Renewing My Mind

Counting carbs/calories is a drag. Obsessive scale stepping is a recipe for despair. If you want to count something, "days on habit" is a much better metric. Checking off days on a calendar would do just fine, but if you do it here you get accountability and support. Here's how. Start a new topic in this forum called (say) "Your Name Daily Check In." Then every N day post a "reply" to that topic as to whether you stayed on habit. A simple "<font color="green">SUCCESS</font>" or "<font color="red">FAILURE</font>" (or your preferred euphemism if that's too harsh) is sufficient, but obviously you're welcome to write more if you want. On S-days just register that you're taking an S-day. You don't have to do this forever, just until you're confident you've built the habit. Feel free to check in weekly or monthly or sporadically instead of daily. Feel free also to track other habits besides No-s (I'm keeping this forum under No-s because that's what the vast majority are using it for). See also my <a href="/habitcal/">HabitCal</a> tool for another more formal (and perhaps complementary) way to track habits.

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LadyMay
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Renewing My Mind

Post by LadyMay » Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:19 pm

Hello,
I am your classic yo-yo dieter. I have tried it all!!!! I am also a binge eater. I am here looking for a new method. I need to change how I think about food. I need to change how I see my body and value. I need to just eat and let my body do what it needs to do. I don't want to let food or a quest for weight loss control my life anymore.

After reading up on various ways that people lose weight without super ultra restriction, I have come to the conclusion that a moderate approach will be much better for me in the long run. I don't want to focus too much on my numbers. I have let them dictate my value for too long. I will say that I am about 30-40 pounds overweight. Right now I wear a size 12. I want to make this journey to a new mindset without the scale. I can easily tell when my pants are getting too tight and when they have loosened. I will let that be my weight loss indicator.

My goal is really to be committed.

So I have told myself that I commit to:
Eating 3 meals a day with no sweets
Enjoying a sweet on S-days
Exercising at least 3 days a week for at least 10 minutes. Increasing my frequency and time slowly.

I don't know that I can get much simpler than this.

We have 197 days left in this year. I don't want to waste another one worrying about food or my weight. I am renewing my mind!
Last edited by LadyMay on Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:32 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Post by eschano » Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:31 am

Welcome! Just as a reminder: You ARE who you are. You HAVE a binge eating HABIT and you HAVE a YO-YO dieting HABIT. You ARE not a binge eater. Big difference, I promise as you're about to embark to HAVE a 3 square meal habit :)

Looking forward to your thread.
eschano - Vanilla rocks!

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automatedeating
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Post by automatedeating » Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:55 pm

the suggestion I am about to give you is controversial, but I still recommend it: weigh yourself right now, and take your measurements. Then, if you don't want to weigh yourself over the next few months, that's fine. But have a definite start point of pounds and inches (or kg and cm, depending on where you live!)
Month/Year-BMI
8/13-26.3
8/14-24.5
5/15-26.2
1/16-26.9; 9/16-25.6
8/17-25.8; 11/17-26.9
3/18-25.6; 8/18-24.5; 10/18-23.8;
3/19-22.1; 10/19-21.8
6/20-22.5; 7/20-23.0; 9/20-23.6
4/21 - 25.2
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LadyMay
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Post by LadyMay » Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:05 pm

Eschano, you are right. I didn't even notice that I had written it that way.

automatedeating, I guess it wouldn't hurt to weigh and measure this one time. I just don't want to let the scale have control anymore.
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LadyMay
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Post by LadyMay » Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:55 pm

Day #1

Had a great day. SUCCESS!

I exercised as planned.
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