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Guest guest Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Hello everyone, I sure feel like I'm posting a lot lately. I'm renewing my weight loss efforts, so maybe it's normal that I have more questions right now. Yesterday I had a bad day. I had an early morning meeting and a long commute, and failed to leave enough time for a proper breakfast. On top of that I was feeling extra emotional about some stuff. Long story short, my day consisted of carbs, carbs, and more carbs (and not the whole grain kind). Today though, I got right back on track! I woke up, did yoga, made oatmeal. I just finished a yummy lunch of chicken breast and quinoa with zucchini. I can't believe how easy it was to self correct! It's really starting to feel like my healthy habits aren't Herculean efforts anymore, they're just how I live my life. I have two questions for you guys. 1. The IOWL ep I was listening to today was about rating your hunger. I haven't tried this yet, but I've been regularly keeping a food journal and I'd like to incorporate hunger rating. I'd love to hear from you about your experiences doing this. I suspect it is going to be tricky for me for a while, not really having a feel for what a 4 is or what a 7 is. Could you share with me how you guys recognize your hunger levels? 2. I think one of my biggest downfalls is flexibility. I'm great at schedules, bad at dealing with curve balls. I'm about to start a part time job, and I'm nervous about how I'm going to juggle it with my PhD with, while still making the time to exercise and eat healthfully. Any advice from busy folks? I'd especially love it if any working moms had advice, as the job I got is a nanny position. Thanks so much in advance. This group has been super helpful to me in recent weeks! And by the way, for those that gave me advice on snacking, I think things are going well. I'm trying out 2 afternoon snacks instead of 1. I just had to accept that I wasn't eating enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Congrats on getting right back on track with self correcting. Remember to put that in your success journal because you are making huge strides. I read the below as factual info without a single bit of self recrimination. Nicely done. And now you know what your trigger situations are so you can protect yourself against a future recurrence or do a " redo " at night and visually act out how you would have preferred to act instead of reaching for carbage. I know how tricky rating hunger can be. I don't use a 1-10 scale because I feel it's too vast. I use 1-5 with 3 being a nice round number of being neither too full nor too hungry. Here's how I break it down:  1 = so hungry I am grumpy; will eat tomato sauce on cardboard! 2 = pretty hungry; lots of things appeal to me 3 = completely satisfied, neither hungry nor full 4 = I ate too much; feel sluggish, bloated and know I'll feel tired in an hour 5 = nap time If I am at a 3 or above, I try not to eat. One trick that works really well for me: When I consider my level of hunger, if I cannot visualize a food I would like to eat, I figure I am not that hungry. Visions of sugarplums dancing in my head doesn't count. Another cue I use is for judging my fullness. it's not on a numeric scale--it goes deeper than that. Everyone probably has their own, but if I eat at the table (and don't multitask with food and TV/book/computer, where I can do a huge amount of mindless eating), I can listen quietly for my cue. That cue is a sigh. It's the weirdest thing, but when I am eating a meal, even a small one, I always sigh when I have had enough. I'd just never heard it through all the noise and distraction before (and yes, I can hear the sigh when I am dining with others). When I paid close attention to that sigh, I quickly realized that every bite I took after that sigh had no taste. So it was easy to push my plate away, knowing I could come back to it in 5 minutes, 15 minutes, an hour, the next day ... Hope that helps. ________________________________ To: insideoutweightloss Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 10:08 AM Subject: Questions  Hello everyone, I sure feel like I'm posting a lot lately. I'm renewing my weight loss efforts, so maybe it's normal that I have more questions right now. Yesterday I had a bad day. I had an early morning meeting and a long commute, and failed to leave enough time for a proper breakfast. On top of that I was feeling extra emotional about some stuff. Long story short, my day consisted of carbs, carbs, and more carbs (and not the whole grain kind). Today though, I got right back on track! I woke up, did yoga, made oatmeal. I just finished a yummy lunch of chicken breast and quinoa with zucchini. I can't believe how easy it was to self correct! It's really starting to feel like my healthy habits aren't Herculean efforts anymore, they're just how I live my life. I have two questions for you guys. 1. The IOWL ep I was listening to today was about rating your hunger. I haven't tried this yet, but I've been regularly keeping a food journal and I'd like to incorporate hunger rating. I'd love to hear from you about your experiences doing this. I suspect it is going to be tricky for me for a while, not really having a feel for what a 4 is or what a 7 is. Could you share with me how you guys recognize your hunger levels? 2. I think one of my biggest downfalls is flexibility. I'm great at schedules, bad at dealing with curve balls. I'm about to start a part time job, and I'm nervous about how I'm going to juggle it with my PhD with, while still making the time to exercise and eat healthfully. Any advice from busy folks? I'd especially love it if any working moms had advice, as the job I got is a nanny position. Thanks so much in advance. This group has been super helpful to me in recent weeks! And by the way, for those that gave me advice on snacking, I think things are going well. I'm trying out 2 afternoon snacks instead of 1. I just had to accept that I wasn't eating enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Hi On the hunger scale, I find the number isn't necessarily that important, it is just a device for ensuring that you are checking in on what your body is saying to you and that you are truely hungry or whether it is some emotional reaction making you think about food. This, for me is the most important thing I have learnt from IOWL as this is a habit I can keep up for a lifetime, even when things other than weightloss have my focus. Where I have found the numbers useful is recognising that the eat when hungry, stop when full theory is great for maintenance, but it it doesn't mean you will automatically lose weight doing it. So in order for me to actually lose, and not maintain, I have to wait until I am extra hungry before I eat and stop before I feel full, then I will create the deficit needed for weight loss. I find snacking, even healthy food, can mess up those signals, so I generally wait for my meals. Snacks for me, are when I have really underestimated what I need at a meal and I am a long way from my planned tea. I like it when I take my snacks back home with me at the end of the day, because I have judged my intake well at breakfast and lunch. My hunger is actually quite a subtle sensation. I'm not a big growler, I have just learnt to sense the degrees over time Others have given some great advice on planning. The fact that you are thinking ahead that you might have a problem fitting everything in, means you are part way to solving it. One of the things I would say, to deal with the curve balls is to just recognise that hunger is just a feeling, and you aren't going to die because you miss a meal or don't have an apple with you. I find sometimes,I'm just happy to miss a meal, or at least a meal time if the only thing around me is junk, or I'm too busy to enjoy my food. I wouldn't do it everyday, but if I miss a meal then the next day I will be extra hungry and so it is time for a bigger breakfast or lunch - self correcting, but to make up a defecit, rather than an over eating episode - feels very satisfying. Hope this helps Viv > > Hello everyone, > > I sure feel like I'm posting a lot lately. I'm renewing my weight loss efforts, so maybe it's normal that I have more questions right now. > > Yesterday I had a bad day. I had an early morning meeting and a long commute, and failed to leave enough time for a proper breakfast. On top of that I was feeling extra emotional about some stuff. Long story short, my day consisted of carbs, carbs, and more carbs (and not the whole grain kind). > > Today though, I got right back on track! I woke up, did yoga, made oatmeal. I just finished a yummy lunch of chicken breast and quinoa with zucchini. I can't believe how easy it was to self correct! It's really starting to feel like my healthy habits aren't Herculean efforts anymore, they're just how I live my life. > > I have two questions for you guys. > 1. The IOWL ep I was listening to today was about rating your hunger. I haven't tried this yet, but I've been regularly keeping a food journal and I'd like to incorporate hunger rating. I'd love to hear from you about your experiences doing this. I suspect it is going to be tricky for me for a while, not really having a feel for what a 4 is or what a 7 is. Could you share with me how you guys recognize your hunger levels? > > 2. I think one of my biggest downfalls is flexibility. I'm great at schedules, bad at dealing with curve balls. I'm about to start a part time job, and I'm nervous about how I'm going to juggle it with my PhD with, while still making the time to exercise and eat healthfully. Any advice from busy folks? I'd especially love it if any working moms had advice, as the job I got is a nanny position. > > Thanks so much in advance. This group has been super helpful to me in recent weeks! > > And by the way, for those that gave me advice on snacking, I think things are going well. I'm trying out 2 afternoon snacks instead of 1. I just had to accept that I wasn't eating enough. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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