Mark's Replies for April 2 - Part 1
Mark's Replies for April 2 - Part 2
By my count, 25 participants reported for our first April 2021 MWL weigh-in! If I neglected to include anyone, or you notice an error in the tally, please let me know (via PM so we can keep the thread as tidy as possible, or in a post here if you cannot PM).
Here are the results for the first Friday in April:
Week ending 4/2/2021: 25 participants reported a total loss of -19.50 pounds
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Cliv +4.00
CindyD +0.70
Gimmelean +0.40
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Total gains: +5.10
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NO CHANGE / MAINTAIN / STARTING OUT
birdy birdy 0.00
Josietheschnauzer 0.00
Krebolledo 0.00
RebeccaF 0.00
SatyaPrem 0.00
Trishe 0.00
Vicmor104 0.00
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Cmcavazos -0.20
PonysPlants -0.40
GreenFroG -0.60
JaBee -0.80
Chef16 -1.00
HoustonJason -1.00
Noella -1.00
Texaslil -1.20
Kakapo_chick -2.20
Squealcat -2.30
Anne57 -2.40
Bunsofaluminum -2.50
PotatoHead1980 -2.60
Rachael -2.60
Rebecka22 -3.80
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Total losses: -24.60
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Cumulative group loss for April 2021 to date: 19.50 pounds
Average loss for week ending April 2: 0.78 pounds
Cumulative group loss for January 2021: 117.20 pounds
Cumulative group loss for February 2021: 39.40 pounds
Cumulative group loss for March 2021: 73.20 pounds
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Next Weigh-In is on Friday, April 9, 2021.
My congratulations to everyone participating in our initial April check-in! I salute your efforts toward maintaining a pattern of behavior that delivers healthy, sustainable weight loss.
Since we have several new members joining the group, this seems like an appropriate occasion to share a few favorite articles and posts relevant to our mutual goals here. These are all favorites of mine, and definitely worth your time.
The Road to Success: Creating Healthy Habits
Simplicity: The Key to Health!
Passive Overconsumption: The Unintended Intake of Excess Calories
I think Jeff's article, Hedge Your Health!, is particularly applicable to the question of making decisions when dining out, and whether we ought to allow ourselves "exceptions."
Dr. Lisle's Three Top Tips for Dietary Success stresses the importance of being able to reliably produce healthy, adherent, delicious meals for ourselves. I think Jeff's fast and easy recipes offer a great structure for meeting that challenge, particularly when using the "conveyor belt" method.
JeffN wrote:To start, whenever you cook a meal, batch cook it. Make 2 - 3x (or more) of what you need. Whether it is plain oatmeal, pasta, rice, beans, potatoes, or meals like lasagna, Mexican chili, soup, Indian curry, my FF Burgers, etc.
Then, consume part of that for your meal. Put a part of it in the fridge and part in the freezer. If you are hungry, you can eat more of what is in the fridge or make something new.
The next day, you do this again. Keep doing this for about 5-7 days.
Now, you have been well fed for these few days and you have a variety of healthy food in the fridge (which will easily last 5 days if not more) and a variety of healthy food in the freezer (which can last months). You should easily have enough that if you didn't cook for 2 weeks, you would be fine without only having to re-heat leftovers of your favorite food.
While you can do that, and then in 2 weeks start over, the system works best when you keep adding back as you take out. So, keep making new meals a few times a week to keep restocking what is in the fridge and what is in the freezer.
Whether you are single, or feeding a family, it still works because you are only making multiples of what you eat and need.
As you draw ever closer to you end goals, concerns about transitioning, relapse, and weight gain can be a nagging concern. Here is a post Jeff shared, offering one possible strategy for managing those concerns; it seems especially relevant for those who may soon be joining the Maintenance Group.
To close the week on a fun note, I thought you might enjoy seeing the fabulous birthday "cake" my wife and daughter prepared for me.
Yes, it was delicious! Celebrating in an adherent fashion can be great fun!
Best to all! Have an excellent week!