I hope everyone had a happy Easter! I did. I spent my day with my family and with Ken. Ken didn't join us for our Easter festivities because he didn't feel up to it, and I don't blame him; afterall, he just came home from surgery just yesterday. However, Ken's sister Shirley and her husband Elroy stopped by for a visit with him, and I stopped in before and after I went to my mom and dad's. I made a point of bringing him some Easter treats.
I took a cabbage salad and a cheesy potatoes I've been meaning to make, but I haven't had the opportunity to cook for so many people until now. There were a lot of good dishes there today. Dad's beef and pork roasts and carrots, Nat's orange salad and cream puff desert, and Aimee's green bean casserole and strawberry desert, oh, and my niece Annette brought deviled eggs, which according to those who enjoy such things (I am not among them), they were very good. But one of the things I've been missing while on this diet is cheesy. Oh sure I can eat feta, which I do like, but it's not the same as American, Swiss, Cheddar, etc. I have to thank Nancy D. for the potato recipe. Everyone really liked it.
Yesterday, while shopping for supplies, I ran into a friend I haven't seen for awhile. We got talking about dieting. I mentioned that I was on a plateau, and she commented that I should move past that plateau after today. I recognized that she was right. If I hit a plateau and then have a cheating day, once back on the diet, I'll lose weight again. She said that the plateau is the body's way of conserving energy (fat) because it "thinks" it's starving. Obviously, she was saying that it was not a conscious action, but an autonomic response. I don't know, but her theory seems valid to me. The trick here is to go back on the diet after the cheating day; otherwise, the calories will again begin to accumulate. Which leads us back to the head game we have to play with ourselves when dieting. Despite the satisfaction found in cheating, we have to reject that and return to that toughest of all states, moderation.
So, eat, drink, and be merry today, for tomorrow, we shall diet.
P.S. Thanks for the publicity Ken. Love you!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a wonderful day you had w/ your family. That really makes a lot of sense about the body thinking it's being starved so it begins to conserve its reserves. Good luck tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteLora - Nice blog. I hate using the word diet. I think I have tried every diet out there and have bought every workout tape/dvd made (or at least close to it). I like to refer to it as not a diet but as a life changing behavior modification. Talk about playing head games. haha. Great job on your loss so far. The plateau will soon pass.
ReplyDeleteAimee, Welcome aboard! I understand and agree with your thinking about terminology, but we often need to use common language in order to communicate. It's sort like talking about my relationship with Ken. It's a bit farcical to call him my "boyfriend." He is neither a boy nor a friend. However, so that people understand the nature of our relationship, we resort to the best that language offers us. So in my mind, I recognize that it's a change in behavior, but it's a "diet" while conversing.
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