Random

Week 4

One of the things I've been noticing since I've been eating better is the effect that various foods (or lack thereof) have on my body. If I'm feeling lethargic, I eat some complex carbohydrate and a protein, or frankly, just a protein and I feel better in about 10-15 minutes. If I eat a mix of protein and simple carb (like sushi) I can literally feel a tiny little bit of euphoria in my brain.



Some of these habits are set and are working out well. Now that I think of it, I didn't crave a diet coke when I woke up this morning. Although I do really look forward to my mock mocha at 10am-ish !



Week 3 wrap up

I still have to be pretty vigilant around my triggers - cookies have to be wrapped up and not easily accessible. I was at a ladies happy hour last week and I really had to plan out what I was going to eat when I got there. I stayed close to the veggies and the tortilla chips with salsa and AWAY from the chocolate. I also brought my own seltzer to mix with the wine. I did so good all night. But towards the end, I wasn't on guard and wound up eating three individually wrapped ghiradelli chocolates in pretty quick succession.



I'm also struggling with my free day - I'm eating kudos granola bars and drinking diet coke and eating whatever sweets I can get my hands on just because I can. And that's not the point of a free day.



When I think about the lack of sweets in this new life in the abstract, it's pretty depressing. I see a week stretching out before me with no sweets except on Saturday night. But day to day I seem to manage better.

Here we go again.

At least 3-4 times a week for the past, maybe 8 years (with the exception of when I was pregnant or nursing) I have gone to bed feeling some sort of negative emotion over my eating that day. Sometimes depressed, or sad, or annoyed, or mad at myself that I couldn't stay away from the sugar.

This time it's different.

And I go to be feeling happy, and proud, and even more determined ! It's working - IT'S REALLY REALLY WORKING THIS TIME !!!

I'm doing weight watchers on my own. Yes, WW works if you work it. And I've collected enough supplies over the years that I know what to do. I'm also going to jazzercise at least 2-3 times per week. I plan to go 5 times per week but something usually comes up a couple times. Two times per week is totally manageable unless Mr. Quimby is gone for a protracted period of time.

I'm going through and backdating entries so that they appear in an order that somewhat makes sense.

I AM DOING IT !!!

Pre-planning

I'm starting tomorrow and here's my plan:

Follow weight watchers - 23 pts per day.
Plan to go to Jazzercise 5 times per week. Make minimum of 2 classes, preferably 3.
No soda before 12 noon. Try to have water with lunch.
Work up to only one soda per day.
Eat protein in the morning. Minimal sugar before 12 noon.
Try to not eat a lot of convenience foods (granola bars, frozen dinners, etc.)

My daytime eating will be roughly the same, although I work in an office three days per week.

8am - Breakfast
2% cottage cheese (2)
6 oz. light V-8 juice (1)
9:15am Snack on way to work
whole wheat mini bagel (2)
water
10am at work
coffee with half a packet of no sugar added hot chocolate (1)
12:30 Lunch
Either a sandwich with 1.5 oz. turkey breast (1), whole wheat hamburger bun (2), Laughing Cow spreadable cheese (1)
OR
1/2 cup brown rice (2) and 2 oz. chicken (2)
water
2:30-3pm Snack (some combination not to equal more than 2 pts.)
Diet coke (how I love thee)
carrots and 0 point dip
pretzels (2)
12 wheat thins (2)
5 almonds (1)
1/2 oz. raisins (1)
Applesauce (1)
4:15pm water, fruit (1) I can eat in the car on the way home from work
6pm Snack if going to jazzercise
hard boiled egg (2) and vegetables (0)
Dinner at 6 if no jazzercise, at 8:30 if I went to jazz.
Monday - chicken, edamame, sweet potatoes
Tuesday - whole wheat pasta, jarred sauce (suprisingly low in points) with about 1/2 ounce of ground beef per serving
Wednesday - chicken and black beans, low carb tortilla, vegetable ?
Thursday - nothing planned, maybe sushi
Friday - nothing planned, maybe sushi
Saturday - baked tilapia, broccoli, white potatoes
Sunday - chicken, green beans, sweet potatoes
9:30pm - Snack
popcorn (1-2 depending on serving size)
milk (1)
graham cracker (1)
yogurt (2) if I have enough points

If I go to Jazzercise in the evening, then I have an egg and whatever vegetable I've made for dinner around 6:15. Then I eat the carb/starch/protein portion of dinner when I come home. If I don't go to Jazzercise, then I try to skip the late afternoon snack and make it to 6pm to eat with my family.

I measure whatever I can for dinner, but portion size isn't really my issue - I can eyeball the chicken, the pasta, etc. Sweets are my issue. I don't consider it "bad" if I go over my points by 1-2 due to a dinner that is 6 points and I go to jazzercise. It's hard to get below 6 points for dinner !

So that's it. Here's my plan.

HERE WE GO !!!