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When will the eating slow down?
mariannaquits:
Welcome Paige! Congratulations on 10 years! Us young-ins love it when you guys still post and help us rack up some time. It's also really inspirational, so I hope you stick around here!
I have 39 days and I took the great momentum I had going in the first week and put some energy toward eating healthy. I also saw similarities between smoking and eating and wanted to make sure I wasn't going to replace smoking with eating. Being well stocked is key for me, so I buy all kinds of healthy stuff at the store. I am really lazy, especially when it comes to caring for myself, so I need to have things I can grab or fix easily. I also need to have something for all kinds of situations. If I want chips, I grab low fat pita chips and just have a few. If I want something sweet (which happens a lot), I go for a no sugar added popsicle, a mini ice cream sandwich, or fresh fruit. It's not easy, but just like quitting smoking, it gets easier with time. The better I eat, the more my body craves good food. I don't consider a massive portion or junkie food an option, like smoking wasn't an option I had anymore. At the same time, I'm giving myself a lot of options so I don't feel deprived.
Congrats on 20 lbs gone Diane! That's wonderful.
Sue, try making one change at a time if you're feeling overwhelmed. And you know that you can resist something that's bad for you, even if it's right in front of you! You quit smoking!!!
Susan Scobie:
I have always been about 20 pounds over the weight I should be. When I quit smoking in 1995 Cold Turkey in 5 months I had gained 40 pounds and believe me I did not need one of those extra pounds so I went back to smoking.... Now
16 years later still close to being 30 pounds overweight I am on the quit that will be a forever quit.
Get the book, paper back book called PROTEIN POWER it has a red and white cover. look for it at Amazon.com
works for me and I have managed to trim about 3 pounds in the last month.
Paige:
Good Morning All,
While my guy is checking on ESPN, apparently someone pitched a perfect game yesterday, I thought about you all. How is everyone doing?
Thank you all for all the support on my worries about overeating. It must of helped quite a bit. I have 17 days of semi-healthly eating. Which sounds kinda nuts, but I have lost a few lbs.
What is wonderful about this group is there is such a variety of people. Soft and supportive, tough love and supportive. Personally, I need both types. I can easily feel sorry for myself and also I can be so hard on myself, that that is not productive either.
I was watching Nurse Jackie the other day, story about a nurse that is totally addicted to drugs. I kept thinking how awful for her and her family/friends. What i did not see is that I could easily continue to destroy my life with cigarettes. Family doesn't want to be around me, constantly broke (2 packs a day for 34 years), continuous chest infections, trying to work and wanting to go outside to smoke. Most of all feeling terrible about myself.
I want to say to the newbies that even with a small amount of "clean time" your self esteem starts to heal. I have one year and almost two months. I feel so much better about myself, however, I find that I am doing "this" one hour/day at a time. I try not to look forward and I try not to look backward. Stay in this day, stay in this moment.
Thanks for listening and most of all thanks for your support.
Paige
FlatironMike:
--- Quote from: Paige on April 22, 2012, 04:52:20 AM ---I want to say to the newbies that even with a small amount of "clean time" your self esteem starts to heal. I have one year and almost two months. I feel so much better about myself, however, I find that I am doing "this" one hour/day at a time. I try not to look forward and I try not to look backward. Stay in this day, stay in this moment.
Thanks for listening and most of all thanks for your support.
Paige
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Well said, Paige. While I do not feel tempted by sickerettes nor crave them after 5 years, I still do know that I am a puff away from a pack a day which is one of the reasons I continue to ponder this addiction after this length of them. It certainly is a gift to be smober and I know my self esteem would fall in the toilet if I ever picked up and poisoned myself that way again!
FlatironMike
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DianeM:
I didn't gain a lot after quitting, but I was pretty heavy to begin with. Right now I'm dieting to lose weight. Yes, dieting. I know that is considered a dirty word, but I'm controlling my calories, and that's a diet. I'm using fitday.com to track everything I eat, and I've lost 24 lbs so far (in about 3 months). Of course, being a few pounds overweight isn't as bad for you as smoking, but I'm more than a few pounds overweight. Anyway, I think the overeating ends when you decide it ends and put the work into it to make it end. Somehow, dieting is a lot like quitting smoking, and I sometimes use the same mindsets (one day at at time, I can eat that tomorrow) to restrict my food. If you could quit smoking, you could lose the weight. I'm very glad, though, that you feel so positive about quitting. Would you believe that some people go back to smoking in order to lose weight? That's irrational, imo. I don't think it works, either. Smoking does restrict weight gains a bit, but ti's not the most effective diet enhancer out there and doesn't replace the will to moderate eating. As evidenced by all of the overweight smokers out there.
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