Since I've been home, I've continued to eat dried carrots and dried veggies; a whole container at a time. I do not recommend eating the dried veggies I wrote about recently. I end up eating a whole container, which add up to a lot of calories and feels like eating out of control. Anything that makes me feel out of control is not good.
I'm hesitant about ingredient dexitrin, which is used to make things crisp. I did some research and I found that dexitrin products made in the US are made with corn and not wheat like other countries. This is good, but unless you contact the supplier, it's impossible to know where the product was made. I couldn't find enough details about the corn to satisfy me - are we talking about real corn or corn products, such as corn syrup? My guess is the later. In any case, I'm going to drop them from my food options.
I'm also eating too much cheese. Cheese is to be treated like a condiment.
I'm eating a lot of meat and drinking lots of water, but I feel slightly off-balance and I don't want to end up way off track. To keep me on track, I have an appointment to see Julie early in January. After my last session with Julie, I decided I would go back in a year, unless I felt I was headed for trouble. I am confident I can pull myself back on course, but asking for help is a good idea too.
Making the decision to see Julie in January, does not give me license to do as I please between now and then. I've heard others in group "confess" they ate this and that because they knew they were going back in for a session. I want to work out this grey area that I'm in on my own, so that I will learn how to do this, but having a backup plan for reinforcement works for me too.
BTW, I added a few photos to my postings from Florida, so go back and take a look.
LOVE the pictures! Thanks for posting them! You look GREAT! I re-read your first email you sent me when you told me your starting size. I am amazed! You look fantastic!!! Gives me so much hope and strength to go on! From your post, I am not going to buy those dried veggies, I don't trust myself. I am going to try to stay away from cheese also for a while as I can go over board with that too. I need to make my meats plainer. We go out to eat alot and it is to easy to get meat with gravy, even though I don't eat all the gravy, I still eat some and at this point I better cut as much as I can. I am loosing albeit slowly I feel. People are noticing, but in my mind it isn't fast enough. I need patience as Julie told my group, but sometimes my 'diet' mentality, or my 'competitive' mentality comes back and I have to work to get out of it. A dear friend of mine is doing Cinch shakes (shaklee stuff) for 2 meals a day and I could just cry. She is extremely morbidly obese and all she is doing with those shakes is getting her son that sells the stuff more money. Those shakes are not going to help her, maybe temporary as we all know. But when we were talking that is when my competitive mind showed up and I kept thinking I'll show her and then I worried I wouldn't loose fast enough and blah blah blah. I need to slow down and realize this is a lifestyle change. My body can not handle the sweets and carbs and I am healing my body. My weight loss will be permanent, not temporary. So continue on I go. I must say, this is the longest I have ever been on a 'program' without straying or going totally off the wagon. Keep up the good work, and we will get through the holidays! We just need to plan ahead as I will be doing this week. I need to figure out some 'pocket' proteing to have in case things are not great for me in the enviroment I am in. Besides beef jerky which can get expensive, do you have any ideas for something I can carry in case I need protein? Linda
ReplyDeleteHi again, can you remind me why a vegetable would turn to fat? I can not remember the reason why. I know equal meat to veggie, or more meat than veggie or just meat. I just can't remember why vegetables would turn to fat. It is amazing, Julie talked for 3 hours each meeting and I am lucky if I can remember 10 minutes for each 3 hours. Linda
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