I have been posting so much on Facebook that I forgot to post here - and most of my posts are all video, so check out “Kitty’s YouTube Channel” which is the second link down on my home page! Here’s the latest! http://www.youtube.com/user/Kittystallings?feature=mhum
As I write this post it is Jan 3rd of 2011. Where did the time go? I remember thinking when I was ten years old that by the time the year 2000 came around I’d be VERY old.
Well, that was over ten years ago now and I never felt better! Truly, and losing weight has a lot to do with that.
Time goes by so quickly, is that why we get in such a big hurry to lose weight. I was fat or plump or obese all of my life and was always in a hurry to lose weight. It wasn’t until I slowed down and thought about how I was living and eating and running my life - that I was able to do the good work to make my eating habits make sense. They first of all needed to make sense to me. I was the person hiding food and eating in my car on the way to work, so no one would see me. It was me who bought Halloween candy and hid it all over my house to eat later when I was alone.
Why did I do that? I may never know. I only know that I don’t anymore and so far I’ve not gained my weight back. It’s almost like since I gave up what I call “Crazy Eating” I’m okay now. I still overeat sometimes, but I don’t buy 2 boxes of ice cream sandwiches at the grocery and eat one before I get home. I don’t buy two hamburger combo meals and pretend like one is for a co-worker and pay with separate money to make sure it looks like that. As a matter of fact I never go through the fast food drive through anymore. I go home and make my dinner every night. I get to eat more food, it’s better for me and it’s cheaper. Can’t get better than that. Tonight I’m having a pulled pork barbecue sandwich on homemade whole wheat bread and topped with spicy cole slaw. Not bad for a diet meal.
And that’s why I’m The Happy Dieter. I eat what I want, I just cook it differently now - so I don’t gain weight. I hope someday to show the world my way of cooking and eating. meanwhile - as long as you’re reading this post you might as well try out a recipe!
Happy new year! If you want to lose or maintain your weight - I hope you’ll find something that helps here at my site. And if you need help - email me. I’m always on the other end of an email. I LOVE to hear from you. It keeps me strong.
Love and thanks,
Kitty Stallings, RFP (recovering fat person)
As I write this blog it is Friday, November 26, 2010 and tonight my episode of Homemade Millionaire (hosted by Kelly Ripa) airs at 10:00 pm on TLC.
If you have come to my website as a result of watching that show - welcome. If this is your first time here for that reason or any other - I hope you look around and find things that can help you or anyone you may know that struggles with a food or weight issue.
In 2006 I began the journey of a lifetime - my weight loss journey and I’m still walking that path. If you are like me and struggled with this your entire life then I don’t have to tell you that this is a struggle that never goes away - BUT IT DOES GET BETTER!!! I reject the standard formula from the weight loss industry (and it IS a 65 BILLION dollar industry) which is that we need to retrain ourselves to love salad. I lost weight but my DNA is never going to change. I want and crave fried chicken, cheeseburgers and french fries. I’m not a criminal - I just want to eat those foods and sometimes I want to overeat those foods. So you can go to my “Recipe” section and find recipes for them that will contain the lowest amount of calories possible but they’re still delicious. My fried chicken is NOT made with cornflakes or fiber cereal. UGH!! Who thought cooking chicken with breakfast cereal was a good idea??? Chefs on TV that’s who - not people like me who want to eat and actually crave REAL fried chicken. If it’s on this web site I really eat it and I’ve lost 60 pounds and KEPT IT OFF!!! Losing weight - everyone can do that with degrees of success. I’ve probably lost a million pounds in my lifetime - but now I’m successfully keeping it off! YAY!!!
If you struggle and want help - email me. There’s contact info on this web site and I’m here. This is my life’s calling now. To advise anyone who wants my advice. I’m not a psychologist or a nutritionist - I’m an RFP - recovering fat person. If you currently live in an overweight body and would like to lose weight - I’m here for you because I am you. If you are happy just the way you are then I’m happy for you. I’m not on the “everyone needs to be a size four” bandwagon. Your weight is YOUR business and what you eat is YOUR business and yours alone.
After you check out the recipes - go to my YouTube channel and check out my TIPS. You can get there from my HOME page. You’ll see it listed there. I go and watch them to re-inspire myself. I’m a real person who has real urges, so I occasionally still need to hear my own advice.
I have a list of ESSENTIALS you can download and print out and this can get you started. These are items, food and otherwise, that help me daily.
And if you did watch my episode of Homemade Millionaire and wonder where you can buy my product, it is not manufactured yet, but there is a video posted in my VIDEOS that will show you how to make your own plate. The reason my plate has the specific design that is has, is because most portion plates have a design like a flower on them, but no real way to measure food so you can count calories. With my plate you measure the food one time, place it on the design and whichever graduated line the food lands in you know when you serve that same food (peas, corn or whatever) how much you’ll need to get 1/2 cup or 1 cup. If you’re piling food on a flower a serving of broccoli is going to be very different in calories from mashed potatoes. I feel that in order for me to keep my POWER OVER FOOD I have to know what I’m putting in my mouth in the way of calories. Even if I eat more than I should I still feel powerful because I know how many calories I’m eating. I’m the powerful one here - NOT that plate of food.
There is nothing that you’ve done with food that I haven’t done. I’ve hidden food all over my house. I’ve stood in a window stuffing ice cream sandwiches in my mouth so my husband wouldn’t catch me. I’ve ordered 2 and 3 combo meals at a fast food drive thru and paid for them with different stacks of money so the attendant would think I was buying food for more people than just me. And the list goes on and on..
If you have ever felt bad or guilty because you want and crave food - I’m here for you and if you want any advice my first tip is to let that guilt go. You are wonderful and beautiful and marvelous. You want to eat - that’s all and I’ll help you with that. It can be managed. Those urges may never go away - but I manage mine now so much so that I call myself The Happy Dieter - and you can be one too!!!!
And I co-host a radio show every Thursday morning at 8:00 am Central, 6:00 am Pacific Time called “Seth and Kitty Weighing In” and it is streamed live every week. Just go to www.hawg95.com and then you’ll see the ”Listen to Sports” icon - you click on that and you can listen and even call in! The number for the station is 662-283-1570. And I’m on the other end of the phone. I live in California but Skype into the station in Winona, MS. Seth Kent has welcomed me into my old hometown of Winona with open arms and I’m grateful..
So - Welcome and hello! Nice to meet you…I hope we talk very soon.
Love, Kitty Stallings
I don’t have to tell anyone reading this that life can be pretty hectic. So many things pull us all in so many directions that it’s amazing that we’re not all dizzy from spinning! It’s hard to find time to think much less write a blog -
BUT THAT’S NOT WHY I HAVEN’T WRITTEN ONE LATELY -
Lazy Kitty moved in and has been living at my Condo for about a month now. HA! I’ve been fortunate that Healthy Cooking Kitty cooked a TON of food and so my fridge is full of my great recipes - so no danger of overeating (I hope!) But that dang Lazy Kitty seems pretty settled in. I’ve got to figure out how to get her to move out! She’s like a friend that moves in while they’re looking for a new apartment and before you know it a month has passed and they’ve quit looking - YIKES! What to do?
Fortunately for me I have many past blogs I wrote to go read to figure this out - again. I keep saving myself from me. And here I go again!! Kitty to the rescue - for the millionth time! And you know what - that’s okay. Because I know there will be a million and one someday. Never feel bad if you do this. It’s just a phase NOT a failure! Remember that and love yourself. I do. That’s why I know (as my Mother used to say) “This too, will pass” …
Thanks to the amazing Jim (my web guy) I have a new link on my Home Page titled “Kitty’s YouTube Channel” and if you click it you can go directly to my video tips of the day that I’ve been recording for YouTube! The screen will show one video but just look above the screen and you’ll see a number for how many short videos I have posted on my channel - what them all if you can. Not a single video is longer than 2 minutes and these are words I totally LIVE and EAT by!
CHECK THEM OUT!!!
I was fortunate enough to be selected to be on the show Homemade Millionaire host by Kelly Ripa and my episode will air Friday, Nov 26th at 10:00 pm PT on Discovery/TLC!
That’s the Friday of Thanksgiving so catch it if you can!
We had a great show today I felt. We talked about my pulled pork sandwich - which is the current thing I’m eating to death! HA! - and had a great time! The recipe for the Pulled Pork is on this web site so give it a try! My posted recipe calls for 10-12 hours on low in the crock pot but this time I cooked it 5 hours on high and it turned out just the same - so much quicker!!!
And you don’t have to live in Mississippi anymore to hear us. You can go to www.hawg95.com and the click on the “Listen to Sports’ link and every Thursday we’ll be there live at 8:00 am Central Time!
So listen and give us a call! 662-283-1570 or 1571! I LOVE hearing from callers!
Be your own HERO?
Sounds very simple but if you won’t stand up for yourself and make your life count - who will? No knight in shining armor is coming to rescue you (not in this heat. HA!) or make bad things go away. Only you can do that - thing is, you have to believe you can. Nothing is impossible. You simply have to believe it IS possible and then do it. The believing is the tricky part. If you’ve struggled all your life with food and weight issues why would you now believe you can lick it? Maybe you should think in these terms - maybe I won’t try to lick it - maybe I’ll try to live with it. That’s what I’ve done - I now accept the part of me that’s a compulsive eater - and as a result my life is MUCH easier and my food is more manageable. I will never tell you that it’s easy, because it’s NOT! But I can do this now and so can you! You can! Write that on 50 Post It notes if you have to and put them everywhere.
Believing in yourself doesn’t happen overnight - but it DOES happen.
I’ll bet you thought to yourself “bad days” as you read the title above. You don’t even know what the actual subject of my blog is gonna be yet you probably thought this. Why do we do that? We can’t have good without evil - we can’t have sugar without salt and we can’t have good days on our weight loss and maintenance plan without bad days.
As you know I am not a Psychologist nor am I a Nutritionist - I’m an RFP (recovering fat person) and I spent YEARS of my life trying to go inside myself and figure all this out. But you know what? I was just wasting my time, because it seems that the answers to these kinds of questions keep changing all the time.. and as a result I was constantly confusing myself with different answers. Life is a journey and so is how you eat and deal with food and weight - always changing.
So - I have chosen to accept all that I am, and that I will have mostly good days - but there will be some bad and I will NOT focus so much on them. Life can be a bowl of cherries but as you and I both know cherries that sit too long rot. I tend to lean more toward the Forrest Gump way of thinking - that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get, but even the worst piece of chocolate is still good. And yes, all this talk about chocolate has made me want some. Good thing I have a fresh ripe, sweet peach with my name on it in the refrigerator right now. Life is not only like a box of chocolates, it’s also about choices and making sure you have good ones to choose from when you start talking about boxes of chocolates and a craving starts!
So go have a good day!
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