The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 354, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 20, 2008 Page: 20 of 28
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• SUNDAY, JULY 20 2008
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FRESH TOMATO SALSA
or group
ular food, passing by a break the habit.
emotional distress.
1
techniques
to a trigger, try one of the binge and teach you to
sonal relationships and a sporting event, etc.
unwanted weight gain.
By identifying what for eating. For example, magazine or listen to niques, contact your doc-
triggers our eating, we can scolding oneself for looks music
tor.
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As you learn to incor-
Do deep breathing porate more appropriate
and take food and weight For example, increased exercises
coping strategies and to
Play cards or a board curb excessive eating.
Do housework, laundry We tend to repeat behav-
gers excessive eating in or yard work
you, keep a food diary that
Or do any other plea- tion management goals.
game
Talk to a friend
Lost this week: 1 bs.
Loss to date: 38 1/2 lbs
Lost this week: 0 lbs
Loss to date: 8 1/2 lbs
VONDA FIELDS
Age: 50
Height: 5‘4-1/2"
Wants to lose 16.6%
of weight
Relaxation exercises
Meditation
Lost this week: 1/2 lb.
Loss to date: 14 1/2 lbs
Wash the car
Write a letter
Lost this week: +2 lbs.
Loss to date: 11 lbs.
4 cups diced tomatoes
3/4 cup finely diced red onion
1/4 cup red-wine vinegar
1 jalapeno, seeded and minced
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
Eating Triggers?
Situations and emotions
that trigger us to eat fall
into five main categories.
LYDIA ALCORTA
Age: 54
Height: 5’6”
Wants to lose
26.82% of weight
Go for a walk or jog
Take a bubble bath
Individual
counseling
These
remember to reward your-
self for a job well done.
iors that have been rein-
forced, so reward yourself
when you meet your nutri-
DIDNT WEIGH IN
Loss to date: 37 lbs.
Lost this week: 41/2 bs
Loss to date: 45 lbs
Lost this week: 0 bs.
Loss to date: 4 lbs
I Dietary Fiber: 1 g
! Fat: 0 g
J Protein: 0 g
I Sugars: 2 g
HONORABLE
MENTION
BONNIE COX
Age:67
Height: 5’4”
Wants to lose
21.73% of weight
THOMASITA
GUERRERO
Age: 47
Height: 5’
Wants to lose
16.8% of weight
JEFF COON
Age: 65
Height: 5’10”
Wants to lose
10.20% of weight
THIS WEEK’S
SMALLEST WINNER
1
1
1
1
1
1
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Congratulations
to Lydia for
losing 4 1/2 lbs.
since her last
weigh-in.
headaches or other pain.
To identify what trig-
RHONDA FAGAN
Age: 28
Height: 5’5”
Wants to lose
13.57% of weight
GLADYS HAND
Age: 59
Height: 5’ 2”
Wants to lose
21.73% of weight.
MARY WAYNE
MOATES
Age: 68
Height: 5’ 3-1/2”
Wants to lose
17.09% of weight
Lost this week: 312 bs.
Loss to date: 27 1/2 bs
Readers can e-mail words of
encouragement,
weight loss tips, or
even your own weight
loss stories to:
smallestin08@yahoo.com
Honorable Mention
goes to
Mary Wayne Moates
for losing
3 1/2 lb. since her
last weight in.
Altus Times
The “Smallest Winner” is a contest and feature that is
tracking these 8 Altus Times readers as they follow
through with their New Year’s Resolutions to lose weight.
Still Hungry?
activities XZ“ ! Fresh and easy, this recipe yields about 5
I cups of salsa. Reserve 1 cup for Quick
Guacamole and still have enough to serve
I Combine tomatoes, onion, vinegar,
} jalapeno, cilantro, salt and cayenne in a
I medium bowl. Refrigerate until ready to
I serve.
I Yield: 10 servings
problems. Eating becomes because the opportunity is pattern, eating in response emotional stress, try
Social. Eating when records what and when
around other people. For you eat as well as what
feelings instead of hunger, quacy around other peo- quickly. Keep Me From Eating?
Experts at Web MD esti- ple. How Do 1 Break Sometimes simply dis- *
mate that 75% of overeat- Emotional. Eating in Myself of the Habit? tracting yourself from eat । Nutrition Info
ing is caused by emotions, response to boredom, identifying eating trig- ing and developing alter I Per Serving
Many of us learn that stress, fatigue, tension, gers is the first step: how- native habits is not enough | Calories: 21 kcal
food can bring comfort, at depression, anger, anxiety ever, this alone is not suf- to manage the emotional | Carbohydrates: 4 g
least in the short-term. As or loneliness as a way to ficient to alter eating distress that leads to
a result, we often turn to "fill the void." behavior. Usually, by the excessive eating. To more
food to heal emotional Situational. Eating time you have identified a effectively cope with
gain out of the equation. hunger due to skipping
How Can I Identify meals or eating to cure
a habit preventing us from there. For example, at a to emotions or certain sit-
learning skills that can restaurant, seeing an uations has become a pat-
effectively resolve our advertisement for a partic- tern. Now you have to
substitute more appropri- or a lack of will power,
ate techniques to manage Physiological. Eating in
our emotional problems response to physical cues.
Depression, boredom, bakery. Eating may also Developing alternatives
worth or making excuses Read a good book or information on these tech-
75% of overeating is emotional
Emotional eating is the example, excessive eating stressors, thoughts, or surable or necessary activ-
practice of consuming can result from being emotions you identify as ity until the urge to eat
large quantities of food -- encouraged by others to you eat. You should begin passes
usually "comfort" or junk eat; eating to fit in: argu- to identify patterns to your What If Distracting
foods - in response to ing; or feelings of inade- excessive eating fairly Myself Isn’t Enough to
poor self-esteem can Thoughts. Eating as a following
result in overeating and result of negative self- instead.
loneliness, chronic anger, be associated with certain to eating is the second address the underlying
anxiety, frustration, stress, activities such as watching step. When you start to emotional problems
problems with inlerper- TV,going to the movies or reach for food in response which are causing you to
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Bush, Michael. The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 354, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 20, 2008, newspaper, July 20, 2008; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2183119/m1/20/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.