My Post:
It's only October, but I'm already stressing a little about the upcoming holiday season, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
However, I'm planning...The Mister and I tend to cook the foods for these holidays, and I plan 98% of the menus. Therefore, I will be in control. My daughter is the only one who would miss the traditional carby foods (dressing, potatoes). Well, she's 35 now so (A) she can just do without the mashed potatoes and (B) I can buy a box of stuffing mix for her. No sense in wearing myself out by cooking from-scratch dressing.
The Mister's brother lives with us (actually my daughter and HER daughter also live with us--it's like a deranged version of The Waltons) and is diabetic. He controls his diabetes with a good diet, so I always fix something low carb for him at every holiday meal. We can have the usual meat and simply add lots of nice veggies. PLAN, PLAN, PLAN.
Adele's Response:
I observe that you're starting to rev up a little--you don't need to think about the holidays right now. There's plenty of time. Stay in the day. Worry about today and tomorrow's eating.
I'll only address your question about snacking for now, Trisha.
I mostly feel that eating full, simple, filling meals is extremely helpful, it's one way you can stop yourself from playing games with food. Snack time is often trouble-time, no? Isn't that when the nuts come out? There's nothing wrong with snacking if you're really hungry--but if it's 5:00 and you want a snack, it's probably time for dinner? Everything will work beautifully if any snack is a bowl of meat (or an egg) and some vegetables with fat--maybe a smaller portion than your lunch? If you don't WANT a meat/veggie snack, are you *really hungry, or just looking for some kind of "break"?
And yeah, I think daily weighing has been the bottom-line foundation of my longer-term success. I had to "make friends" with the scale. As my mentor Patricia helped me learn, it's not a judge, it's just a tool to help keep me in the land of facts and out of the land of denial where I always went in the past when I starting veering off course. Now I see every day what I am doing to myself. I also post my daily weight with every post. No hiding. The truth is out there for everyone, but mostly for ME.
And I don't think it matters whether you put your tea on Fitday or not. Up to you. As long as it's plain tea and there's nothing else in it, including artificial sweetener or stevia. IMO that needs to be strictly limited. Sweet keeps cravings alive IMO.
Keep going.
Adele
136 this morning
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