Minders
Finding inspiration
There was a discussion last night at class that really was very illuminating. I just thought I'd share it with you guys, as it really made me think.
There is this woman who can't understand why she isn't losing much, maybe 1/2 a pound here and there, or even a gain. She swears she's following the plan and has even done food diaries which don't show anything too bad, and she rarely exceeded 15 syns. So it was opened up as a discussion to the class to see if anyone could offer any suggestions or tips.
Two really interesting things came out of that discussion. One person said that if you actually wrote down every single little thing you ate during the day, and that includes the stuff that a lot of us don't count, like that little bit of ketchup, or that scrape of mayonnaise, etc. All those things that are listed as syns per tablespoon or whatever measure, so we just have a bit less than that and forget about it... all those things really do add up to syns if we're completely honest about it.
And this was the real surprise, it turns out this woman has about 10 cups of coffee a day from the machine at work. But because she just has white with no sugar, just counted it as her milk allowance. On the face of it, that sounds logical. They're only little cups. But of course, those machine coffees don't have milk, it's some sort of whitener, and our consultant said that those coffees, even though they're quite small, are actually quite high in syns. She couldn't remember exactly but estimated something like 3 or 4 per cup (but did say she'd need to verify this). But for arguments sake, let's say they're only 2 syns per cup, at 10 cups a day, that's 20 syns!!! Plus the other syns that she was counting.
It was a watershed moment for a few of us last night! If you don't think you're having the losses you should, it really is worth actually writing down every, single thing you eat and drink during the day, because chances are, there are things you think nothing about that are sabotaging your progress.
I just thought I'd share that with you all in case it helps anyone else along the way.
There is this woman who can't understand why she isn't losing much, maybe 1/2 a pound here and there, or even a gain. She swears she's following the plan and has even done food diaries which don't show anything too bad, and she rarely exceeded 15 syns. So it was opened up as a discussion to the class to see if anyone could offer any suggestions or tips.
Two really interesting things came out of that discussion. One person said that if you actually wrote down every single little thing you ate during the day, and that includes the stuff that a lot of us don't count, like that little bit of ketchup, or that scrape of mayonnaise, etc. All those things that are listed as syns per tablespoon or whatever measure, so we just have a bit less than that and forget about it... all those things really do add up to syns if we're completely honest about it.
And this was the real surprise, it turns out this woman has about 10 cups of coffee a day from the machine at work. But because she just has white with no sugar, just counted it as her milk allowance. On the face of it, that sounds logical. They're only little cups. But of course, those machine coffees don't have milk, it's some sort of whitener, and our consultant said that those coffees, even though they're quite small, are actually quite high in syns. She couldn't remember exactly but estimated something like 3 or 4 per cup (but did say she'd need to verify this). But for arguments sake, let's say they're only 2 syns per cup, at 10 cups a day, that's 20 syns!!! Plus the other syns that she was counting.
It was a watershed moment for a few of us last night! If you don't think you're having the losses you should, it really is worth actually writing down every, single thing you eat and drink during the day, because chances are, there are things you think nothing about that are sabotaging your progress.
I just thought I'd share that with you all in case it helps anyone else along the way.