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June 09 Weighing IN, Week 22Mandy: Ysy! I lost 2.2 pounds this week. This is the lowest I've weighed on this journey. Praise the Lord! To God be the glory! June 05 What a joy!Setting Captives Free: The Lord's Table bible study has been such a blessing. I feel like a huge burden has been lifted from my shoulders. The eating plan is simple: Eat when your stomach growls and then don't eat too much. Don't eat again until your stomach growls. Duh!  No food is off limits. It sounds to good to be true, but it's working. It's surprising how a little food goes a long way.It takes a lot less food to feel me up than I used to think. June 02 Weighing In, Week 21Mandy: Yay! I posted another loss. I lost 2.2 pounds. I have found hope and help with a free online Bible study course called Setting Captives Free: The Lord's Table. www.settingcaptivesfree.com/lords_table I don't think that many people are reading others post anymore since MPM ended, but I definitely reccommend this course for those struggling with binge eating as I am. May 27 Week 20 Weighing inMandy: It was so good posting a loss this week. It's been a while since I've lost! I'm still struggling with Complusive Eating. I'm starting a mentoring prgram through our church. I'm going to bring it up to my mentor. Extra prayer and guidance can't hurt. When I talked to my pastor about my eating problems briefly months ago, he recommended that I attend the church's faith-based addictions program. It's on Friday nights, though, not a good time for me with little kids..... will pray about it. May 21 Still feeling yuckyMandy: I'm not feeling well enough to exercise yet. I've got a fever today. Dad, I agree with you. We need to listen to our bodies. Mine's screaming, "Give me a break!" I had some poptarts after dinner last night, so my goals today are no sweets and no eating after dinner. Baby steps. Also I'm going to be super picky at the grocery store this week. I don't need poptarts and my family doesn't either. May 20 Under the weatherMandy: I’ve got the cold that the kids have had. It was inevitable. You can only get coughed and sneezed on so many times before the germs take hold. My washer was broken for a week and a repairman finally came on Friday to fix it. It broke again yesterday. I think I may go to the laundry mat tomorrow. The repair man isn’t coming until Saturday. You should see the laundry all over the place. It’s crazy. Reality CheckMandy: Wow, I've really got to get it together and STOP GAINING! That's the last thing I want! Dad, you've really been so helpful. After our most recent conversation I can really see how I need to take the time to slow down relax and enjoy my food. By eating slower I will get fuller faster. I need to QUIT EATING SO MANY SWEETS! I'm going to drop the food journal all together. I think it's just adding to the problem: I THINK ABOUT FOOD ALL THE TIME, CONSTANTLY. Today was good, tmorrow will be even better. May 14 Weighing In, Week 18Mandy: I gained 1.4 pounds this last week and for the first time this gain was a surprise. I had been doing so much better, or so I thought. I'm back to planning my meals and keeping a food journal. I think I was eating way more than I realized. May 12 Recapturing the visionMandy: Wow, I haven't blogged in weeks. My weights been yo-yoing and I've frankly desired yummy food more than I've desired to loose weight. I've been praying that God gives me the desire to be eat healthier. I've been praying for the strength to over come my impulsive binge overeating. I think when I loose the desire to loose weight, I've really lost the vision of a thinner, healthier me. Some where in my subconscience I go back to thinking that I've always been fat and I always will. I don't have to be fat and miserable! The only thing keeping me fat is me. This week, I'm probably going to show no loss, but what really happened was that I was up 2 pounds by mid week and got sick of it. I finally realized that I can me thin, not just 5 pounds lighter, but lighter than I've ever been in my adult life. After that epiphany, I asked myself "How much to you want to be 140 pounds?" every time I was tempted to eat something I shouldn't, to remind myself that I can and want to be my goal weight. Am I making sense? It sounds kind of crazy in written form.  April 21 Dadda,Mandy: Dad, Good job on your loosing! I know that loosing slowly must be frustrating, but just look at these two numbers: 261.25 and 229. What a difference!!
I hope I haven't been too much of a disappointment as your weight loss partner. I'll make you proud this week. I have made some good choices over the last few days. I didn't get a pie when we went to the flea market. We visit the "cookie lady" every time we go there and let the kids get a cookie. Last week I got a mini apple pie and ate half of it. This week I resisted. I also wanted to attack the chocolate brownie ice cream after a stressful day last evening, but I didn't. I stretched instead. Chicken Pizza Packets1lb boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1" pcs
NOTE: You can also cook this in the oven. Weighing In Week 15Mandy: Weighing in..... 177.4 a bit of a gain, but I was expecting more. I'll get under 176 this week. I can do this.
Dan: Not bad though. I remember when you were determined to get below 180 and you are well below that. Just keep on doing what you know you should and reward yourself when it is appropriate. I weighed in at 229. A loss of 1/2 pound. Not great but still going in the right direction. My weight loss has really slowed down for some reason. Hopefully it will pick up for both of us this week. April 14 Weighing in Week 14Mandy: Good week this week. I lost 3 pounds, weighing in at 176. I feel so energetic. I actually got out of bed before the alarm went off this morning. SOO unlike me! April 08 Crockpot Swiss Steak3 tbs. WW flour Mandy: This is in the ol' pot right now. It smells SOOO good. Spicing things upMandy: After over 13 weeks of healthy eating my meals had become boring and predictable. When I planned my menu last week for this week, I went searching for new recipes to mix things up a bit. We're talking pizza with whole wheat crust, crab and salmon cakes with roasted red pepper sauce, crock pot swiss steak, light crock pot chicken alfredo, and chicken tortilla soup. I'll share the ones that turn out yummy, starting with what's in the crock pot tonight. You know, God made food for us to enjoy and I plan on doing that!
Speaking of enjoying food, I've decided since this is a life long commitment that I have to be realistic. I'm not going to deny myself my favorite foods, but eat them occasionally and in reasonable ammounts (NO BINGING): peanut butter, certian cereals like Banana Nut Crunch. Then I decided that I would allow myself to eat the floowing on special occasions like birthdays (a couple of times a year): Ice cream, brownies, chocolate chip cookies. I couldn't imagine myself going the rest of my life without choclate chip cookies, and I came to the realization that I don't have to. I just can't eat a whole bag of them every day! April 07 New motivationMandy: I've been struggling with the desire to stick with the healthy eating for the last 4 weeks or so, so I decided to give myself a little motivation. When I reach 30 pounds lost, I'm going to get a cute new haircut. I'm think like Ali's cut on BL. I haven't gotten a hair cut in years. I've basically had long straight hair since I was 16, with a few exceptions. I'm so excited. I need to lose over 6 pounds so I doubt I do it this week, but you never know.
 I'm going to start looking at yard sales for a treadmill or elliptical trainer. I found a recumbent bike at one last week, but it's not exactly what I wanted. Weighing InMandy: I maintained this week. No gain! That's a good thing. I have good feelings about this week. The weather's going to be great. I should be getting lots of outside playtime with the kids. They love to go on walks. I just need to real in my snacking.
Dan: I'm glad for you, I was concerned the way you were talking that you were looking at another gain. You've done too much good work to go backwards now. It is discouraging not to loose, but it is more discouraging to gain. I've been pretty much just maintaining the last two weeks myself, but I managed to pull off a 1.5 pound loss this week. I'm pretty happy with that especially considering that this wasn't my hardest working week ever and that I was out of town two days. I think you should work hard on not eating sweets during the week and then reward yourself on Saturday or Sunday. That way you have something to look forward to which should help you with your discipline and then you have a day or a meal that you can splurge without feeling guilty about it. April 03 HopeMandy: After another binge attack last night (we're talking two packages of twix and a handful of Nilla Wafers) I felt guilty and defeated. BUT I found encouragement in the book I'm reading called "Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking Free from the Bondage of Destructive Eating Habits" by Eliz Fitzpactrick: "God knows our shortcomings and yet He calls us to commitment and holiness. He can do this because He is the One who will supply both the desire and the strength to obey Him." I hadn't even had the desire to eat well. But, duh, God can supply that! I know that eating the way I do when I binge is not pleasing to God. March 31 Weighing in, Week 12Mandy: It actually crossed my mind not to weigh in this week with the tough week that I had, but I did. I gained 2.4 pounds, weighing in at 179. That's what I weighed in at in week 9. This sounds weird, but I've actually had to forgive myself for this week. I was really beating myself up about it. I'm now considering it a week off and I'm ready to get back to it. I want 30 pounds lost total by the finale! Dad, we need to plan a finale party.
Dan: My weight loss for the week was weak. I weighed 231.25 which is only a half a pound for the week. I did hit 30 pounds total which is exciting, but it is anticlimatic since I have been bragging about losing 30 pounds all last week. I have trimmed my body mass index by 4.25 which is good. Let's get it going this week, what do you say? March 29 StrugglingMandy: I’ve had a tough week this week. I think I say that every week, but there was something about this week that made it hard for me to even want to try to loose weight. Most of this week I honestly didn’t care about my weight or what I was eating. I’d gotten so TIRED of constantly battling food cravings and urges. I’m tired of depriving and denying myself. Yesterday, after snacking on some Oreos, I got upset at myself. I do this every time. I have some success at weight loss and then I just give up. I CAN”T DO THAT! I won’t do that. I’m not going to spend the rest of my life over weight and miserable. I can’t do this on my own, I need the Lord’s help every second of every day. It was a tough week as far as stress in the house. I’m weaning my two year old off of his pacy. He’s been attached to one of those since the moment he was born. It’s been tough on him, and he’s been cranky. He’s cranky and the whole house gets cranky. He’s also being potty trained which is stressful for me because I’m not very good at it. I had a horrible time with the twins. He’s doing great; I think I just put a lot of pressure on myself. I mae a mistake last week and bought myself some diet pop as a treat. I didn’t even think about it having caffeine in it. When the pop was all gone I got a HUGE headache that lasted for two days. I don’t normally drink caffeine at all. It was also messing up my sleep, which in itself added to my stress levels. ANYWAY! Lessons learned: don’t give up, this is your life, you need to take care of yourself. And don’t drink caffeine! I’m scared to weigh in. |
I’m not going to go back on my exercise program until I feel better and then I think I’m going to revise it a little bit. I’m going to do some research on diet and exercise and find something that will work for me…. Long term. The eating is pretty simple: Cut out sweets, whole grains, lower fat. Finding something for exercise that’s fun for me is another story….
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