Today was a good day. I was busy with dyeing yarn all day so it kept me not thinking about missing out on food.
However, we did eat out with my parents, and we had to go to one of our favorite haunts: Steak n'Shake. I checked online before we left to see what I could eat (I had 17 points left for the day), so I knew I could splurge for dinner.
Today I had:
Breakfast:
1 cup Cheerios
1 cup 1 % milk
coffee with a little creamer (I have been doing really well with not loading it up with creamer and sugar; measuring my creamer out beforehand and not using sugar at all)
1/4 c strawberries (I had to fenagle these from my six year old strawberry monster)
Lunch:
6 " veggie sub from Subway with oil and vinegar
pretzels
Diet Coke
Dinner:
Grilled cheese
Cottage cheese with pineapple
Salad with 1000 island
Diet cherry Coke
My energy level is a LOT better now. I noticed I had more stamina today while I was dyeing yarn for 8 hours today.
Tomorrow I have to drive my niece to an OB appointment in Toledo, so I will need to eat a quick breakfast and a quick lunch on the road. I will just go wherever she wants to go, but it won't be any place fancy (she's a little accustomed to going out to eat when she goes for her appointments; not with me. Sorry).
So ... a good second day. I made out the grocery list but because I was so busy dyeing yarn, I didn't get it done. And I don't think I have time to go tomorrow, either.
I will just get there when I can, I guess.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Day Two
Here we are. Day two. So far I have heard "can we have donuts" requested a few times. Normally, I would jump at that. But there are two things going for me: (1) willpower and (2) the donut shop is closed for Memorial Day.
I need to go grocery shopping today, without the kids. Whenever they go, I go crazy and I pick up things that are picked up by them (I DO have willpower and DO say no; but sometimes I do give in).
I believe I will just shop off the food diary list at the back of my tracker. It will be easier, and I will also take a look at the site to see what catches my eye to make this week.
Last night, I ended up having a Jolly Time 1 point bag of popcorn for my snack, and a Capri Sun (yeah, yeah, yeah ...about 5 % fruit juice, 95 % corn syrup and sugar) and called it a night for point-counting. And that bag of popcorn was a lot to eat. I don't even think I finished it.
Off to pour my Cheerios and milk and make my coffee.
I need to go grocery shopping today, without the kids. Whenever they go, I go crazy and I pick up things that are picked up by them (I DO have willpower and DO say no; but sometimes I do give in).
I believe I will just shop off the food diary list at the back of my tracker. It will be easier, and I will also take a look at the site to see what catches my eye to make this week.
Last night, I ended up having a Jolly Time 1 point bag of popcorn for my snack, and a Capri Sun (yeah, yeah, yeah ...about 5 % fruit juice, 95 % corn syrup and sugar) and called it a night for point-counting. And that bag of popcorn was a lot to eat. I don't even think I finished it.
Off to pour my Cheerios and milk and make my coffee.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The End of Day One
This is how it always happens.
Gangbusters in the morning and mid-morning. By lunch, I'm doing fine.
By dinnertime, I have run out of time, and my bad eating habits return.
Now let me begin by saying this much: I still have 8 points left to spend. That is the problem. I end up with having too many at the end, and wondering how I should eat them.
I have had an exhausting day with church stuff. We are looking at hiring a new pastor, and one of the candidates was in for a visit this weekend. I just got off the phone with him, and I am beat. and I realized at 8:39 that I hadnt' eaten dinner yet.
These are the bad eating habits of which I speak.
These are the habits that I need to break free of.
But Rome wasn't built in a day. I realize this. And the stuff that I chose for dinner .... because I had to make a quick decision on what to eat (and we REALLY need to go to the store tomorrow), I wouldn't have made those choices had I had time to prepare.
So ... preparation is the key. Be prepared. At all times.
My menu for the day:
Breakfast: 1 cup Cheerios with 1 cup 1 percent milk, 1 large apple = 7 points used
Lunch (this appears to be a lot, but it isn't): 1 hamburger on a bun with ketchup and onion, carrots, celery, cheese (two small slices... which reminds me: I didn't count those!), strawberries and pineapple, and a salad = 11 points used (ACK!)
Dinner: 1 peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread, 3/4 cup Munchies (bad, bad, bad), and still searching for some more dinner = 8 points
Total = 27 points. I have 8 more to go, and WW is very specific in making sure you eat all your points. Of course, they are very specific in the fact that you should really make a better decision (i.e., Munchies).
No activity today other than lying in my Mom's hammock with my six year old. That should count for something.
I also have a whole lotta water to drink, too.
Better get cracking.
Gangbusters in the morning and mid-morning. By lunch, I'm doing fine.
By dinnertime, I have run out of time, and my bad eating habits return.
Now let me begin by saying this much: I still have 8 points left to spend. That is the problem. I end up with having too many at the end, and wondering how I should eat them.
I have had an exhausting day with church stuff. We are looking at hiring a new pastor, and one of the candidates was in for a visit this weekend. I just got off the phone with him, and I am beat. and I realized at 8:39 that I hadnt' eaten dinner yet.
These are the bad eating habits of which I speak.
These are the habits that I need to break free of.
But Rome wasn't built in a day. I realize this. And the stuff that I chose for dinner .... because I had to make a quick decision on what to eat (and we REALLY need to go to the store tomorrow), I wouldn't have made those choices had I had time to prepare.
So ... preparation is the key. Be prepared. At all times.
My menu for the day:
Breakfast: 1 cup Cheerios with 1 cup 1 percent milk, 1 large apple = 7 points used
Lunch (this appears to be a lot, but it isn't): 1 hamburger on a bun with ketchup and onion, carrots, celery, cheese (two small slices... which reminds me: I didn't count those!), strawberries and pineapple, and a salad = 11 points used (ACK!)
Dinner: 1 peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread, 3/4 cup Munchies (bad, bad, bad), and still searching for some more dinner = 8 points
Total = 27 points. I have 8 more to go, and WW is very specific in making sure you eat all your points. Of course, they are very specific in the fact that you should really make a better decision (i.e., Munchies).
No activity today other than lying in my Mom's hammock with my six year old. That should count for something.
I also have a whole lotta water to drink, too.
Better get cracking.
Day One
Well, here I am ... yet again. I have done this before. I am doing it again.
What makes this different? What makes this "the" one? I rightfully don't know.
I want to say it will be successful, but it seems that every time I say that, I end up here. All over again.
Yet ... this time ... I don't know.
This time it seems like there IS something different. Something there.
Times before, I have told myself that it is just me for it. Well this time, the whole family comes along for the ride. This time, the whole family will be eating what I prepare for them. This time, we won't buy 3 boxes of Little Debbies when we go to the store. We might buy one, but only one that the kids like.
This time, it will be healthy snacking because, let's face it, I'm a snackaholic.
I am done with feeling like the standout in a situation. As I sat with some friends at lunch yesterday, I looked over at one plate and she was eating two coney dogs. She justified herself by saying she was also feeding a baby, too (nursing). And that she's always been a big eater.
If I had sat down at that table with two coneys (not that I would have, mind you but if), what would have been the perception? I think I know what people would have thought, and some of it wouldn't have been charitable. Not out of malice, but just out of sheer human nature response.
And I have those same responses. I sat at the pool yesterday (in my bathing suit) and was thinking "I'm not as large as her" and "do I look like THAT?" My husband and I were comparing myself to another woman there (someone I know), and were trying to guess her weight. His guess was over 300 and I sat there, wondering if someone was also sitting at that same pool trying to guess my weight.
So all of this is about how self-conscious I really am. I am. I am the first to admit it.
So this is my journey with Weight Watchers. I started the program yesterday, have had my breakfast and journaled it already. It is my intention to have a daily entry (at least one ... it might be more than one) to write down my feelings, my obervations. To record what worked (and what didn't) as I move on this process.
I have set my goal at losing 100 pounds. It is a large goal. It is the ultimate goal. But right now, I am shooting for 5 percent of my weight as my first obtainable goal. I won't divulge what that is right now ... but I think you can guess that I am well overweight, and it will be remedied.
So this is it. My Journey. Hope you enjoy coming with me on it.
What makes this different? What makes this "the" one? I rightfully don't know.
I want to say it will be successful, but it seems that every time I say that, I end up here. All over again.
Yet ... this time ... I don't know.
This time it seems like there IS something different. Something there.
Times before, I have told myself that it is just me for it. Well this time, the whole family comes along for the ride. This time, the whole family will be eating what I prepare for them. This time, we won't buy 3 boxes of Little Debbies when we go to the store. We might buy one, but only one that the kids like.
This time, it will be healthy snacking because, let's face it, I'm a snackaholic.
I am done with feeling like the standout in a situation. As I sat with some friends at lunch yesterday, I looked over at one plate and she was eating two coney dogs. She justified herself by saying she was also feeding a baby, too (nursing). And that she's always been a big eater.
If I had sat down at that table with two coneys (not that I would have, mind you but if), what would have been the perception? I think I know what people would have thought, and some of it wouldn't have been charitable. Not out of malice, but just out of sheer human nature response.
And I have those same responses. I sat at the pool yesterday (in my bathing suit) and was thinking "I'm not as large as her" and "do I look like THAT?" My husband and I were comparing myself to another woman there (someone I know), and were trying to guess her weight. His guess was over 300 and I sat there, wondering if someone was also sitting at that same pool trying to guess my weight.
So all of this is about how self-conscious I really am. I am. I am the first to admit it.
So this is my journey with Weight Watchers. I started the program yesterday, have had my breakfast and journaled it already. It is my intention to have a daily entry (at least one ... it might be more than one) to write down my feelings, my obervations. To record what worked (and what didn't) as I move on this process.
I have set my goal at losing 100 pounds. It is a large goal. It is the ultimate goal. But right now, I am shooting for 5 percent of my weight as my first obtainable goal. I won't divulge what that is right now ... but I think you can guess that I am well overweight, and it will be remedied.
So this is it. My Journey. Hope you enjoy coming with me on it.
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