Shoutin’ from the Rooftop

Good morning. I hope that everyone’s week is going well. Still super busy. I am glad that there are leftovers. My family & I have been surviving on leftovers. 

I am holding a cup for Megan so she can drink her smoothie. She LOVES smoothies. She will go to the cabinet where I keep the blender, pull on the door, put her hands over her ears, and make this crazy yelling sound like the blender noise is too loud for her. So she is sitting next to me right now asking for “more”.

I have had several questions along the same line that I wanted to answer. The general gist of the question is does it bother me that my weight at weigh-ins are bouncing back and forth. Well, yes and no. Yes, only because I want to lose the rest of my weight. (I am below my WW goal weight but I am only barely in the healthy BMI range. I really feel and believe that I need to lose approximately 5-10 more pounds. I really don’t know how much since I haven’t been that weight since Jr. High) On the other hand, no it doesn’t bother me because I am just maintaining. From everything I have been told and read, it is very normal for our weight to change between 1-3 pounds for no reason when you are on maintainence. So in all actuality, I am doing what I am suppose to be doing, maintaining. But I am still going to try to lose the rest of this weight. I am so close that I can taste it now.

My other thought that I wanted to mention is that as we lose the weight, we need to find other things to do to relieve the stress, emotional turmoil, etc. that  we are experiencing.  For many of us to deal with those emotions, boredom, anger, loneliness, etc., we have ate. Now that we cannot use eating as a outlet for those emotions, how are you channel those emotions? I really didn’t deal with this much while I was losing the majority of my weight. Just because you get to your goal weight, everything in life isn’t going to be hunky dorey (or however you spell that). If you don’t get along with a family member, it is likely that you still won’t get along after you hit goal. If your messy house drives you crazy, it is still going t drive you crazy after you lose some weight. If your kids fighting with each other drive you to eating chocolate like there is no tomorrow then it is likely that after you lose the weight, you are still going to want to eat the chocolate as a way to deal with your kids fighting.

I think it would very helpful to deal with this emotional factor while adjusting the eating. Otherwise you can get to your goal weight and still have all of these emotions to deal with and now you can’t eat.  Just some food for thought.

I have a few more food reviews that I hope to post today. We will see how the day goes.

Tomorrow is our last day of February’s challenge. Remember, you have to email me how many total days of February you were on-program. (If you had a few rough days that doesn’t eliminate you from the challenge. You just can’t count those days in your total.) I will need your total number of days in February on program, emailed me to me by March 5th. kristen2309@gmail.com

I hope that you have a great day. The sun is shining here right now. 

Kristen                                kristen2309@gmail.com

PS You can buy steel cut oatmeal at Walmart in a tin (more expensive) or you can buy them at the health food store on McGalliard in their bulk bins (cheaper)