Tues Morning 8/14 Roll Call

[Outback Jess]

Morning STACers....
This morning I was remarking in someone's journal about crisis planning. For some people this season is a crisis, going back to school creates stress, exhaustion and a general feeling of overwhelmed!!!! Then throw in exhausted kids, who are stressed, and overwhelmed and well you can see how it could be a crisis in your eating and exercising life...

How about crisis management? Do you have a plan for crisis. I am nobody special, but I can tell you keeping myself on Atkins during a crisis was a deep concern of mine, I was and am an emotional eater who feels a need to comfort with food with things are tough...

Last yr. 2 weeks before school started we started Atkins...We also planned out how to handle the first two weeks of school, so we "made it safely through" the adjustment period, on Atkins...I mean I didn't want us to throw away ketosis that we had worked so hard for!
So we planned and worked up a plan to make it through those first two weeks of school, and we started them 2 weeks early so we would be fairly settled in a routine...
It worked, and we made it through the whole transition back to school.

When my Mom was hospitalized 4 times from Christmas day onward til she died in April, she went to the hospital via a 911 call. But I had a plan in place, specific foods always kept around should an immediate need appear!
My family knew what to pack up and bring to the ER, the reason being, I WAS STAYING ON PLAN REGARDLESS....
I had a good crisis plan in place. I made it through all of it....Not because I am special or especially strong, but I had a plan and I knew what I wanted...
Crisis planning to save your way of life is critical....

[apple]

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Good morning, Jess. Thanks for the reminder of planning, and planning for crisis. I never thought of going back to school a crisis, mostly just thought of it as a mini-drama with the girls and me. But you're so right. Thanks for making me think even more about my monthly shopping list that I'm making this week!

Have a great one!

[bambinaUK]

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I teach, so im back at school next week and ive already planned my route around College, so I don't pass the tuck shop or the Chocolate vending machines!!
Does that count as crisis planning??

Anyway,, my first 7 days back on AWOL is done and im thrilled I have lost 6lbs.
So today I am going to treat myself to some new shoes.

[SandyL2002]

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Hi Everyone.. Sorry I have been missing...I KNOW that planning is the ONLY way to make this program work... And I haven't been doing that..but I am working on it.. We will have the stress of my daughter going to school this year. She has been homeschooled since the 3rd grade and will be going to Public Highschool this year. I think she will do fine...but it makes our stomach nervous We are NOT one for changes..

[Sheepie]

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I am nobody special

Of course you are! But so is everyone one else too! I believe we all have the ability to plan and stick to this woe, but we have to remember to do it. I have trouble with that, remembering to plan ahead for whatever arises. Thanks for the reminder.

Up 2lbs today, but I'm not worried about it because I know I didn't eat enough to gain 2lbs. It'll go away.

Gotta run. Happy Tuesday everyone!

[speedyturtle]

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Good Morning, I would not know what to do without stress. Probably need an uncrisis plan for when we go on vacation the last week of August.
*Nice to see you Sandy, I am used to seeing your encouraging words all over the boards.

[tmn]

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Good morning, all!

I've been awful about staying on Atkins - I've been allowing all the disruptions to disrupt me and my eating habits. I am good with water, so-so on the vitamins (I'm forgetting to take them at night) and not doing regular workouts.

However, I have been moving a LOT just doing things around the house. And am so happy to say my legs ARE getting better! It was very noticable to me yesterday when I walked up a farily large hill at a beach - my legs and knees were not hurting one little bit, and the knees, especially the left one, was doing what it needed to without any complaints. I am SO tickled about this! Getting the strength and flexiblility back in my legs and knees are everything for me right now!

So even though I've been a bad girl where the WOE is concerned, there are other things to be very thankful about! I'm still a-smilin'!

[BluegrassMama]

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Good morning!

Ugh--stress eating. Weird thing--when I wasn't on Atkins, I definitely comforted myself with lots of high-carb junk. But now I'm having the opposite problem. When I have a period of high stress, I *stop* eating. Which I know is just as bad, if not worse, on this WOL than what I was doing before.

I'm finding it so very hard to follow my own advice and do what is best for me. Ugh--sorry for the "poor me" post. It was a pretty rough night last night. I'll cheer up in a bit--promise!

Yay for food planning! You all insipre me to do better every day!
Have a great day everyone!

[bykerdruid]

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Great motivational "speech" Jess. You are, as usual, absolutely right. Thank goodness I don't have any "back to school" crises to go through. My one and only son is 23. It's just another day for me.

I went to the gym last night. My nephew is an amateur body builder, but he was trained by a pro...that Mr. Oklahoma I mentioned in another post. So he and the Mr. Oklahoma came up with a work-out routine for me and my nephew put me through the paces last night. He's got me working out an hour and a half a night, three nights a week!!!! And he said that will be fairly standard. I signed up for this torture session, guess I need to just buck up and do it. And with every exhale on the crunches it's not "pufff"..."pufff"..."pufff", it's "WAIST"..."WAIST".."WAIST" The 30 minutes on the bicycle was the EASY part!!! But man...am I excited about what it's going to do for me!!!

And I lost that "water" weight I gained over the weekend....

Hope everybody has a great day and finds another pound gone in the morning!

[meena-beena]

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Good morning everyone.

I used to emotionally eat to deal with stress and since it's a daily part of my life I had to come up with something iron clad to get me through the first two weeks on induction. I simply told my husband to go out of his way being nice to me. lol.

I find though, that once I've finished a clean induction, I am better able to deal with stressful situations without turning to food. It's almost like someone has turned that part off in me.

School is starting here in a couple more weeks and I can't wait. The stress is always higher when all the kids are home in one place with nothing to do!

[MojosRising]

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Hello everybody!

ya know, I don't really have a plan for stress or times of crisis. Maybe thats one of the reasons I've derailed myself before. hmmmm... thx for giving me something to think about!

[Tomorrow_I'll_Be_Perfect]

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Crisis planning. Yes. For I think it would have to be "trigger" planning. Holidays and getting sick or "sad". When I'm not feeling well I instantly want to go back to the old ways to make myself feel better. It's horrible to say but it does make me feel better...until I realize how much weight I've gained. So much for feeling better. Nothing feels better about starting over!

Holiday and special occations...that's another story. Father's Day did it to me this year. My sister bought an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. I made it through "most" of the evening without having any, and just when she was packing it up to take it home I cracked. Of course I didn't stop there though. I'd already blown it, might as well eat all those cookies I'd had my eye on.

Crisis planning is a wicked idea!

So Jess.....I don't suppose you have any advice about how we could do that?

[Evermind]

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Well, Jess apparently has a psychic link to my mind and hasn't bothered to tell me, which is why I freak out when I read her posts. For SHAME!

So last night, as I was falling asleep (with good drugs, post-surgery) I started thinking about my other two times doing this WOE and what happened that made me stop. Both times it was because of a serious, serious crisis in our family. Things that literally made me have to jump on a plane and go. And after that, I couldn't get it back together again, partly because I hadn't been able (or willing?) to take the time to find what things I could eat and partly because, frankly, I needed comfort food, which for me is soft-boiled eggs with grits and cheese melted on toast.

I fell asleep before I could think about how to deal with that if it happens again.

So obviously, Jess continued my thinking and came up with a brilliant idea - PLAN AHEAD!

(for God's sakes, Jess, stop making so much sense.........it's confusing me!)

For me, back to school isn't a crisis. I'm a teacher, so we all go back to school, and nobody stresses.

But those family health and accident issues - they are definately a problem. So.....I am going to do two things: First, I'm going to try to keep an extra amount of food at all times in a bin in the fridge, just in case I need to leave really fast. (it has literally been airplane food that has been the first cheat for me - both times when flying to the aid of an injured loved one) Second, I'm making a list of acceptable, easy foods and putting it into my suitcase, so that if I have to leave, I'll have the list with me - no thinking required.

I feel pretty good today. A little pain from the incision, but nothing awful. I am going to rest today, though. I feel like it would be a good thing.

Have a lovely day, all!

[Tomorrow_I'll_Be_Perfect]

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You know Evermind, now that I think of it, the last time I was going great guns on Atkins and lost it was when I flew home for my sister's spinal surgery. Hospital food is NOT Atkins friendly. It was terrible. Plus my other sister was baking cookies and the such like they were staple food. She's a twig, but baking is her foothold on sanity.

An emergency list of legal food......you have some good ideas there......

[hopejoy]

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What a great thread going on here today!
Last night I went to dinner at mil... I knew there'd be some things illegal... so I put an atkins bar in my purse just in case I got hungry... She served fajitas... so I had the meat part, a tiny bit of beans, salad, cheese... and ate very slowly concentrating on the conversation... after dinner we sat outside... I was still hungry so I went inside and broke off a little bit of the atkins bar and nibbled on it... not even the whole thing... and I was good. For some reason at her house I am always extra hungry and struggle to stay on track... so with that little bit of planning I was able to... also had some almonds on my way over to help head off overwhelming hunger. and drank water.
This is a stressful time for me.... I have a few events ahead of me I am planning and just trying to stay on this woe, extra cooking, exersize, etc... has made me feel stressed. Feel a migrain coming on... am gonna lay low today.
liz