Holiday Eating Tips

[Tiny T]

Here's a few tips I thought I'd share that help during ANY holiday meal, or get together.
You gotta treat yourself once in awhile, just don't go overboard. Here are some tips to help you do just that.

Tip#1...take your own dinner plate with you if your eating at someone else's house...take your "small" size dinner plate...I know you all have one somewhere...lol

Tip#2...Enjoy a few bites of anything you want today, just keep it a small bite or two, and don't go back for more!..you don't need it, you just want it. Use your small plate and once your plate is full of your "bites"...that is enough. Don't gorge yourself.

Tip#3...don't "double layer" your food...no browine bites hanging off the edge of your ham slice which already has a devil egg on top of it! Keep space between your food...you want to see the plate between each item you put on there...the more you "pack on" your plate...the more will "pack on your a$$!" lol

Tip#4...ENJOY EVERY BITE YOU TAKE...SAVOR THE FLAVORS!...Take your time eating, then bask in the glory of being the only one who's not completely miserable at the table....you ROCK!!! Self control is the best feeling in the world, and you just showed that you have it!

REMEMBER...Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!!!

[Tiny T]

Originally Posted by Tiny T

Here's a few tips I thought I'd share that help during ANY holiday meal, or get together.
You gotta treat yourself once in awhile, just don't go overboard. Here are some tips to help you do just that.

Tip#1...take your own dinner plate with you if your eating at someone else's house...take your "small" size dinner plate...I know you all have one somewhere...lol

Tip#2...Enjoy a few bites of anything you want today, just keep it a small bite or two, and don't go back for more!..you don't need it, you just want it. Use your small plate and once your plate is full of your "bites"...that is enough. Don't gorge yourself.

Tip#3...don't "double layer" your food...no browine bites hanging off the edge of your ham slice which already has a devil egg on top of it! Keep space between your food...you want to see the plate between each item you put on there...the more you "pack on" your plate...the more will "pack on your a$$!" lol

Tip#4...ENJOY EVERY BITE YOU TAKE...SAVOR THE FLAVORS!...Take your time eating, then bask in the glory of being the only one who's not completely miserable at the table....you ROCK!!! Self control is the best feeling in the world, and you just showed that you have it!

REMEMBER...Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!!!

Halloween & Thanksgiving are fast approaching...remember SELF CONTROL IS THE KEY!!!

[TravelingMan]

Ah, Halloween, I love Trix, Kit-Kats and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I'll just do a few, then double my exercises. :-)

Hey, Tiny T, I saw the progress chart that you posted. In the past year, it looks like you have been losing about 1.7 lbs per week. Does that sound like an accurate average?

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[Tiny T]

that's about right...with the exception of stalling out about every 4th week. I really lost a lot very fast back in Feb. of last year...it was a weight loss challenge...and I was working 'very' hard at everything...my diet, exercise...I've learned to 'treat' myself more now I guess....maybe that's my problem?....I've really slowed down in the past two months...only down about 4 pounds in 8 weeks...YIKES....

Hey...it just came to me that my portion sizes have never changed...I think I'm supposed to eat less now that I weigh less?....maybe I'm just eating too much...last week when I didn't really have time to pack lunch & had not been to the store....I brought 2 slices of canadian bacon, about 3 small slices of low fat cheese, 3 dill pickles & a SF Jello... not a lot, but you know what....I was FULL...believe it or not! Maybe I'll try cutting back my portion size a bit...what do you think?

[RedRox]

I think changing things up for a bit is usually a good strategy. You may not have to reduce sizes very much. If you take a couple hundred calories out a day that might help. I think with so little to lose though that really isn't that bad a rate of weight loss. Towards the end of my weight loss phase, I was losing about a pound a month. I wasn't really "working" that hard on a particular goal though. I was mostly just trying on P2/P3 for size and letting the scale numbers fall where they may.

Another "trick" I discovered during P2 by accident to get past some stalls was to take out my morning cereals and going back to P1 breakfasts. (Mostly because I was on business trips and couldn't get any decent whole grains for breakfast, so opted for eggs/omelettes and so forth.) I didn't lose any weight on the trips themselves, but when I got back and started adding morning grains again, I would start losing weight again that following week. (Maybe because I couldn't control ingredients for lunch and dinner either during that travel week?) Anyway, the point is that sometimes calorie zig-zagging or macronutrient cycling (varying the percentages of fats/proteins/carbs) just helps to shake things up if we have been in a routine for a while. Our bodies tend to get very efficient and comforatble with whatever routine we are in at the time (diet and exercise) and sometimes we just have to get it to "Snap out of it!"

[TravelingMan]

RedRox, you said you started adding morning grains again. What are your favorite morning grains?

[RedRox]

2 of 3 days I eat either steel cut or old-fashioned/rolled oatmeal. (With cinnamon, walnuts, fruit, flaxmeal, and a dab of smart balance and agave nectar) and the third day I eat a cold cereal mix of Uncle Sam's and currently Nature's Path Heritage whole grain cereal. Also gets some flax and fruit on top. We've always used Uncle Sam's as the base and then use a different cereal to add a bit more flavor as the mix-in. Kashi go lean (not the crunch) is a good one for me to add-in, but my wife says it hurts her gums and palette and takes her too long to chew it, so we don't use that one much anymore.

Remember though I've been in P3 for about 3 years! But I still added either oatmeal or cold cereal fairly early on in my transition process as it was one of the things (along with fruit) that I missed the most.