the "whine" country
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:13 am
specific topic: overeating on S days
Thought perhaps we should have a general complaint thread, although everyone will be welcome to start their own thread. It just seems our problems are often similar and they get lost in the past pages of the board, so maybe we could keep them together and people could skim for their interest. I've searched for topics at times, but I usually get so many posts to choose from, it's overwhelming. Also, perhaps posters here could please include the specific whine in the subject line for easy skimming.
Even as I write encouraging posts to others, I'm having to fight feeling disappointed in my overeating on S days 15 weeks into this. I've only had 4 official failures in that time, yet I am starting to feel like a failure again because I pretty much permasnack on weekends and most of it is sweets. Yet I'm reluctant to apply any rules to my S days yet. I want to believe that this should be an organic process. My motivation was very high to start, and sticking to N days (after mostly failure spread out over 14 months) was pretty easy to start and stay with this time, but I guess I thought by now I would have lost the desire to eat, eat, eat on the weekends. During the week, when I imagine thinking I'll stick to 3 meals and have only one dessert and or snack a day on S days, since I've shown that 5 days a week, 3 meals alone is plenty, inside a voice says, "NO! I must have permission to eat a half a gallon of ice cream or cookies or whatever over the weekend or all hell will break loose!" It's not a squeaky little voice, either. It sounds like it comes from a creature in a deep dark cave, and I'm telling you, I'd just as soon keep it happy in there. I'm a little afraid of what might come out.
I know Reinhard has a podcast on S days gone wild and I should probably go listen to that, but I thought of whining first, and now I'm out of time and have to get to the work I was procrastinating doing all weekend. However, I will read all answers in due time.
Thank you all for listening.
Thought perhaps we should have a general complaint thread, although everyone will be welcome to start their own thread. It just seems our problems are often similar and they get lost in the past pages of the board, so maybe we could keep them together and people could skim for their interest. I've searched for topics at times, but I usually get so many posts to choose from, it's overwhelming. Also, perhaps posters here could please include the specific whine in the subject line for easy skimming.
Even as I write encouraging posts to others, I'm having to fight feeling disappointed in my overeating on S days 15 weeks into this. I've only had 4 official failures in that time, yet I am starting to feel like a failure again because I pretty much permasnack on weekends and most of it is sweets. Yet I'm reluctant to apply any rules to my S days yet. I want to believe that this should be an organic process. My motivation was very high to start, and sticking to N days (after mostly failure spread out over 14 months) was pretty easy to start and stay with this time, but I guess I thought by now I would have lost the desire to eat, eat, eat on the weekends. During the week, when I imagine thinking I'll stick to 3 meals and have only one dessert and or snack a day on S days, since I've shown that 5 days a week, 3 meals alone is plenty, inside a voice says, "NO! I must have permission to eat a half a gallon of ice cream or cookies or whatever over the weekend or all hell will break loose!" It's not a squeaky little voice, either. It sounds like it comes from a creature in a deep dark cave, and I'm telling you, I'd just as soon keep it happy in there. I'm a little afraid of what might come out.
I know Reinhard has a podcast on S days gone wild and I should probably go listen to that, but I thought of whining first, and now I'm out of time and have to get to the work I was procrastinating doing all weekend. However, I will read all answers in due time.
Thank you all for listening.