Slowly Eating Better
Hey Guys!
I bet y'all thought I would disappear for months again at a time; well Surprise! Here I am!
I told you I was going to try to do this again, that means being accountable - and this is one of the best ways to do it.
I'm not totally there, yet. I haven't made the time to start exercising, but I am trying to do better with my food and am mostly succeeding. It is not as easy the 2nd time around - so if you haven't started getting into bad habits, yet - stay away from them!
I found this really cool food log thingy on ObesityHelp.com
It helps you track all your food and water for the day. It also tells you how much protein/carb/fat % you have eaten. That is what killed me.
Don't get me wrong, a food log is great - almost essential for getting back on track. And you need to be brutally honest with yourself. But I worked really hard that first day. The only thing I had with carbs was a morning cup of tea with sugar ('cause I forgot I was starting over) - then everything was mainly proteins or veggies all day.
But, that darn trakcker at the end of the day said I had eaten 23% protein, 21% carbs, and 56% fat!!!!! That killed me. I was so depressed I went and ate one of my husband's M&M ice cream cones (pretty dumb, huh?)
I started over the next morning and have been pretty good since then; not perfect, but pretty good.
Today I had to bake sugar cookies for my daughter's class tomorrow. Do you know how good sugar cookies smell when you aren't supposed to have them? I was weak, I had to have one. Last week I would have said "well, I've blown it - let's binge". A friend consoled me by saying "tomorrow's another day". But I thought about it and decided, I don't have to wait for tomorrow. So for dinner I had shrimp and water. Instead of letting 1 mistake be a reason to binge, just let it be a mistake. (And ask another Mom to make the sugar cookies next time - I'll send in the Capri-Suns!)
9/7/09
218 lbs