Re: The Behavioral Path to MWL Success - April 2022 Group
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 2:39 pm
Dear Time plus Adherence Team:
It’s been a good week food-wise
1.Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit. YES especially soup
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals. YES
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. YES, reduced
4. Eliminate all animal foods. YES
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy). YES
6. Eliminate any added oil. YES , except the occasional vegan meal eaten out.
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products. YES- but I will admit to a piece of bread taken in a moment of utter weakness
8. Don't drink your calories. YES
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full.YES
10. Avoid being sedentary. YES this week finally made it to my goal of 1 kilometer swimming-all 4 strokes.
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
First barley, the only kind i can find here is pearled barley. No whole barley.
Noella: Thanks for the mixtures to add to the barley. Even though I have none I can try it with brown rice.
Did you know we came into the MWL about the same time? Your achievement is amazing. .
The challenge of moving house to another continent is ever with me. Trying to lower the stress level especially since it always expresses itself in overeating. I’m working at simplifying and being less perfectionistic in my demands of myself --for example not every item I am leaving has to find a home or at least I don’t have to find a home for it.
An interesting phenomenon is how emotional going over your life can be. This week I turned 80 years old, so there’s a lot of life to look back on and some of it is accompanied by regrets. For example I have kept a record of school report cards (all of them through high school include weight!.) I also kept some records of years on diet clubs. The very lowest I ever got in my adult life was 140 pounds and that was not for very long. Most of my early life I have been around 180 pounds. The last 2 plus years on MWL I have managed to get to 123 although loss of height needs to be factored in. I can’t help but feel regret about the years when I felt fat, unattractive and had low self-esteem.
So I just allow myself a good cry,, accept the feelings and get on with the task at hand.
I’m grateful to have a plan of eating now that allows me to be both satisfied and healthy . That’s what the MWL has done for me. Thanks to our leaders, Mark, Jeff and Wildgoose for guiding me and to the whole group for accompanying me on this journey.
Carol
It’s been a good week food-wise
1.Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit. YES especially soup
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals. YES
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. YES, reduced
4. Eliminate all animal foods. YES
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy). YES
6. Eliminate any added oil. YES , except the occasional vegan meal eaten out.
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products. YES- but I will admit to a piece of bread taken in a moment of utter weakness
8. Don't drink your calories. YES
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full.YES
10. Avoid being sedentary. YES this week finally made it to my goal of 1 kilometer swimming-all 4 strokes.
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
First barley, the only kind i can find here is pearled barley. No whole barley.
Noella: Thanks for the mixtures to add to the barley. Even though I have none I can try it with brown rice.
Did you know we came into the MWL about the same time? Your achievement is amazing. .
The challenge of moving house to another continent is ever with me. Trying to lower the stress level especially since it always expresses itself in overeating. I’m working at simplifying and being less perfectionistic in my demands of myself --for example not every item I am leaving has to find a home or at least I don’t have to find a home for it.
An interesting phenomenon is how emotional going over your life can be. This week I turned 80 years old, so there’s a lot of life to look back on and some of it is accompanied by regrets. For example I have kept a record of school report cards (all of them through high school include weight!.) I also kept some records of years on diet clubs. The very lowest I ever got in my adult life was 140 pounds and that was not for very long. Most of my early life I have been around 180 pounds. The last 2 plus years on MWL I have managed to get to 123 although loss of height needs to be factored in. I can’t help but feel regret about the years when I felt fat, unattractive and had low self-esteem.
So I just allow myself a good cry,, accept the feelings and get on with the task at hand.
I’m grateful to have a plan of eating now that allows me to be both satisfied and healthy . That’s what the MWL has done for me. Thanks to our leaders, Mark, Jeff and Wildgoose for guiding me and to the whole group for accompanying me on this journey.
Carol