I have to share this one with you and see what you think. You know you can always e-mail me at lynnb@stitchshoppe.com. That is my main email and I give it to you because when you want your club to have apparel you will also email me.
So back to yesterday afternoon. I had to stop and get gas and I was kind of hungry so I pulled into the kwik trip. I like the kwik trip because I know they always have fresh fruit at a good price. I do eat a lot of bananas because they are fast food. I know they are high in sugar but you tell me what is higher in sugar that banana or a chicken sandwich. I'm thinking I didn't need that bun. Anyways, The person at the counter ask me how I was and I told her I was hungry, so she preseades to tell me all the items she considers to be food that they have forsale. pizza, chicken sandwich, cheese curds, sausages of what ever kind on those rollers and the list goes on. So I tell her those items are all to high in carbs which is better that saying those items just don't provide enough nutrition for the calories. So then she tells me they also have salads.
She did a great job at up selling but why can't a banana be a snack, Now most of the time i would put some kind of nut butter on it but I was driving and it ws about 4:00 and I would still be eating dinner tonight. I had to stop into the herbelest the other because I was feeling sick and he asked, Does meal have to be a 9 coures dinner? I thought about this and no it doesn't. His a vegan I think. I am a meat eater. He thought you could have beans and rice. I thought about it and that would be fine. Put the both of them in a measuring cup because remember our goal is to lose weight and put a salad with it. Infact what I would do is put the beans and rice on the salad with some salsa and then have some kind of fruit.
I forgot where I was going with this but lesson to learn:
1. Store people are there to sell you things not watch your health. That's your job.
2. It's OK to think outside of the box. The store clerk doesn't always make the best choices. She did not ask what I ate yesterday, what I already ate today and what I planned to still eat. She didn't think about what nutrition I was missing and needed. She did not think. I did and I know from the past that a couple of banans or an apple is just enough to carry me over till dinner which I enjoyed with my husband.
Word of warning don't be afraid of bananas and grapes. When you compare what the sugar in them does to you compared some other high carb items I will eat the banana. Check with someone that know if you have some special needs but I think nut butters slow dowm how fast the banana is broken down and absorbed into the body. It does have to be broken down and unlike juices it doesn't go directly into the bloodstream.
Have a great day and think before you eat.
Lynn
Friday, October 23, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Learn to think
I had to do a copy and paste from a board I chat on about weight loss. The person was getting frustrated.
I put some of that butternut squash in my soup tonight, too good.
I think it was a pretty good reply.
The key is to think. Think about what you want, your choices and make you best choice. Eat all of the above is not a choice. Well it is but not the one I would make. Eat it in the closet is also not a choice I make anymore. Note the words any more. I have been there and learned how not to go back.
OK I've been there done that bought the t-shirt and it's time you put it in the rummage sale. First make sure your not pregnant. Did that too. oops.
Now type in google and find chatthefat all 1 word and find my blog. I put it there because I have non spark friends that I share it with. Now find the blog that I talk about the list of concepts. This is how I eat and I no longer yo-yo. I wrote a short book and am trying to put most of it up on this blog just so I can share it with others. Now hear me out. Really read your labels and get the sugar out of your diet. It's the sugar that causes the mood swings. I tested this out. Ask me to do something I don't want to do or tell me no after I have eaten ice cream for 3 days. Another blog on the 3 importance. I want you to really think about oatmeal in those 100 calorie things. I call this baby bird syndrome. As soon as it hits your mouth it turns to sugar and you are off to the gilatine. If you eat the thick cut that you have to cook, when you eat it, it has to be broken down and then converted. OK I got, you want to talk about self destruction. Another rummage sale t-shirt for me. Take those cookies that you are going to eat and yell at them. Yell what you are really mad at. "I'm sick of being fat, I hate being fat, I want guys to fall all over me so I can feel attractive too and not just to my husband." and then crush it. This worked best when I was driving, I tossed the cookies out the window. My daughter helped me with this because something was really eating me up. I could only turn to my best friend--sugar. Grab the next cookie and scream at it. I hate the way I am never good enough in your eyes. Now crush it and toss it. In the garbage or outside so you don't have to waste time cleaning it back. Not only are you tossing the cookies you are tossing the feelings. Those old feelings are now in the garbage or out the window. Now repeat after me I am in control, I am making the choice to change my eating habits. It will me my choice if I want to eat the cookies and I understand to feelings will return with them. I am in control.
Now when you eat follow the concepts and really make the best choice to put real nutrition into your body you will feel good. It will not be easy and you may get the munchies but you are in control. Don't ask the TV ads for help on what you should eat. They don't care, They just want to sell you something even if the side effects are it will give you mood swings, fill you with empty calories and cause death to your self esteem. When you are working out, look in the mirror and check out your posture stand tall and proud. Check out your but. Tell your self you do this because you like the way it looks on your but. I saw on someone's site that it is 80% diet and 20% working out I really think they are right. When you are doing cardo really kick some but. Between what others have said and what I have learned and am sharing with you, you should do fine. I will make sure I'm not in the car behind you. BTW. My mother use to tease me by saying "These crackers are wonderful, Oh ya you don't eat these any more." Read the label no one should eat them. It's slow death in a box. I told her "You know mom, when your in Gods waiting room you can eat what ever you want, it all depends how long you want to be there". My favorite summer food is watermelon with whip cream, pineapple w/ nut butter. Fall meal Squash w/ cheese I call it a meal. I didn't say sugar and butter. Homemade soups. Limit pasta. I really cut the white carbs. Meatballs and sauce on green beans.
I bet the scale will move this month and you but will look hot in your jeans by spring. Your husband will be going out with you because you will look so hot. you will want to go to New York like me and be on what not to wear. Someone said I should keep things short so that's all unless you tell me, Lynn I want more. Track you food someplace. If you don't want to write it down don't eat it. Do a week of taking a picture of everything you eat. If someone ask just tell them you are doing a study with your crazy fat friend Lynn to compare what we eat at the end of the month.
This is a kick to old thinking. I will tell you that at the end of the month I look at where I was, where I would like to be, why I'm not there and what can I do or what do I want to do next month. I am happy keeping the weight off, I don't know if I really want to lost more and could I live like this for the rest of my life? You can do it, you will do it and one day you too will be asking do I lose or maintain?
I put some of that butternut squash in my soup tonight, too good.
I think it was a pretty good reply.
The key is to think. Think about what you want, your choices and make you best choice. Eat all of the above is not a choice. Well it is but not the one I would make. Eat it in the closet is also not a choice I make anymore. Note the words any more. I have been there and learned how not to go back.
OK I've been there done that bought the t-shirt and it's time you put it in the rummage sale. First make sure your not pregnant. Did that too. oops.
Now type in google and find chatthefat all 1 word and find my blog. I put it there because I have non spark friends that I share it with. Now find the blog that I talk about the list of concepts. This is how I eat and I no longer yo-yo. I wrote a short book and am trying to put most of it up on this blog just so I can share it with others. Now hear me out. Really read your labels and get the sugar out of your diet. It's the sugar that causes the mood swings. I tested this out. Ask me to do something I don't want to do or tell me no after I have eaten ice cream for 3 days. Another blog on the 3 importance. I want you to really think about oatmeal in those 100 calorie things. I call this baby bird syndrome. As soon as it hits your mouth it turns to sugar and you are off to the gilatine. If you eat the thick cut that you have to cook, when you eat it, it has to be broken down and then converted. OK I got, you want to talk about self destruction. Another rummage sale t-shirt for me. Take those cookies that you are going to eat and yell at them. Yell what you are really mad at. "I'm sick of being fat, I hate being fat, I want guys to fall all over me so I can feel attractive too and not just to my husband." and then crush it. This worked best when I was driving, I tossed the cookies out the window. My daughter helped me with this because something was really eating me up. I could only turn to my best friend--sugar. Grab the next cookie and scream at it. I hate the way I am never good enough in your eyes. Now crush it and toss it. In the garbage or outside so you don't have to waste time cleaning it back. Not only are you tossing the cookies you are tossing the feelings. Those old feelings are now in the garbage or out the window. Now repeat after me I am in control, I am making the choice to change my eating habits. It will me my choice if I want to eat the cookies and I understand to feelings will return with them. I am in control.
Now when you eat follow the concepts and really make the best choice to put real nutrition into your body you will feel good. It will not be easy and you may get the munchies but you are in control. Don't ask the TV ads for help on what you should eat. They don't care, They just want to sell you something even if the side effects are it will give you mood swings, fill you with empty calories and cause death to your self esteem. When you are working out, look in the mirror and check out your posture stand tall and proud. Check out your but. Tell your self you do this because you like the way it looks on your but. I saw on someone's site that it is 80% diet and 20% working out I really think they are right. When you are doing cardo really kick some but. Between what others have said and what I have learned and am sharing with you, you should do fine. I will make sure I'm not in the car behind you. BTW. My mother use to tease me by saying "These crackers are wonderful, Oh ya you don't eat these any more." Read the label no one should eat them. It's slow death in a box. I told her "You know mom, when your in Gods waiting room you can eat what ever you want, it all depends how long you want to be there". My favorite summer food is watermelon with whip cream, pineapple w/ nut butter. Fall meal Squash w/ cheese I call it a meal. I didn't say sugar and butter. Homemade soups. Limit pasta. I really cut the white carbs. Meatballs and sauce on green beans.
I bet the scale will move this month and you but will look hot in your jeans by spring. Your husband will be going out with you because you will look so hot. you will want to go to New York like me and be on what not to wear. Someone said I should keep things short so that's all unless you tell me, Lynn I want more. Track you food someplace. If you don't want to write it down don't eat it. Do a week of taking a picture of everything you eat. If someone ask just tell them you are doing a study with your crazy fat friend Lynn to compare what we eat at the end of the month.
This is a kick to old thinking. I will tell you that at the end of the month I look at where I was, where I would like to be, why I'm not there and what can I do or what do I want to do next month. I am happy keeping the weight off, I don't know if I really want to lost more and could I live like this for the rest of my life? You can do it, you will do it and one day you too will be asking do I lose or maintain?
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