Weight loss support group?

[mama2one]

would love to lose some wt

can try really hard and lose 5 lbs and then husband travels for work, stress eat, and gain back the 5 lbs lost

it takes what seems like forever to lose 5 lbs and then when he's out of town say for 2 wks, will gain it all back!

don't know how to stop this crazy cycle

 

[SpiritSong]

I have found that prayers really can produce wonders. God does answer. I ask others to pray and I pray too. Together we get better with the help of God!

 

[LoricaLady]

Thanks. I think what helped me is that I have been out for a few walks. Exercise is important too, as are the prayers, definitely! Thanks be to God for that.

Right on both counts of course!

 

[LoricaLady]

would love to lose some wt

can try really hard and lose 5 lbs and then husband travels for work, stress eat, and gain back the 5 lbs lost

it takes what seems like forever to lose 5 lbs and then when he's out of town say for 2 wks, will gain it all back!

don't know how to stop this crazy cycle

Hmmm.... I can only guess why you put on more weight when he is home. I know it can be tempting, when eating with others, to be social and maybe eat more than we should, but again I don't know in your case, of course.

Whatever. If you want to join in and maybe set a goal for some months, or a year, when you keep the weight off, welcome aboard. One way or another I will pray for you to lose the weight and keep it off.

 

[mama2one]

Hmmm.... I can only guess why you put on more weight when he is home. I know it can be tempting, when eating with others, to be social.

no, I can lose wt when he's home

not a social eater at all
in fact if we have company, I don't even eat as too busy taking care of everyone

 

[mama2one]

when he's home, only eat twice/day so easier to lose
we rarely eat out as I dislike eating at restaurants

 

[LoricaLady]

Christine Well, I haven't researched all the ins and outs of it, but I have heard somewhere that eating more meals in a day is more conducive to weight loss than eating less meal.

 

[LoricaLady]

The issue seems maybe to be that you need peace when your husband is away. I pray for that.

 

[mama2one]

The issue seems maybe to be that you need peace when your husband is away. I pray for that.

thank you

feel that I'm in a loop that I can't get out of
it's so hard to lose the wt but yet it comes back so easily

just not fair!

 

[LoricaLady]

thank you

feel that I'm in a loop that I can't get out of
it's so hard to lose the wt but yet it comes back so easily

just not fair!

Well, if there is anyway that this thread can be helpful, lead on.

 

[LoricaLady]

Well, it is Thursday, my weigh in day and I have to admit I am still the same, at my same "defense weight." However, I have been definitely doing better in my eating habits and I have noticed that past that my defense weight will stay for some time, then suddenly I will drop a couple of pounds maybe more. So I am not really discourage and am certainly not giving up!

 

[mama2one]

So I am not really discourage and am certainly not giving up!

good for you!
not giving up is the tough part with wt loss

 

[LoricaLady]

good for you!
not giving up is the tough part with wt loss

Thank you for being encouraging.

 

[LoricaLady]

Hey, I weighed in today and I lost a pound. That may not seem significant as weight can vary a lot in a few days, but my weight tends to get stuck on a "defense weight" mode and stay exactly there, without dieting, and the scales have not shown that lower amount in a long time. I'm gonna get thin and pray the same for others.

 

[SpiritSong]

That is great. A pound is not something to ignore. You reached a goal of some kind, so pat yourself on the back and smile!

I am just working on not getting up in the middle of the night and eating. So far for about a week now I have succeeded at that with God's help. If I can carry on not eating in the middle of the night and being conservative with what I eat during the day, I should come back down to my more usual weight. It will take time, I know. I appreciate your prayers, @LoricaLady and I am praying for you too!

 

[LoricaLady]

That is great. A pound is not something to ignore. You reached a goal of some kind, so pat yourself on the back and smile!

I am just working on not getting up in the middle of the night and eating. So far for about a week now I have succeeded at that with God's help. If I can carry on not eating in the middle of the night and being conservative with what I eat during the day, I should come back down to my more usual weight. It will take time, I know. I appreciate your prayers, @LoricaLady and I am praying for you too!

Thank you for the prayers and the encouragement, Spirit Song! Prayer is what will get us to our goals, I know, and I have certainly prayed for you, too.

A whole week resisting a habit you want to break, that's super.

Yeal, it takes time, but as we persist we will see the results we want. Abba is on our side!

 

[SpiritSong]

At work there are a few people that I think purposely try to get on my nerves. They like to tease and pick on me, and I am not the kind of person that catches that easily and I think they are serious and trying to insult me. It is so annoying. (Then they say, "I was just teasing" after I have taken it seriously). I am trying to do my job and this is so distracting. I tried to get my boss to talk to them, but they keep right on doing this. UGH!

So, anyway, I am up way after midnight and I am not sleepy at all and I have eaten what I did not need to eat, not a lot, but since I was not really hungry, more than I should have.

I suppose the above problem is at the root of all this eating thing, although I have had a kind of love hate relationship with food all my life, so this is just a symptom, I guess. Sometimes a problem like this makes me want not to eat and sometimes it does the opposite.

All I know is that my eating is messing up and that this is most likely the most recent cause of it, though when I was a child, far worse things caused me to have problems with my eating. Really, all my life, I have had one or another of a kind a trouble with my over or undereating.

 

[LoricaLady]

I am sorry that those people were being so unpleasant. Yeal, that ol' "I was just teasing" line is kinda pitiful. I pray the Father will give you insight on how to handle such folk wisely.

Overeating when stressed is definitely something I have been guilty of a lot. That's where the term "comfort food" comes from I guess.

I pray, also, that you will be healed of whatever it was that hurt you in your childhood.

 

[LoricaLady]

Well, I blew it with social eating and did not lose anything this week. I thought just one day wouldn't maybe make a difference, but it did. The eating place we were at was a nice little sidewalk place, very informal, not the kind where you would ask for a doggy bag to take part of the food home for later - so I ate all they gave me. I think in the future I may even put a plastic bag in my purse as my own personal doggy bag.

Also, when the suggestion was made that we should all go out for some ice cream or other sweets, later, I didn't want to seem not congenial so said okay. But I could have just gone along and gotten something, taken a little bite, and wrapped the rest in a napkin to put in my purse.

So I'm learning. I can't cheat for a day and can't let social eating get in the way of progress, but have to be creative about how to participate with others, yet with real restraint until I lose this weight.

 

[SpiritSong]

Well, I blew it with social eating and did not lose anything this week. I thought just one day wouldn't maybe make a difference, but it did. The eating place we were at was a nice little sidewalk place, very informal, not the kind where you would ask for a doggy bag to take part of the food home for later - so I ate all they gave me. I think in the future I may even put a plastic bag in my purse as my own personal doggy bag.

Also, when the suggestion was made that we should all go out for some ice cream or other sweets, later, I didn't want to seem not congenial so said okay. But I could have just gone along and gotten something, taken a little bite, and wrapped the rest in a napkin to put in my purse.

So I'm learning. I can't cheat for a day and can't let social eating get in the way of progress, but have to be creative about how to participate with others, yet with real restraint until I lose this weight.

Yes, one of my major problems is people pleasing too. I do it far too often. Then I get mad at those who talked me into it, but really it is my own fault!