Hey all,
I am good this morning - I am in ketosis (checked this morning) and have quite a lot of energy today.
Also I bought an ANIMAL belt 2 weekends ago and on the last notch it was a bit tight, well today I am sat here with it on the 2nd notch - how exciting. It doesn't look very attractive with my wobbly bits hanging over a bit but on notch 1 by jeans were starting to fall down so notch 2 had to be done. How exciting. That is with 2 shakes a day plus a low carb meal in the evening I am so happy as 100% ssing really stresses me out and i end up cheating but at the minute I get through the day by knowing what I am going to cook that night.
Last night I had 2 chicken breasts stuffed with philli and spinach then wrapped in bacon and cooked at gas 6 for 25 mins. The night before I had chicken breast stirfry with cabbage, mushrooms and onion, a tiny bit of sweet chilli sauce and soy sauce.
Hope you all have a fab day.
So far I have had 2 black coffees and one shake.
I really want to get into the back into the 14s by Monday and only the weekend can sabotage me. But I read one of mikes No Willpower Required newsletters. Mike is Icemoose if you are not familiar wih him then he lost mega amounts of weight on CD and has now gone on to helping other people with weight issues to understand why they are overeating, to make good decisions about food and to reduce their weight forever. You can see the below link and see how amazing he has done.
Anyway, back to the point - one of his newsletter on
Mike Scott's No Willpower Required Newsletter introduced me to beneficial intent. By realising the true benefit of something you are doing then
you control whether or not you should do it.
I have copied and pasted the idea below from the newsletter as its easier than trying to explain it myself.
By realising the true benefit you can then control the action!
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I remember when I first understood beneficial intent that for me it was like a eureka moment and therefore I want to share the idea with you and hope you will also get great benefit from it 
If you think that everything you do, and I mean everything you do, has an initial benefit linked to it, then you can understand why you do what you do. Even if that action has a negative outcome then the original intent would have been beneficial.
For example, if you have had an argument with someone then you might well go and grab a chocolate bar and eat it. You could just argue that it isn't a benefit so therefore why did you do it. But the reality is that the original beneficial intent of having the food was to "cheer yourself up" and hence your mind was trying to make you happier. The fact that ultimately you will become overweight / obese is a negative outcome but the initial intent was very much positive.
So whenever you do anything and can't understand why you did it, instead of beating yourself up and generally saying you can't believe you did it, think instead of what the benefit was of doing it. When you realise the benefit you can then change the original action next time to still get the benefit, but without the destructive outcome.
When I was big I used to hate being by myself, therefore whenever Jo used to go to work I used to binge eat out of the cupboards in the kitchen. I always said I didn't know why I did it, but the reason I did it was that I was trying to change my emotional state from being lonely to enjoying the food. Now I am slim, I realise that actually I don't like being by myself because I am a sociable chap, so now I chat to my friends on the phone, come on the internet and write a few E-Mails or go on Facebook. Therefore, I have realised the original intent was to stop me being lonely but the way I was doing that was making me very very overweight, now I choose instead to keep in touch with people which gives me the same result but without the negative outcomes.
So remember ultimately everything you do is to help you, whenever you eat when maybe you think you shouldn't, or drink when you shouldn't or put an extra £50 on the overdraft then think , 'what was the benefit of doing that? '
Finally I was explaining this to someone the other day and they asked me this question "OK, what was the benefit of being big then Mike?", I sat for a few seconds before answering, "Because people never used to push me about then", it was another revelation to me as I realised that when I was at my biggest I had this hidden benefit in my mind of being some sort of tough guy (which I never was!).
(from nowillpowerrequired.co.uk) by Mike Scott
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It certainly hit home with me and I am now questioning what I am about to do and what benefits that packet of crisps or piece of toast I am cravingwill give me.
Hope this helps some of you.
Peachy
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