January/February weight management challenge

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153 even this morning... Last year I attempted to get down to a healthy weight and then my dad passed away and with all of the stress I gained it all back... I'm almost to my low point of last year and feeling very positive that I will get it done this year!

[GLC1968]

What made me nervous (for myself based on past history) was the idea in general of "I can't eat such and such, I'm not like other people." Not what you meant, but dieting is not always rational for me.

I don't believe in the "I can't eat such and such" mentality either. I know that probably surprises people considering the way I choose to eat.

There are lots of things I don't eat. I can if I want to, I just don't want to. Some because I've lost all desire, others because I keep trying to eat them and each time, decide that it's not worth it to me. If that makes my diet unrealistic or unimaginable to some people, that's fine with me. I'm not expecting anyone else to eat the way I do any more that I would expect every person in the world to be vegan or to do weight watchers just because that was one person's choice. Personally, I love my way of eating. It's a piece of cake (no pun intended!) for me.

Although I never read the whole book, I heard a couple of interviews with the author of a booked called The End of Over-eating. It talks about some research on how your brain responds to the combination of sweets, salt and fat, the role of self-control and how hard it is to wean yourself from the highly processed foods formulated with those 3 factors. I was thinking about it as I found myself dipping in to a box of wheat thins earlier this week- that combination of flavors kept calling me back to the box- even though I wasn't hungry. I think I should read the whole book sometime though.

I also haven't read the book, but have read reviews and summaries of it and I think they are very much onto something there. I've read similar arguments in many other places and based on how my body reacts to those things (and how it's been reacting since I gave them all up), I think it's a very sound point of view.

(and wheat thins - particularly the basil and sun-dried tomato ones - were a nemesis for me. Wow, those thing were hard to put down!!)

I forgot to weigh myself this morning until after I'd had a big glass of water and two cups of coffee...so I'll weigh tomorrow and post then.

[Susan Otcenas]

I guess I ought to officially join the thread this month.

Starting weight on 1/1/2012: 145.5
Today's weight: 141.5
Goal weight for 2/28/2012: 136