Friday, April 15, 2016

I lost another pound this week!

I have been doing the treadmill on my lunch breaks 4 days a week.  I notice my clothes are much looser, but the scale is slow moving.  I am okay with that.  It goes up and down during the week.  I just record today's weight and measurements.  I feel good.

I am growing used to getting full quickly, and learning not to eat fast. I still find it difficult to drink enough water in a day.  I may still have issues with sleep apnea and have an appt next week at the Kaiser sleep clinic to find out if I do.  As well as looking into getting the Combi Patch", to help make me a nicer person while I go through peri-menopause.

The hormone imbalance is crazy and it certainly plays with my stress and emotional eating triggers. I have only one trigger food that is my go to when I can't deal with the world and that is CHOCOLATE.  Milk Chocolate.  I don't need much to fix what is ailing me, Once I eat it, I do feel better, but I do feel sort of out of control when I do.  I don't feel a sugar addiction, but it could be something like that I feel when the sugar hits my bloodstream.  It is a drug.  It feels like a drug.

I don't overeat chocolate, but I go through cravings that feel out of control, and that concerns me.  This video helped me get a better understanding at what I could possibly be beginning to experience.


Part of what happens for me in my personal life long dieting insanity is that when I deprive myself of any food, I begin to trigger the old dieting Eat, Repent, Repeat Cycle.  The mindful eating course I took really helped me understand this part. I still struggle with the deprivation at times in the mornings during a 16/8 fasting protocol session.  I only do it when I need to break through a long weight loss stall.

I love food, I love to taste things.  I also want to live a normal life. I am half way through my Honeymoon phase in this VSG Post-op journey.  I still think this was the best decision I have ever made.  The hardest part of this is psychological.

HAVE A FABULOUS WEEKEND WEIGHT LOSS WARRIORS!


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