Hi All!
Woo hoo! That was one long month. Thank you to everyone weighing-in, checking-in and following along. I hope all of you feel just a bit better and have had, either, some success with losing a bit of weight and/or learning what it's going to take to keep
you working towards your goals.
Moonlight said it well:
Moonlight wrote:This being conscious of our eating and exercise, making an effort to stay healthy, is a way of life. There’s no finish line to cross.
It
is all about the effort.
Dr. Lisle's
BYG podcast this week was a really good one if you are struggling with feeling unsuccessful.
I also found a fabulous inspirational story that I thought some of you may like:
Joyce Rainwater is a Star MDougaller who lost 100+ pounds.
Joyce wrote:To help maintain my weight loss, I devised six tools to stay motivated. I call them the “Six Kicks”. They are “velvet hammers” that “check” me in the choices I make along that fine line between controlling weight and letting it control me. We each need standards high enough to get results, but we don’t want to adhere to them so rigidly that we become fanatical, obsessed, or humorless.
The Six Kicks are firm but flexible governors of behavior that can help us be vigilant without becoming victims of the diet trap. They bring us into a state of psychological readiness to overcome daily challenges to our resolve. For example, Kick 1 is “Own Your Weight Fate,” meaning take responsibility for the choices you make. It’s the first step in rescuing yourself. Followers of Six Kicks stay mindful of:
their surroundings (an environment which doesn’t support weight loss because it bombards us with messages to eat while pressuring us to be thin),
the problem (the Standard American Diet and a sedentary lifestyle),
the solution (lifestyle changes that we can maintain day after day, not dieting),
themselves (we must be different than the average American, 67% of whom are overweight or obese), and
their goals (to focus less on food and eating and more on health and well being).
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To anyone struggling to lose weight and keep it off, I can tell you there is a way to lose weight permanently. It takes no special talent or intelligence. Once you have the facts, such as those presented in The McDougall Plan... ... you can formulate a set of strategies and techniques that work for you, transforming yourself into a healthy and energetic person. If I escaped the prison of food obsession and obesity, you can too!
Sound familiar?
Thanks again for spending November with me! I hope all of you will join in on the
December Weigh-In Thread and keep your momentum going.
Amy XO
PS. I've decided to do a quick
tune-up in Santa Rosa this coming March (2019). I'm going to the
McDougall 3-Day Intensive Program. I've even convinced 2 of my kids to join me, and now I'm onto trying to convince everyone else I know who is even the slightlest bit interested to come too.
Wanna come? I need people to sit with...LOL.
PPS. Canadian McDougallers - Stock up on your spuds, prices could go up this winter.
Potato Shortage Looms Due to Harvest from Hell After Unsustainable Weather.
Here are the results for the fifth week in November:Next Weigh-In is on Friday, December 7th, 2018Total group loss reported in 2018: 506.08 pounds
November 2018 Weight Loss Group :: Monthly Weigh-In Results
Total group loss in January 2018: 54.7 pounds
Total group loss in February 2018: 49.3 pounds
Total group loss in March 2018: 52.5 pounds
Total group loss in April 2018: 26.9 pounds
Total group loss in May 2018: 50.8 pounds
Total group loss in June 2018: 54.3 pounds
Total group loss in July 2018: 50.3 pounds
Total group loss in August 2018: 73.85 pounds
Total group loss in September 2018: 44.06 pounds
Total group loss in October 2018: 30.9 pounds
Total group loss in November 2018: 18.47 poundsWeek ending 11/30/2018: 10 participants reported a total loss of 1.9 pounds
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Starbright831 - 0.1
Moonlight - 3.0
Moonspirit - 1.1
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Total gains: 4.2
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Arewethereyet - 2.4
Idgie - 2.8
Lyndzie - 0.2
Svenja - 0.0 (Hiatus)
Mark Cooper - 0.0 (Hiatus)
Yomom - 0.0
Amandamechele - 0.7
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Total losses: 6.1
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Total group loss in November 2018: 18.47 pounds
Week ending 11/30/2018: 10 participants reported a total loss of 1.9 pounds
Week ending 11/23/2018: 8 participants reported a total loss of -1.3 pounds
Week ending 11/16/2018: 11 participants reported a total loss of 12.08 pounds
Week ending 11/09/2018: 13 participants reported a total loss of 1.06 pounds
Week ending 11/02/2018: 15 participants reported a total loss of 4.73 pounds