Weighed 119.8 at the meeting. I got a bit of a hassle about the weight today. Guess that number in the teens did it!
I was drinking my breakfast protein shake on the way there, expecting the fluid would put me up close to a pound over my weight at home but it didn't. Oh well...
Something from this past week that I wanted to share with ya'll...I had another good reminder that it does not take as much food volume to fill me up as I always think it does!
We had the wonderful opportunity to meet up in Galveston with some AWESOME friends from where we used to live. My eating was all messed up with different meal times and amounts and types of food. I expected to have gained at least a pound or two when I got home but was shocked to see that I tied my lowest weight in over a year!
Anyhow...what really made an impact was this: I'd eaten extra food during the day...lunch at Wendy's, etc. So I just ordered a cup of soup for supper. I was tempted to get the bowl and Petey even asked if the cup would fill me up. I figured it wouldn't but planned on eating a protein bar later when I got hungry.
Imagine my surprise to discover that the cup of soup DID fill me up! I had this thought run through my brain, "always give a smaller portion of food the chance to fill me up".
Usually I decide on how much food I'm going to eat based on how many points the meal is and how many points I've already eaten that day. I measure the food, get it in the bowl or on the plate and then often think, "that's not enough, it won't fill me up" and then I add more food to the bowl or plate.
But maybe, just MAYBE, the original portion would satisfy me just fine! I should at least give it a chance to do so. Measure, eat, wait 30-60 minutes, then eat more if I'm truly still hungry!
This isn't so important right now while I'm maintaining easily but it just might be something that helps me get through the winter months successfully without gaining weight.
Another thing I've been bouncing around in my head...starting a charm bracelet to "reward" myself for each 3 month period that I maintain. The charms on my neat 10% keychain that I got from Weight Watchers when I hit 10% weight loss have been a great motivator to keep going. And like I told ya'll last week, I'm more than a little bummed that I won't be getting any more charms until I hit 1 year of maintaining.
So a charm bracelet might be alot of fun = ) I've admired the Pandora charms and beads for quite awhile...it'd be neat to choose a charm or bead that held a special memory to the quarter that just passed. Then work to fill the bracelet up! With only getting one charm or bead 4 times a year, the bracelet would take several years to fill up...
Anyhow, I haven't totally decided on that but I need to decide pretty quick since I've just started on my 12th week of maintaining! I'll let ya know....
