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threadwalker) wrote2007-04-27 03:50 pm
threadwalker) wrote2007-04-27 03:50 pm
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Do you know where your QA is?
Well, if _I_ were your QA, you'd say, "Locked in her office with music on low, lights off and tuning out the world. She's spending an hour of time decompressing before the next round of documents hit her desk at 4:30."
Long day. :
Why am I bothering to write this? Oh - right. In moments of despair, I need to remind myself that I can make great strides.
This week I
1. did great journaling
2. managed to work in 5 servings of fruit/veg per day
3. made plans for the carb-fest on Friday and stuck with my plans
4. continued to use my life tools: plan, self-assess, and keep my impulse from being my choice-maker.
5. On Monday, I knew I'd miss the gym Monday night, so I planned and went to gym during lunch on Monday.
I feel really great about all this.
Weigh in on Wednesday: 155 lb. (new low!). This means I've made a second mile stone and I need to celebrate somehow. Stay posted. hahaha!
My weigh-in was after a very carby weekend, but then this week I've been really good with journaling and getting my 5 fruit/veg. I was concerned that after a feckless food weekend, I'd be straying all over the place despite my good intentions. I am really super duper good at having good intentions, but straying if the only person affected is me... But I really focused on getting my 5 fruit/veg servings and self-assessing before eating. These are great life tools and my journal is very encouraging to me.
For my weight, I am beginning to see my end-goal in sight. I have 5 lb to make my WW life-goal. I could have actually set that to 155, but in discussing it with the counseler, she asked me to be honest about my goal and not to pad it out for ease of success. I believed then (and still do) that I can maintain 150. So that's my goal. However, after talking tosirst, I think 145 may actually be feasible. But, first things first.
Head space and lunch choices: I worked through a working lunch with managers and ate my own lunch instead of the one provided.
As predicted, the nice project manager ordered a few salads along with the high-carb hot lunches. This was per my request a few months ago; I told them I had dietary issues and could not eat their carby lunch things. (my inner eater was protesting madly at that... it's so yummy!). However, as happens recently, the salads all get grabbed by managers before I can get to one. I've been told my healthy choices are inspiring people, which is great, but I hadn't forseen this outcome ... when there's no healthy choices left for me... boo hoo. Today was the second time in 2 weeks that this happened. Last time I ate the carby-thing that was there. The carby thing is usually very flavorful and well done and it's not an issue of taste or quality, merely of how it affects me. Last week, I ended up feeling like crap for the rest of the day and having stomach cramps. The craptastic feeling lasted until the next morning, too. It totally sucks. So today I made my plan (planning is a life tool WW encourages): I brought my own lunch. I assumed there would be no salads left (true) and got over my sense of being the weird kid who brings her own lunch to a meeting where the lunches are provided. I also warned myself that there would be cookies and I needed to keep assessing and making choices; I need to do the leading, not let my impulse lead me. That's easy to say, but hard to do.
But I did it. AND I made my saving throw against double chocolate chip cookies. Ugh. It was torture. I kept munching on grapes and reminding myself of how nourished I felt without being laden down by carbs and refined sugar. I kept reminding myself how crappy I felt last time. I kept reminding myself how good I already felt by sticking to my plan.
I need to save this victory for the next time and wave this banner at myself.
Long day. :
Why am I bothering to write this? Oh - right. In moments of despair, I need to remind myself that I can make great strides.
This week I
1. did great journaling
2. managed to work in 5 servings of fruit/veg per day
3. made plans for the carb-fest on Friday and stuck with my plans
4. continued to use my life tools: plan, self-assess, and keep my impulse from being my choice-maker.
5. On Monday, I knew I'd miss the gym Monday night, so I planned and went to gym during lunch on Monday.
I feel really great about all this.
Weigh in on Wednesday: 155 lb. (new low!). This means I've made a second mile stone and I need to celebrate somehow. Stay posted. hahaha!
My weigh-in was after a very carby weekend, but then this week I've been really good with journaling and getting my 5 fruit/veg. I was concerned that after a feckless food weekend, I'd be straying all over the place despite my good intentions. I am really super duper good at having good intentions, but straying if the only person affected is me... But I really focused on getting my 5 fruit/veg servings and self-assessing before eating. These are great life tools and my journal is very encouraging to me.
For my weight, I am beginning to see my end-goal in sight. I have 5 lb to make my WW life-goal. I could have actually set that to 155, but in discussing it with the counseler, she asked me to be honest about my goal and not to pad it out for ease of success. I believed then (and still do) that I can maintain 150. So that's my goal. However, after talking to
sirst, I think 145 may actually be feasible. But, first things first. Head space and lunch choices: I worked through a working lunch with managers and ate my own lunch instead of the one provided.
As predicted, the nice project manager ordered a few salads along with the high-carb hot lunches. This was per my request a few months ago; I told them I had dietary issues and could not eat their carby lunch things. (my inner eater was protesting madly at that... it's so yummy!). However, as happens recently, the salads all get grabbed by managers before I can get to one. I've been told my healthy choices are inspiring people, which is great, but I hadn't forseen this outcome ... when there's no healthy choices left for me... boo hoo. Today was the second time in 2 weeks that this happened. Last time I ate the carby-thing that was there. The carby thing is usually very flavorful and well done and it's not an issue of taste or quality, merely of how it affects me. Last week, I ended up feeling like crap for the rest of the day and having stomach cramps. The craptastic feeling lasted until the next morning, too. It totally sucks. So today I made my plan (planning is a life tool WW encourages): I brought my own lunch. I assumed there would be no salads left (true) and got over my sense of being the weird kid who brings her own lunch to a meeting where the lunches are provided. I also warned myself that there would be cookies and I needed to keep assessing and making choices; I need to do the leading, not let my impulse lead me. That's easy to say, but hard to do.
But I did it. AND I made my saving throw against double chocolate chip cookies. Ugh. It was torture. I kept munching on grapes and reminding myself of how nourished I felt without being laden down by carbs and refined sugar. I kept reminding myself how crappy I felt last time. I kept reminding myself how good I already felt by sticking to my plan.
I need to save this victory for the next time and wave this banner at myself.
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(You might point out to the person ordering the lunch that more salads would be a good thing.)
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And how exciting to be so close to your goal!