This is a journal to help me learn LC tactics and to record LC success as 2007 draws to an end and 2008 looms large and hopeful ahead of me.
Wish me luck! Luck?
Ah, luck is the residue of design.
Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.
Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!
Wish me luck! Luck?
Ah, luck is the residue of design.
Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.
Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!
Portion control ~ The final LC frontier!
Posted 01-19-2008 at 01:57 PM by Zer
On my best LC days, I have to admit that I still overeat, am still trying to use food to fill some of the empty areas of my life. This must be the final frontier in a LC program. We get ourselves organized around good LC food, then realize we are double-dipping and taking 2d helpings that we can live without. I sure do.
Let's bring out those measuring cups from WW days, if that's what it takes!
I make a fist, sometimes, to remind myself what my tummy can digest well. More than that creates a crowded digestive system, without space to do the work that my stomach is designed to do. Make a fist. Find a plate that size. Decorate it with a colorful array of vegies around a tasty protein. Drink water BEFORE a meal, not with a meal. All these are LC tools for success. I just need to USE these tools more!
Let's bring out those measuring cups from WW days, if that's what it takes!
I make a fist, sometimes, to remind myself what my tummy can digest well. More than that creates a crowded digestive system, without space to do the work that my stomach is designed to do. Make a fist. Find a plate that size. Decorate it with a colorful array of vegies around a tasty protein. Drink water BEFORE a meal, not with a meal. All these are LC tools for success. I just need to USE these tools more!
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I am trying to learn to stop eating too much, too. Yesterday I had a big breakfast and kept thinking about lunch even though I felt very content! I did finally decide that if I wasn't hungry at lunch, I didn't have to eat! I did have a few pork rinds but then waited till dinner to eat again and it was a great feeling to just leave food alone!
Today I am trying to have that same mentality and let myself know that it's okay not to eat lunch if I'm not hungry! It's amazing how we are brought up from childhood thinking we HAVE to have those "3 square meals" whether we need them or not. |
 
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I recognize that the key to portion control is to plate food on a small plate, arrange that my meal is set out for me, no big containers to dip into for just a bit more. Planning! Presentation. A colorful palette of brilliant vegie carbs is a start, with 40g of protein and some fat to facilitate good LC digestion. It's a formula that works, when I work it right!
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I see myself eating rather too much when I sit down to eat. Even using a saucer for a plate, even with LC food, it's a 'clean your plate' mentality I'm battling!
Better to kick over one's metabolism more often. Start up the engine, as happens when one eats a handful. Then stop. Put food away. Do again in a few hours. I'm thinking that's how thin people eat, the ones I know. They do not clean their plates. They eat a bit, then forget to finish. It's a habit I'd like to cultivate, so I never again have to 'lose' the same pounds I'm taking off now! Ah, I'm learning! What a wonderful thing is this LCFriends forum, as I listen carefully to the tactics used by those who are successful at letting go of their excess poundage. It is also useful to notice how many here maintain on a LC/Atkins plan that functions well with their body. |
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My very best LC days are those in which I focus on making healthy LC choices, about what I eat and about portion size of LC foods. Still eat too much, which can mess up a LC program even if I am eating only LC food. That's part of why I am up 4# in 4days this week (alas). No mystery!
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Originally Posted by Cyard
I ask this [ever get overwhelmed by the changes you want to make?] because, my way of thinking is slowly (VERY slowly) evolving about my eating habits. Partly because of posts here and partly because I'm realizing that I need to make healthy changes now, I'm working toward focusing less on weight and more on health. I've realized that I want to cut out a lot of the "fake" foods and focus more on whole, real foods. I also want to start adding some supplements to deal with some health issues that I have, but I don't really know where to start. At the same time, though, I **do** want to lose weight so I don't want to slow the weight loss down anymore. Right now, I'm re-inducting and am at the 20g of carb level, but I miss fruits and veggies. It's time to move up the ladder. I suppose I just feel a mixture of impatience at wanting to be healthy and being overwhelmed at the colossal changes ahead of me. Anyone else ever feel this way?
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"Maintaining" at too high a weight? Me, too!
Quote by Parisfox: ...my middle name [is] "starting over" or maybe "bouncer." Someday I'll get it right. I have "maintaining" down pat. I can do that quite easily....however, I am maintaining at the wrong weight. I need to lose 50-60 lbs and THEN maintain. At 414# (today's bounce up to a weight that I showed on 4/1), I've come to the conclusion that I am maintaining - not a bad skill to have gained after a life lived in abandon at a higher weight (as much as 507.8# in recorded weight with possibly higher unrecorded weights I'll never know). Today's weight is way more than is comfortable for my weight-bearing joints. Rather than say I am not losing, I choose to say that I am 'maintaining'. Maintaining is a better way to look at my "not losing" or "bouncing" status as I struggle to get to THREEdom. Where do I go wrong as I struggle to lose? Giving myself license to deviate from LC eating (just a bite or two, here and there) or to eat more than a moderate portion at a sitting - these two (mis)behaviors are costing me dearly. I find it hard to respect myself when my scale data goes UP instead of down. I am doing well to maintain, but I am 'maintaining' at a higher weight than is healthy for me. Got to stop 'maintaining' and start paring down! How? All I can do is to cut back on portions. Mostly that is where I see my culpability in failing to honor my LC plan. I have to say that I am dodging so many carbs that used to play a BIG part in my life that I am proud of me for adapting to LC thinking. Bread is not a daily part of my life now. Amazing! Milk is not a daily part of my life now. Absolutely amazing! I've changed two of my major food hangups, and that is the most amazing thing of all to me as I observe and assess my chances of achieving success on this LC plan that I ***KNOW*** is a right way of eating and thinking for my body. My choices are so often better - so infrequently driven by desires that are impulsive - that I feel proud of myself for managing as I have done. Now...just need to cut back on portions. Need to find out what fuels me and what overfeeds me, giving me more 'fuel' than my body can burn off fast. My goal is to fuel with fat&protein every few hours, not to overload my system. And when I get down to ONEderLand, I can return to 'maintaining' as my body stabilizes at half my current weight. Then, after a while, I shall again return to paring away ounces to get closer to the 150# that my 5'10" body probably ought to be. At 64, how much time do I have left to fiddle around with this LC plan? Got to get myself in hand, before I am stuck in someplace that feeds carbs! Meat&Eggs is probably the road to THREEdom for me. Glad I found this list! Got to focus on Meat&Eggs...NOW! |
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As I wrestle with that Final Frontier: Portion Control (good title for a book, eh?), I am aware that there is a theory that eating a wider range of tastes is more satisfying than eating one dish (as I tend to eat from one dish that I assemble early in the day). The Japanese have a word for it, and it has to do with stimulating taste buds all over the tongue at the same time. So try to have each bite count, as a mouthful of food zings taste buds with salty, sweet, sour, flavorful tastes and aromas. Can't think of what it's called, but I think it is right and I think that we all know how good it feels to savor a bite of well-seasoned food, enjoying a zing of ginger or cayenne and a balance of garlic and tomato.
That is probably a key to finding satisfaction in each bite of a small meal! Ah, found a site that speaks of the Japanese approach to cooking/eating: Quote:
The Japanese diet is commonly said to consist of five flavors, five colors, and five basic methods of preparation. These are the five flavors of sweet, sour, hot, bitter, and salty; the five colors of white, yellow, red, green, and black; and the five preparations of raw, boiled, grilled, deep-fried, and steamed. Japanese foods are prepared to retain as much of their natural flavor as possible, and great importance is placed on the delicacy of color, fragrance and taste. Seasonality is also stressed, with foods being served at their peak season. Serving dishes play an important role; their color, shape, and material being carefully matched to the food and season.
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