I didn't realize it had been so long since I stopped by here. The summer was difficult to stay on track. I held steady though. I just didn't work hard like I should have or I would be much further along than I am.
Now that the kids are in school, I have a little bit of time for myself. Especially in the mornings, till 11am, as my youngest is now in Pre-K. But it's just under 3 hours that he's gone. Yet it's enough time for me. So I've been going to the gym on T,W,TH,F. I love this time to myself. I can put my headphones on and no one is poking me or asking me questions every 2.3 seconds. I can get on that treadmill or elliptical and actually listen to my own music, MY OWN, not Kids Bop, or some other random thing. I don't have to worry about anyone getting into anything they shouldn't be, because they are all at school! It is all ME time. And I love it! It sounds selfish, but I never really realized that I don't get that kind of time very often where I can turn my mind off and not keep watch every 2 minutes. It's a very peaceful feeling. And when I'm done with the treadmill, I leave the headphones on and go hit the circuit weights. The weights are my favorite part. I love feeling my muscles stretching out.
So one day, I met up with Jerry, a personal trainer. He's 60 years old, but he could take down the closest 18 year old before they even blinked. He was so patient and kind with me and I felt comfortable instantly. It's nice to have someone so encouraging inside that gym when you need the help. We will revisit my needs in 6 weeks and switch up my program some.
But there has already been a bump in the road. Last week, I came down with the nastiest cold I've had in a long time. Today is one week and I am still down for the count. It's not the flu, but it's one of the nastiest colds I've ever come across outside of the flu. I was worried about not working out, but I've been coughing so much that I think I've been burning as many cardio and circuit weight calories by hacking so much. And I am not hungry either, must be because of all of the snot I can't help but swallow (Ewww, I know, gross) so I have had no appetite either and really not eating much. I was worried though, about not working out this week and laying around so much that I would gain weight. But I'm happy to report that I am down 4lbs this week! So if I HAD TO HAVE a cold, then I'm glad I can at least walk away with a 4lb loss. Won't make me feel SO bad for having missed a week.
I'm hoping to get back to the gym by Tuesday morning and get this whole thing back on track for me.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about food lately, for health benefits, for reasons outside of my own health. And I admit I'm confused as to the correct way to eat. I love WW, because I can eat what I want within reason, but I also think it's time I make some big changes in my family, the way we have been eating and I'm starting to understand just how bad eating processed food can be for your body, your health and it's a bit of a wake up call. I'm really leaning to eating whole foods/clean eating. It will be a very big adjustment for our family, and I'm thinking a slow conversion will be best (while I read up and learn myself). A lifestyle change needs to take place in this house as soon as possible. It will be difficult for a while, but I want my family to have the best benefits through health that I can. It means breaking some very bad longterm habits.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Pizza
I have lost 12 pounds altogether. But I think I can do better. While I've been making better choices, there are times I could do much better. I truly struggle with food. For example, I've been wanting pizza. Really bad. I miss it. So yesterday, the boys and I were in the pool all morning. I teetered on the edge of ordering pizza or making our lunch. In the end, the pizza won. But the pizza didn't taste as good as I was imagining it would. And I felt guilty for eating it. So we went back out to the pool for the rest of the afternoon. I worked and played hard in the pool all day yesterday. Did some cardio and of course playing with the boys burns a lot of calories too.
Fortunately, the scale did not show my pizza binge. Nor did I lose weight. But I didn't gain. I'm the same today as I was yesterday. Only today, I will eat my healthy lunch and not feel guilty!
Fortunately, the scale did not show my pizza binge. Nor did I lose weight. But I didn't gain. I'm the same today as I was yesterday. Only today, I will eat my healthy lunch and not feel guilty!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
GIRLS WEEKEND!!!
Each year, the last weekend of June (well, really from that Wednesday through Sunday) my two friends, Michelle and Jen, we get together. All of our kids (and between us, that's 8 kids) are all left with the husbands and or grandparents. We get together at my house and we do nothing but swim, soak up the sun, gossip, shop and eat. This has been such a blessing to me each year. The chance to guilt free send my children to grandma's house and get the much deserved mommy break that I need!
I was a little worried about this particular visit in regards to me eating and losing weight. I decided not to stress about it and just eat. Not out of control, but a stickler either. I ended up losing just over 4lbs over the 5 days that my girlfriends were here. That just blows my mind. We ate at Outback one night, then Miyako another night (Japanese Steakhouse) and some home made things. I was shocked! I thought for sure I would gain, but I didn't. Either way, I'm still happy. I think it's good to shake things up every now and then and keep your body guessing. While I don't have another "Shake Up" in the plan, I will remember this when I hit a plateau.
Or is it that my kids were at Grandma's for 5 days and I wasn't stressed? LOL!!
Only time will tell.
I was a little worried about this particular visit in regards to me eating and losing weight. I decided not to stress about it and just eat. Not out of control, but a stickler either. I ended up losing just over 4lbs over the 5 days that my girlfriends were here. That just blows my mind. We ate at Outback one night, then Miyako another night (Japanese Steakhouse) and some home made things. I was shocked! I thought for sure I would gain, but I didn't. Either way, I'm still happy. I think it's good to shake things up every now and then and keep your body guessing. While I don't have another "Shake Up" in the plan, I will remember this when I hit a plateau.
Or is it that my kids were at Grandma's for 5 days and I wasn't stressed? LOL!!
Only time will tell.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Breakfast IS the most important meal of the day!
I've heard it and read it for years, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You should never skip breakfast, yada, yada, yada...
In my adult life, I rarely ate a regular breakfast, unless we were going out to eat for breakfast or on vacation. Since I've had kids (my oldest is 9 1/2) I've made sure to feed them breakfast of Oatmeal, pancakes, fruit, cereal, healthy things. But I never sat down to eat breakfast. Unless we went out and of course, if we went out to B'fast, I certainly didn't chose healthy things.
A few months ago, I was reading some more info and decided I would really give breakfast a good try. For years, my breakfast has been a 24 ounce coffee and sometimes a donut on the go, to go with my hot drink. But as the day would wear on, I would get jittery from the caffeine and blood sugar crashes, so bad that I would eat whatever I could get my hands on for lunch and it usually wasn't a good choice. Then I'd find myself making up for more food around dinner time and making even worse choices. It was a constant battle. And even though I knew I should eat B'fast, it never occurred to me that if I did eat B'fast, that maybe the rest of my day could be more controlled than it had been.
So I did some research on how to best fill myself up in the morning to set my day up for the better. I hate eggs. But I decided to give them another try and found out that I really like eggs over easy or over medium. So how best to fry and egg without really frying it? I bought Olive Oil Spray Pam. Then cooked the egg that way. Very little oil, since it's a spray, so technically I don't consider the egg fried. I found I really like the egg with a lot of fresh ground pepper. But surely one egg is not enough. More protein would be another option, but I really didn't want unhealthy bacon or sausage and I really like the veggie soy meat, so I opted for Morning Star Farms Veggie sausages (SO GOOD!) and then I figured I needed some sort of carb, but decided to aim for a complex carb instead of a heavily refined carb. I ended up narrowing down my carb to Thomas's Whole Grain Lite English Muffins. Oh, these are SO good. But I didn't want it plain and I didn't want it with butter either. So I did some more reading and found out that laughing cow lite cheese wedges sounded pretty good and ended up choosing the French Onion. But I wanted something sweet too. So I used the wedge on one side and then used Smuckers Simply Fruit on the other side, in raspberry. This meal is so rounded for me that it satisfies me in ways I didn't know a breakfast could. And sure enough, I felt great after eating this breakfast. I wasn't as ravenously hungry at lunch time and I felt that I could make a much more reasonable decision for my lunch meal and that I wouldn't end up on a binge that I couldn't control. And since I ate a decent lunch, I felt I was better to plan a decent dinner too. Especially if I made a conscious effort to snack sometime between lunch and dinner. I found that I wanted to make my own dinner of chicken and veggies instead of picking up the phone and ordering pizza. I'm not saying that I never gave into my binges, but this plan was working out a hell of a lot better for me than anything had in the last 10 years. So I decided Breakfast was indeed the most important meal of the day. If you get started right with the right filling foods, your body will have the fuel it needs to get started for the day. Your stomach (and brain) will be filled with the right things propelling you (me) to make better decisions regarding other meals in the day. If I started off FEELING like I made great choices for breakfast, I felt like it was easier to set myself up with better meals for the rest of the day.
I've been eating B'fast like this for a few months. I alter my meals around, substitute my English muffin for Oatmeal once in a while or a greek yogurt with fruit in place of the egg and I feel satisfied and full. I'm grateful for finally figuring this out. If I set myself up in the morning, the day usually ends up much better than it would be if I didn't set that first meal up.
Now that I'm on WW, my breakfast still holds me. My breakfast is also my highest point meal of the day. But it's so worth it. I spend about 12 points on my breakfast. That does sound high. But I still have plenty of points left for the day, especially if I supplement with a large volume of healthy salad filled with tons of veggies (I usually use lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers with light or FF zesty italian dressing, I'll add fresh motz too) or a low point or the WW soup, before I eat my actual meal. This ends up helping me a lot. Normally, I'd be tempted to go back for 2nds on my entree and that's a big problem for me. But if I eat my soup or salad first, before my entree, then I'm full and mostly satisfied and less likely to go back for seconds. And since veggies are NO points on WW, if I am hungry and want more, go back for another salad!
I'm still at the top of my journey to lose weight, but this is something that has really become apparent to me in the last two weeks, that breakfast means more than ever if it's going to help curb my appetite for the rest of the day and lead me to make better choices.
In my adult life, I rarely ate a regular breakfast, unless we were going out to eat for breakfast or on vacation. Since I've had kids (my oldest is 9 1/2) I've made sure to feed them breakfast of Oatmeal, pancakes, fruit, cereal, healthy things. But I never sat down to eat breakfast. Unless we went out and of course, if we went out to B'fast, I certainly didn't chose healthy things.
A few months ago, I was reading some more info and decided I would really give breakfast a good try. For years, my breakfast has been a 24 ounce coffee and sometimes a donut on the go, to go with my hot drink. But as the day would wear on, I would get jittery from the caffeine and blood sugar crashes, so bad that I would eat whatever I could get my hands on for lunch and it usually wasn't a good choice. Then I'd find myself making up for more food around dinner time and making even worse choices. It was a constant battle. And even though I knew I should eat B'fast, it never occurred to me that if I did eat B'fast, that maybe the rest of my day could be more controlled than it had been.
So I did some research on how to best fill myself up in the morning to set my day up for the better. I hate eggs. But I decided to give them another try and found out that I really like eggs over easy or over medium. So how best to fry and egg without really frying it? I bought Olive Oil Spray Pam. Then cooked the egg that way. Very little oil, since it's a spray, so technically I don't consider the egg fried. I found I really like the egg with a lot of fresh ground pepper. But surely one egg is not enough. More protein would be another option, but I really didn't want unhealthy bacon or sausage and I really like the veggie soy meat, so I opted for Morning Star Farms Veggie sausages (SO GOOD!) and then I figured I needed some sort of carb, but decided to aim for a complex carb instead of a heavily refined carb. I ended up narrowing down my carb to Thomas's Whole Grain Lite English Muffins. Oh, these are SO good. But I didn't want it plain and I didn't want it with butter either. So I did some more reading and found out that laughing cow lite cheese wedges sounded pretty good and ended up choosing the French Onion. But I wanted something sweet too. So I used the wedge on one side and then used Smuckers Simply Fruit on the other side, in raspberry. This meal is so rounded for me that it satisfies me in ways I didn't know a breakfast could. And sure enough, I felt great after eating this breakfast. I wasn't as ravenously hungry at lunch time and I felt that I could make a much more reasonable decision for my lunch meal and that I wouldn't end up on a binge that I couldn't control. And since I ate a decent lunch, I felt I was better to plan a decent dinner too. Especially if I made a conscious effort to snack sometime between lunch and dinner. I found that I wanted to make my own dinner of chicken and veggies instead of picking up the phone and ordering pizza. I'm not saying that I never gave into my binges, but this plan was working out a hell of a lot better for me than anything had in the last 10 years. So I decided Breakfast was indeed the most important meal of the day. If you get started right with the right filling foods, your body will have the fuel it needs to get started for the day. Your stomach (and brain) will be filled with the right things propelling you (me) to make better decisions regarding other meals in the day. If I started off FEELING like I made great choices for breakfast, I felt like it was easier to set myself up with better meals for the rest of the day.
I've been eating B'fast like this for a few months. I alter my meals around, substitute my English muffin for Oatmeal once in a while or a greek yogurt with fruit in place of the egg and I feel satisfied and full. I'm grateful for finally figuring this out. If I set myself up in the morning, the day usually ends up much better than it would be if I didn't set that first meal up.
Now that I'm on WW, my breakfast still holds me. My breakfast is also my highest point meal of the day. But it's so worth it. I spend about 12 points on my breakfast. That does sound high. But I still have plenty of points left for the day, especially if I supplement with a large volume of healthy salad filled with tons of veggies (I usually use lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers with light or FF zesty italian dressing, I'll add fresh motz too) or a low point or the WW soup, before I eat my actual meal. This ends up helping me a lot. Normally, I'd be tempted to go back for 2nds on my entree and that's a big problem for me. But if I eat my soup or salad first, before my entree, then I'm full and mostly satisfied and less likely to go back for seconds. And since veggies are NO points on WW, if I am hungry and want more, go back for another salad!
I'm still at the top of my journey to lose weight, but this is something that has really become apparent to me in the last two weeks, that breakfast means more than ever if it's going to help curb my appetite for the rest of the day and lead me to make better choices.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Flex Points?
I abused and used all of my flex points over the weekend. But I just realized that there is a good way to use those flex points and a bad way to use those flex points (are they still called Flex points? - just looked it up, it's now called Points Plus Allowance) PPA from here on out! There are 49 weekly PPA that you can use in any way you like. You can use them all in one day, you can spread them out all week, you can divide them up per day if you'd like. Well, I chose to use all of mine on Saturday night and Sunday morning. As it is I get a very generous amount of daily points. So much that I have found that I am unable to use all of my points in one day, which is a BIG NO NO. But I've been filling up on Salad (because I LOVE it!) and very small portions of food (I need to learn small portions, over eating is a big one for me) I find that I'm usually about 10 points short for the day. So how can I actually use my PPA for the week when I can't even finish my points for the day? I do know that it won't always work out that way. I'm new in the program and am being very careful of what I eat. I know there will come a time where I will wish I had more points and more PPA to use, this past Saturday night and Sunday morning are very good examples of that! I'm rambling, but there is a point to all of this.
So Saturday night, we met up with some former students of my husbands EMT (Emergency Medical Training) class and they wanted to eat dinner at Famous Dave's. Saturday was SUCH a busy day that I had only had 10 points worth of food all day, by the time we got to dinner (I wasn't hungry throughout the day though, only when I got to Famous Dave's that night) So I looked up my meal points in my Restaurant Guide & I had plenty of points left in my daily, plus a few PPA that I wouldn't even use all of my PPA. I had been eating so small all week that I got so full, so fast that I was uncomfortable. I will remember that next time!
Then yesterday morning (Sunday) we met my family (Brother, mom, Grandfather) at Cheesecake Factory for Brunch in Annapolis to say goodbye to my little brother who leaves for bootcamp the next day (Monday, which is today, he's on a plane now, headed to SC) I decided to have my favorite dish, spicy Chicken Thai Pasta, the lunch size and avocado rolls to share with everyone as an appetizer. Unfortunately Cheesecake Factory is NOT in my restaurant guide, I should have looked up the nutritional values on the internet for CCF before I left home, I would have chosen MUCH differently. So I did not eat again until around 6:30, because I was still stuffed from brunch. We ate at my sister in law's house at a party. I started out with a few small pieces of fruit & cauliflower (Free, no points!) then had a hotdog (and then ate Evan's since he didn't finish his - WHY did I do that???????!!!!) and then had a small piece of cake.
I go to figure out all of my points from CCF and dinner last night and I can't calculate my points from CCF because they only list the calories and sodium of the meals online. How frustrating. So I don't know just how over and beyond I blew my daily points, plus my PPA.
Now I know that there's a good way and a bad way to use your PPA's. Blow them on healthier food, not bad food. It does make a difference.
Even though WW says to eat all of your points in your day and even though they say that daily points can't/don't/won't carry over from day to day, I am just hoping that my extra points that I didn't eat all week long will save me from this horrible weekend of eating. Even though I counted out my points from Saturday and used PPA, I'm sure I exceeded my daily 45 points. I will work very hard this week to make up for that. I ended up choosing to use my points on serious junk, which had a lot of sodium in it and I'm realizing now that it's not really okay to use PPA for those types of things. I didn't really think about it that way before. In my head, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. But you can choose better calories and still be satisfied.
I hope this post made sense. It was a learning experience for me. I tend to bounce all over the place and ramble. But I have all the tools I need to make better choices. I made better choices all last week and I let the thought of using Daily Points and using PPA to eat things I wanted, but I realize now that not all points are created equal!
So Saturday night, we met up with some former students of my husbands EMT (Emergency Medical Training) class and they wanted to eat dinner at Famous Dave's. Saturday was SUCH a busy day that I had only had 10 points worth of food all day, by the time we got to dinner (I wasn't hungry throughout the day though, only when I got to Famous Dave's that night) So I looked up my meal points in my Restaurant Guide & I had plenty of points left in my daily, plus a few PPA that I wouldn't even use all of my PPA. I had been eating so small all week that I got so full, so fast that I was uncomfortable. I will remember that next time!
Then yesterday morning (Sunday) we met my family (Brother, mom, Grandfather) at Cheesecake Factory for Brunch in Annapolis to say goodbye to my little brother who leaves for bootcamp the next day (Monday, which is today, he's on a plane now, headed to SC) I decided to have my favorite dish, spicy Chicken Thai Pasta, the lunch size and avocado rolls to share with everyone as an appetizer. Unfortunately Cheesecake Factory is NOT in my restaurant guide, I should have looked up the nutritional values on the internet for CCF before I left home, I would have chosen MUCH differently. So I did not eat again until around 6:30, because I was still stuffed from brunch. We ate at my sister in law's house at a party. I started out with a few small pieces of fruit & cauliflower (Free, no points!) then had a hotdog (and then ate Evan's since he didn't finish his - WHY did I do that???????!!!!) and then had a small piece of cake.
I go to figure out all of my points from CCF and dinner last night and I can't calculate my points from CCF because they only list the calories and sodium of the meals online. How frustrating. So I don't know just how over and beyond I blew my daily points, plus my PPA.
Now I know that there's a good way and a bad way to use your PPA's. Blow them on healthier food, not bad food. It does make a difference.
Even though WW says to eat all of your points in your day and even though they say that daily points can't/don't/won't carry over from day to day, I am just hoping that my extra points that I didn't eat all week long will save me from this horrible weekend of eating. Even though I counted out my points from Saturday and used PPA, I'm sure I exceeded my daily 45 points. I will work very hard this week to make up for that. I ended up choosing to use my points on serious junk, which had a lot of sodium in it and I'm realizing now that it's not really okay to use PPA for those types of things. I didn't really think about it that way before. In my head, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. But you can choose better calories and still be satisfied.
I hope this post made sense. It was a learning experience for me. I tend to bounce all over the place and ramble. But I have all the tools I need to make better choices. I made better choices all last week and I let the thought of using Daily Points and using PPA to eat things I wanted, but I realize now that not all points are created equal!
Friday, June 10, 2011
7lbs down!
I went to my weigh in this morning and I lost exactly 7lbs! I am so happy. I've literally been on a weight loss high all day long. Talk about motivation to keep it up. I was hoping to get the chance to brag at the meeting about my loss, but I was a little bit late getting in and I missed "Bragging Rights"time! Oh well!
I love summer veggies. The farm down the road from me is really starting to get a lot of their fresh stuff in. I love tomatoes. I eat those every day. They are my favorite. Big, fat, red, farm tomatoes are the best! Can't wait for them to get even more stuff in from the fields. I'm going to take advantage of this time to try a lot of recipes and salads with as many veggies as I can. I'm eating my salad right now, hence the veggie post!
Well, not really a lot to talk about other than that! I did good this week!
I love summer veggies. The farm down the road from me is really starting to get a lot of their fresh stuff in. I love tomatoes. I eat those every day. They are my favorite. Big, fat, red, farm tomatoes are the best! Can't wait for them to get even more stuff in from the fields. I'm going to take advantage of this time to try a lot of recipes and salads with as many veggies as I can. I'm eating my salad right now, hence the veggie post!
Well, not really a lot to talk about other than that! I did good this week!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Switched Days
So I am switching my weigh in days at WW to Friday mornings. This is the meeting that is "Child Friendly" LOL! My boys can sit in the back playing on Dsi's and iPads while I get weighed in and hear the meeting. I use bribes. The playground will be their reward if they behave. If not, they've got some chores to do when we get home for mis-behaving. Usually though, they surprise me and are well behaved when I need them to be. So will keep my fingers crossed!
I'm excited for this weigh in. I've been doing very well. I've seen a big drop on my home scale. But I have no clue if my home scale is calibrated anywhere close to the WW scale. Either way, the numbers have gone down. Enough to make me smile really big.
I feel really good too. I feel proud that I've had the control to make the decision to make better choices. Normally I'd eat what I want to and then feel horrible guilt & belittle myself later. But the last week, I've made much better choices and I realized today that I haven't been beating myself up, because I've been eating right, that making those better choices have taken some stress off of me.
Even though you can eat anything you want with WW, as long as it fits within your points range, I've decided that sugar and refined carbs are a huge part of my problem. I've known this for a long time. I decided to really cut back hard on some of those things to give my body the chance to heal from all of the sugar and refined abuse. Those first few days were so hard. I kept finding myself wandering back and forth between the pantry, the fridge and the freezer. I'm so glad I found nothing there. I know that those cravings won't always be gone and that I'll be faced with them again and probably very soon. But just knowing that I feel so much better today than I did a few days ago because I cut some of these things out, really help put things into perspective for me.
I went out all day to a local water park with my boys. We ate lunch before we went. I made sure I did. Later in the afternoon, we did go get a snack. Normally I would get nacho's with lots of cheese and splurge on a soda. I ended up choosing a grilled chicken salad. My son did get the nachos. I had one. I chewed it for a long time. I really tasted it. And then I decided that it was never really as good as I thought it was. I was just shoving junk in my mouth. I enjoyed my Grilled Chicken salad today. I also forgot to bring my drink with me (Crystal light lemonade junkie here) and the only soda I really like is an ICE COLD COKE (from the can is my vice!) and I had to choose what to drink from the soda fountain. In the end, I chose Diet Pepsi, which I HATE, detest. But in the end, it was better to drink the diet pepsi than to give in to the sugar laden orange or rootbeer. I did bring bottled water with me, but it was warm. YUCK. Won't drink warm water! LOL! The Jen from last week would have easily taken the orange or rootbeer over the nasty diet pepsi. Lesson learned.... never go anywhere without MY water bottle and to go stix of Crystal light lemonade!
Anyway, my thoughts are all over the place. I'm on a dieters high right now. I'm on a roll and I feel good. I'm going to remember this feeling so that when I'm tempted to make a bad choice or something that falls out of my points range, I'm going to remember how good I feel about me and the choices I've made lately.
I'm excited for this weigh in. I've been doing very well. I've seen a big drop on my home scale. But I have no clue if my home scale is calibrated anywhere close to the WW scale. Either way, the numbers have gone down. Enough to make me smile really big.
I feel really good too. I feel proud that I've had the control to make the decision to make better choices. Normally I'd eat what I want to and then feel horrible guilt & belittle myself later. But the last week, I've made much better choices and I realized today that I haven't been beating myself up, because I've been eating right, that making those better choices have taken some stress off of me.
Even though you can eat anything you want with WW, as long as it fits within your points range, I've decided that sugar and refined carbs are a huge part of my problem. I've known this for a long time. I decided to really cut back hard on some of those things to give my body the chance to heal from all of the sugar and refined abuse. Those first few days were so hard. I kept finding myself wandering back and forth between the pantry, the fridge and the freezer. I'm so glad I found nothing there. I know that those cravings won't always be gone and that I'll be faced with them again and probably very soon. But just knowing that I feel so much better today than I did a few days ago because I cut some of these things out, really help put things into perspective for me.
I went out all day to a local water park with my boys. We ate lunch before we went. I made sure I did. Later in the afternoon, we did go get a snack. Normally I would get nacho's with lots of cheese and splurge on a soda. I ended up choosing a grilled chicken salad. My son did get the nachos. I had one. I chewed it for a long time. I really tasted it. And then I decided that it was never really as good as I thought it was. I was just shoving junk in my mouth. I enjoyed my Grilled Chicken salad today. I also forgot to bring my drink with me (Crystal light lemonade junkie here) and the only soda I really like is an ICE COLD COKE (from the can is my vice!) and I had to choose what to drink from the soda fountain. In the end, I chose Diet Pepsi, which I HATE, detest. But in the end, it was better to drink the diet pepsi than to give in to the sugar laden orange or rootbeer. I did bring bottled water with me, but it was warm. YUCK. Won't drink warm water! LOL! The Jen from last week would have easily taken the orange or rootbeer over the nasty diet pepsi. Lesson learned.... never go anywhere without MY water bottle and to go stix of Crystal light lemonade!
Anyway, my thoughts are all over the place. I'm on a dieters high right now. I'm on a roll and I feel good. I'm going to remember this feeling so that when I'm tempted to make a bad choice or something that falls out of my points range, I'm going to remember how good I feel about me and the choices I've made lately.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Tough Day
Yesterday was a really tough day for me. I wasn't hungry at all. I ate really well. But I think I was really missing my sugar and carbs. Because I kept hunting, pacing, opening and closing the fridge, for something really bad to eat (and I wasn't hungry). Fortunately, I did not have anything like that in the house or I would have eaten it. I have a really hard time weaning myself off of the processed foods. It's very difficult for me. It's a very bad habit of mine.
I ate a LOT of salad yesterday. On Weight Watchers, most vegetables are free. So I figured on the days that I'm super hungry, I will just keep eating salads to fill up on between meals and use them to fill up during meals too. I love salad. I just HATE cutting up the veggies. I love Kraft FF Zesty Italian Dressing. A little bit of that stuff goes a LONG way!
But yesterday paid off too. I'm lighter on the scale this morning. :o)
I ate a LOT of salad yesterday. On Weight Watchers, most vegetables are free. So I figured on the days that I'm super hungry, I will just keep eating salads to fill up on between meals and use them to fill up during meals too. I love salad. I just HATE cutting up the veggies. I love Kraft FF Zesty Italian Dressing. A little bit of that stuff goes a LONG way!
But yesterday paid off too. I'm lighter on the scale this morning. :o)
Monday, June 6, 2011
Week One
I have my first weigh in tomorrow at WW. Why I chose to begin the week before I went to Ocean City for a long weekend, is beyond me! But I did it. I really wanted to go out to eat at my favorite places down there. So the first night we were there, we went to Macky's Bayside and sat on the beach to eat dinner. I actually found it really hard to choose something healthy to eat on that menu instead of the usual things I like. But I did do it. I ended up getting a salad that had fresh sliced tomatoes, fresh mozzarella along with raddichio & arrugala (don't even know if I spelled that right and spell checker has no clue!) I added grilled chicken to the top, with a lemon reduction dressing. It was really good.
Anyway - I decided that it was too tempting to go to the places that I wanted to go eat at. So we chose all new places during the weekend or places I knew I wouldn't be tempted as easily. But that ended up stinking because we found a few places that were pretty crappy! So, its better to stick to the places you know and love and just decide you will try something new and choose something healthier.
I walked right past Thrasher's French Fries on the board walk without any trouble. Which is a huge deal for me! Especially with my oldest, Austin, in tow, because he loves them as much as I do (Drowning in vinegar)
We did a ton of walking back and forth to the beach, walking along the beach and all over the boardwalk. We also did a lot of swimming too.
I am anxious as to what the scale will show tomorrow!
Anyway - I decided that it was too tempting to go to the places that I wanted to go eat at. So we chose all new places during the weekend or places I knew I wouldn't be tempted as easily. But that ended up stinking because we found a few places that were pretty crappy! So, its better to stick to the places you know and love and just decide you will try something new and choose something healthier.
I walked right past Thrasher's French Fries on the board walk without any trouble. Which is a huge deal for me! Especially with my oldest, Austin, in tow, because he loves them as much as I do (Drowning in vinegar)
We did a ton of walking back and forth to the beach, walking along the beach and all over the boardwalk. We also did a lot of swimming too.
I am anxious as to what the scale will show tomorrow!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Weight Watchers
I went to my first meeting yesterday morning. I decided to try out Martinsburg. I'm very happy with the Tuesday morning group. A very friendly group and I really enjoyed the group speaker / leader.
I got all of the tools I need. Now I just need to look through the books that I bought and the mountain lists of foods, so I can get some ideas to plan my weekly menu. I really hate grocery shopping. Wish we had grocery delivery out here! LOL!! Mostly I need to plan a weekly dinner menu as that's the meal that I really tend to struggle with.
Maybe I'll post my weekly dinner menu here, so I don't lose it. :o)
I got all of the tools I need. Now I just need to look through the books that I bought and the mountain lists of foods, so I can get some ideas to plan my weekly menu. I really hate grocery shopping. Wish we had grocery delivery out here! LOL!! Mostly I need to plan a weekly dinner menu as that's the meal that I really tend to struggle with.
Maybe I'll post my weekly dinner menu here, so I don't lose it. :o)
Monday, May 30, 2011
Is the solution REALLY that easy?
John - thanks for reading my blog and commenting. I haven't been here for a few months and I really do want to keep going with my thoughts.
A little background info...
I've been approved for Lap Band surgery once and Gastric bypass twice. I won't go into those details other than a few small ones. When I approached my Dr, she was very pro-active and supportive. I love my Dr. When I went to the nutritionist the first time, I was so motivated by the classes that I took, that I decided I could do this on my own. My body isn't broken. It's my attitude towards food (No is not in my vocabulary) and well, I got lazy. My own fault. I made those choices. So I didn't want to remove a part of my body that works perfectly well when I just need to break some VERY bad habits. I didn't realize just how bad those habits had become and how hard they would be to break. Well, I lost some weight. But got frustrated and when I went back to the nutritionist again, I asked her for help in loosing weight on my own, helping me build new and better habits, re-training me, guiding me. I was shocked to hear her tell me that she thought Gastric Bypass was the way to go and I should just do that, instead of trying to lose weight on my own. What a blow. A huge blow. Here I was ready to do it and make changes (because I thought I would have help) and I don't blame her at all, but at the time, my feeling was, that in her comment, she thought it was totally out of the question that I could help myself, that I could lose that much weight on my own. So another year went by. I decided to give it a go again, this time, seriously, I was just going to do it no matter what. Well, I completed all of the classes, followed through on my monthly weigh in's (All I had to do was prove that I could lose just a few pounds and I way bypassed what they asked for) and one morning on a weigh in, I joked about the weight I lost ( that I was surprised since I had a whole 24 ounces of coffee shortly before my weigh in) and she told me that I wasn't serious enough about losing weight (I lost 6lbs for that weigh in despite drinking a 24 oz coffee before seeing her) and that I was belittling myself and that it was going to set me back by a month because she has the power to say that I am "Not Ready" yet. I left that office furious. I was just commenting (I was so happy it was a 6lb loss, it could have been 9 if had waited to drink my coffee later, OR had the chance to visit the bathroom prior to weigh in!) I was joking, playing around, happy, sighing a breath of relief that the scale moved down as much as it had and "I wasn't taking this seriously enough" "My mind set wasn't ready yet" Wow.
But I tend to quit - which is part of that story. It's not the nutritionists fault. It's mine. I should have shown her that I was serious. So I went on to lose some more weight on my own. But I've been stuck at the same spot since. Which is okay, it means I didn't gain any of it back. But I could have lost more by now if I had really tried harder.
Last night, I went to a Memorial Day BBQ at my friend Julia's house. She's been on the new WW for 4 weeks and has done amazing. I used to like WW, but it was too easy to eat carbs all day for my points and get less food. But now they've restructured and they focus more on heatlhy carbs (which I do fine with most of the time) and I like that there's a little bit more restriction there, than before. So I've decided to go to WW tomorrow morning and give myself to the new plan. She said it is so much easier than the old plan (the old plan was pretty easy)
Any way I look at it, I need to hold myself accountable in some sort of way. It's not working on my own and right now, as much as I would like to have Gastric Bypass, I want to be able to change the way I think, they way I eat, why I eat like I do, how to control it. My mind has to change. My body isn't broken. The habits I've formed are the problem. I need help to break them.
A little background info...
I've been approved for Lap Band surgery once and Gastric bypass twice. I won't go into those details other than a few small ones. When I approached my Dr, she was very pro-active and supportive. I love my Dr. When I went to the nutritionist the first time, I was so motivated by the classes that I took, that I decided I could do this on my own. My body isn't broken. It's my attitude towards food (No is not in my vocabulary) and well, I got lazy. My own fault. I made those choices. So I didn't want to remove a part of my body that works perfectly well when I just need to break some VERY bad habits. I didn't realize just how bad those habits had become and how hard they would be to break. Well, I lost some weight. But got frustrated and when I went back to the nutritionist again, I asked her for help in loosing weight on my own, helping me build new and better habits, re-training me, guiding me. I was shocked to hear her tell me that she thought Gastric Bypass was the way to go and I should just do that, instead of trying to lose weight on my own. What a blow. A huge blow. Here I was ready to do it and make changes (because I thought I would have help) and I don't blame her at all, but at the time, my feeling was, that in her comment, she thought it was totally out of the question that I could help myself, that I could lose that much weight on my own. So another year went by. I decided to give it a go again, this time, seriously, I was just going to do it no matter what. Well, I completed all of the classes, followed through on my monthly weigh in's (All I had to do was prove that I could lose just a few pounds and I way bypassed what they asked for) and one morning on a weigh in, I joked about the weight I lost ( that I was surprised since I had a whole 24 ounces of coffee shortly before my weigh in) and she told me that I wasn't serious enough about losing weight (I lost 6lbs for that weigh in despite drinking a 24 oz coffee before seeing her) and that I was belittling myself and that it was going to set me back by a month because she has the power to say that I am "Not Ready" yet. I left that office furious. I was just commenting (I was so happy it was a 6lb loss, it could have been 9 if had waited to drink my coffee later, OR had the chance to visit the bathroom prior to weigh in!) I was joking, playing around, happy, sighing a breath of relief that the scale moved down as much as it had and "I wasn't taking this seriously enough" "My mind set wasn't ready yet" Wow.
But I tend to quit - which is part of that story. It's not the nutritionists fault. It's mine. I should have shown her that I was serious. So I went on to lose some more weight on my own. But I've been stuck at the same spot since. Which is okay, it means I didn't gain any of it back. But I could have lost more by now if I had really tried harder.
Last night, I went to a Memorial Day BBQ at my friend Julia's house. She's been on the new WW for 4 weeks and has done amazing. I used to like WW, but it was too easy to eat carbs all day for my points and get less food. But now they've restructured and they focus more on heatlhy carbs (which I do fine with most of the time) and I like that there's a little bit more restriction there, than before. So I've decided to go to WW tomorrow morning and give myself to the new plan. She said it is so much easier than the old plan (the old plan was pretty easy)
Any way I look at it, I need to hold myself accountable in some sort of way. It's not working on my own and right now, as much as I would like to have Gastric Bypass, I want to be able to change the way I think, they way I eat, why I eat like I do, how to control it. My mind has to change. My body isn't broken. The habits I've formed are the problem. I need help to break them.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The wagon
This proverbial wagon is a bitch. I've fallen off more times in my life than I can even keep track of. This past weekend is no exception. I have a really hard time staying on my plan. I really don't have a specific plan other than limiting my caloric intake and burning the calories. Calories in and Calories out. And watching portion sizes, which I really struggle with the most.
I know this is a lifestyle change. I have a really hard time not reverting back to my old ways sometimes. I will do great for a week or two, then have a weekend where I just can't seem to gain control. It's like I've deprived myself of all of my usual favorites or eating out spots, that I go nuts and without even thinking about it, I just have blinders on and I can't see anything except what is in front of me and it's all I can do to get to THAT food. I turn my brain off and I don't even think. Nothing matters except getting it. I decided a while back that I won't tell myself that something is off limits. It makes you want it all that much more! But moderation. Take ONE serving and be done with it. Fill up on veggies, salad, soups, i love all of those. But for some reason I take one bit and it's everything about that bite, taste, texture, all of it and I want more and more and just can't seem to stop. I have realized that I need to take my bite or my portion size, eat it, enjoy it, slowly (maybe with a baby spoon?) but then I have to find something else to do, immediately following or I will tempt myself to another piece or two or five. So I usually plan what my escape route will be first, before I take that bite. So as soon as I take my bite, I leave, go somewhere else and do what I had planned to do. Usually when I do that, I come back, I'm satisfied, I'm not tempted to take more. I have even found I can stare that food down when I come back in, say, from my walk to avoid temptation, and not want any more of it for now, because I had a piece already and walking took my mind off of it and by the time I got back, the hunger or the deep desire to stuff myself mindlessly has passed. I'm satisfied. I don't need more.
Anyway, I did fall off of that wagon. But at least I realized I fell and I'm capable of getting back up again. I'll get there. I know I will. I just have to realize I built years worth of bad habits and it might take me a while to break each and every one of those habits down and build new, healthy ones, in it's place.
I know this is a lifestyle change. I have a really hard time not reverting back to my old ways sometimes. I will do great for a week or two, then have a weekend where I just can't seem to gain control. It's like I've deprived myself of all of my usual favorites or eating out spots, that I go nuts and without even thinking about it, I just have blinders on and I can't see anything except what is in front of me and it's all I can do to get to THAT food. I turn my brain off and I don't even think. Nothing matters except getting it. I decided a while back that I won't tell myself that something is off limits. It makes you want it all that much more! But moderation. Take ONE serving and be done with it. Fill up on veggies, salad, soups, i love all of those. But for some reason I take one bit and it's everything about that bite, taste, texture, all of it and I want more and more and just can't seem to stop. I have realized that I need to take my bite or my portion size, eat it, enjoy it, slowly (maybe with a baby spoon?) but then I have to find something else to do, immediately following or I will tempt myself to another piece or two or five. So I usually plan what my escape route will be first, before I take that bite. So as soon as I take my bite, I leave, go somewhere else and do what I had planned to do. Usually when I do that, I come back, I'm satisfied, I'm not tempted to take more. I have even found I can stare that food down when I come back in, say, from my walk to avoid temptation, and not want any more of it for now, because I had a piece already and walking took my mind off of it and by the time I got back, the hunger or the deep desire to stuff myself mindlessly has passed. I'm satisfied. I don't need more.
Anyway, I did fall off of that wagon. But at least I realized I fell and I'm capable of getting back up again. I'll get there. I know I will. I just have to realize I built years worth of bad habits and it might take me a while to break each and every one of those habits down and build new, healthy ones, in it's place.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Do I take my mile back?
My intention was to hit the gym this morning. I was all ready to go. But instead, on the way out the door to get the big boys to school, I grabbed my camera (Mistake number one) and once the kids were on the bus, the little one and I headed down to the river, which was super swollen and flooded. So that led to picture taking and running around for a while. I didn't go to the gym.
Mistake #2 was not eating enough for breakfast, I only had one packet of oatmeal and then had a 24 ounce coffee. Too much caffeine and not enough food in my belly to keep me from getting jittery and sick. So my blood sugar crashes and well, Little Man and I had a lunch date. To a place I probably shouldn't have gone to. But I did have salad, with cucumbers, spinach, lettuce and cucumbers and the tiniest little bit of dressing. I will only list the healthy thing I had. The rest of my meal will go on my Fit Day account, which is private. :o)
But I have the rest of the day to do things right. The boys come home from school soon, it's not raining out and we've got a basketball hoop just calling for us to play with it when they get home! And I can make a dinner that my kids will be sure to complain about, but one that will more than make up for my slip up for lunch.
Have a great day!
Mistake #2 was not eating enough for breakfast, I only had one packet of oatmeal and then had a 24 ounce coffee. Too much caffeine and not enough food in my belly to keep me from getting jittery and sick. So my blood sugar crashes and well, Little Man and I had a lunch date. To a place I probably shouldn't have gone to. But I did have salad, with cucumbers, spinach, lettuce and cucumbers and the tiniest little bit of dressing. I will only list the healthy thing I had. The rest of my meal will go on my Fit Day account, which is private. :o)
But I have the rest of the day to do things right. The boys come home from school soon, it's not raining out and we've got a basketball hoop just calling for us to play with it when they get home! And I can make a dinner that my kids will be sure to complain about, but one that will more than make up for my slip up for lunch.
Have a great day!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Pain
My workout yesterday left my ankle's and shins pretty sore. Which is not bad, really. It's the kind of pain you are grateful for. To me, it means that I chose to do something for myself that was good and rewarding. That I can do these things and the my body is responding correctly to the work out. The only problem is, I have a lot of pain in my right heel. Painful pain! Pain so bad that as the day wore on yesterday, I could barely walk. I've had heel spurs before and it kind of feels like that. But I can't imagine I developed a heel spur in 40 minutes of walking on the treadmill or the short time I was in the Zumba Class. When I got up this morning, it hurt so bad to walk. Though, once i got to walking on it for about 10 minutes, it got better.
So I've come to the conclusion that I must be a heavy walker and put a lot of emphasis on coming down on the heel when I walk. I need to be more conscious of how I walk. That may sound dumb. But I think I bang my heel down hard, especially when i walk fast. So I'm going to try to pay attention to this and see how I can fix it. I know for sure that I am off to the store to buy some gel heel inserts for my wonderful shoes (which are KSwiss Tubes - which I LOVE!)
I've done well eating today. But I had THE worst Lean Cuisine meal for lunch and I'm not picky. It was the Chicken Pesto. The actual chicken was juicy and good, but the pasta was gummy and flavorless (since it was marinating in the pesto, I can't imagine why it hadn't soaked up any flavor) and the vegi mix was very blah - It really had no taste. Which is weird, because I love the taste of broccoli, but the broccoli smell was there, just not the taste and the carrots were pretty carrotless tasting as well. It came with Cherry Cobbler, but I didn't even bother with it. So I'm going to go make myself a small salad now (with greek yogurt, with a little bit of a dry ranch packet in my spoonful of yogurt for my dressing)
Have a great day!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Zumba!!
My friend Becky invited me to join her for Zumba class at the gym she goes to (Gold's - my membership is at the YMCA) and I decided to take her up on her invitation. I had never taken a Zumba class before. It's a high energy, intense latin dance style class. I had intended to go, a lot of times before.
Now, I had imagined getting winded into the first 20 minutes of the class. Since I'm so out of shape, my stamina is definitely not good. I tried to keep up - I really hated seeing myself look ridiculous in those mirrors ALL OVER THE ROOM! So I just tried really hard not to look in the mirrors and see how silly I looked. I am seriously THE most uncoordinated woman in the world. I'm sure of it. Despite how silly I must have looked (Remember, I decided I wasn't going to look in the mirror), I had a hard time keeping up with the actual dance moves. I learned quickly that I can't move my arms and legs rhythmically in different directions at the same time. It was crazy. You know, like rubbing your belly in one direction and rubbing the top of your head in the opposite direction... ? That was me, in this class. The thing I noticed was that I could still breath, wasn't out of breath yet (but close) that my ankles were absolutely killing me. Who would have thought?! So I took the moment to dodge out of class to the water cooler just outside of the classroom door. As I sucked down the water, I realized that I used that water cooler as an excuse to stop and take a break. Threw the cup away and joined back in. For 4 minutes. Yep. My ankles were killing me. So I dodged back out of there with the excuse that I had to go to the bathroom. On the long walk of shame to the bathroom (I really did have to go) I was mad at myself for not sticking it out. Um, I made it 10 minutes I think, definitely no longer than 15 minutes OF THE HOUR LONG CLASS! I was feeling bad about it. Discouraged. But then I realized something. We all have to start somewhere. You can expect to jump off a boat in the middle of the lake if you can't swim. So, you learn to swim and build yourself up, then you jump off of the boat and swim to shore. I realized that I was jumping in too soon, for me. So, instead of giving up, I headed over to the treadmill. I had 40 minutes left before the class was out. I haven't worked out in a while and I need to warm up. Strengthen myself, my lungs, MY ANKLES! Everyone has to start somewhere. So this is where I started. In that 40 minutes I did 2 miles. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that it took me 40 minutes to do those two miles (I think their mile / timer counters weren't synced correctly (heeeheee) I admit I was only going 3.2.
While I was walking, I started thinking, all I have to do is one mile. I just need to get to one mile. One mile was my goal. When I got to one mile, I was feeling so good, I kept going. One more mile. Just one more. One Mile.
Getting to mile one was my goal. I got to mile two instead. One mile at a time. It's not a big accomplishment by all means, but it is for me. I didn't quit. Instead, i decided I would prepare myself for Zumba. I'm going to be ready for that class. And I will finish the whole thing.
One mile at a time.
Now, I had imagined getting winded into the first 20 minutes of the class. Since I'm so out of shape, my stamina is definitely not good. I tried to keep up - I really hated seeing myself look ridiculous in those mirrors ALL OVER THE ROOM! So I just tried really hard not to look in the mirrors and see how silly I looked. I am seriously THE most uncoordinated woman in the world. I'm sure of it. Despite how silly I must have looked (Remember, I decided I wasn't going to look in the mirror), I had a hard time keeping up with the actual dance moves. I learned quickly that I can't move my arms and legs rhythmically in different directions at the same time. It was crazy. You know, like rubbing your belly in one direction and rubbing the top of your head in the opposite direction... ? That was me, in this class. The thing I noticed was that I could still breath, wasn't out of breath yet (but close) that my ankles were absolutely killing me. Who would have thought?! So I took the moment to dodge out of class to the water cooler just outside of the classroom door. As I sucked down the water, I realized that I used that water cooler as an excuse to stop and take a break. Threw the cup away and joined back in. For 4 minutes. Yep. My ankles were killing me. So I dodged back out of there with the excuse that I had to go to the bathroom. On the long walk of shame to the bathroom (I really did have to go) I was mad at myself for not sticking it out. Um, I made it 10 minutes I think, definitely no longer than 15 minutes OF THE HOUR LONG CLASS! I was feeling bad about it. Discouraged. But then I realized something. We all have to start somewhere. You can expect to jump off a boat in the middle of the lake if you can't swim. So, you learn to swim and build yourself up, then you jump off of the boat and swim to shore. I realized that I was jumping in too soon, for me. So, instead of giving up, I headed over to the treadmill. I had 40 minutes left before the class was out. I haven't worked out in a while and I need to warm up. Strengthen myself, my lungs, MY ANKLES! Everyone has to start somewhere. So this is where I started. In that 40 minutes I did 2 miles. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that it took me 40 minutes to do those two miles (I think their mile / timer counters weren't synced correctly (heeeheee) I admit I was only going 3.2.
While I was walking, I started thinking, all I have to do is one mile. I just need to get to one mile. One mile was my goal. When I got to one mile, I was feeling so good, I kept going. One more mile. Just one more. One Mile.
Getting to mile one was my goal. I got to mile two instead. One mile at a time. It's not a big accomplishment by all means, but it is for me. I didn't quit. Instead, i decided I would prepare myself for Zumba. I'm going to be ready for that class. And I will finish the whole thing.
One mile at a time.
Mile One
Everyone has to start somewhere right? Can't tell you how many times I've started and stopped, started again only to give up one more time. I want to lose weight. In the past, I think I've said "I NEED to lose weight" and maybe that wasn't the right approach. My mind has finally swung around to seeing that I WANT to lose weight. The last few weeks, I've been making some small changes, like actually eating breakfast instead of just drinking my coffee and downing a donut when I grab my coffee. Instead, I eat a healthy breakfast, one that I like, I might add... you can eat what you want. In moderation. So, when I'm done eating and get my boys off to school, I hit 7-11 everyday for my coffee & donut or some other bad choice I feel like making that day. Nacho's have been on that list, oh yeah, and sometimes 1/4 big bites. I have some pretty strong cravings and I honestly never told myself NO. But this one morning, when I ate my breakfast and went to get my coffee, I stopped at the donut bar. It was habit. As I stood there with the door open and the smell of those fresh donuts pouring out at me, I made the conscious decision to close that door and walk away from it. I CHOSE TO WALK AWAY FROM IT! Me. I did. I did it. And it wasn't as hard as I thought it was. But I sure was proud of such a small victory. I haven't had a donut since, nor any other item at 7-11 except for coffee. And I'm even changing my coffee up too. I'm also thinking that I don't really need coffee - yeah, sure, it hurts to quit, really! Headache hell! But I've lived without coffee for years and then started getting it mornings when my first son went off to kindergarten. You know why? I think the people in 7-11 are fun to be around. Not just the people who work there, but the people that come in there and shop and get coffee. You go in at the same time daily and you see the same people. Before you know it, you're standing around the coffee pots talking, laughing, it turns into a daily little party. I quit coffee for two weeks a few months back. I missed my friends, I missed my morning ritual. So I realized it really wasn't the coffee, I just wanted to check in daily with my coffee buddies. So I've made small changes to my coffee. using more decaf than regular now, cut down on the creamer and I have always used splenda, so at least I can keep that!
So, because I make breakfast a priority, it's honestly easier to chose a healthy lunch. And so that I'm not tempted to go out for lunch, where I eat FAR too much and I need to learn portion control, I bought the Smart Ones from Weight Watchers and some canned green beans (I know, fresh is better) but in a quick pinch, this is ready for me when I am hungriest in a fast way. I love Green beans. So good compromise . Spray a little "I can't believe it's not butter" spray over the top and makes it taste like I put real butter on it.
I still have trouble with dinner though. But I think I've figured out what I need to do about that. I eat lunch, then have dinner later. I'm missing a snack in between those meals. So today, I'm going to add that snack about 3 o clock. Then see how well my dinner choices go. I think it will go well!
I went to Zumba class today. Another small changed added in. But I will save that for the next post. :o)
So, because I make breakfast a priority, it's honestly easier to chose a healthy lunch. And so that I'm not tempted to go out for lunch, where I eat FAR too much and I need to learn portion control, I bought the Smart Ones from Weight Watchers and some canned green beans (I know, fresh is better) but in a quick pinch, this is ready for me when I am hungriest in a fast way. I love Green beans. So good compromise . Spray a little "I can't believe it's not butter" spray over the top and makes it taste like I put real butter on it.
I still have trouble with dinner though. But I think I've figured out what I need to do about that. I eat lunch, then have dinner later. I'm missing a snack in between those meals. So today, I'm going to add that snack about 3 o clock. Then see how well my dinner choices go. I think it will go well!
I went to Zumba class today. Another small changed added in. But I will save that for the next post. :o)
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