Mara
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lol lorelei, thanks for the lowdown on the interestingly named desserts !!
monnie, wow who knew about pineapple? i love pineapple but i hate the gritty teeth feeling i get after eating it, it feels like it eats off the lining on my teeth or something temporarily. yikes.
rod, re the front being quiet...i kind of agree with whoever said previously that it might take a while for you to find something at your level...the higher you are up the ladder, the farther the jobs seem to be, esp if you are specific to an industry or a particular position. anyway hang in there. any news on selling the condo...i can't remember if you guys listed it.
lorelei i wanted to address what you mentioned in your opening post, re: guilt and trigger foods etc. to me this is something that can probably take YEARS to mentally 'fix'...as we always say, you didn't get one way from one time of doing something, it was from YEARS of doing the same thing so your mind and body is still fixed on one way. i am also going on third year of doing this really the right way and i'm still learning.
as you know i am totally entrenched in the cupcake world right now, it's interesting considering how controlling i CAN get about my food. i originally was shying away from doing too much with baking because i was afraid i'd eat EVERYTHING i made! and sometimes we totally can get on a binge or a craving and we make something and we want 2-3 or whatever.
but i do find that even though sometimes i go on a binge and want something straight daily for 5 days or whatever, eventually my body and it seems more often my MIND starts to reset itself. there are times when i am like GOSH i just have had sweets all week or for the last 2 weeks, it's so bad, i need to cut back etc. and then a day or two later i feel like, ugh sweets, gross!! and i can be that way for a good 4-5 days. but while i'm all into cupcakes or cakes or donuts or whatever, i do sometimes feel a little panic like 'what if i can't stop'...but i basically have always been able to stop at some point, maybe when my body is too saturated and says enough.
so as time goes on i think that these natural mechanisms will become more apparent to us, as long as we give them the right respect and LISTEN to our bodies when they say enough is enough. and i find that as i bake more and more, i crave whatever i am baking less even just by having ONE small mini or whatever.
fun note too on the cupcaking...whenever i bake i tend to make a bunch of larges and then some minis. the minis are for me. i don't want a big cupcake, it's too much committment and usually i just want a taste. so the ones i made last nite got me 7 large and 8 minis, i could have done like 9 large and 3 minis or something but this was a good combo. and even though i use all the thick butter ingredients and buttermilk and all that...and real sugar, the cuppies i make typically are still way better on cals and fat than anything i can buy at the store. i calc'd out the choco mint one last nite and each large cuppie is like 300 cals with the big dollop of frosting and the minis are like 150. really not bad considering that a TJ's double chocolate one is like 450 with probably not as 'fresh' ingredients.
so anyway, i think that when i think i am being too hard on myself. but YEAH sometimes we get into something and then we just stop. so don't worry...just listen to your body and as you already know, keep up with exercise!!! the real problem is when people are like 'oh i just ate 3 slices of cake, i am so chubby, i'm not going to work out EITHER'. hahaa. it's like go work off at least a slice!
babbling but anyway, i can relate!!
happy wed all. didn't have time to check in yesterday, but my pilates session on monday was fab...i am getting stronger and more sore yet more flexible, yay. and then yest i ran/walked 2.4 miles on the treaddie in 30 min, not bad. i did so many abs on monday night that i was sore yesterday, like oh i shouldn't move that way sore. so no abs yest and none today to let the body recuperate.
speaking of eating, it's just CRAZY how well my body responds to 'less carbs'. i have been feeling like i've had what i call jelly belly, meaning my belly area is getting a little odd for my taste...probably thanks to all the sweets i've been eating, so starting sunday i cut back to about 1/3 of whatever i'd been eating and also cut my carbs back as well. literally yest and this morning, just by doing that, i can see my 4 pack again on my abs. 2-3 days of lower carb and sweet eating and my body just loves it. i wish that wasn't the case but oh well. at least i know what my 'triggers' are for my body. i am still about 3 lbs up from where i'd like to be but apparently no one but ME seems to notice. i'm convinced it's all in my belly.
since my arms and legs are pretty much the same.
anyway, today is a day off but i might do a 2m walk with my coworker...enjoy the day...it's supposed to rain but so far it hasn't ... fingers crossed that it either will and go away or won't rain at all because i have a friend coming in tomorrow til monday and it has to be sunny for her visit!! we have too much planned that's outside.
happy wed all, it seems like everyone is doing pretty well, sorry i didn't address everyone but i can't keep up!
monnie, wow who knew about pineapple? i love pineapple but i hate the gritty teeth feeling i get after eating it, it feels like it eats off the lining on my teeth or something temporarily. yikes.
rod, re the front being quiet...i kind of agree with whoever said previously that it might take a while for you to find something at your level...the higher you are up the ladder, the farther the jobs seem to be, esp if you are specific to an industry or a particular position. anyway hang in there. any news on selling the condo...i can't remember if you guys listed it.
lorelei i wanted to address what you mentioned in your opening post, re: guilt and trigger foods etc. to me this is something that can probably take YEARS to mentally 'fix'...as we always say, you didn't get one way from one time of doing something, it was from YEARS of doing the same thing so your mind and body is still fixed on one way. i am also going on third year of doing this really the right way and i'm still learning.
as you know i am totally entrenched in the cupcake world right now, it's interesting considering how controlling i CAN get about my food. i originally was shying away from doing too much with baking because i was afraid i'd eat EVERYTHING i made! and sometimes we totally can get on a binge or a craving and we make something and we want 2-3 or whatever.
but i do find that even though sometimes i go on a binge and want something straight daily for 5 days or whatever, eventually my body and it seems more often my MIND starts to reset itself. there are times when i am like GOSH i just have had sweets all week or for the last 2 weeks, it's so bad, i need to cut back etc. and then a day or two later i feel like, ugh sweets, gross!! and i can be that way for a good 4-5 days. but while i'm all into cupcakes or cakes or donuts or whatever, i do sometimes feel a little panic like 'what if i can't stop'...but i basically have always been able to stop at some point, maybe when my body is too saturated and says enough.
so as time goes on i think that these natural mechanisms will become more apparent to us, as long as we give them the right respect and LISTEN to our bodies when they say enough is enough. and i find that as i bake more and more, i crave whatever i am baking less even just by having ONE small mini or whatever.
fun note too on the cupcaking...whenever i bake i tend to make a bunch of larges and then some minis. the minis are for me. i don't want a big cupcake, it's too much committment and usually i just want a taste. so the ones i made last nite got me 7 large and 8 minis, i could have done like 9 large and 3 minis or something but this was a good combo. and even though i use all the thick butter ingredients and buttermilk and all that...and real sugar, the cuppies i make typically are still way better on cals and fat than anything i can buy at the store. i calc'd out the choco mint one last nite and each large cuppie is like 300 cals with the big dollop of frosting and the minis are like 150. really not bad considering that a TJ's double chocolate one is like 450 with probably not as 'fresh' ingredients.
so anyway, i think that when i think i am being too hard on myself. but YEAH sometimes we get into something and then we just stop. so don't worry...just listen to your body and as you already know, keep up with exercise!!! the real problem is when people are like 'oh i just ate 3 slices of cake, i am so chubby, i'm not going to work out EITHER'. hahaa. it's like go work off at least a slice!
babbling but anyway, i can relate!!
happy wed all. didn't have time to check in yesterday, but my pilates session on monday was fab...i am getting stronger and more sore yet more flexible, yay. and then yest i ran/walked 2.4 miles on the treaddie in 30 min, not bad. i did so many abs on monday night that i was sore yesterday, like oh i shouldn't move that way sore. so no abs yest and none today to let the body recuperate.
speaking of eating, it's just CRAZY how well my body responds to 'less carbs'. i have been feeling like i've had what i call jelly belly, meaning my belly area is getting a little odd for my taste...probably thanks to all the sweets i've been eating, so starting sunday i cut back to about 1/3 of whatever i'd been eating and also cut my carbs back as well. literally yest and this morning, just by doing that, i can see my 4 pack again on my abs. 2-3 days of lower carb and sweet eating and my body just loves it. i wish that wasn't the case but oh well. at least i know what my 'triggers' are for my body. i am still about 3 lbs up from where i'd like to be but apparently no one but ME seems to notice. i'm convinced it's all in my belly.
anyway, today is a day off but i might do a 2m walk with my coworker...enjoy the day...it's supposed to rain but so far it hasn't ... fingers crossed that it either will and go away or won't rain at all because i have a friend coming in tomorrow til monday and it has to be sunny for her visit!! we have too much planned that's outside.
happy wed all, it seems like everyone is doing pretty well, sorry i didn't address everyone but i can't keep up!
I thought I checked in last night but I didn''t D''oh I lurked but forgot to post -the cold is getting the better of my senses.
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