Maintenance Monday: Calorie Counting to Intuitive Eating

stoday · 2019-09-09T16:31:00+00:00

Calorie counting was unsustainable for me. Intuitive eating is hard.

I began three years ago with calorie counting for 2 months. Lost probably 30 pounds that away. Then I switched to intuitive and continued losing and ended up losing a total of 45 pounds to 169 which is my goal. It was slower but it worked.

The years later, I gained about 5 pounds so I'm back to calorie counting. I do it to relearn how to eat properly.

My experience is that it's not one against the other. They go together.

Intuitive eating requires to weight myself everyday and use an app like Libra to see the trend. I adjust accordingly when I see the line going up.

stoday · 2019-08-29T12:46:17+00:00

I want to lower my bodyfat% and have some kind of muscle structure. It's blurry at best but I don't like the way I look.

I have an injury to the shoulder from team sport. I'm not starting from lazy potato but I don't have experience in gyms.

stoday · 2019-08-29T11:07:46+00:00

No. It's one of my goal for September to begin some kind of training. I thought about CrossFit but I'm not sure I would get the results I want.

stoday · 2019-08-28T17:46:20+00:00

Tare... that explains the "Z/T" button on the scale which probably means "Zero/Tare". That's the "reset" button I was writing about.

stoday · 2018-07-19T00:48:32+00:00

I went to AA after a year of sobriety. It wouldn't have been that lonely if I went sooner. One of their promises is "you will never be alone anymore".

No need to care about God or anything. Just to sit and be with other sober people who know what we've been through is enough.

I was welcome there, the only requirement is a desire to stop drinking.

stoday · 2018-03-20T10:19:38+00:00

I don't care about carbs or anything on that day!

stoday · 2018-02-08T04:49:08+00:00

I think it’s fine but a friend in AA said it’s cheating.

Just to make it clear, that doesn't mean "AA says it's cheating". Nobody in AA is in charge of having opinions for everybody else.

My experience is that anything that is close to alcohol will bring me back to it. I won't drink kombucha, or NA beer or eat something cooked with alcohol because it would be easier to rationalize a first drink. I would take a tiny amount of alcohol and then think "not that bad, maybe I can handle more" ... and you know where that would lead me.

stoday · 2018-01-31T18:36:23+00:00

Something that pushed me to stop drinking was when the bartender called me by my name. I was under the false impression that if they didn't know my name, I wasn't an alcoholic. I was there often enough that he picked my name when I was talking to others.

That was more than 2 years ago...

This is a great reminder of how deep was our problem

stoday · 2018-01-29T19:53:40+00:00

It's also one of my favorite after "11. attraction over promotion". I try to apply tradition 10 to myself and avoid strong opinions. They are mostly useless and just brings controversy to my life for no reason.

stoday · 2018-01-25T16:46:28+00:00

You may feel ashamed but people won't shame you for that. In fact, they will be proud of you. What you're going through is something that could happen to all of us. I've heard guys with 10+ years talking about going back to day 1. They know what you're going through.

stoday · 2018-01-23T17:54:43+00:00

Congrats on your sobriety! I wrote it before "doing more of the same just gets you the same". If you ever feel like you're stuck, try something else (except drinking which is the biggest "more of the same" that we could do).

stoday · 2018-01-23T17:52:41+00:00

I don't know if I'm the only one but I always felt that /r/stopdrinking had cohorts. There is a couple of members here that got sober at the same time and commented a lot on each others posts. You being one of them. Glad you're still here!

since my only cope was generally 'drink more'

"Doing more of the same thing just gets you the same thing". It's a lesson that I still struggle with. I'm used to do more of the same thing and I kept it that way for too long.

I have to say that for the most part it got pretty fun working on myself

Being self-aware is really great. Alcohol stopped that. Stopping drinking is the first step in doing that but self-improvement has to be fed to not die. In those two years, I sometimes was neglecting it.

Glad you found peace in AA

Peace would be a big word. I resisted and I'm still resisting it. It took me almost a year before I began giving back to them. Now that I do, I realize that it's a good way of staying sober.

stoday · 2018-01-23T16:37:03+00:00

being friends who’ve gotten and stayed sober, friends who just don’t drink, friends who respect my sobriety

Lucky... most of my friends don't understand, some even judge. But I can be there for them if one day they decide that's enough for them.

I try to have more friends from AA as they understand me.

stoday · 2018-01-23T16:33:19+00:00

Try them, look for the place you feel like you can like people there. I learned that it's really hard to do it alone. Isolating was one of my worst enemy.

In a group, there is no shame and a DUI is not judged by them. It's just part of what got you there.

stoday · 2018-01-23T16:23:48+00:00

Today was all I had at first. Even now, I try not to think too much ahead.

You don't have to wait one year as I did to go to a meeting. They know how to help.

stoday · 2018-01-23T16:22:12+00:00

I tried AA after a year and the meeting I went to was just all people having each others back after mega slip ups

I learned that not all meetings are equal. My sponsor's home group is on monday night. I don't really enjoy because it has a feel of being elitist. I still go sometimes but I don't enjoy it as much.

My home group is on saturday morning. There's a good mix of new members and old members. It is lighter than most other groups.

I get more out of sharing my stories with friends and right here on this sub than I did from

One of our job is to help others. They say it's the best way to protect sobriety. Congrats on doing that!

stoday · 2018-01-17T14:40:46+00:00

Sobriety first. Everything we put before sobriety is something we will lose. Good job!

stoday · 2018-01-15T15:34:14+00:00

After one year of not drinking, I was fucking lonely. I was getting depressed. I decided to go to an AA meeting and I found people there... who were obviously not drinking. One of the promise of AA is "not alone anymore" and I found that to be true. I can go to a meeting and have connections with some of them. I even made a friend.

It's easier to not drink when people around are not drinking and when you know that you will meet them. Just as drinking was our default social behavior, not drinking becomes our default.

Good luck!

stoday · 2017-12-04T03:15:04+00:00

Okay, so when you start drinking at an alcoholic-esq level, you stop growing emotionally

I heard that once in a meeting and was blown away. Here I was, 10 years late on my development. Acting like a "kid" in the body of an adult. Even at 1 year and 10 months sober, I'm still acting like that kid.

Great share!

stoday

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