Good morning all - my weight is up half a pound today and I am absolutely certain it is due to stress. I have had a couple of rough days pastorally. Things leveled out yesterday, so we shall see. I feel thinner as I really didn't eat much but the scale shows otherwise. That's okay - this is a life long journey for us. Yes? Some of you have asked me if our weight should bounce sometimes. YES! It happens. :) I know that other programs teach that you should weigh weekly so you don't see the daily bounces and get discouraged. But for me, the weighing weekly turned into every other week if I had cheated, and then once a month if I had cheated again, and NEVER weighing as I told myself, "this will only discourage me and I will eat more." That is a LIE! Yes, our weight may fluctuate due to a variety of issues - that is why recording it daily helps you to see patterns. BUT.......it is safer to weigh and deal with occasional bounces on the scale (THINK LONG TERM SUCCESS AND NOT DAILY) than to weigh after a month and be up 10 pounds. Dealing with our mental approach to being up .5 pound is MUCH easier than me dealing with weighing 10 pounds more and the depression of FAILING AGAIN. Make that commitment to GET ON THE SCALE. And if you're up - evaluate the previous couple of days and make those adjustments. Go back to protocol! We have someone in the fam who when they move far from Phase 3 Maintenance, they stop loosing and battle the "roller coaster". Our bodies know what they need to sustain health and reproduce healthy cells - they know. Our job is to feed them what they need. If you are weighing and recording - you will see patterns. Promise. Then, report daily to your partner and ask for prayer.
I have several of you asking about apple days. They do work, but only do them IF YOU REALLY can't move that 2 pounds and if you are not doing heavy things. The one day I did it, I felt weak but I weighed 2 pounds less the next day. So, you choose. My real heart is that we eat right daily, drink our water and exercise some along the way. But, I will use the apple day along the journey if I need it.
I am ordering the Whey Low powdered sugar and brown sugar for some holiday recipes. Let me take this time to remind us that while something may be healthy and legal, it HAS calories and calories add up. NOW - remember you can eat and digest HEALTHY fats more easily than white sugar, but both have calories. White sugar that doesn't metabolize STORES ON OUR BODIES as fat. And as I have said over and over sugar can be listed on a label in 101 different ways that don't say sugar. (refer back to your HCG Made Simple book) So, if for some reason we depart from one another - deleting sugar (white, brown, powdered, honey, etc.......) and starch are your BIG targets. That alone will help keep all of us in the pocket throughout life.
Gotta run - decorating my house for Christmas today. PS - if someone knows of a part time job and has some pull (you know everyone wants someone "trained"), we have a young mother who needs work. Let me know.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Hill house today - Terry bringing boxes from the attack now - and me, well, trying to convince myself this is really happening. Didn't I "just" do this?
Choose life and eat to live, PK
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