Hi and welcome back!
As we approach the end of this four weeks of FAT-SCRAP I invite you to look back to wear you started and notice what you wrote, how you were feeling, what you were thinking might be difficult, what your expectations were etc. As you read through each days comments, follow your journey as if you were reading about someone else. What advice would you have given this person, knowing what you know now? What advcie would you give yourself today? Please share your comments with us if you would like to.
Sue x
FAT-SCRAP MARCH 2010 DAY TWENTY SIX
FAT-SCRAP MARCH 2010 DAY TWENTY EIGHT
8 comments:
Wow. I can read that I have been on quite a journey!! A shifting in my mindset. I really can see that I have spotted what I have been doing with food, I.e. filling up holes. Unfortuneately as I have been I'll for half the time on fatscrap, I haven't got many thoughts on exercise and it's effects. I do know though that I have felt frustrated at being unable to come to sessions, and woke excited today, that I have a session to attend!!
So I am unsure what advice I would give myself. An observation, is listen to my body. If I listen, I give it what it needs. Flu took me to a place of having to listen. Through the process of listening, I have learnt more about my psychological and physical hungers and what they mean. More about how to define them from one another. If I want to eat when I am not hungry. I ask myself " what do I need?". I also plan " what am I going to eat that will help me lose fat, or fuel my body properly?"
my advice to anyone else - mmmmmm, we are all different. Take note of
where YOU are. Your reasons for wanting to bring change about yourself.
Listen to yourself, don't kid yourself, don't punish yourself. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other, accept the support from Sue and other
fatscrappers. Don't compare, every nutricious mouthful you eat, every pound
you lose , every activity you do, that is for you, no one else. Enjoy your journey , don't worry about the end.
Right must go now. See you all later. X
GOod mornin' girls and where has that sunshine disappeared to - i know it is because i am back at work today!!! So being totally selfish i don't mind it isn't bright today. I am going to make a concerted effort to read over the whole month's blog and comment where i haven't commented before and also photocopy some of your useful tips. I had a mixed day off yesterday - mainly in my car visiting and catching up with friends - and one was a dear friend who has severe ME - do any of you have any thoughts on diet? Mind you, she has tried EVERYTHING but it always good to hear other's views or experiences. I am not feeling so good today - maybe lack of sunlight yesterday. Am dreading that i might be going down with a cold (I hate being unwell), but i shall be there at lunchtime....you may have to go easy with me today Sue.
Food choices: same for breks each day porridge, water, grapefruit, yoghurt seeds.
Mon: lunch baked spud, swede, broccoli, beef;
banana; brown noodles scheuan (cant spell) sauce. Tues: lunch:: herb potatoes, carrots; 3 rice cakes houmous
Wed: lunch: prawn sandwich; Nakd bar; Rice, balti sauce, nuts; cake!!! (and felt incredibly guilty afterwards so why was i tempted.....This is something i have to overcome but i was feeling very low for some reason and went to bed at9.30 and slept! Looking forward to meeting Fran and of course seeing the lovely Jayne again. Nat - please may i have a reflex session? XX
I am not experienced at all in the field on ME and whether a change in diet might help but I would especailly recommend that anyone with any illness or disease should take a look at their food choices and become aware just how "healthy" they are. I would not want to add any further stress to my body by stressing it with unnatural, chemical added foods and would only want to give myself foods that were going to strengthen and support my health. x
A comment on feeling "low", as Mara mentioned in her comments today. If you are eating because you are feeling low, then you are emotional eating - you are wanting to change the feeling you are experiencing in some way. In Mara's case she said she ate cake because she was feeling low but then she next tells us that she then felt guilty. We later hear that she went to bed and slept. So how might she change this pattern of emotional eating?
I would suggest that the first thing is for her to identify the emotional need for eating. The fact she wanted somthing sugary which provides instant energy and releases hormones that make us feel good is a clue that it could be that she was tired and not feeling 100%.
The second thing would be to identify the choices that she has to satisfy her emotion. For example, recognising that she may be tired she has the choices of perhaps eating cake for a quick pick me up, drinking coffee to wake her up or going to bed and sleeping.
The next thing would be to then think about the consequences of all these actions and her subsequesnt emotions. For example, eat cake feel short term pleasure then guilt, as she did, drink coffee and feel alert, go to sleep and feel rested.
When you take a moment to think about your choices and the consequences of you actions you might feel more able to make a choice that is going to make you feel in the good long term rather than just the short term quick fix!
x x
Food choices
muesli yog apple dried apricot nuts and seeds
smoked mackerel rocket tomato 3 ryvitas with butter
4 oatcakes with cheese and apple
I have noticed your food chooices seem a lot smaller than usual at the moment Jayne and I assume that this is because you have been ill and not really wanted or needed very much. I hope that you are not feeling hungry and going into "diet mode" to make up for the lack of activity over the last two weeks and that you are just listening to your body and eating enough to feel satisfied.
As I said to you the other day, I am impressed by the choices you have made throughout your illness. It could have been so easy for you to to use it as an excuse to fall back into old habits, even more reason to believe that you are already becoming the person you want to be. x
Hi girls! Just wanted to add a little here in response to all your blogs...
Firstly Jayne and Mara...well done!!! You are coming to the end of your first four weeks of FatScrap! Looking back over your blogs I'm sad to see that Jayne you have been so ill and Mara you have had your own challenges but hey girls...you know what? You are four whole weeks in and you have both started to make some really positive changes so a big well done!
And Pear...we are nearly three months in!! Can you believe that?! I am both sad and thrilled to be seeing less of you lately. Sad because I miss our exercise sessions together but 'thrilled' because everytime I see you there is definitely less of you than I saw before - ha ha!! You are doing so well and look how far you have come..
Mara, one thing I'd like to add about your cake temptation...please please if you really want this programme to work, don't beat yourself up about the cake. Accept it, get back on track and move forward. If you really want to do this...you CAN do this!!
I see that cake as a station and just know that each station you stop at means your journey time is longer to your goal. The train we are all on - FatScrap - WILL take us to our goal if we stay on it. It's up to us if we want it to be a stopper service or a direct train! This is the way I look at Fat Scrap for me now. I've stuck to it and I'm losing weight so I KNOW it works. How many stops I make at stations along the way is up to me as who's driving my train? I am!!..and that it SO empowering!
I think that summarizes FAT-SCRAP perfectly Apple, thank you :0) x x
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