Weight Loss Journals - petecohen.tv

Deadlines, family illness and family joys continue to add stress to life, but then you need it to live, they tell us. I've got more than enough for me just now. Time to plan and prepare meals properly, exercise and write up this journal has been thin on the ground.But the good news is that this is Day 6 of a week of eating the food I planned to eat and exercising. I've been eating only when hungry and eating it slowly. I am having a bit of a fight with that quacking duck but I think I have got it gagged.

Tomorrow I am away on business. That will be testing regarding food, but I will continue using the tools and I believe I'll cope well.

Here I am back to square 1. It isn't a place I like. It reminds me of that old cult TV series The Prisoner where a man keeps trying to leave a holiday village and no matter what he does, he just cannot escape.

Somehow, everything has slipped. The trips to the gym have slipped off the calendar, the lbs have slipped back on. Eating habits have slipped into the ridiculous! March was a mad month with a lot of stress and I slipped into my old stategies for coping - overeating. I am disappointed in myself, which adds to the stress.

I do not want to be overweight, so here I am, aiming to get back in the groove. I will lose weight, and I'll lose some this week.

This week's goals

Return to the gym
Re-start walking programme
Eat only when hungry.
Eat slowly
Drink the water
Use the relaxation mp3

Still having wobbles and successes. I am taking regular exercise both at the gym and with my walking programme. I am mostly making healthy food choices but sometimes don't stop when satisfied, though mostly I do. I am shutting the duck up more and more , and giving myself credit. I have lost some weight. I am feeling better about myself. I can and I will lose weight.

Have a drink of water.
Go for a walk
Listen to relaxation mp3
Knit
Phone a friend
Clear out a drawer
Put on some music and dance
Read a book
Plan some travel
Do 30 mins in the garden

Got a little backed up in viewing the videos so I am going back a few days to continue tomorrow from day14.
Keeping up with the gym on alternate days and walking the dog every day, but I want to increase my walking as dog walk is not brisk. The bad weather this week has put me off, but I intend to walk more at the weekend. I need to remind myself to shut the duck up and give myself credit. I am better at this than I was, but it often slips off the agenda.

Had some busy days. Been to the gym alternate days this week. It's been hard work b ut I think I am back into the routine of going now. Next week I plan to introduce some walking or other CV work. Only problem has been that exercisoing has made me hungry and I am eating everything in sight! Next week I am going to make sure 'everything' in sight' is healthy food, which it hasn't always been this week. I am beginning to have more energy for other things as the week of exercise comes to an end.

I am shutting the duck up. I want to be sure I am using my tools as well as I think in the coming week. Also, I will be asking myself if I like something enough to wear it when faced with unhealthy choices.

Went to the gym at last. It was only today that I felt well enough but I also had to give myself a push to go. I am giving myself a pat on the back for doing it. Not a bad day in other ways too. I think the message is sinking in at last that I can change.

I can and I will lose weight.

Today has been a good day. Healthy food only, eaten slowly, only when hungry. Had a little exercise too. Feeling good but tired. I haven't listened to the mp3 yet but may yet do so.

Decided to reduce sugar and stimulants as one of my tools yesterday, so what did I do? At lunchtime I was unexpectedly away from home and bought a couple of chocolate bars and ate them! As Pete says, a few wobbles are to be expected as long as I don't fall down. I will succeed. I will lose weight. I can and I will.

Today I will reduce sugar and stimulants, as well as eat slowly, only when I am hungry, and I'll listen to the mp3 which I find so helpful.

Just had a couple of difficult days due to health but I really think I am feeling better today. I need to be sure to eat properly to avoid any further viuses this winter. Lost 4lbs in last 10 days, bringing me back to my pre-Christmas weight. So now it is onwards and downwards. Re-starting regular exercise tomorrow. Will have to go gently at first because still feeling so washed-out.
But I am still here, using tools 1, 2 and 3. Today I am going to shut that duck up and think about goal setting.

Back again. After more than a month of flu/colds and additional infections, during which my exercise was nearly nil, I am emerging from the gloom and getting back in gear for further weightloss. I will get the extra motivation I need from the programme.
I want to get fitter and slimmer for a visit to Italy in May. By then I want to have shed 2 dress sizes.

It's been a funny week. Many frustrations - couldn't get online, no phone, call-centres etc arrgh! I felt yuk too with a cold or something that's still hanging around. And the complexity of Christmas approaching is still all around. Somehow I have managed more or less to stay on course not using food as an emotional crutch. I haven't been up to much exercise but I have been to the gym on alternate days, working at an easier pace because I'm not 100% well.
I am remembering to give myself credit and to shut the duck up.

I'm feeling adrift, not helped by my being ill - cold or flu or something that invovles a high temperature. Went to the gym yesterday but today I am not fit for much, yet have a lot to do. Can't concentrate. But I think also that I need to make some new goals and I am having trouble knowing where to begin.

First goal - do something differently every day.
2nd - stay aware of my hungry/satisfied feelings on the hungre scale
3rd - lose some weight by Christmas - 2-4lbs

I've completed the 21-day programme twice now and although I sometimes feel wobbly I want to give step 4 a try. I may return to the 21-days at some point. I am still a long way off my goal. I'll continue to use the journal and tools.

I made it! 21 days. The second viewing for me. In 21 days I've lost a couple of pounds and a some inches, but but more importantly I've learnt more about myself, particularly that I can do things differently. New habits are forming and I am nurturing them. I am nervous to be moving to step 4 but I know I can access the 21 days programme anytime through the calendar so I'm ok. I am using most of the tools automatically now, though I still aim to remain conscious of what I eat and how full I may be. I may run through the 21 days again sometime. My birthday and Christmas are approaching and these will be testing times but I can and will be using the tools to help maintain my new habits. I can and I will lose the weight I want to lose to be how I want to be.