What About Leftovers? - POSTED ON: Mar 24, 2011
My Behavior – my Effort – is my responsibility A fundamental question is: “What Behavior do I need to be Responsible for to achieve weight-loss?”
My Answer is, all General Behavior and all Specific Behavior.
General Behavior is controlling the food that one puts into one's mouth, and the movement of one's body, i.e. Eat Less, Move More.
Specific Behavior depends on one's individual food plan. meaning any personal behavior that causes less food to go into one's mouth. One must make certain the food one eats contains less energy than one's body uses.
My eating behavior is always my responsibility. I don't get a pass when my life becomes unusually busy or stressful. I always choose my behavior....either consciously or unconsciously. I Like that saying:
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail".
because it is true that choosing NOT to choose, is in itself a choice. We always CHOOSE what we do. Overeating is a choice. That behavior is optional...even for those of us who have binge eating tendencies.
I've had to establish many Habits of Behavior that help me meet my goals, and how I commonly deal with Leftover Food is a GIANT behavior issue. Here's a recent video I made about this subject.
Recipe Categories - POSTED ON: Mar 23, 2011
One of my Themes here at DietHobby is that we are each individuals and one eating plan doesn’t work for everyone. There are many different ways-of-eating, food-plans, and diets, to choose from that we can adapt and fit into our lives.
Some of these diets seem to work better than others, but all of them work for someone.
Successful dieters vary greatly in their eating styles. Some eat large meals, others eat small meals. Some eat three meals, no snacks. Some eat six mini-meals. Some eat only lunch and dinner. Some eat only dinner. Some skip dinner. Some eat only snacks.
Meal timing, meal frequency, and the amounts and types of food eaten are all variable factors within the many dieting choices. When deciding how to Categorize my Recipe Sections, I took this into consideration, and chose not to break them into categories like Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Side dishes, Desserts.
For the present, I’ve decided to break them up into the following categories:
Here is my new cooking video, which belongs in the Mealtime category.
Ever Have One Of Those Days? - POSTED ON: Mar 22, 2011
Have you ever had one of those days where you wake up feeling good, but then someone steps on your plans and dreams for the day?
As I watched this recent video which was created, produced and filmed by my son-the-web-genius,
I realized…for most of us.....
Some days are just like this.
Life Keeps Changing - POSTED ON: Mar 20, 2011
I’ve now had 5 years of maintenance at my current weight, and I still Hope it will get easier one of these days.
I've learned that: Things don't happen the same way twice. The way I lose weight or maintain weight now is not the same way that I lost weight or maintained weight five years ago. I can't EXACTLY repeat the things I did before, because I'm a different person now.
I'm 5 years older. Although I am in very good health, the human body is DESIGNED to wear out with age. No matter how hard I work at staying fit, now that I'm over 60, I am ageing more rapidly, and I can see and feel that Process happening. Some activities and exercises that I could do 5 years ago, my present body will no longer tolerate.
My body has also now spent years adjusting and adapting to burn less energy. Retirement from my profession changed my lifestyle. I am active, but in a different way.
This is the Challenge. What works now won't work forever. You have to keep changing and adapting, because life keeps changing whether you like it or not
Here is my most recent Video, the second of my Thinspiration series.
Food and Money - POSTED ON: Mar 18, 2011
Food and money have a great deal in common. A specific amount of money goes into my bank account each month, and that is the amount of money I have to pay my bills and meet my needs each month.
If I want to save up for a trip or a treat, I have to budget my money, and do without spending the amount I need to save. Frequently I also feel like spending more money than I have in my bank account, I have that choice. There are ways I can accomplish this. But, making a choice to spend as much as I want, will lead to negative consequences . . . making my life difficult to deal with. That fact and that situation will not change, even though I may hate it.
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My body uses a specific amount of food each day/week/month, that is the amount of food I need to put into it. If I want to reduce my size, I have to eat LESS food than my body uses to create an energy deficit. I can choose to live within my energy allowance or not. Frequently I also feel like eating more food than my body can use, I have that choice. But, making a choice to eat as much as I want, will lead to negative consequences., i.e. even more stored fat. The fact and situation will not change, even though I may hate it.
As a mature adult human being, I know that frequently I simply can't have my own way. This is true of spending money, and of eating food. There has to be some form of self-regulation...with both money and food.
If one chooses not to count calories, following a specifically defined food-plan is a good way to self-regulate food.
However, even one Bingeing day a week, can easily provide the body with more energy than one's body can use in that entire week. To give any Diet, or food-plan, a Chance, one needs to actually follow it.
I am not a fan of Intuitive Eating Concepts and in future Blogs, I will have much to say about the idea of letting one's body tell one what, when, and how much to eat based one's perception of hunger.
I am very familiar with the issue of Hunger, and I have found that when dieting, Appetite, not Hunger, is the most difficult problem to overcome. Personally, I've found temporary physical Hunger to be the least important issue in determining whether I can successfully follow a diet, because one's stomach (and one's brain) quickly becomes used to being fed a certain amount at a certain time, IF the amount and the time are consistent. There are "stretch receptors" in one's stomach, and if one eats an equal volume 3 times a day, one's stomach (and brain) will adapt to that amount and timing. When one is overweight and not in danger of actual Starvation, Physical Hunger is a problem that can be rather easily resolved, and rarely seems to be the primary cause of either Overeating, or Obesity.
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