Do ya think?

My husband is coming to the realization that his favorite way of eating is making him fat. Da ya think? For the past 27 years his favorite way of eating plumps him past 200 lbs. When he does eat his favorite way, the pounds magically melt off. When they melt off to a certain point 188 pounds, he goes back on his favorite way of eating to help him lose weight. Well, his "weight loss" pounds to come, goes in the wrong direction every time. I know he wants to believe his way works but it doesn't.

I don't remember once my father giving my mom the word about her cooking. My dad cooked on weekends. Of the two, he was the better cook. He was part Italian and believe in using spices to improve the taste of food. My mom on the hand loved bland food. The blander the better.

My husband looks at a salad and says he can't eat this everyday.. but yet he can eat TV dinners everyday. He eats turkey dinners morning, noon and night. Sometimes he will a different dinner but his main squeeze of TV dinners is Turkey.

I just don't get it.

My husband...

He had a thought yesterday.... That he might be the problem of me losing my weight because of the food he throws in the cart. He also came up with another brilliant idea.. No snack foods in the house we wouldn't be snacking at night?

Da ya think?

Observations on Exercise

I don't like to exercise.  I do it nearly every day in some form or fashion.  I walk on a treadmill, I go to the gym.  But I don't enjoy it, and many days, I have to talk myself into exercising at all.  I could reward myself with food, but that would defeat the purpose, now wouldn't it?  lol

It has occurred to me that exercise should burn calories in proportion to how much we enjoy it.  If you have a terrible cold, but you go to the gym anyway - the calories burned should be double the normal calories burned!  If you hate painting, but you paint a room anyway - double calories for you.  If it worked that way in real life, we would lose a lot more weight, because we would be a little more eager to do the exercise we really don't enjoy.

188.2/184.6/165

Monday, April 16

I have been into serious binge mode the past few days and haven't counted calories or exercised. I've been really stressed. In the moment you are eating the food, all of the stress and worries melt away. Mmmmm. But it's just for that moment. Then you eat more, then your clothes don't fit, then you feel worse, then you eat more...then you are REALLY stressed about the original stressor and the fact that your clothes don't fit!

This is where my routines come in handy. They take the emotions out of it, and that's what I need. Just gotta get back on board with them.

No idea where my weight is right now. Over 185, I'm guessing. It's good that I lost some weight after Christmas, otherwise, I'd be even bigger!

Beginning again - again!

I had an awesome vacation. Nothing like time at the beach.

Now that I'm back, I'm still adjusting to 'normal life' again. I am a very structured person, and I have a lot of changes going on at work right now. This leads me right back to old eating patterns. The changes are going on for at least the next month. Hopefully, I can just hang on for now.

I gained 3.8 lbs on vacation. I've done worse!

188.2/183.6/165

Week Twelve

Boy, when I said this was an up and down journey, I didn't know what I was in for! My weight this week - after a very good week with eating and exercise - was UP 1.4 lbs. 179.8!

This is especially difficult for me to deal with, because it is right before my vacation (where I'm pretty much guaranteed to gain weight) and my weight is teetering on the edge of 180, which I have worked so hard to get past.

I'm a little sad, but not defeated. I have a lovely vacation coming up, and I will have fun. I'll be back online in two weeks.

188.2/179.8/165

Week Eleven

This is surely an up and down weight loss journey. 178.4, down 1.2 lb this week, but still haven't hit that elusive 10 lb mark.

Losing weight is very different after age 50/menopause. It's a much slower process. But I keep telling myself that I need to eat this way and exercise even if I wasn't trying to lose weight. So I just keep going. Doing what I should be doing anyway. If it takes me a year to lose 20 lbs, it was a year well spent.

188.2/178.4/165