I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. AND I’ll walk at least 3 mile, take my fiber supplement and drink 2 liter of water.
I also weighed myself today. I don’t know if it was magic or Mister but, the scale re-appeared yesterday afternoon. So how could I resist? It was pretty much all good news — I weigh almost exactly (actually a little less than) what I weighed the last time I did this. And that was sometime before Thanksgiving!
So I guess enough of my Eat4Today goals powered my eating through the holiday and the terrible-horrible-no-good-winter that my weight DIDN’T balloon out of control after all.
Here’s the thing. I started this ‘don’t eat between means & don’t take seconds & walk at least 3 mile & drink 2 liters of water’ thing in July of 2005. And by January 2006 when I started this blog, I’d lost 30 pounds — and, all these years later, I’ve never gained back that 30 pounds.
(I hope this isn’t too much information) My weight since starting Eat4Today HAS fluctuated pretty dramatically & that’s kind of got me down. But, I think it’s a pretty fantastic feat that after nearly 5 years, I haven’t come close to regaining all the weight I lost. In the past – without the nagging reminder to NOT eat between meals & not take seconds – I would have regained all that weight AND more. And more.
That’s the difference a rule makes.
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It’s been a while since I didn’t do a thing about my eating. Last week I remember the rule of not eating in the evening. I have been applying for the past 2 weeks with success – on the scale and general well being. 6PM 9or at most 7PM) is the hour the forks goes down.
This helps me eat earlier the next day – and effortlessly, eat less. In the beginning, I had to evenings where I had trouble falling asleep at night – but other problems contributed to it. Besides, it’s over. I intend to stick to it.
That cycle is interesting, isn’t it? We used to eat dinner at a scary time — like 10pm or later (it started when we’d hold dinner for a teenager …. a hopeless cause) well, since we ate dinner so late, we had a fairly substantial after-work-snack. So, I was actually eating 4 meals a day + all the various snacks. I can’t really imagine eating that much now.
Anyway, I came up with this idea (not eating between meals & not taking seconds) as a sort of back door idea to losing weight. I didn’t think I could “stick” to a diet for the rest of my life – and I needed a life-long solution.
Well — things changed pretty rapidly the very first day of that experiment — I was STARVING by 6pm — my husband was home by then and I still remember calling him (I think I might have been in tears) asking if he could have dinner ready when I got home — I was that desperate — and we’ve never eaten a late dinner since.
Edge, the results of all that are VERY similar to what you’re saying — I sleep better, I stopped snoring, and a host of other odd symptoms resolved themselves.
That’s why this blog isn’t simply a ‘diet blog’ — it’s about all the ways eating – the state of the world – affects our lives.
Maybe this is too diety for you, but I started South Beach for Lent. I am addicted to carbs and this diet really helps me to control them. I have an omelet with lots of mushrooms and peppers for breakfast (and just a bit of cheese) then Whole Foods minestrone soup for lunch and meat or fish and salad for dinner. It has only been three days and my husband is out of town, but so far so good.
My husband has mostly west coast clients, which means he gets home to our east coast house late. We usually don’t eat dinner until close to 8pm and it wrecks my eating schedule so much.
I usually don’t get home from work any earlier than 6:30 or 7, often 7:30. My lunch and breakfast times shift to accommodate… I usually don’t have lunch before 12, sometimes not until 1, and breakfast is when I get to work. We don’t hold supper; I’ve told Mrs. Fetched on many occasions to go ahead and start without me, I’ll catch up. (I always do.)
But it’s good that the rule has helped you.
It’ not the rule that’s important — for me it’s “a rule” that matters (I think,) FAR…. I know you’re schedule is brutal — You accomplish way more than I could ever dream of. So, I’d say that whatevery you’re doing works.. Isn’t it?
Congrats to everyone on having such success! Yes, the power of a rule is amazing. I’ve added one after being sick this week: stick to whole, healthy foods for my 1200 calories a day. I should have been doing that all along, but I thought that only eating 1200 calories a day was enough of a sacrifice. Apparently not
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