[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Thursday, 11 October 2018

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

Daily journal.

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• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

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First "cheat" since eating better

For the first time in 5 weeks since starting my weight loss journey, I let myself have a "cheat". I had strawberries with melted dark chocolate peppermint bark. Weighed out the chocolate for a single serving on the food scale I bought today (40g). Can't believe how small a portion size is...

I actually feel better about it than I thought I would and I think that's to do with the new scale. It's helped me see what a serving size looks like and makes me feel more in control, if that makes sense.

With my history of bingeing on bad food, I'm still nervous that this cheat will lead to another, then another and so on. For 5 weeks I've been steadfastly avoiding all things "bad" like fast food, chips (I had a serious Lay's Dill pickle problem), anything with sugar (save for my small amount of brown sugar I put in my oatmeal once and a while), white bread, essentially my entire old food pyramid.

I feel like my self control is better than it's ever been (in regards to food), but I can't help but feel like something is waiting behind the corner. Like I've just left the beast's cage open.

Has anyone else felt this way after re-introducing certain foods to their diet during weight loss?

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Changing my family’s lifestyle to lose weight. Where do I begin

We are not the healthiest of families here. I’m working on changing that. I’ve basically changed the way we eat every meal and have been meal prepping for the last month focusing on portion control as the things I usually cook weren’t awful. I’ve already seen a change in our energy levels. Now I’ve been waking up to exercise every morning and usually it’s beach body on demand. My daughter is 11 and is very overweight (I know I know it’s my fault and I am trying to change this now so please cut me some slack) she of course doesn’t see anything wrong. How do I ease her into a healthier lifestyle focusing on weight loss? I’ve put her into dance 2 hours a week and softball 2 hours a week. We have a Ymca membership that we can use and of course beach body on demand. I don’t want it to feel like I’m forcing it or be like it’s mandatory or else. Please save the negative comments I’ve beat myself up enough and finally mustered enough courage to post this. Thanks!!

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What I've Learned By Losing 50 Pounds

F/27/5’7” | SW: 230.6 | CW: 177.2 | GW1: 190 | GW2: 160 | UGW: 140

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It has taken me the last five months to realize something about weight loss.

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People don’t always notice.

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It has driven me nuts. I mean, I’m obsessed over each little ounce. C’mon. Isn’t it the most obvious thing in the world, people?! I’ve lost 5 pounds. I’ve lost 10 pounds. Don’t you see it?

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Nah. They don’t.

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Over the months, I’ve learned a lot about myself.

• I’m a tad competitive. But I’m at my best when I am working with people, not against them. My coworker made weight an issue between us. I have experienced some hardcore, soul withering schadenfreude as she gained and I lost. However, it was not a healthy mindset to be in and I don’t recommend it.

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• Frame sizes are real. And totally affect how you ‘wear’ your weight. People don’t notice changes on my body as quickly as they might on a smaller framed woman. People are also shocked that I have lost more than 50 pounds so far. I’ve internalized how hard people jeer about ‘big boned’ to the point that I felt stupid researching frame sizes. Measuring your frame size is a quick thing and will help you better understand your body.

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• CICO works. It works for me. It demystifies the weight loss process. I will live the rest of my life keeping CICO in mind to help me stay healthy.

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• But CICO is not what people want to hear about your weight loss. On the occasion that I have be asked how I lost weight (or more often, told how I lost the weight), CICO is not a satisfying answer. ‘Yeah, but you walk a lot.’ ‘You must be starving yourself. Eating like a bird.’ I haven’t really helped the cause, since I started all of this by challenging myself and my partner to not eat fast food for a year. Removing the easy food has made me look at my relationship with food. It was a really unhealthy relationship, but that’s not really a surprise, is it?

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• I really wanted to be seen. I also really want to be invisible. It’s a paradox, isn’t it? The obese paradox. You are sometimes the biggest person in the room, but no one sees you. You can’t help but stand out, however, nobody really notices you. I have felt invisible my whole life and also, so self conscious I can’t even stand it. Now, people are starting to notice me in a way that I was wholly unprepared for. Some guy undercharged me for coffee in the flirtiest way possible, which just threw me for a loop.

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• Now that some people are noticing my weight loss, I’ve discovered that I really didn’t need it. My motivation for losing weight is more intrinsic than I realized and I don’t really know what to do with compliments. I know that that sounds kind of corny, but I'm being honest here.

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I’m over halfway, my fellow losers. I seriously couldn’t do this without you.

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Happy World Mental Health Day from your local Monican

On the podcast the last week I talked a bit about how I first started therapy. I’m oddly comfortable sharing because in college my bf’s mom talked about it no differently than she talked about anything else. I was taught it was okay so I didn’t hesitate when I thought I needed help. 

You don’t need to have a traumatic experience to justify getting help.
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You can have a normal childhood… and struggle with having healthy relationships.
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You can have parents that loved you… but not love yourself.
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Maybe you’ve never been in an abusive relationship… but tolerate shitty behavior from the people you date.
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You don’t have to be super underweight or overweight… to have an eating disorder.

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You can be religious… and cheat on someone you love.
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You can be kind to your friends and family… but say cruel things to yourself.
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There are no prizes for dealing with your problems alone.
And hurt people hurt people… So if nothing else helping yourself will help the people you love.

If you need a friend, a therapist, God, medication, a puppy… I am encouraging you to make it happen.

And I know that certain resources are not available to everyone. I was very lucky to be able to go to therapy because I had health insurance in college and just had to make the co-pay. Many places have low cost resources – Google your city & low cost mental health services to see your options.

 

 

Check out my random Therapy Thoughts & interview with the Medical Director of the Crisis Text Line podcast episode 97 here:

Run Eat Repeat Podcast Episode 97 

Or listen on…

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or let me know your favorite podcast app and I’ll try to make sure it’s available there too!

 

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NSV - I was able to sleep on the extra firm beds at the hotel

Recently I drove halfway across the country for a visit home, a 25 hour drive. I love long drives but even still it necessitated a night in a hotel once on the way there and once on the way back to split up the 25 hours.

Previously when I've had to stay in hotels, I've been unable to be comfortable on the beds because a lot of hotel beds are very firm and I'm simply too fat for that. My weight uncomfortably digs my hips into the mattresses and I wake up multiple times a night with sore hips and a sore back. Red Roof Inn is one I absolutely couldn't sleep on -- when I know I'm going to be staying at one, I bring a mattress pad. But this time I had to bring my dog, and so I didn't have room for any kind of mattress pad, plus Red Roof has no pet fee or breed restrictions, so I booked it.

I weighed between 250-275 when I had the problems sleeping on their beds before, and I was 206.6 the day I left for the trip. I was making plans to sleep basically sitting up propped against all the pillows and was very pleasantly surprised to find that when I laid down, I wasn't uncomfortable. I slept quite peacefully in that hotel bed, and even the sketchy hotel with the shitty beds on the way back wasn't so uncomfortable that I couldn't sleep.

This is one of those things I never would've considered as a benefit of weight loss. It's so neat to see how all the little things add up to be life-changing.

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Inspired by weight loss trackers I've seen online! Hoping that it may motivate me and others.

https://imgur.com/a/a4XCPas

I've lost about 30 pounds since my highest weight; I fell off the wagon and gained a bit back, and sloooowwwlllyyy re-lost that weight. I was looking for some more inspiration and motivation online and noticed that I've seen a lot of weight loss trackers floating around on places like Pinterest and r/bujo (I don't even own a bullet journal so don't ask me why I'm subbed). I decided to make my own when I saw a nice roll of thick paper at Target for $3. Pulled out some Sharpies and got to work! It's not perfect but it's nice and big so I can't miss it!

I don't have an ultimate goal weight at the moment, so I just went with 80 more pounds, figure I'll assess it again once I get there. I'm hoping that this works and that small rewards might also help with pushing me towards my ultimate goal.

Does anyone have experience using this sort of tool? Suggestions?

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