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It's been two weeks. A lot has happened. I was already having a bit of a difficult week, and then was going away for the weekend. But that weekend came to an abrupt halt when we got the call that my nephew had died in a house fire. So, no weigh-in last week. No time to get groceries and think sensibly about my eating. I did think about it. But I gave in to cookies and lunch meat and the various tasty but unhealthy casseroles that are so graciously delivered at times like these. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty at the scale this morning. And it wasn't. I gained 3 pounds in two weeks.
But, I feel ready to get back in control of my eating. Ready to track my meals and water and ready to get back to taking a stab at exercising. I don't hate myself. I'm going to love myself by being kind and understanding and encouraging. It's okay self. You had an unusually hard week. Everyone does now and then. You can re-focus.
I can.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Another weigh-in
Pounds lost this week: 1
Total pounds lost: 12
I'll take that. It was a challenging weekend. But I think, overall, I did really well. A pound is good. At least it's down and not up!
I'll have another challenging weekend this coming. We'll be at a celtic music festival and we'll be inside a big convention hall all day. The food is expensive and not healthy. I'm going to bring a few things along, and I'm also going to try to bring in, like, a Wendy's salad or something. I don't want to succumb to just eating crap.
The amazing thing that's happening is that I'm really developing a DESIRE to eat healthy. I don't want to "mess up" my eating habits, my body, by eating crap food. Or even food that's not even that crappy, but just not as healthy as it could be. I'm really evaluating and discerning what I put in my mouth. Because I like this weight dropping off!
Chris made dinner last night and, after I walked away, I thought, "dang. I don't feel good about that meal." He made his mom's recipe of "Waikiki Meatballs", brown rice and roasted carrots. Sounds good enough. The meat was even venison, and that's a good thing. But what I had on my plate was about half a plate of 4 meatballs surrounded by lots of pineapple tidbits and a very few green peppers that was all laden with a sweet/sour sauce; about 3/4 c. of brown rice and then about 1/2 cup of roasted carrots that pretty much had the life sucked out of them. Now, believe me, I am not unappreciative of the fact that Chris made the dinner! But walking away feeling like I ate poorly, I did feel like I had to go back afterwards and make a few requests.
First of all, I want my plate of food to be proportioned like this:
Total pounds lost: 12
I'll take that. It was a challenging weekend. But I think, overall, I did really well. A pound is good. At least it's down and not up!
I'll have another challenging weekend this coming. We'll be at a celtic music festival and we'll be inside a big convention hall all day. The food is expensive and not healthy. I'm going to bring a few things along, and I'm also going to try to bring in, like, a Wendy's salad or something. I don't want to succumb to just eating crap.
The amazing thing that's happening is that I'm really developing a DESIRE to eat healthy. I don't want to "mess up" my eating habits, my body, by eating crap food. Or even food that's not even that crappy, but just not as healthy as it could be. I'm really evaluating and discerning what I put in my mouth. Because I like this weight dropping off!
Chris made dinner last night and, after I walked away, I thought, "dang. I don't feel good about that meal." He made his mom's recipe of "Waikiki Meatballs", brown rice and roasted carrots. Sounds good enough. The meat was even venison, and that's a good thing. But what I had on my plate was about half a plate of 4 meatballs surrounded by lots of pineapple tidbits and a very few green peppers that was all laden with a sweet/sour sauce; about 3/4 c. of brown rice and then about 1/2 cup of roasted carrots that pretty much had the life sucked out of them. Now, believe me, I am not unappreciative of the fact that Chris made the dinner! But walking away feeling like I ate poorly, I did feel like I had to go back afterwards and make a few requests.
First of all, I want my plate of food to be proportioned like this:
That would be 1/2 veggies, 1/4 meat and 1/4 starch.
Next, or maybe I should have said first, I want to load my own plate from now on.
Finally, when meal planning, there needs to be veggies in abundance! I count on getting most of my veggies in the evening meal. I think I may start planning a salad a day and if it isn't going to be at the evening meal, then I'll have one for lunch. And I told him, let me know if you're having trouble coming up with more veggies. Because I love them and will eat almost any kind (maybe eggplant being the only exception) and I will happily prepare them even for just myself, if needed.
So, hopefully, that's one more piece of education that will be taken to heart around here. For ME, anyway. I have to be in control (in a good way) of what I'm putting into my mouth. Since Chris is definitely not on the same page as I am, I just can't entrust him to be in charge of my plate - or even my whole meal.
Lesson learned.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Weighing in
I've had such a busy week, I haven't been able to post yet the results of my Monday weigh-in. They are:
Pounds lost this week: 3
Total pounds lost: 11
Like, WHEW! It was a rough weekend and, although I felt overall that I handled it really well, I still ate more than I had planned! Parties are HARD!
So, things with Dustin and Emily are settling down a little. There were some apologies - to us and, hopefully, to each other. Dustin is working now - so that will help a LOT, I'm sure. But, we don't feel quite as in crisis as we did last week. Just now, anyway. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Today, I'm having 3 ladies over to play cards all day. It was my responsibility to fix us lunch, so I made an Asian Chicken Slaw and we're having fruit salad with that. Traditionally, we have little snacks available throughout our game play, so I've gotten some things. But I've tried to be careful to choose healthy things. I think everyone will appreciate it. I mean, I know they will, because we're always talking about such things!
So, my biggest hang-up in all of this continues to be the exercising. I mean, here's what typically happens. We had Eva here Sunday night and after I got up and ate breakfast Monday, I HAD to do some things on the computer because we took Eva to the new children's library after lunch. From there, we took her for a bite to eat and then home and then Chris and I went directly to M&M's for dinner. NO time to exercise Monday. YESterday, I had a hair appointment at 11 a.m., so I got out the door early and got my groceries before the appointment, because I had a pedi afterwards and didn't want to get groceries in my flip flops. As it was, I had to stop at Target and Michaels in my flip flops anyway. By the time I got home, I had to put away my groceries and put in some SIStv time and then it was time to fix dinner and then I crashed for the evening (watching American Idol and The Biggest Loser!). So, today, I've gotten up early to wash my hair, fix the asian slaw, clean up the kitchen, living room and bathroom and here I am, waiting for the ladies to come in about 50 minutes. I still need to get my make-up on and then put out the snacks. We play til about 4:30, then Chris and I are going to go to a church dinner and then we have church tonight. Hmmmm. I just made a good decision that doesn't bother me at all. I am NOT going to that church dinner. It's all you can eat - family style. And tonight the meal is turkey and dressing and mashed potatoes and all that. I do NOT want to eat all that. I mean, I really don't! If I thought they would have some vegetables, I'd go. But it will be a starch-fest and I honestly don't want to do it! YAY. Now that's progress!
Anyway, back to the exercise thing. Tomorrow I do our banking and the church banking (as in balancing the checkbooks, paying the bills, etc.). It usually takes me all day. But maybe I can again get up early and start in on it and at least get in a weight work out! That would be great! It's supposed to start "warming up" a bit, too. (A relative term, I know...). I'd venture to say that maybe I can even get a walk in for Friday. That would be awesome!
But, I just don't know what I can do when my schedule is the way it is. I guess time management is key. I mean - I don't even work! It shouldn't be this hard! Oy.
THAT is going to be my focus for the next couple of weeks...
Pounds lost this week: 3
Total pounds lost: 11
Like, WHEW! It was a rough weekend and, although I felt overall that I handled it really well, I still ate more than I had planned! Parties are HARD!
So, things with Dustin and Emily are settling down a little. There were some apologies - to us and, hopefully, to each other. Dustin is working now - so that will help a LOT, I'm sure. But, we don't feel quite as in crisis as we did last week. Just now, anyway. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Today, I'm having 3 ladies over to play cards all day. It was my responsibility to fix us lunch, so I made an Asian Chicken Slaw and we're having fruit salad with that. Traditionally, we have little snacks available throughout our game play, so I've gotten some things. But I've tried to be careful to choose healthy things. I think everyone will appreciate it. I mean, I know they will, because we're always talking about such things!
So, my biggest hang-up in all of this continues to be the exercising. I mean, here's what typically happens. We had Eva here Sunday night and after I got up and ate breakfast Monday, I HAD to do some things on the computer because we took Eva to the new children's library after lunch. From there, we took her for a bite to eat and then home and then Chris and I went directly to M&M's for dinner. NO time to exercise Monday. YESterday, I had a hair appointment at 11 a.m., so I got out the door early and got my groceries before the appointment, because I had a pedi afterwards and didn't want to get groceries in my flip flops. As it was, I had to stop at Target and Michaels in my flip flops anyway. By the time I got home, I had to put away my groceries and put in some SIStv time and then it was time to fix dinner and then I crashed for the evening (watching American Idol and The Biggest Loser!). So, today, I've gotten up early to wash my hair, fix the asian slaw, clean up the kitchen, living room and bathroom and here I am, waiting for the ladies to come in about 50 minutes. I still need to get my make-up on and then put out the snacks. We play til about 4:30, then Chris and I are going to go to a church dinner and then we have church tonight. Hmmmm. I just made a good decision that doesn't bother me at all. I am NOT going to that church dinner. It's all you can eat - family style. And tonight the meal is turkey and dressing and mashed potatoes and all that. I do NOT want to eat all that. I mean, I really don't! If I thought they would have some vegetables, I'd go. But it will be a starch-fest and I honestly don't want to do it! YAY. Now that's progress!
Anyway, back to the exercise thing. Tomorrow I do our banking and the church banking (as in balancing the checkbooks, paying the bills, etc.). It usually takes me all day. But maybe I can again get up early and start in on it and at least get in a weight work out! That would be great! It's supposed to start "warming up" a bit, too. (A relative term, I know...). I'd venture to say that maybe I can even get a walk in for Friday. That would be awesome!
But, I just don't know what I can do when my schedule is the way it is. I guess time management is key. I mean - I don't even work! It shouldn't be this hard! Oy.
THAT is going to be my focus for the next couple of weeks...
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