Comments on: I’m Baaaaack! http://www.unsafeatanysize.com/2010/06/27/im-baaaaack/ Life after losing 100 lbs Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:55:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wendy http://www.unsafeatanysize.com/2010/06/27/im-baaaaack/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Wendy Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:58:34 +0000 http://www.unsafeatanysize.com/?p=627#comment-181 Wee! Thanks for writing, Babs. Did you ever think about rolling with your night owl tendencies and try to do a later schedule? What I don't like about the sugar addiction is that it's never enough. So I have the cookie; I want another! And another! Sure, I imagine at some point I'd be satisfied, but it would be after I felt sick. Past experience has taught me that letting myself eat until I felt sick doesn't discourage me from doing it again, so I've got to nip it in the bud. As for the sweet potato, the raw is MORE points than the cooked, the reverse of what I'd think. I'm not trying to get wrapped up in the point minutiae, though; just tracking in itself is good enough for now. Wee! Thanks for writing, Babs. Did you ever think about rolling with your night owl tendencies and try to do a later schedule?
What I don’t like about the sugar addiction is that it’s never enough. So I have the cookie; I want another! And another! Sure, I imagine at some point I’d be satisfied, but it would be after I felt sick. Past experience has taught me that letting myself eat until I felt sick doesn’t discourage me from doing it again, so I’ve got to nip it in the bud.
As for the sweet potato, the raw is MORE points than the cooked, the reverse of what I’d think. I’m not trying to get wrapped up in the point minutiae, though; just tracking in itself is good enough for now.

]]> By: babs http://www.unsafeatanysize.com/2010/06/27/im-baaaaack/comment-page-1/#comment-180 babs Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:18:01 +0000 http://www.unsafeatanysize.com/?p=627#comment-180 Yes, I missed you! : ) And yes, I understand what you're going through. I like when I'm on program, living my life, and food is simply nourishment to do just that, not an emotion-laden thing to deal with. In those times, a treat is simply a treat, and I move on. But I don't like when the sugar cravings hit, or stress/ boredom/ unhappiness/ anger makes me fall into the habit of trying to use food to solve what food cannot solve. And then I start to feel out of control, even like an addict. And I feel stupid, b/c I've been here before and know that it's not the answer. Excess food, of whatever kind, just saps my energy, and makes life more difficult in so many ways. Good luck with committing to doing what works for you. My commitment is to go to bed early so I can get up early and exercise, which given my night-owl tendencies, is a real struggle for me. As for the sweet potato, I imagine it's a density issue: more water in the raw potato, that gets released in cooking, so the cooked potato has higher calories per ounce. ~babs Yes, I missed you! : ) And yes, I understand what you’re going through. I like when I’m on program, living my life, and food is simply nourishment to do just that, not an emotion-laden thing to deal with. In those times, a treat is simply a treat, and I move on. But I don’t like when the sugar cravings hit, or stress/ boredom/ unhappiness/ anger makes me fall into the habit of trying to use food to solve what food cannot solve. And then I start to feel out of control, even like an addict. And I feel stupid, b/c I’ve been here before and know that it’s not the answer. Excess food, of whatever kind, just saps my energy, and makes life more difficult in so many ways. Good luck with committing to doing what works for you. My commitment is to go to bed early so I can get up early and exercise, which given my night-owl tendencies, is a real struggle for me.

As for the sweet potato, I imagine it’s a density issue: more water in the raw potato, that gets released in cooking, so the cooked potato has higher calories per ounce.

~babs

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