Don't worry, I'm not taking the day off! Sundays are just too busy to focus on something new. Since today is fast Sunday I'm doing awesome :) When I do eat dinner though I'll be sitting, eating slowly, mindfully, and then skyping with my coach later.
See you tomorrow :)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Day 6- Get a Coach
I wish:
I admit that I skimmed a little ahead just to see what was coming and this requirement had me stumped for some reason. I wanted someone that I didn't feel like I was imposing on and that wouldn't get sick of hearing talk about weight/dieting, lol. Though I have great friends I was hesitant to label anyone as my "coach." That's why it finally hit me this morning that my coach needs to be, drumb roll please:
She wants me to achieve my goals as much as I do and she's also working towards being healthier. She lives a few states away, but I can call her anytime and we can skype whenever needed. She doesn't know she's my coach yet, but I'm sure that she'll be happy to take on the roll. As my coach she'll help me stay motivated, help me solve problems, built my self confidence, and KEEP ME ACCOUNTABLE. I think she's very qualified. I think that she's also going to start her 42 days so maybe I can be her coach too.
So let's talk about yesterday. Man was it HARD to eat slowly and mindfully! This is something that's going to take some time, but I can understand the importance so I'm really going to work at it. There is almost too much going on at dinner time to eat mindfully, but if I can start out with eating slowly that will help me to not want to grab seconds (even though I've told myself that isn't an option).
Grace had a friend over and they really love to craft and make treats together. She hasn't been over for quite a while so I thought that I could test myself by letting them make cookies together. Man am I weak when it comes to any baked goods! First I calculated how many points a cookie would be to see if I could fit it in. I had already figured out how many points I was going to eat for dinner. The only problem with me eating something bad is that I can't stop at one. I ended up taking a cookie and quickly sitting down, lol, just so I wouldn't break that "rule" and quickly (not slowly) eating it. Then later I had another standing, ugh. So needless to say yesterday wasn't perfect, but I did record every point that I consumed and I still ate within my points at dinner.
Here's to today being better than yesterday! Hope you're doing great.
Side note: I sent half of the cookies home with Grace's friend and whenever I even think about eating one now I picture biting down on it and it being moldy. Gross I know, but it's working ;) What works for you?
I admit that I skimmed a little ahead just to see what was coming and this requirement had me stumped for some reason. I wanted someone that I didn't feel like I was imposing on and that wouldn't get sick of hearing talk about weight/dieting, lol. Though I have great friends I was hesitant to label anyone as my "coach." That's why it finally hit me this morning that my coach needs to be, drumb roll please:
She wants me to achieve my goals as much as I do and she's also working towards being healthier. She lives a few states away, but I can call her anytime and we can skype whenever needed. She doesn't know she's my coach yet, but I'm sure that she'll be happy to take on the roll. As my coach she'll help me stay motivated, help me solve problems, built my self confidence, and KEEP ME ACCOUNTABLE. I think she's very qualified. I think that she's also going to start her 42 days so maybe I can be her coach too.
So let's talk about yesterday. Man was it HARD to eat slowly and mindfully! This is something that's going to take some time, but I can understand the importance so I'm really going to work at it. There is almost too much going on at dinner time to eat mindfully, but if I can start out with eating slowly that will help me to not want to grab seconds (even though I've told myself that isn't an option).
Grace had a friend over and they really love to craft and make treats together. She hasn't been over for quite a while so I thought that I could test myself by letting them make cookies together. Man am I weak when it comes to any baked goods! First I calculated how many points a cookie would be to see if I could fit it in. I had already figured out how many points I was going to eat for dinner. The only problem with me eating something bad is that I can't stop at one. I ended up taking a cookie and quickly sitting down, lol, just so I wouldn't break that "rule" and quickly (not slowly) eating it. Then later I had another standing, ugh. So needless to say yesterday wasn't perfect, but I did record every point that I consumed and I still ate within my points at dinner.
Here's to today being better than yesterday! Hope you're doing great.
Side note: I sent half of the cookies home with Grace's friend and whenever I even think about eating one now I picture biting down on it and it being moldy. Gross I know, but it's working ;) What works for you?
Friday, March 5, 2010
Day 5- Eat Slowly & Mindfully
Jennifer you had the perfect timing with your comment yesterday :) Thank you for joining me and for your advice. Today I will eat slowly and mindfully not letting myself get distracted and enjoy every bite. Sounds simple enough, but it's really NOT, lol. This what I do while I'm eating:
I have never really thought about it before, but I have a hard time just sitting and eating without playing with my phone, on the computer, newspaper, or read anything else that laying around (and there's always something laying around). Here's why it's important for me to ditch the distractions:
*When you eat slowly your brain has time to register that you're full.
*When you notice and enjoy every mouthful you feel more satisfied when the food is gone.
So I tried it this morning with my Wheaties and bananas. It felt really weird without something else to do, but it was good and I think that it will really help me when I'm eating dinner. Obviously I'm going to be distracted by the kids in some way (distracted sounds like the wrong word, but you know what I mean) but I'm going to still try and be focussed on taking breaks in my eating and just take my time.
Last night is probably a good example of when I should have been practicing this. My little brother came over to do laundry and was still around at dinner time. I made sure that everyone was taken care of before I measured out my portions and started to eat. I was so focussed on chatting that I just shoveled the food in and then I was still talking and sitting at the table when my plate was empty so it just seemed like I should get more food. Without really thinking too much I scooped up more and continued on. It was mostly broccoli that I was scooping up, but still it wasn't food that I originally planned on having.
Eat slowly and mindfully with me today :) Let me know how it goes. Speaking of eating here are some yummy and point friendly things that I've been making this week:
Tandoori Chicken
Garlic Balsamic Asparagas
Chinese Chicken and Broccoli
I am most definitely going to try these soon too. I love that they're baked!
PS. My friend Andrea and I weigh and measure ourselves every Friday morning. I'm happy to report that I am officially down 3.1 pounds!!
I have never really thought about it before, but I have a hard time just sitting and eating without playing with my phone, on the computer, newspaper, or read anything else that laying around (and there's always something laying around). Here's why it's important for me to ditch the distractions:
*When you eat slowly your brain has time to register that you're full.
*When you notice and enjoy every mouthful you feel more satisfied when the food is gone.
So I tried it this morning with my Wheaties and bananas. It felt really weird without something else to do, but it was good and I think that it will really help me when I'm eating dinner. Obviously I'm going to be distracted by the kids in some way (distracted sounds like the wrong word, but you know what I mean) but I'm going to still try and be focussed on taking breaks in my eating and just take my time.
Last night is probably a good example of when I should have been practicing this. My little brother came over to do laundry and was still around at dinner time. I made sure that everyone was taken care of before I measured out my portions and started to eat. I was so focussed on chatting that I just shoveled the food in and then I was still talking and sitting at the table when my plate was empty so it just seemed like I should get more food. Without really thinking too much I scooped up more and continued on. It was mostly broccoli that I was scooping up, but still it wasn't food that I originally planned on having.
Eat slowly and mindfully with me today :) Let me know how it goes. Speaking of eating here are some yummy and point friendly things that I've been making this week:
Tandoori Chicken
Garlic Balsamic Asparagas
Chinese Chicken and Broccoli
I am most definitely going to try these soon too. I love that they're baked!
PS. My friend Andrea and I weigh and measure ourselves every Friday morning. I'm happy to report that I am officially down 3.1 pounds!!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Day 4- Give Myself Credit
Today is about giving myself credit for all of the positive things that I do to help me move closer to my goal. This is how my life had gone up until now:
1. Wake up and get out of bed excited to lose weight and be healthy.
2. Eat a healthy breakfast and think about how good I am.
3. Eat a healthy lunch and envision myself thin.
4. Afternoon comes and I stop caring as much.
5. Come across some junk food that screams out to me.
6. Eat it.
7. Get frustrated with myself, but think about how much I enjoyed the junk.
8. Decided that I'll eat bad for the rest of the day and start again tomorrow.
So a big thing for me will be to not get down on myself when I do mess up a little and just continue instead of wanting to quite. Whenever I sit down to eat, resist food that I didn't plan on eating, or whatever it is that I do I'm going to give myself credit. By telling myself what a great job I'm doing I'll give myself more confidence to succeed (mind you I'm not going to be cheering myself on out loud, lol).
She suggests having a credit account. Whenever I do something good, put money in a jar or do something that over time I'll be able to cash in on all my success.
I haven't decided what to do yet for my credit account. If you have any great ideas let me know.
Yesterday went really well with making sure that I'm always sitting when I eat. It really made me focus on those three meals and it also helped me be better and blessing my food (which I got in a bad habit of only really doing at dinner or whenever everyone was at the table). I do have to admit that I was clearing the table and was talking Corey and wasn't even thinking when I grabbed some asparagas and started munching on it. I realized what I had done and stopped. Good thing it was asparagas, lol.
So today, give yourself credit for everything you do, or don't do that's positive!
Have a great day!
1. Wake up and get out of bed excited to lose weight and be healthy.
2. Eat a healthy breakfast and think about how good I am.
3. Eat a healthy lunch and envision myself thin.
4. Afternoon comes and I stop caring as much.
5. Come across some junk food that screams out to me.
6. Eat it.
7. Get frustrated with myself, but think about how much I enjoyed the junk.
8. Decided that I'll eat bad for the rest of the day and start again tomorrow.
So a big thing for me will be to not get down on myself when I do mess up a little and just continue instead of wanting to quite. Whenever I sit down to eat, resist food that I didn't plan on eating, or whatever it is that I do I'm going to give myself credit. By telling myself what a great job I'm doing I'll give myself more confidence to succeed (mind you I'm not going to be cheering myself on out loud, lol).
She suggests having a credit account. Whenever I do something good, put money in a jar or do something that over time I'll be able to cash in on all my success.
I haven't decided what to do yet for my credit account. If you have any great ideas let me know.
Yesterday went really well with making sure that I'm always sitting when I eat. It really made me focus on those three meals and it also helped me be better and blessing my food (which I got in a bad habit of only really doing at dinner or whenever everyone was at the table). I do have to admit that I was clearing the table and was talking Corey and wasn't even thinking when I grabbed some asparagas and started munching on it. I realized what I had done and stopped. Good thing it was asparagas, lol.
So today, give yourself credit for everything you do, or don't do that's positive!
Have a great day!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Day 3- Sit down!
picture found here
Today is introducing the concept of sitting! Something that I'd never thought about, but it really is making sense to me. Whenever I eat I have to be sitting. It's going to help me focus on what and when I eat (every calorie counts) instead of mindless snacking. Here are a few examples that she gave of eating while standing:
-samples at the grocery store.
-tasting food while preparing meals.
-taking a piece of candy or pretzel as your walking through the kitchen.
I'm sure that I've inhaled quite a few calories without even thinking about it. I munch on everything all of the time, so here I am sitting. Now I just need some food, lol.
My point counting is going great and at this point I really haven't needed to read my Advantages Response cards much. My sabotaging thoughts haven't been too strong yet either. I just have to not give myself time to even consider the wrong choice. This morning I bought Kate a doughnut while running errands. As we were driving home she said "Here Mom," and handed me half of the doughnut. Normally I would have been happy that she didn't want the whole thing and quickly eaten it. Instead I took it and wrapped it in a napkin so that I wasn't looking at it while I drove home. Then as soon as I got home I took it straight to the dumpster. Better there than in me right?!
Let's talk about salad for one second. I LOVE salad! I love salad with cheese, ham, RANCH, and all other not so great toppings (along with the good ones). So when I think about dieting I usually pictures eating bland salads all of the time and I just can't stomach it, lol. So my little trick that works for me is cottage cheese. When I put cottage cheese on my salad along with everything else it really gives it that creaminess that I like and I don't feel deprived. Try it if you feel the same about salad as I do.
The cottage cheese is hiding under the other yummy toppings :)
Okay well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow. Look at the side bar for my quote of the day (I heard it this morning on a Golds Gym commercial on the radio). Simple but good.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Day 2- Choosing a Diet
I was pleasantly surprised how well day one went. Isn't that how it always goes at the beginning though, lol. I didn't have any bad thoughts and while fasting I didn't even feel hungry until around 5:00.
This morning I went to a 5:30 am boot camp at the gym. It lasted only 30 minutes but boy was that a long 30 minutes. It's nice to get home from exercising when it's still dark out and everyone's still nice and snug in bed. I love the quiet time.
Today is all about choosing my diet. She says in the book to choose two diets. It's good to have a back up diet in case the first one isn't going well. Instead of just giving up being able to switch over to the other one that's set in place.
Last year I lost about 20 pounds by going to Weight Watcher meetings. I quit and gained it all back. I really love the WW system (all foods have point values) and even though I'm not going to meetings or going to do the program online I still have all of the tools that I need. I'm going to start counting and tracking my points today and for my backup diet I'm going to just count calories (something else that's worked well in the past).
This morning I ate a 7 point breakfast which I tracked on my iphone. Now I'm off to read my Advantages Response cards!
Have a great healthy day!
This morning I went to a 5:30 am boot camp at the gym. It lasted only 30 minutes but boy was that a long 30 minutes. It's nice to get home from exercising when it's still dark out and everyone's still nice and snug in bed. I love the quiet time.
Today is all about choosing my diet. She says in the book to choose two diets. It's good to have a back up diet in case the first one isn't going well. Instead of just giving up being able to switch over to the other one that's set in place.
Last year I lost about 20 pounds by going to Weight Watcher meetings. I quit and gained it all back. I really love the WW system (all foods have point values) and even though I'm not going to meetings or going to do the program online I still have all of the tools that I need. I'm going to start counting and tracking my points today and for my backup diet I'm going to just count calories (something else that's worked well in the past).
This morning I ate a 7 point breakfast which I tracked on my iphone. Now I'm off to read my Advantages Response cards!
Have a great healthy day!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Day 1
Okay, so I'm not great on video, lol. What i meant by the 42 days was that this book takes you through a six week process to change the way you think about food and dieting. If you're reading this I hope that you'll stay and check in on me from time to time. I really want to do this and succeed at this and I'd love any and all company.
Today is about focussing on why I want to lose weight. I am supposed to make Advantages Response Cards that I will read at least two times a day to remind me of my purpose.
DONE!
They're not much to look at, but they'll do the job. I have one set in my back pocket and another on the fridge:
It sits next to a cute girl that's telling me to "think about it," lol.
I also decided to start this process off by fasting (just breakfast and lunch). I need every bit of help that I can get.
I hope to see you tomorrow :) Grab a book and join me if you'd like!
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