Witchy Weight Loss and Support--Fall Edition - Page 3

[Aubergine68]

173.6 -2 pounds in 4 days Course, I've been stressed out and in the red tent, both suspect ways to lose weight, but I've also not exercised much and eaten a bunch.

I'm starting to worry about how I'll *stop* losing weight if I stay gf after I've reached my goal.

Busy day, back later.

[aweynsayl]

Originally Posted by Avani

I use tapping (EFT) for a lot of things.I learned from a certified instructor. Are you needing ideas on what to tap on? I'm postpartum and on the HCG diet so i've been reading back n forth through all these threads and the tapping jumped out at me. I could help you if you need.

<waves> hi! do you use tapping for weight loss? how do you do it?

Originally Posted by spughy

Can someone please explain what tapping is? Point me to a thread if there is one?

about a year ago, they made me do a thread just for times like this, lol... it's basically a form of energy therapy/medicine that works primarily on releasing trapped energy.


just did yoga. will swim later today. also going to start planning my garden, which works towards my "need more beauty" goal....

[Aubergine68]

How's everyone doing today?

I'm at 173.2 this am. Feeling headachy.

DH and I have been rereading Michael Eades, Protein Power -- lots to say on type 2 diabetes and carb/sugar addiction. I remember borrowing that ages ago, but it seems much more relevant now.

Also reading the Gluten-free Comfort Food cookbook, which includes stuff about Gf/Df diet for autistic children. My youngest is not autistic (though he is quirky) and I just cringed at the description of children addicted to grilled cheese, pizza and pasta with cheese, because, well, that's a big part of his diet.

I've been avoiding food fights and continue to offer a range of healthy choices, but he's content to skip meals if there is nothing on offer he likes -- my older kids were never like this. He's underweight, which I think is genetic, given the branch of the family he takes after, but I'm tracking his weight a lot because were getting close to the limit on his carseat, and he has lost a pound over the summer. I'm beginning to be concerned. I think I need to learn more about this.

I've been talking to the kids about the benefits of low-carb and gf, and of a varied diet. Planting seeds, in a way. Ds ate some peas at dinner last night -- seems like it's been a while since he's touched them, so hopefully he'll start eating more/more variety.

I need to hit the big supermarket here and check out some GF foods. I do want to have some flours so I can make pancakes.

Witchy, I missed your post at the bottom of the last page Yay you!

Originally Posted by aweynsayl

the other thing aubergine and i talked a bit about before, and i'd like to talk more about, is using tapping or EFT more in my "routine." i tap on my stress/anxiety (which itself helps, as i lose weight when i'm relaxed, lol)... )

Funny - I lose weight when I'm stressed/v.busy! The last time I was at my goal weight, I lost 40 pounds in six months due to stress to get there - not in a good way. Then I got pg with ds2 and put on the weight and more.

I tap on negative feelings about my body, on procrastination re: exercise, and on my feelings about eating healthy or unhealthy food.

I need to start wearing crystals again, too. I wrote about my patience necklace in another thread (rose quartz, hematite, freshwater pearls). It broke over the summer, despite being strung on a pretty strong wire. I guess it had absorbed all the stress it could take....need to clean/cleanse the beads and restring them. Also need to get out my beading projects and work on the amethyst necklace I'd planned. Amethyst is supposed to break addictions, like the addiction to sugar, perhaps!

Originally Posted by Defenestrator

Aubergine -- I just love the word "defenestrate" and I like the idea of throwing things out that don't work for me, you know, theraputic purging.

I like that explanation. How are you doing with your goals? Tried flower essences yet?

Originally Posted by aweynsayl

just did yoga. will swim later today. also going to start planning my garden, which works towards my "need more beauty" goal....

You are a daughter of Aphrodite, ain'tcha, you beauty-lover! Did you do the Venus ritual you recommended from moon circles last May? I went back to the creek where I threw the bread in and thought about what I asked for six months ago - more beauty, more fun, to feel sexier. Some things have definitely come about - weight loss, gifted with antique furniture, and the hooping for fun.... getting there!

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by Aubergine68

173.6 -2 pounds in 4 days

Yay, you!

Originally Posted by Aubergine68

Amethyst is supposed to break addictions, like the addiction to sugar, perhaps!

It's actually for alcohol intoxication, but I do believe (especially if there's alkies in your close family) that sugar is another branch of the same addiction.

I read Eades and Eades ages ago, too. Along with LOTS more, cause I was kind of researching alcoholism as relates to nutrition, and I found a lot of interesting stuff!

I lose when I'm stressed, too. I just get nauseous. Even if it's good stress. Remember last year when I got back in touch with M? I lost 6lb that first week, and continued to lose 15lb altogether.
I can't believe it's been nearly a year already. Oct.9 was the first time we talked on the phone, after all those years!

I was at 180.0 this morning. My hcg journey started last Saturday with my VLCD1, at which I weighed...I think 184.6. So down 4-odd pounds in 4 days. I can dig it
Hopefully into the 170s, soon. I'm feeling ominous about tomorrow's weigh. Don't know why. Just am.

[aweynsayl]

i had this whole long thing written out last night, and couldnt get back to finish it, and lost it. garumph. i will say it again-- mdcneedsasavedraftfunction. ok. vent over.

i do not have patience this morning to reply to it all again, but quickly, to aubergine re: the venus ritual.... we did it about the home in the town that went to ... well, you know.

i've been dwelling over much on that time, what i miss about what our lives were, and were going to be.... i started looking at pics from then. and while the beauty of it all overwhelms me and breaks my heart into a million little smitherines, ohmygreatgreengoddess, do i look ILL in those pics. not just puffy and swollen and overweight, but downright WRONG. even though i lost so much weight instantly when we moved back, i cant help but wonder if something just didnt... i dont know...is it possible that something "got" me there and is still holding on somehow? i'm starting to feel i need to look into magikal means to get over this.... any intuitives with insight? i could post pics, if anyone wanted to see what i mean........... i might just do that anyway.... one before, one there, and one now..... just for the full range....

[Maiasaura]

aweyn...HUGE hugs, sweetie

[Aubergine68]

173.4 this am

Congratulations on your focus and your losses, Maiasaura!

The last time I personally weighed this little, I was pg with my youngest 5 years ago, and on the way up, probably in the second trimester.

Looking at the scale and seeing the low 170s also minds me of when I got pg with my oldest. I had had 2 m/c in a year before falling pg with her, so I was over my usual weight at that point to start with. Ah- nostalgia.

Originally Posted by aweynsayl

i've been dwelling over much on that time, what i miss about what our lives were, and were going to be.... i started looking at pics from then. and while the beauty of it all overwhelms me and breaks my heart into a million little smitherines, ohmygreatgreengoddess, do i look ILL in those pics. not just puffy and swollen and overweight, but downright WRONG. even though i lost so much weight instantly when we moved back, i cant help but wonder if something just didnt... i dont know...is it possible that something "got" me there and is still holding on somehow? i'm starting to feel i need to look into magikal means to get over this.... any intuitives with insight? i could post pics, if anyone wanted to see what i mean........... i might just do that anyway.... one before, one there, and one now..... just for the full range....

aweyn. I am not an intuitive, formally. I don't know if it was the vibe I was getting from you or about you, but I felt your being there was WRONG/DANGEROUS and that your being where you are now is RIGHT/SAFE. I felt this as literal danger/safety, like your house there was going to be swallowed up by an earthquake or something, but that doesn't mean my feeling wasn't just about your own health or emotional or spiritual well-being.

Maybe your own intuition knew that where you were was wrong for you and it manifested in your body? I think you are a sensitive person if anyone is and that you feel a lot of knowledge in your body.

I am remembering my experience leaving academia. I loved the field, loved the work - but it was making me sick. Three-day migraines every week, PCOS, etc. The more I tried to make what I thought I wanted work, the sicker I got. I left, and 10 years later still miss and dream about what I left behind, but found much better health, and had more babies instead of making more cysts.

I feel like part of me knew that that life was wrong for me and that I had karmic life-path work to do here and that part made me sick till I found the path I was meant to be on. I'm having a migraine now because of stress that I maybe brought on myself by going off my path a little? Maybe this stress/migraine is a warning from my inner self that I have a mission in this life and need to focus on being true to myself?

Maybe you weren't affected by something negative there when you moved, but just the unconscious knowledge that you had unfinished business back where you are now? And maybe the ongoing pain is just the pain of shifting gears and expectations? Just a thought.

ETA not that a cleanse-and-protect ritual would hurt! What is that Catholic folk magic thing they do about breaking eggs to see if negative entities are attached to one? Have to look that up....

Ok, non-napping children are up. Got some karmic life-path diaper changes and snack prep to do, lol!

[Maiasaura]

Why thank you, Aubergine!

Day before Loading Days: 185.4
Loading Day 1: 182.4
Loading Day 2: 183.0
VLCD1: 184.6
VLCD2: 182.2 (-2.4)
VLCD3: 180.8 (-1.4)
VLCD4: 180.0 (-0.8)
VLCD5: 179.4 (-0.6)
VLCD6: 178.6 (-0.8)

I'm down 6lbs from Saturday! I can handle that, oh yes I can!

[Aubergine68]

184.6 today - up 1.2 pounds -- that'd be because of the chocolate and almonds I ate at midnight Today, there will actually be exercise.

I tried eating a beet and had no beeturia, so not a stomach acid issue. Going back on the grapefruit this week, will try the beet thing in a couple of days and see if the grapefruit causes me to have a stomach acid problem.

Here are some interesting links on egg cleansing/limpia. Never tried this, but have always wanted to, sometime.

I know the author of these Catholic-folk-magic oriented versions of the limpia ritual through another online group I'm part of, and have particular respect for her knowledge.

[spughy]

Maiasaura - that's fantastic!!! How does you feel, energy-wise?

I'm down to 151.5, and resisting the temptation to restrict my eating for the next day or so just to get below 150... I haven't weighed this little since about 4 months after my DD was born. (I was a healthy 130 when I got pregnant, gained only 17 lbs, lost it immediately, then packed on some 40 lbs via post-partum depression-fueled eating.) Actually, I really want to get down to 145 and be *definitely* less than I was at 9 months pregnant!

My trip-induced tummy wobbles are gone, I'm back to sleeping well and I've hit the gym as many times as planned this week. I feel very much on track, and my mood is amazing considering that I've been super super busy and my period should be starting in a day or so. Last night I was over at a friend's place and when I came out the stars were SO gorgeous and twinkly and I felt a rush of happiness - which I immediately recognized as pre-menstrual over-reaction, but in entirely the opposite direction as usual. It was a good realization, I think - that hormonally induced emotional intensity can feel really, really GOOD. Sobering, too, that it's so often not good. Maybe it's too easy to be complacent about our cycles and make assumptions about what's normal even when it makes us feel bad. I'm going to make more of an effort to appreciate my monthly rhythms, and maybe even look forward to my moon time, as a time of heightened sensitivity and potential for intensity. I've also noticed that since I stopped eating grains and sugar, I have no bloating or other physical symptoms, and my cramps are limited to the first few hours of actual flow (which is nice because I don't need to worry so much about exactly *when* things start, my body tells me.)

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by spughy

Maiasaura - that's fantastic!!! How does you feel, energy-wise?

Well, it just finally got Autumn-like around here, so I'm wanting to curl up in my flannel-sheeted bed and read. But mostly I've been spending too much time online
I'm feeling lazy! But I don't think that has to do with the diet. I think that's just me

Maybe it's too easy to be complacent about our cycles and make assumptions about what's normal even when it makes us feel bad. I'm going to make more of an effort to appreciate my monthly rhythms, and maybe even look forward to my moon time, as a time of heightened sensitivity and potential for intensity.

I love my moon-time. I didn't used to.

That started when I was in labor with ds. For whatever reason, I'd gone 41 years without realizing that, duh, contractions are just like heavier cramps-- that cramps are uterine practice for labor
I don't know what I was expecting them to feel like, but that wasn't it

Anyway, it's so spiritual to me to realize what our bodies are for, as women, and how powerful it is to bring new life into the world. At nearly 51 I haven't yet shown signs of menopause, and every time I get cramps, I focus and honor my uterus and my body. Sometimes I have to lay there a lot and do that But it's all good.

I'm excited, now; I'm thinking this diet might actually work for me! I have been below 180 for two days. But I've done that before. Let's get to 177 or lower and I'll be really excited!
I haven't been able to imagine that for many years. Now I can almost-- almost-- imagine being in the 160s.

My ultimate goal would be in the 130s, but honestly? Right now I'm just happy to be where I am, below 180, and staying there.
I can't wait to measure myself on Saturday. I can't believe I'm even saying that!

[aweynsayl]

yay for joyfulness!

joy-- in addition to beauty-- i realized in the pool this morning, is why i love to swim. speaking of greek gods and goddesses.... there was an adonis in the pool this morning, and several rubenesque venuses in the locker room.

aubergine, thank you for your thoughtfulness. super-appreciated as always. i do think it's possible that i am just "meant" to be here for some reason. i just need to let go of that sense of what i thought i'd wanted. i've done it at least twice before in really big ways, so you'd think i could manage a third time. actually, i've told you that before. this time is so much harder for some reason. i did realize that the words i've been using have been a lot like the words i used those times before-- "i just dont know who i am now!"

i started some digging into it... of course, i'd love some good tapping time! but swimming really helps too.

i'll check out those links, too. thanks!

spughy~ i was *obsessed* for a good while with moon cycles and our cycles.... even did a "camp" on it. if you're interested i can find it and post the link. :-)

i need cooking help--- i have a HUGE zuke from the farmer's market... i want to stuff it-- with what ought i stuff it? i was thinking rice and cheese... but what else?

[witchygrrl]

I would love to have a spiritual discusson of the menstrual cycle...a Pagan Red Tent thread, as it were. When we were planning conceiving my DD, charting my cycle for months before we actually started working on getting pregnant really tuned me into the science of it, which was fascinating to me. But I want to get connected in my soul. A friend of mine uses her Moon-blood in ritual, and now I use a Diva cup, I find myself wanting to do the same. But how is the question.

I'm going to my ILs for the weekend. My MIL has promised to stay gluten-free for me, which is supremely nice and accomodating for her. We'll see how well she does. But generally, it's a food fest whenever we go there.

Maia--you're making great progress! Keep it up!

Aweyn--I think some onions and red peppers would go great with the rice and cheese. Because I'm GF, I would say sprinkle some almond meal on top, like breadcrumbs, but breadcrumbs would work, too. Mexican spices like cumin and chili powder would taste fabulous.

Okay, now I want that. LOL

[Defenestrator]

awensayl -- I've been thinking about your post a lot, even though I don't really know the backstory of it. What I was thinking is that this is the perfect time of year to try to do some more extended spiritual work on the idea of death and rebirth. Why not try to release the past and go for a little while into a place of peace and rest for the winter before coming up with a new, solid vision of what you want your life to be in the new year or the spring? It's also helpful for me to remember that we don't always consciously create our futures. Sometimes fantastic things just divebomb us and we don't see them coming and they change our lives radically. It's good to clear out the negatives so that there is space for those kinds of things to come in.

Well, I have discovered that if I don't watch my eating and exercise both on a given day that I don't lose weight, but if I do both, then I do. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it helps me to make a conscious choice to wake up every morning and do both and know that if I do, there will likely be progress on the scale the next morning. And I am doing well, though it is hard to see the short-term losses as adding up to my long-term goal because it still seems so big. I'm going to hit an important milestone soon, which is to have less than 100 lbs left to lose. For whatever reason, having my remaining pounds towards goal be two digits instead of three makes a difference and makes it seem less huge.

[LionessMom]

I gotta make myself go! i gotta make myself go!!

i am so tired all the time. it is so hard to fight the fibro. sigh. i am gonna go to yoga. i love yoga. i am gonna go do it for myself, for my kids, for my husband. i gotta get better, i just gotta!!! iit is the only thing that makes me feel better. why is it so hard to just go do it?? sigh. ok i am leaving now. going to yoga.

[_ktg_]

Welcome to October everyone and here is a bit of love to us all

Aweyn - I know you and I were supposed to chat about Ayurvedic medicine and I am wondering about maybe a "cleansing" or detox to help clear out the negative energies which might be hanging around from your previous move.

I've been considering this for a bit... to just lighten the load my body is carrying. I love the Limpia ritual Aubergine and I just might do that soon.

moon-time... I am patiently waiting for mine as it should be arriving any moment/day now, at least it better be! Its interesting since having my 2nd DS that I feel more harmony with the world vs. before when I saw it as a hassle in life. And my cramps/bloaty feeling have mostly disappeared since eating high fat/protein diet. I get twinges, but its not curl up in bed kind of feeling like before.

Well gals I have a confession - I have been all over the board with my diet and no exercise. I'm overwhelmed at work with this project hence my lack of posting and increased eating including some very bad stuff! Hello there fried sandwich full of cheese and butter and french fries!

With the first of October - I am recommitting back to tracking my meals on livestrong and watching my calories and ramping up my exercise. My goal for the end of October to be down to 190lbs (right now I'm 195-197)
Day 1:

B - coffee with 5 oz of 1/2 & 1/2 with a shot of vanilla syrup & 2 tbs of CO
S - ham/turkey/zuke/cheese crustless quiche

[Valerie.Qc]

Tonight is yoga and then dance class! I love my Friday night!

I'm going back to boxing training next week after a hiatus caused by the lack of car. I'm happy and eager to go back!

I'm in this annoying place between pant sizes. My size 14 jeans are sagging and I'm constantly pulling them up but my size 12 are still too tight. (and I am afraid they won't ever fit again since there is already a gap at the waist while the rest is too small for me ) I see some shopping (and probably sewing) in my (near) future.

[_ktg_]

oooh Val your friday nights always sound like sooo much fun!!

Have a great time at Yoga & Dance! Did you ever tell us what kind of dance class?

Belated congrats on the new car too. vrooooom!

[Valerie.Qc]

My Friday nights ARE fun!

We do Hip Hop and jazz in the dance class.

[spughy]

Valerie your dance class sounds fun - and fun for YOU more importantly!

ktg - you meant that you had a cheese sandwich with fries on the side, right? Not a sandwich that contained cheese and french fries? Because I can see how that would be good if you were reeeeally starving and if that's the case you might want to up your calories, no? I have heard of people putting potato chips in sandwiches which always struck me as completely bizarre.

Well October dawns for me at 151.5 lbs and down to 36% body fat. By my calculations, that means I have lost 14 lbs of fat since January, and let's say 3-5 lbs of retained fluid that I lost right off the bat just by ditching grains/sugar, which means I have hardly lost any muscle mass at all, which is fantastic, and Yay weightlifting program! So I probably have just over 20 lbs more to lose to get to my goal of 25% body fat. (I think that was my goal. Maybe a little less.)