I need a new plan - and some new meal ideas.
Hi guys. I'm still around. I went through a bit of a rough patch a a
few weeks ago and really broke down. I'd been trying so hard, despite
numerous setbacks, and was using My Fitness Coach regularly for a week
and a half or so when it had a bit of a glitch - it basically froze up
in the middle of a workout and lost the data when we restarted it. That
pissed me off as I didn't get credit for that workout but figured tough
luck, I'll just start over. But when I tried to do that she wanted me
to go through all the setup information first as though I was a new
user. It still had my user data, it just wanted all the beginner tests
redone, like resting heart rate, then for 2 minutes you do jumping
jacks (or in my case step up and down on the step really fast because
my knees won't let me do jumping jacks) and take the heart rate again.
Well I'd done the damned test again and after the 2 minutes asked hubby
to press the button on the controller for me so I could enter the
results but he accidentally hit cancel and it went back to the
beginning again. I was so damned frustrated that I just stopped - I
wondered why all my efforts are in vain, why I bother to keep trying
year after year when it's always the same. I get about 50 pounds off
then I stall for a few months, then I go back up. Over and over. And I
just let it all out. I mean I balled my eyes out and my wonderful hubby
comforted and supported me and asked how he could help. He wouldn't
have any bad foods in the house any more (unrealistic for him) and he'd
buy a treadmill, and he'd do it with me. He's really great. But it
didn't matter, I just said I'd tried everything already, how will
switching to a treadmill help, and where would we put it, and why
bother it'll just repeat another cycle, and on and on. And it took me a
day or two to get over my little pity party, but get over it I did.
I had a business trip coming up and not knowing what to expect or where
I'd be eating that week I figured it pointless to start anew at that
time. So now that's behind me and it's back to normal again next week.
But wait -- more trips? I've got 2 more trips in March, 1 in April,
May, July and August so far that I know of. And I'm sure more will be
added soon, we're having to do a lot of presentations. So I really need
to find a way to cope with being on the road and still have healthy
eating options as much as possible.
Last week we only ate in our hotel once - my boss took us out for
dinner the other nights. Lunches were often served at the
presentations, but they never had decent vegetarian options, so I ended
up walking down to a local cafe and grabbing a grilled veggie sandwich
or something similar, but they generally had too much oil. The only
meal I felt I had control over was breakfast, because instead of
stopping for a croissant and coffee before the meeting like the others,
I had brought a bag of muesli and some soy milk in a long-life box with
me on the plane. So I had a nice healthy breakfast to start off each
day, but after that I had to choose from menus with very little healthy
options.
So I've been trying to collect quick, easy, on-the-go kinds of meals
that I can tuck in my bag for when we're on the road and have a quick
healthy lunch with me. Something I don't need to refrigerate,
preferably. I've found these lean wrap recipes using mountain bread,
and while they used grilled chicken I could substitute chickpeas or
something. The other ingredients were thinly sliced grilled pumpkin
slices, red onion, cucumbers, greens and snow pea sprouts with avocado.
I'm not an avocado fan and I'd like some sort of dressing so I thought
maybe use some of the chickpeas to make a low-fat hummus for the wrap
and leave off the avocado. Since there's no meat on it, maybe that
would keep well enough in my bag for 3 or 4 hours? I don't know, but
I've got to come up with some ideas.
Dinners -- well I can find a grocery store close to wherever we're
staying and stock up with some things I guess, but I hate to be the
only one saying nah, you guys go to the restaurant, I'll stay here and
make some salad. LOL Hubby suggested go along but always choose the
healthiest option on the menu, asking them to leave stuff off if need
be. They should be willing to accommodate. So I'm going to be
planning out some menus again tomorrow and getting back on track next
week. Wish me luck. Either way, I'll let you know how it's going. :)