by OneMoreBite | Feb 9, 2004 | Diet Plans
Isn’t it curious how we place the blame for things like clothes that won’t fit on someone or something else? It’s never our fault. Not that our body has expanded. Oh, no. That couldn’t be. The denial regarding our own habits is astonishing.
The Clean Clothes Diet
Slowly, without thinking about it, I melted off those extra pounds and inches, and now the pants fit again. Wonder of wonders, isn’t the magic of laundry fantastic? I call it the clean clothes diet. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Now that we’re into February those excuses blaming holiday eating are done. If you gained a little weight (or failed to lose any) over the holidays, get over it. It’s done. Today is a new day. Don’t waste one moment thinking about why or what you should have done – the “blame game” gets you nowhere fast.
Instead, use what you’ve learned (that is, what didn’t work) to go forward with your new plan and find what does work. Plan to start today, and work on today only. It’s great to have long-term goals but they are always accomplished by taking little pieces and working on them one at a time. By creating a strategic plan, and working it, step-by-step things get done. That’s how the U.S. built the Mars Rover. We reached the stars by taking it one day at a time, and that’s how you’ll reach your weight loss goals.
One Day at a Time: One Bite at a Time
I wore those green jeans yesterday and they still fit so I wasn’t dreaming. (This isn’t Mr. Green Jean’s jeans, but plain old green jeans). It’s the magic of healthier habits. Some years I don’t gain weight during the holidays and others I do. You are not like the Mars Rover being guided through life with someone else at the controls. You are holding the controller. It’s your choice what you eat every day.
by OneMoreBite | Feb 9, 2004 | Weight Loss News
In the time honored tradition of CNN’s reporting news that isn’t news, tonight I saw a report on the “promising” protein leptin being used to develop a new diet drug. As Dave Barry likes to say, I’m not making this up. The report said, “Unger says his group has “a lot of ideas” about how to make leptin do its job in overweight people and “we are working on them now.” He says he can’t give further details until the work is ready for publication. Well duh!
A lot of ideas … hum, that sounds like, they don’t know Jack! A lot of ideas my eye. They are sitting around cooking up these ideas then calling the media who come running.
Yes, we all wish there were a magic pill we could take so we could eat nothing but bonbons all day and stay svelte as a (fill in the blank with your favorite body type here). That day is not coming any time soon, and when it does, I’d still be wary. Most likely they’ll find out a few years later that the drug causes all your hair to fall out and you develop awful body odor or something – irreversible too no doubt. There is no free lunch will win out, mark my words.
Meanwhile, try eating for appetite control. It works marvelously well. Especially if you eat food with nutritional value! That’s a magic diet pill if you ask me.
by OneMoreBite | Feb 5, 2004 | EFT Weight Loss
If this morning has been pure crap, then it’s going to be better from now on, and what if it isn’t? What if it keeps getting worse? When you finally leave work exhausted, your tire is flat, you don’t have a spare, when you finally get on the road there’s a huge traffic jam, you notice you’re almost out of gas, and you suddenly realize you need a bathroom? What then? Isn’t that a crap day? Can I now tell myself, this day is horrible? No, sorry.
Instead, wonder aloud, what good is going to come of this? What is going to happen, that wouldn’t have happened otherwise, had it not been for these delays? Will you meet a good Samaritan at the service station who will gift you with a new car because he just won $20 million in the lottery? You never know. Maybe you’ll glance into that puddle to find a floating lottery ticket that turns out to be a $1000 winner. You never know where you’ll find your good fortune, so keep your eyes and ears open for opportunities. Dwelling on the negative only gives you more negative. Dwell on the potential. Expect to receive good things and good things will start to come your way. It’s true. Try it for a week, and let me know if I’m wrong.
I’ve lived my life expecting good things and if nothing else it’s kept me a happier person. I’m no saint. I just don’t envision that everyone is out to annoy me. Most people are focused on their own happiness, you just got in their way. There are only a few folks who really enjoy tormenting others (Simon on American Idol comes to mind). The rest of us just do it by accident. 😉
EFT Ideas For When Things Just Aren’t Going So Great
“Even though I hate this day, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
Reminder: “Hate today”
“Even though nothing is going right today, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
Reminder: “Nothing going right”
Why does EFT help? It reduces the stress and anxiety associated with the energy flow of negativity that sets up when a series of bad events (or sometimes even a single event) happen. It helps. Once the anxiety is reduced, you can take a deep breath and see more clearly to find your good fortune. After the stress dissipates you won’t feel so much like stuffing yourself to get away from this uneasy feeling. You won’t need to anymore because the feeling will already be gone.
Get free EFT instructions: How to use EFT for Weight Loss. EFT is used for weight loss by tackling the emotional issues that cause you to overeat for instance. There are so many different reasons why we do as we do. EFT helps you achieve the results you want without years of expensive psychotherapy to “figure it all out.” With EFT you don’t have to know why, you just know it works.
by OneMoreBite | Feb 2, 2004 | Holidays
Not a Fan but I get in on the Eating
I’ll admit, I’m not a sports fan — don’t throw things — it’s just that I’ve got too many other things going on and don’t have time for watching games. I know, it’s un-American, in fact the political police may just pay me a call now that I’ve admitted I don’t watch the Super Bowl. If I hear everyone cheering I might peek in for a minute or two though, I’m not stupid.
Doesn’t mean I don’t think about having a Super Bowl party though. My husband joked he’d have a big bowl of rice and invite everyone over (he eats primarily a Macrobiotic diet). I bought an enormous sandwich that I don’t know who will eat. I’ll have some but frankly, this thing is huge, and the bread? It’s about 6 inches thick. I’ll have to use a knife and fork. But it’s Super Bowl Sunday and ever I am in the party mood.
Speaking of a knife and fork, did you know you can drive a teenager insane by eating pizza with utensils? It’s true, try it.
The eating today is “party eating” to the extreme. Finger foods, greasy, dippy stuff. Fun food. On my “Calendar of Excuses” this is a red-letter day. I’ll bet the Sweet Potato Queens go all out today.
How you handle a food fest says a lot about your potential to kick your weight issues out of your life forever. Go ahead and eat, enjoy, and do not for one tiny second feel guilty or mad at yourself. A party day is for enjoying yourself. Don’t gorge – that’s not necessary. There’s always the next meal. This won’t be your last chance to eat chicken wings, even if you’ve resolved to start a diet tomorrow.
What’s the difference between stuffing yourself and gorging? To me gorging means stuffing it in as fast as you can because you’re afraid there won’t be enough. Gorging is out-of-control, frantic wanting and no matter what, it’s never enough.
Stuffing on the other hand simply means you’re full, and you’re still reaching for more. Stuffing is a choice, gorging feels as if you’re choice has been taken away.
Today, while you’re eating, or tomorrow if you’re reading this after the Super Bowl of Eating, just know you’re okay even if you’re overeating. Some occasions call for it, some days you just feel like it. It’s okay. You’re okay.
Feeling okay with your choices goes a long way toward getting you past the sticking points – sometimes can even lead to a decision to make better choices. It’s what you do the majority of the time that matters, not the occasional overindulgence.
I gained weight over the holidays because I ate chocolate much more often, and I ate desserts more often, and I over ate much more often, so naturally, I gained some weight. Now it’s a month later, and nothing changed except I went back to my usual eating habits and now that weight is gone. Easy and painless.
BTW, I still have a few chocolates left over, my favorite Joseph Schmidt truffles. Why haven’t I eaten them? I ate so many over December and the first week of January that I grew satisfied. I know they’re there, and I think about having one occasionally but I’m usually already full or don’t feel any hunger, and I’d rather wait for hunger. Then what happens when I do get hungry, I think of real food, not chocolate, so there they sit. That can happen to you too when you start to listen to what you’re body wants and stop being afraid to eat an apple or an orange. Fruit is good, fresh is good, clean food is good. Try eating for appetite control. It works, and you just might like it
Shortly after Christmas I went to wear my favorite jeans – the green pair (I’m a redhead so I can wear green jeans if I want), and to my dismay I found they were suddenly too small! Now, how’d that happen? I’d owned them for a long time and washed them numerous times but my thoughts quickly flew to, “That stupid laundry. I must have used hot water or something. Dang.”
