You're welcome Linda! It makes me feel good to know that I encourage someone out there :-)
Speaking of motivation, here's what I did to keep myself motivated... I grabbed my phone and took a picture of the scale while standing on it and made it my wallpaper!
It works. :)
Oh, I don't update it either, I leave it at my worst weight.
Hang in there!
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Linda McErlean <linda4686401@...> wrote:
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> Travis,
> Your email was what I needed to reflect on. I too have been going off and on since May. I too found that when I eat earlier than 4:00 I usually go past my window. Also my sugar cravings are bad. Need to cut back on that. Today I wanted a morning waffle but tried on some clothes that were tight that I used to get into and that was enough to stop me! Coming here for encouragement really works. I have been MIA for a while and need to get back to it. Vacation is coming up and it would be nice to lose a few pounds before I go. Thanks for your email!
> Linda
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> Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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> On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:44 PM, "tfoley926" <travis.foley@...> wrote:
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> I will keep this fairly short, but I'm new to the group (sorta). I first joined back about 4 or 5 years ago. This is not my first time with F5, I've been on and off of it during this time. I have keep very good notes on my progress through all of that and I sat down last night and reviewed it all to figure out why this just never worked for me long term?
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> I keep coming back to it because:
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> I know it works because I lose weight EVERY time
> It really helps me discipline myself when it comes to eating and keeps me from allowing food to control my life
> I experience other health benefits from this as well such as lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and lower triglycerides.
> It's very convenient when I don't have to mess with making breakfast and packing a full lunch for work.
> I save money on groceries and snacks during the day
> I FEEL better and I'm more confident when I feel light and my clothes fit me better
> I never battle fatigue in the afternoons or on the drive home, I'm always alert
> I know I could think of more, but 7 is enough. :)
>
> So you may be asking yourself, why have I not stuck with this then? Why all of the starting and stopping?
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> What I experience consistently as I read back through all everything I have written can be summed up in one of my entries from back in 2009.
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> Here's what I wrote:
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> "I'm stopping Fast5 because I'm tired of feeling tired, weak, spacey and irritable. Even after I eat I find myself being more irritable than I normally am. The weightloss was great, but it's not worth the side-effects. Also, it's affecting my performance at work. My short term memory really seems to suffer even though it is supposed to be sharper some how? It's not and I cannot seem to subside the spacey feeling using everyone's advice either. I thought I could do this, but cannot sustain this for the long haul."
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> I would go on over the next 3 or 4 years starting back up and ultimately having to quit for pretty much the same reasons.
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> At one point I started doing the Warrior Diet and that was horrible and made everything worse. I started doing Weight Watchers and that worked for a while, but I felt that was harder to maintain because of all of the tracking and counting and everything.
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> F5 fits my lifestyle better than anything else I've tried, I just have to get through this issue of the dizziness.
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> I have been doing a lot of reading again and I'm back (again) to give this a shot and go at it from one angle that I haven't tried yet. I am on week 3 this time around and I am doing very well actually. What I am changing this time around is my window. In the past I have consistently kept a window of 2:00 - 7:00. Looking back over everything I saw a pattern of extending my window because of one thing or another. I'm doing a window of 5:00 - 10:00 PM like the book suggests this time and today is actually going to be the first day that I hit it. So far this time around, my window has been in the 2:30/3:00 PM time frame when I opened it. Today will be 5:00 PM.
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> This new window will:
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> completely eliminate the need to bring any food to work
> eliminate the issue of eating too early and messing up my window if the family ends up eating later after dinner... I don't have to miss out
> help me keep from over eating... in other words, I won't be eating lunch AND dinner. I end up eating lunch and dinner both, and then some... this will just be one meal (dinner) and a snack or something later.
> I'm keeping a close eye on any advice that I see posted. What helps me is to read about what others are experiencing. When I know others have experienced the same things, but stuck it out and the symptoms subside, that gives me hope to keep at it.
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> One of my downfalls before has been fudging a little when the weight came off. Once I started doing that, it became more routine and before I knew it I had drifted very far from the routine and it was hard to get going again.
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> Anyway, that was a very long post, I apologize.
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> I look forward to reading about everyone's progress and challenges and I'm very encouraged that long term success for me is just ahead!
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> travis
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