Originally Posted by masi61
Good idea about resetting the hunger thermostat, Mr.
AIR.
Your handle reminds me of a get in shape mental "affirmation" I used to repeat over and over in my head back in my early 20's. You see, I had just gone over 200 pounds for the first time in my life and I decided that I was going to get back into a running program. I was inefficient at first and started repeating "light and airy" or "light and smooth" or something to that effect over and over in my head while I was jogging, especially as I upped the intensity on hills and so forth. My thinking at the time was that if I believed it, then it was possible to make it happen. You know what, it did work...but only for a while until longer term sedentary habits took their toll.
You do get comfortable with a certain amount of food intake and before you know it you are way over-eating. One way I know is because I start getting "GERD" - gastric reflux, and I end up getting up during the night to eat Tums.
Anyway, I tried to insert some humor into my first post to offset some of the humbling, even mildly disgusting aspects of porking out all over again -
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Masi, it happens to all of us. The motivation needs to come from inside....in making saner shoices. Don't treat it as a diet, because it isn't, it's just choosing to make better choices! You don't do this for anybody else, just yourself!
As to getting back in the saddle again? Try riding the Rollers with Aerosmith pumping out of the speakers....the song "Back in the Saddle Again" is a great adrenaline pumper!
By the way, my Wiki got migrated and I have to update my links, so if y'all click it and it shows gone, it's the same address but ends with .is now (only change!).