So needless to say yesterday was not my day :) I wasn't so bad until late at night (when I REALLY) shouldn't be eating. I made brownies with peanut butter frosting (probably my first mistake). Corey and I had a scout meeting to go to and the kids were being taken care of by my sister and brother-in-law so I wanted to make some yummy food for them. I didn't have a chance to eat dinner before we left and they had a refreshment table at the meeting to greet us. Needless to say I ate two large sugar cookies while at the meeting. Then I can home and after getting the kids in bed I kept cutting of slivers of brownie (that's probably worse than just eating a big piece). So this morning this is the conversation that I had with Grace (age 7).
Grace: Who ate all of the brownies!!!
Me: (pausing) Um that was probably me.
Grace: What happened to reading these cards?!?! (pointing to my advantages response cards on the fridge)
Me: You're right I do need to be reading those.
Grace: Do you know what's good about those cards?
Me: What
Grace: When you are reading them you're not eating ALL of the food!
Ouch. Then was hurtful, but very true. If I could only channel that feeling every time I thought about grabbing something to eat.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
WEAK!!!
I'm so sorry for my absence. I have realized that stress isn't my friend and I need to be prepared instead of just folding. Over the last little bit I've been breaking all of the rules and needless to say it didn't make me feel any better. I had all of the tools to help me overcome my bad thoughts, but I didn't use them.
Here's me starting again. I sat without distraction this morning and ate my Wheaties with bananas. Today I'm supposed to find out if I know the difference between hunger and cravings. I do have to admit that over the years I've rarely been hungry. I haven't waited long enough to feel hungry so my body is out of the habit of letting me know when I am, lol. I'm going to pay attention today to what my stomach is telling me.
If anyone is out there I hope that you're doing great and accomplishing your goals!
Here's me starting again. I sat without distraction this morning and ate my Wheaties with bananas. Today I'm supposed to find out if I know the difference between hunger and cravings. I do have to admit that over the years I've rarely been hungry. I haven't waited long enough to feel hungry so my body is out of the habit of letting me know when I am, lol. I'm going to pay attention today to what my stomach is telling me.
If anyone is out there I hope that you're doing great and accomplishing your goals!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Ugh.
It's turned into a busy somewhat stressful day. I'm sorry to postpone, but I'll catch up with you tomorrow and bring your Day 11 and 12. Tomorrow:
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Day 10- Realistic Goals
Today I'm going to set a realistic goal for myself. I have about 50 pounds that I'd like to lose overall. Instead of saying that my goal is to lose 50 pounds I'm going to start small and reward myself along the way. Rewards sound good to me :) Judith (the author) suggests to make 5 pound goals. So I'm announcing right now that my goal is to lose 5 pounds. If you want to make this goal along with me, we can do it together (you don't have to be following these same steps with me). I've got a lot of fives to go, but that's okay. I get frustrated at the thought of how long with will take sometimes. I just have to realize how much I'm not going to care in a year or two years from now. I'm just going to be happy that I decided to finally change.
So this morning I did Zumba :) The thought of Zumba makes me smile because of how I look doing it, lol. An example of an unrealistic goal for myself is working towards not looking hilarious while I'm trying to do hip thrusts along with the beat. I keep going though because it's fun and I'm sure that I make the other participants feel better about themselves ;)
Set a little goal today and also decide what your reward will be once you achieve it. I think that my reward for my next 5 pounds will be....hmmm? I really don't know. Let me think for a minute on that.
Have a great day!
So this morning I did Zumba :) The thought of Zumba makes me smile because of how I look doing it, lol. An example of an unrealistic goal for myself is working towards not looking hilarious while I'm trying to do hip thrusts along with the beat. I keep going though because it's fun and I'm sure that I make the other participants feel better about themselves ;)
Set a little goal today and also decide what your reward will be once you achieve it. I think that my reward for my next 5 pounds will be....hmmm? I really don't know. Let me think for a minute on that.
Have a great day!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Day 9- Exercise
We all know that we need a combination of eating healthier and exercise to help us get to our goal. I have never been great at exercising, ever. I've gone years without really doing it before. For some reason I can't motivate myself to exercise at home pretty much AT ALL. I have friends that are great at it (Andrea I'm talking to you), but I've got to leave the house to do anything. About three weeks ago I joined the local Recreation Center and I really like it. As you can see from yesterday I have my exercise planned out daily and I'm to the point where I don't have a hard time getting up early anymore. The only thing that would be nicer is if I had someone to go with or meet me there. I don't love being a loner, but that's okay for now. If you're not sold on exercising here are a few reason why you should do it:
*Helps you stick to your diet
*Helps control appetite
*Boosts mood and soothes stress
*Burns calories
*Preserves muscle tissue
*Builds confidence
*Makes you feel better physically
*Prevents disease
As well as my morning gym trip I need to be spontaneous with my exercise through the day. We've all heard that we should park further away and walk or take the stairs instead of the elevator. That kind of thinking. Today I'm going to be more conscious of ways that I can get more exercise during the day. Maybe I should sit on my exercise ball while I'm at the computer :)
If anyone's reading tell me what you do for exercise. I thought that I'd try running, but maybe I'll wait a bit. Sometimes we run laps during our workout on Tuesdays and I hate every second of it, lol. Hope you get some exercise today and have a great day! See you tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Day 8- Create Time & Energy
Today's focus is on the time and effort that it takes to make the changes to start eating right, exercising, etc. There needs to be thought put into planning meals, time for exercise, shopping for healthy food and all of the energy that goes into living a healthier lifestyle.
Everyone has a different amount of time that they can spend. I'm blessed to be able to take care of the girls and I feel like at times I'm really busy, but there's always some time that I can use to think about what I want to do for dinner, how many points I'm going to use for each meal and everything else that I need to do to make the day the best that I can. The book has some great ideas for creating time for people that seem to have no time.
Today's task is to create a calendar to schedule my dieting. The examples in the book are pretty detailed, but I chose to keep it simple. If I want to add to it later there's definitely room to do that (click on the pic if you want to be able to read it).
If I get up and head to the gym first thing, that gets me off to a great start for the day (I noticed that over the weekend I didn't exercise and it was much harder to eat healthy). I have realized that if I'm going to cut back A LOT on my eating that when I do eat I don't want to feel like I'm dieting. I want to be able to sit down with my family and to eat what they're eating. I don't want to "diet." I want to be making lifestyle changes. So I've been a little more obsessed with finding yummy, healthy recipes lately and it's been fun. If I plan early in the day what we're going to eat for dinner I have time to calculate the points and I don't let myself get to dinner time without a plan. Last night I was without a plan. I was at the grocery store later than I should have been (mainly because I had two unhappy kids with me) and so I grabbed a pizza. I didn't end up eating pizza, but by me eating something different it defeated the whole purpose for me. So today dinner is planned already :) Here's a big pot of brown rice that go with tonight's *Chicken Curry (not the whole pot, but I thought I'd cook the whole back and freeze some).
I feel like I'm really getting it when it comes to sitting, and I've gotten pretty good at shooting down my sabotaging thoughts so far. I didn't eat with a smaller plate yesterday (I think that I used a bowl for every meal), but today I'm breaking out the salad plates (thanks Holly). Yesterday was a good day. I even went for ice cream with the family and got some sugar free yogurt that I ate two thirds of and threw away the rest (not something I would have done before).
Hope you're doing great! Let me know. Here's to a great planned out day!
If you saw the Bountiful Baskets on my calendar and don't know what it is definitely check it out here and see if they have a pick-up location near you. You get a whole basket of veggies, and a basket of fruit for only $16.50. It's awesome! Definitely worth trying out.
*This recipe is so yummy, but we have to cut WAY back on the cayenne pepper so that our mouths aren't on fire.
Update- Afterthought: Maybe cooking the whole bag of brown rice was going bit overboard, lol.
Everyone has a different amount of time that they can spend. I'm blessed to be able to take care of the girls and I feel like at times I'm really busy, but there's always some time that I can use to think about what I want to do for dinner, how many points I'm going to use for each meal and everything else that I need to do to make the day the best that I can. The book has some great ideas for creating time for people that seem to have no time.
Today's task is to create a calendar to schedule my dieting. The examples in the book are pretty detailed, but I chose to keep it simple. If I want to add to it later there's definitely room to do that (click on the pic if you want to be able to read it).
If I get up and head to the gym first thing, that gets me off to a great start for the day (I noticed that over the weekend I didn't exercise and it was much harder to eat healthy). I have realized that if I'm going to cut back A LOT on my eating that when I do eat I don't want to feel like I'm dieting. I want to be able to sit down with my family and to eat what they're eating. I don't want to "diet." I want to be making lifestyle changes. So I've been a little more obsessed with finding yummy, healthy recipes lately and it's been fun. If I plan early in the day what we're going to eat for dinner I have time to calculate the points and I don't let myself get to dinner time without a plan. Last night I was without a plan. I was at the grocery store later than I should have been (mainly because I had two unhappy kids with me) and so I grabbed a pizza. I didn't end up eating pizza, but by me eating something different it defeated the whole purpose for me. So today dinner is planned already :) Here's a big pot of brown rice that go with tonight's *Chicken Curry (not the whole pot, but I thought I'd cook the whole back and freeze some).
I feel like I'm really getting it when it comes to sitting, and I've gotten pretty good at shooting down my sabotaging thoughts so far. I didn't eat with a smaller plate yesterday (I think that I used a bowl for every meal), but today I'm breaking out the salad plates (thanks Holly). Yesterday was a good day. I even went for ice cream with the family and got some sugar free yogurt that I ate two thirds of and threw away the rest (not something I would have done before).
Hope you're doing great! Let me know. Here's to a great planned out day!
If you saw the Bountiful Baskets on my calendar and don't know what it is definitely check it out here and see if they have a pick-up location near you. You get a whole basket of veggies, and a basket of fruit for only $16.50. It's awesome! Definitely worth trying out.
*This recipe is so yummy, but we have to cut WAY back on the cayenne pepper so that our mouths aren't on fire.
Update- Afterthought: Maybe cooking the whole bag of brown rice was going bit overboard, lol.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Day 7- Arranging My Environment
As you can see from the title today is about arranging the things around me to make dieting easier. This is something that I've figured out for myself in the past. I just can't have yummy things sitting around for me to grab or even think about grabbing. It suggests to have things on a high shelf, or in the freezer has worked for me so far. I haven't bought too many treats, but they're still there and available sometimes for the kids and Corey. The thing to think about is that everyone in your family doesn't have to be on your diet with you. I try and buy snacks and treats for the kids that I'm not tempted by. It's also nice to have a husband that's willing with quickly take the temptation away by snarfing it down at my request, lol. Another thing that I've thought about before that it also suggests is to use a smaller plate. At dinner even though I've calculated my points I still have my big plate full. I'll try and use a smaller one tonight.
At the risk of sounding crazy I'm going to tell you what I was mindfully thinking last night at dinner. I had been fasting all day and ended up making spaghetti for dinner. I made sure that everyone was taken care of before I even thought about taking a bite. Then as I was eating (don't worry this only lasted a minute, lol) I was talking to my food in my mind saying "Man you are so good, but this is all I'm going to eat of you because I'm not eating you because I love to eat, because I need to eat." I admit it's a little weird, but it was working, lol. I wasn't even tempted to grab more because I ate slowly too.
Okay so I guess that's all for today :) Take a look around and see if you can't change things in your environment today to help you achieve your goals. Have a great day!
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