Game of Thrones made happy / diet

[thistlechaser]

The last line was what sold this for me. The first bit is the slowest, the second one is a little meh, but I loved every one after those two. Getting ready for a wedding, quivering lip... Be sure to watch through the credits!

Game of Thrones Made Happy

In diet news, there's good and bad. Good and "bad", rather. Wednesday was the one week point, so I took my official weight then and wrote it on my tracking paper. 11 pounds lost. Yay! I needed to lose 10-15, so I'm really happy.

Yesterday was bad though. I snacked more than usual (four >100 calorie snacks instead of two), and then I had a really high calorie dinner. Damned personal pot pie, the box says it's two servings, but there's no way based on its size that it's anything but one person/personal. I hadn't intended to eat it all, but I ended up vacuuming it up. I was depressed all evening after that with typical stupid thoughts ("I went and ruined everything!"), but today I shook it off. Yesterday's total calories was higher than I was aiming for, but 1) this is the first time I slipped, 2) it was still lower than any pre-diet day's calorie count, 3) I've been so tight on calories, it's kind of not surprising I got to a Must Eat point. I also think I was dealing with cravings as much as real hunger. Plus it wasn't fast food or cookies or something, it was semi-reasonable food.

By no coincidence, yesterday was also the first day I didn't weigh myself. That's peachy keen fine though, as I really don't want to do it every day.

Adding tags to posts like this one always tickles me. I type 'die' to bring up diet, but the other thing it bring up is die die die.

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

I was depressed all evening after that with typical stupid thoughts ("I went and ruined everything!"), but today I shook it off.

GOOD. That's a great thing to do, as we've discussed.

us it wasn't fast food or cookies or something, it was semi-reasonable food.

Also important to remind yourself of. :)

By no coincidence, yesterday was also the first day I didn't weigh myself. That's peachy keen fine though, as I really don't want to do it every day.

...which is another good thing. People's weights tend to fluctuate from day to day, and constantly hawking the scale can also cause those flares of depression. More accurate would be to only weigh yourself once a week, because that's long enough to see "true" gain or loss, averaged out as it is over seven days.

Personally, I weigh myself twice a week, although I only 'count' every other one as an "official" weigh-in. The second, mid-week one I do four days later, I consider a 'spot check' to make sure that the haphazard plan I'm following seems to be working, so I can make adjustments if needed.

11 pounds lost. Yay!

>.<

I'm yaying that you were able to lose weight like you wanted to...but not the total.

You heard my concern about this already, but I'm going to repeat it: that's an insane and dangerous amount of weight loss for one week. Please keep an eye on it this week and try to decrease the rate to something healthy. For a Week #2, it really shouldn't exceed 3-5 pounds.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

GOOD. That's a great thing to do, as we've discussed.

Yeah. It's so easy to give advice, but so hard to take it. :P The "two steps forward and one back is still one step forward" was perfectly fitting for last night, but instead I wallowed.

...which is another good thing. People's weights tend to fluctuate from day to day, and constantly hawking the scale can also cause those flares of depression. More accurate would be to only weigh yourself once a week, because that's long enough to see "true" gain or loss, averaged out as it is over seven days.

Yep, totally agreed. I'll probably get curious/worried a couple times during the week, but I'm going to try to hold off until week's end to check again.

For a Week #2, it really shouldn't exceed 3-5 pounds.

That's what my mother (a nurse) said as well. She thinks I will/should lose 3-5 this week, then 3 next week, then it'll likely drop to 1-2, before going up and down in the 0-3 range for the rest of the weeks.

The down side to all this is how often I go grocery shopping. (Hate shopping, hate it so much.) But I really can't keep most fruit or deli meat on hand for more than a couple days.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

My response to all of this is simply: good. :)

Well, except the constant grocery shoppy, haha. Going to the Farmer's Market has been really useful for that, because the fruit and veggies I buy there tends to last a week so I don't have to go as often. :)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I hate microwave meals that are clearly for one person but the back of the box says it's two servings. It's just mean. It's like the "serving size" on cereal. If all I ate was the serving size, I would STARVE. I've started making sure I have fresh fruit around for when I get into a snacky mood. Don't beat yourself up, I'm applaud your efforts! Some days will be rough and things happen (or poorly labeled food happens...I mean, you can't really save half a pot pie, it doesn't fridge well). Don't make yourself miserable. :(

Also, that GoT video was so full of LOLZ. I like Dany and Jorah since the dragons said exactly what we are all thinking. And the Tyrion, Tywin and Shae bit LOL!!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

They're going to try to change that, to make a law to make the portion size be something reasonable. It's really necessary, there's a frozen french fry maker that counts like six french fries a serving...

And yes, I loved that part about the dragons, too!