First time I’ve cracked that weight plateau since the 1970’s.
\nHappy dance!
\nAnd here’s something I posted while talking about diets on FB, but it took me decades and some soul-searching to figure this out, so it’s worth sharing, where applicable:
\n“Cooks—let me add one other REAL nasty trap we get into. Cooking is our hobby. We think about it—and food—a lot. We *plan* food. We *buy* food. We get *luv* from food. And *compliments.* Face it—we’re addicted. <\/p>\n
“Going totally over to the frozens in March—I felt a little panicked. Come my usual prep-time, I’d get up, go to the kitchen, and stand there asking myself what I was going to do. Too early to put a packet in the microwave. Too early to do anything. No grazing while cooking, either. So I go sit down and think about—food. <\/p>\n
“—–Well, after 3 months, I now know that cooking time is 12 minutes for 2 packets, and that I need to be in the kitchen at 15 of 5, not 4 pm. <\/p>\n
“I also know that the big problem with Jane losing weight—and us losing weight—was ME!<\/strong> I was cooking too much food, wrong kind of food, too heavy on the fat and carbs, and I was providing enough for us two to feed a family of 6.”<\/p>\n [Note: Jane kept blaming herself, because she’d gain, even when we were dieting, especially when the snack-urge would hit and she’d commit some indiscretion… Wrong, Jane. It was me, the villain all along. I was providing the carbs that would trigger the snack-urge, and almost setting it up that that would happen. I didn’t realize I was doing it. But I was.]<\/p>\n “I have stopped, after half a year, thinking about food. So if you ARE the household cook, and trying to figure why the diets never work—my advice is—shudder—stop getting your warm-fuzzies from food and its preparation, and fahgeddaboudit! at least until you get where you’re going!”<\/p>\n I’ve cracked my worst plateau. Jane is a few pounds from hers, and looks to crack it by the end of September. Yay us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First time I’ve cracked that weight plateau since the 1970’s. Happy dance! And here’s something I posted while talking about diets on FB, but it took me decades and some soul-searching to figure this out, so it’s worth sharing, where applicable: “Cooks—let me add one other REAL nasty trap we get into. Cooking is our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}