Hi everyone, I haven’t posted here since the fall, but I still log on and see what’s new every so often. Anyways, I saw something today that I thought was too funny!
From this month’s “Real Simple”:
The question of the month was: What is your secret for staying healthy? Here’s the answer I loved!
“Learning to knit has been a big help for my waistline. In the winter especially, it’s easy to veg out in front of the TV and snack mindlessly. Instead, I knit to keep my hands busy with something other than food, and I wind up with great homemade gifts.”
Now when you’re knitting, just tell people that you’re “working out!”
:cheering:
I seriously did lose weight when I started knitting every night–who can eat Cheetos when you’ve got lovely yarn to handle? It’s when I started skipping entire meals to knit that I got in trouble. :teehee: I’m working on that one, though. I still don’t snack in the evenings at all–not enough hands. :shrug:
gee thanks Brendajos… i linked to your site, then saw the curiosly named ‘Steve don’t eat it’ link, where i have spent the last 2 hours cringing, but unable to stop reading… GROSSIOSO!!!
Unfortunately, I don’t knit very much at night, because I only see my boyfriend then and I don’t want to be knitting all the time when he’s around, so knitting isn’t dieting for me (yet, just wait till I’ve got my own house)
I don’t know about the diet part as I don’t snack in the evenings anyway, but it has helped me cut down on my smoking in the evenings while watching DVDs.
It helped me lose weight and kinda got my whole weight loss thing going…I can’t snack cause I’m knitting and my hands are busy… I’m kinda a bored eater if I don’t have something to do but just watch tv I will eat… I started eating better a year ago and so far have lost 46lbs… I just got 7 more and I’ll reach my goal… which I was closer to before I went home for the holidays… :oops:
You can still eat Cheetos while knitting, do like I do and I use a toothpick to pick them up with. You eat one at a time and no orange fingers! :teehee:
I’m the same way. I’m not a big snacker but I used knitting to help me quit smoking and it did keep me from munching when I was going through the withdraw, so I didn’t really gain after I quit. Knitting. What can’t it do?
You mean you don’t just pour it out of the bag into your mouth? :teehee:
Needless to say, I’m a cheeto fan too. If you’re curious to know what this means, click [b]here[/b]!
As for eating and knitting, DH and I have a system. When one of us has our hands occupied (for him it’s with video games), the free person pops a morsel of snackage into the other’s mouth upon the hearing the signal – “cheep!” (Unlike real baby birds, we skip the regurgitation part. ;))
I know you guys have read the Debbie Macomber books…(btw way…back on Blossom st. comes out in May I think…) Isn’t knitting how the girl in book two lost weight…or was that the first book…the one who went to live w/ her grandmother…she said somewhere that it kept her from snacking ( I think…or maybe I just made it up…)
I’ve stopped eating after dinner, and it has been the HARDEST thing to do! I’ve realized that I just can’t sit at the computer too much in the evenings, cause then I start to get bored and want to snack. If I sit downstairs and watch tv and knit, I do just fine. (If I start getting bored with a project I have to switch out, though. Have to keep moving or I get snacky.)
:teehee: 
