that not ONE person said "I don't believe it"????
This boggled my mind. I turned to DH and said, "Well, -I- would've questioned that...."...and then I thought, "Wait. WOULD I?"
I mean, depending on how it was presented to me...a guy with a cameraman, and maybe a microphone with a news channel logo on it...who looked official enough...I might just believe it!
Bottom line? It's NOT EASY in today's day and age to eat healthy. Despite all the experts swearing we 'should'. How can we hold out against the barrage of ads and commercials and signs and signals crying 'Eat eat eat'!? Always with beautiful, young people advertising the sludge. (I always mumble under my breath, 'Yeah, well, she keeps eating THAT stuff she won't look so hot anymore...') LOL
We have a new Quick Check that opened down the street. I went in the other day. And there is literally NOTHING, absolutely not one single thing, in that store that I can eat. Even the sodas....not one bottle of water or Propel among them. Not even diet soda! (not sure what's up with that because you can usually find diet sodas in soda cases). But every aisle....and there had to be 6 long aisles...was filled to the brim with JUNK. Chips, candy, cookies, sludge of all types.
And in the front of the store? They sell cigarettes.
Suffice it to say hubby and I won't do any shopping there...the only saving grace they had was the bank ATM machine in front. Which we could use in an emergency as it's closer than our bank.
But that's IT! TOTAL sludge. The entire store.
And you know what? There are ALWAYS cars in the parking lot (and it's a big lot!) They do a brisk business.
That's SAD. It really is.
We jump up and down about exercise, but eat junk afterwards because we 'deserve it'. I've seen young girls killing themselves in Spinning class, and then hitting the smoothie bar at the gym and ordering chocolate peanut butter protein shakes. (they tell themselves it's OK, I'm sure, because of the protein).
"WHY BOTHER WORKING OUT?" I want to shout at them. (but don't)...
An older woman one time was at the front desk busily telling everyone, 'It's national DONUT day! The Dunkin Donuts down the street is giving away a FREE donut to everyone!'
I looked at her and shook my head...and kept walking.
'What?', she cried, looking after me. 'It's FREE!'
Oh, I get it. If it's FREE it 'doesn't count'.
Just like if you eat it standing up it 'doesn't count'.
Or if you eat it in the middle of the night, it 'doesn't count'.
Or if you're miserable or depressed or angry or frustrated or having a bad hair day, it 'doesn't count'.
GIMME A BREAK.
No more lies. To myself or to anyone else. I won't fall for the games. I KNOW the truth.
And the truth is, 'GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT'!!!
If you EAT garbage, guess what you'll look like?
(I don't care HOW hard you work out).
Eventually it shows up on your body.
NOPE. Not me. I want to keep my slim body, thank you very much. I like the way I look and even more importantly, the way I FEEL.
I LIKE being in control of my life and my eating. I'm GLAD, so glad, those days of binge-eating are behind me. That was a nightmare. An endless nightmare I felt I could never break free from. But I prayed on it, I read lots of emotional eating books, and I stayed online on this website and read blogs and absorbed what I needed to learn....and little by little I pulled myself out of the MUCK and regained control. And I LIKE it.
Keep on keepin' on!
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