Well, it seems to be working...... ive lost nearly 5 lbs this week. I feltlike crap after last nights dinner, i had cream of mushroom soup and a grilled cheese.... i dont think ill do that again. Ill stick to Veggie or Tomato soup. I dont only eat soup for dinner.... sometimes ill have the soup for lunch and then for dinner ill have a big salad, and make my "starch" and "meat" portions the same size as my 4 year olds....which...is actual what a standard Food Guide portion is.... If we are having spaghetti, i serve myself the same amount as her and have a ceaser salad with it.
Another thing to admit, is you can indulge. INDULGE NOT BINGE! I have had a bite of a chocolate pop tart. I have had 4 bites of chocolate fudge cake. I have had a nibble if dark chocolate peppermint bark. A taste to satisfy...not a meal...enough to TASTE it and prove im in control. I do Limit what i taste, and when. i dont Taste all day long, or every day.
I dont eat anything after dinner unless im up late and HUNGERY...i wont eat for the sake of eatting. I was up late last nght but skipped a snack....Monday night after dance class tho, i did have oatmeal. I drink about 3-4 bottles of water a day. No tea, no juice, no pop. IF i get a craving for it..i have Ginger ale on hand. I should add Milk in... but i do take nearly 3 grams of calcium, and 1000UI vitamin D...so im Not lacking there....
At the moment, im only doing some walking, im not feeling well enough to work out,but i think by the time i am able to add that in, illbe reaching my diet plateau... so adding exercise will re vamp my weightloss.
Ive never been able to follow "diets" or calorie count ect ect.. but a little gander at the lables, and roughing out 300cal meals and a few snacks is pretty easy.
I firmly believe tho, that the key is Breakfast. You have to eat breakfast....and not binge at night......Jay and i were terrible night bingers...with him away, and me going to my room at 8pm, I have no inclination to eat...
THis is my year. Ive quit smoking, ive got a handle on my eatting, im working on a few things, i believe i will succeed...I tell ya Im really freakiing looking forward to breaking the 230 mark..... I havent done that since....2004.... Hmm...I was 222 when i met jay.... Id love to hit 200 by summer.... and my final goal is 180. I dont think i could ever hit 150....i dontthink i would want to....id be REALLY saggy... id need ALOT of plastic surgery... I DO NOT have resilient skin...I started getting stretch marks when i was 13...i wasnt fat...my skin just isnt elastic..... I had my first baby at 17 years of age...my tummy didnt snap back it just flopped like a deflated pouch... so i KNOW my skin wont recover....so illneed a layer of cushion....
Well, enough on that.....
2 comments:
Huge congratulations on quitting smoking! :)
Good work so far - 5 lbs is a great start!! "Eating for the sake of eating" is what I've got to get over, too... sigh...
Its HARD!!! If i hadnt of ended up in this gastro problem boat, id still be going at 'er! I have the type of personality that generally, Eatting will fix it...not this time...if i have a cold, id drown it in healthy food and lots of soup, if my guts were buggin me, id eat McDonalds just to try and Push whatever was bugging it out... I wont eat leftovers from a home cooked meal, but cnat see Cake, Chinese or Pizza go to waste... I ate because i could, and wanted to and like the taste and texture of food... I was never able to be satiisfied taking sensible bites...until i got Esophagitis with this situation. I wasnt brought up to eat properly, no one said anything about me wolfing food down toget it done andget out andplay,and it became a habit to scarf. Ive been trying to correct it, and have spent the last goodness knows how long trying to correct it in my hubby and son...son llearned it fromhubby, hubby learned it as a survival tacitic in the mess hall..."Suck it back and run or Starve!"
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