Morning weigh-in:
Daily gain/loss: -1/4 lb.
Total loss from peak (7/8/08): -1/2 lb.
I made it through my first day back in the box pretty well. I staggered my meals well enough that I did not feel hungry: I started with a cereal for breakfast to immediately satisfy my hunger. In the late morning I had a double shake. I was going to put fruit in it but found out I didn't have the frozen fruit I thought I had, so I just used sugar-free syrup instead. I had a later lunch of the lasagna entree with a can of green beans and 4 oz. can of mushrooms on the side. Then, because I had to work at a charity outdoor event in the evening, where I know there would be some tempting food, I filled up on a dinner of savory chicken entree mixed with HMR Soup mixed with a can of garbanzo beans and another 4oz can of mushrooms. That really helped me resist the kettle corn I kept smelling at the event -- it's good and it helped start my descent (or should I say ascent on the scale) last summer. However, as I browsed the vendors of jewelry, etc., after my shift was over, I sampled a cracker and a small meatball with BBQ sauce (the vendor was selling bottles of the sauce) on it before realizing I was going out of the box. I wasn't even hungry, I just wanted to sample the sauce (which wasn't that good). Because it was so small I don't think I'm going to say I was out of box on my mid-week call, but I can't do that again!!!!!
Almost forgot my daily numbers -- don't know if I'll do it everyday but here goes:
S: 2 shakes/1 soup = 3
C: 1
E: 2
V: 7
F: 0
PA: 360 calories (continuous strolling/standing at charity event for 3 hours times 2 cal/min)
Showing posts with label HMR Program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HMR Program. Show all posts
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Let's try this again . . .
It's been a long, long time, but I'm going to try to do this blog again. I am trying to get back on a diet and I'm hoping this will help my accountability.
What's happened in the meantime? Well, a lot of nice things, actually. I lost about 50 pounds on HMR in the fall '06 and spring '07. I did the decision-free product-only program, and I was "in the box" (no straying) from late October '06 until mid-March '07. I took HMR entrees to banquets and even a few restaurants. A sad thing that happened during that period was my grandmother passing away, but my decision-free discipline on my diet gave me some amount of control during a difficult time, and I took comfort in that.
By February '07, I was turning heads, and I met a wonderful man who turned out to be my soulmate, and we married earlier this year. As I went into maintenance last summer, he encouraged me to eat more indulgent things. He meant well -- he didn't want me to be deprived. He has also dealt with the pain of weight issues before, and I think he bent over backwards to make me feel comfortable no matter what I ate.
But of course, I gained my weight back as I kept on eating. I gained about twenty-five pounds by the time I got married, but I still looked pretty in the wedding dress. (My husband says I was the "most beautiful thing he'd ever seen", and I believe him.) In the six months since the wedding, however, I went nuts and gained another thirty pounds, and am now about nine pounds heavier than when I started HMR in October 2006. It was a combination of "yea, no more dress to try to fit into anymore!" and some mild depression over losing my job not long afterward. I kept going to maintenance classes (I had already paid for a year) and sometimes met the maintenance minimums, but I wasn't really into it. However, I didn't feel I could afford to restart HMR's weight loss program, so I was happy to hear that they were doing a summer "Blitz", where you do short weight-loss classes but don't pay anything extra except for a minimum food purchase.
So, I go back in the box tomorrow, though I had a good "transition" day today -- I had salads with chicken and salmon on them, but I didn't have any bread, alcohol, or junk food, and I had a double HMR shake. I've got my wonderful husband's support, too, so that will help me a lot. I feel like I'm just in the right mind set to take this on, at least for the next four weeks of Blitz.
Wish me luck!!!!!
What's happened in the meantime? Well, a lot of nice things, actually. I lost about 50 pounds on HMR in the fall '06 and spring '07. I did the decision-free product-only program, and I was "in the box" (no straying) from late October '06 until mid-March '07. I took HMR entrees to banquets and even a few restaurants. A sad thing that happened during that period was my grandmother passing away, but my decision-free discipline on my diet gave me some amount of control during a difficult time, and I took comfort in that.
By February '07, I was turning heads, and I met a wonderful man who turned out to be my soulmate, and we married earlier this year. As I went into maintenance last summer, he encouraged me to eat more indulgent things. He meant well -- he didn't want me to be deprived. He has also dealt with the pain of weight issues before, and I think he bent over backwards to make me feel comfortable no matter what I ate.
But of course, I gained my weight back as I kept on eating. I gained about twenty-five pounds by the time I got married, but I still looked pretty in the wedding dress. (My husband says I was the "most beautiful thing he'd ever seen", and I believe him.) In the six months since the wedding, however, I went nuts and gained another thirty pounds, and am now about nine pounds heavier than when I started HMR in October 2006. It was a combination of "yea, no more dress to try to fit into anymore!" and some mild depression over losing my job not long afterward. I kept going to maintenance classes (I had already paid for a year) and sometimes met the maintenance minimums, but I wasn't really into it. However, I didn't feel I could afford to restart HMR's weight loss program, so I was happy to hear that they were doing a summer "Blitz", where you do short weight-loss classes but don't pay anything extra except for a minimum food purchase.
So, I go back in the box tomorrow, though I had a good "transition" day today -- I had salads with chicken and salmon on them, but I didn't have any bread, alcohol, or junk food, and I had a double HMR shake. I've got my wonderful husband's support, too, so that will help me a lot. I feel like I'm just in the right mind set to take this on, at least for the next four weeks of Blitz.
Wish me luck!!!!!
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Yes, I really have been dieting this time! -- Here's what I picked and why
I thought I was going to blog more before I started my new plan, but I guess I got too busy. I definitely have busy since I started the diet a little over three weeks ago.
So here's the deal -- I decided to do the HMR program associated with the University of Kentucky. A few months ago I wrote that I wasn't sure I could do that, but my utter inability to get myself on any kind of plan changed my mind. In other words, I was getting desperate. :-)
I had explored a few other options -- I thought about ordering Nutrisystem food -- I knew there'd be no difference between that and what I had done on Jenny Craig, but I thought I might enjoy slightly different entree choices. I also explored a new program at a Georgetown, Kentucky, hospital called HALT -- it offered medical monitoring and meetings with a dietician, but it did not appear to have a hard and fast food program, and I wasn't sure I was going to be disciplined enough to make healthy food choices without someone handing the food to me. (At first I was also annoyed when they seemed oblivious to the schedules of all the working women in the room -- they said the class would be Thursday afternoons, but were not sure of the time. They did eventually decide to make the class at 5pm to accommodate people.)
Meanwhile, my mother had encouraged me to go to the HMR program's informational meeting on Thursday evenings, but I could not find time to leave my office in time to make any of those held in September. I finally got to go, however, on the second Thursday in October -- I had had a long week of getting up earlier than I used to in order to adjust to my new boss's schedule and preparing for a big meeting I had that Thursday morning. But the meeting went well and my new boss complimented me and I found myself with time to make it to Lexington for a 6:30pm meeting, though just barely. My mother met me there.
I missed a few minutes, but it felt like the program coordinator just jumped into describing what the program was -- no great platitudes or promises, just a description of the different variations of the program: all shakes, shakes and entrees (which I had not really realized you could do), or shakes and entrees and fruits and vegetables (what they call "Healthy Solutions"). She described the medical monitoring levels, etc. She described the class attendance requirement. In other words, she was pretty straightforward. Her style acknowledged that losing weight is tough, and keeping weight off is hard. I liked the approach.
Then she announced what time the current "core" class was: 4:30pm on Wednesdays. My heart sank. Given the late time for the info session, I had really hoped it would be a true evening class that would not require me to miss work. Why, I asked myself, do these programs not realize how busy a working woman is? Who are these classes for anyway?
After she finished speaking, she announced that the staff would be making appointments for those still interested in the order we arrived. Since Mom and me were the last ones there, we stayed in the conference room after everyone went to another room. I told Mom I was disappointed about the 4:30 time, and Mom agreed. But I started to discuss aloud that my new boss might understand and would let me take the time once a week, based on what I had observed of her so far -- I was thinking particularly about how my boss had gone out of her way to compliment me about the meeting. Before I completed the whole thought, I let the stress that had been building inside me out and began crying a little. Mom understood, and then we laughed a little, too. The coordinator came by during this time and gave me a tissue. I discussed my dilemna with her a little too. She listened, and I liked her even more.
In the end, I went ahead and signed up for my introductory physical -- I put it over a week out in order to give myself time to talk to my boss and adjust my schedule. And I put it on a day I knew I was going to be out of the office and in Lexington anyway. The next day, the coordinator called and told me that if the 4:30 pm was a real burden I could switch to a 6:15 class when that new core class started in a few weeks, even though the program usually didn't encourage that because I'd be sitting through some of the same stuff again. Told you I liked her.
But I didn't need to worry about my boss's reaction -- when I discussed the matter with her a couple of days later, she was fine it, which I figured she would be. I like her, too.
So here's the deal -- I decided to do the HMR program associated with the University of Kentucky. A few months ago I wrote that I wasn't sure I could do that, but my utter inability to get myself on any kind of plan changed my mind. In other words, I was getting desperate. :-)
I had explored a few other options -- I thought about ordering Nutrisystem food -- I knew there'd be no difference between that and what I had done on Jenny Craig, but I thought I might enjoy slightly different entree choices. I also explored a new program at a Georgetown, Kentucky, hospital called HALT -- it offered medical monitoring and meetings with a dietician, but it did not appear to have a hard and fast food program, and I wasn't sure I was going to be disciplined enough to make healthy food choices without someone handing the food to me. (At first I was also annoyed when they seemed oblivious to the schedules of all the working women in the room -- they said the class would be Thursday afternoons, but were not sure of the time. They did eventually decide to make the class at 5pm to accommodate people.)
Meanwhile, my mother had encouraged me to go to the HMR program's informational meeting on Thursday evenings, but I could not find time to leave my office in time to make any of those held in September. I finally got to go, however, on the second Thursday in October -- I had had a long week of getting up earlier than I used to in order to adjust to my new boss's schedule and preparing for a big meeting I had that Thursday morning. But the meeting went well and my new boss complimented me and I found myself with time to make it to Lexington for a 6:30pm meeting, though just barely. My mother met me there.
I missed a few minutes, but it felt like the program coordinator just jumped into describing what the program was -- no great platitudes or promises, just a description of the different variations of the program: all shakes, shakes and entrees (which I had not really realized you could do), or shakes and entrees and fruits and vegetables (what they call "Healthy Solutions"). She described the medical monitoring levels, etc. She described the class attendance requirement. In other words, she was pretty straightforward. Her style acknowledged that losing weight is tough, and keeping weight off is hard. I liked the approach.
Then she announced what time the current "core" class was: 4:30pm on Wednesdays. My heart sank. Given the late time for the info session, I had really hoped it would be a true evening class that would not require me to miss work. Why, I asked myself, do these programs not realize how busy a working woman is? Who are these classes for anyway?
After she finished speaking, she announced that the staff would be making appointments for those still interested in the order we arrived. Since Mom and me were the last ones there, we stayed in the conference room after everyone went to another room. I told Mom I was disappointed about the 4:30 time, and Mom agreed. But I started to discuss aloud that my new boss might understand and would let me take the time once a week, based on what I had observed of her so far -- I was thinking particularly about how my boss had gone out of her way to compliment me about the meeting. Before I completed the whole thought, I let the stress that had been building inside me out and began crying a little. Mom understood, and then we laughed a little, too. The coordinator came by during this time and gave me a tissue. I discussed my dilemna with her a little too. She listened, and I liked her even more.
In the end, I went ahead and signed up for my introductory physical -- I put it over a week out in order to give myself time to talk to my boss and adjust my schedule. And I put it on a day I knew I was going to be out of the office and in Lexington anyway. The next day, the coordinator called and told me that if the 4:30 pm was a real burden I could switch to a 6:15 class when that new core class started in a few weeks, even though the program usually didn't encourage that because I'd be sitting through some of the same stuff again. Told you I liked her.
But I didn't need to worry about my boss's reaction -- when I discussed the matter with her a couple of days later, she was fine it, which I figured she would be. I like her, too.
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