Weigh-in Week of January 28

[kelownagirl]

Well I'm just here to pout that I weighed exactly 124.0 this morning. If I had been 123.9 I wouldn't owe dh a back rub tonight. I told him it was going to be a rough one because I need to burn off some calories.

[Wahine]

Wow velogirl, that's amazing. congratulations!! I'm glad they figured out what was wrong and that you've been able to fight to get back to where you want to be. That's some pretty amazing discipline to restrict your diet by 500 to 1000 cal less a day. Yikes! I hope I never have to do that. I love eating too much.

Edit: sorry you have to give the backrub KG. Maybe you should go out and buy one of those hand held massagers, they require significantly less effort. There was nothing in the deal that said you couldn't right?

[velogirl]

Here are my lessons from this process (well, a few of them anyways). All of this assumes a normal, functioning thyroid. Although I work in the industry and studied nutrition and physiology, these were big lightbulbs for me, probably because this was the first time in all the years I've used a food and activity journal that my body has done exactly what it was supposed to do.

#1 -- Our bodies are extremely efficient. If we follow our gut instincts (pun totally intended) we will eat exactly the number of calories we burn each day. When I plateaued in February, this is exactly what happened to me.

#2 -- We over-eat for emotional reasons -- loneliness, sadness, celebration, boredom, fatigue, etc. Over-eating is not a natural physiological response. Our body doesn't want us to injest more calories than it needs and you can feel the negative physical effects when you do.

#3 -- It is extremely hard to under-eat/deficit. This takes discipline, commitment, and the ability to make rational desicions (even when you're glycogen-deficient). Each night I review my food and activity journal and make a conscious decision not to over-eat.

But the good news is that once I reach my goal weight, I can go back to scenario #1.