10/24/2006 10:31
My own personal chef
So I am going to try something new. I am picking up my Diet 2 Go. What is Diet 2 Go? Think of my own personal chef! It is like someone else doing the cooking for me. I pick up the FRESH food twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays) and they figure out all the calories, etc for me. I am doing the 1200 calorie plan. Seriously! All I have to do is heat it up (some of it) and eat it! Oh yeah and LOSE THE WEIGHT!!! That is it. I have done this program in the past and was successful - but I stopped because it was difficult for me to get to the location to pick it up and since I dont live in a convenient place they would not deliver to me.
Now they have pick-up locations that are convenient for me.
YEAH!! I cant "weight" (pun intended) to start tonight with my dinner. MMMM.... Jealous of my new personal chef? You should be!
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10/24/2006 10:29
New Stuff
So I am going to try something new. I am picking up my Diet 2 Go. What is Diet 2 Go? Think of my own personal chef! It is like someone else doing the cooking for me. I pick up the FRESH food twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays) and they figure out all the calories, etc for me. I am doing the 1200 calorie plan. Seriously! All I have to do is heat it up (some of it) and eat it! Oh yeah and LOSE THE WEIGHT!!! That is it. I have done this program in the past and was successful - but I stopped because it was difficult for me to get to the location to pick it up and since I dont live in a convenient place they would not deliver to me.
Now they have pick-up locations that are convenient for me.
YEAH!! I cant "weight" (pun intended) to start tonight with my dinner. MMMM.... Jealous of my new personal chef? You should be!
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10/13/2006 09:22
Always a Struggle
I was just posting to Nesssa22 when I thought of something that has always been an issue with me since I was a child. But I didnt realize it until I was an adult.
As a chubby child (until I was between 10th & 11th grades when I lost 30 pounds), this was how I chose my menu selection while eating out. When I visited a restaurant I would look thru the menu and pick out the items that I like to eat. Then I would go back through those items and decide what I was going to order. How would I choose? What would make my decision for me? I would try to figure out which had the biggest portion of food. Which of those choices was going to be the largest. No wonder I was always chubby!
I didnt realize that I did this growing up. I didnt realize that I did this until about 3 years ago. I told my mom this recently and she didnt know that is what I did. I now try to pay attention to what I am ordering and try to order based on what is the healthier choice for me instead of what is the biggest portion size.
It is tough. I catch myself sometimes falling back into that old habit.
I would never "supersize" a fast food order, so why do I do this? I was never deprived of food as a child (imagine that is a problem also), my family was never lacking in food in our house. So I have no idea where this habit came from as my parents and my siblings dont do this.
This is one of the struggles that I have. I feel that I have it somewhat under control, but every so often I find myself reverting back to it.
Have a good weekend and drink your water!
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10/11/2006 11:23
Tired just plain tired
I am. Tired. I started a new vitamin a few days ago and am feeling much less tired. This getting older bit sucks. I am 41 and feel my body changing. Not to say that I am of old age, or anything like that, because I dont feel that way. I just feel how my body has changed in the past few years. I wish I were 24 again!
Ok, so I am on this plateau right now. I know that I need to get my behind back in gear and work out! I just cant get myself motivated at all. I am walking the dog once a day for between 3/4 and 1 mile. It is not a fast pace at all - he is a little dog. So at least I am getting something in. I wish it were more. I know only I can control this. And believe me I wish that I could just do it. But I have a million and one reasons why I cant. I just cant think of a really, really good one right now.
Enough of my complaining!
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10/08/2006 20:07
This is VERY ODD
This is very odd for me. All day today I have had absolutely no desire to eat anything. I feel fine. I am NOT pregnant (G-d forbid). I am not getting sick. I am not taking anything. It is that when I start to eat something I just can't. Hmmm....
Not like me at all.
I wonder what is up with this.
I do have TOM going on, started last night. Cramps galore! Sorry TMI.
I didn't even have that "day before eat fest" that I can go thru each month. Hmmm...
I just have no desire to eat. Don't worry - I am eating a bit and drinking my water.
I did manage to finish my big bottle of water on Friday. Still working on making sure that I drink enough liquid. If I dont, when I wake up the next morning my hands and feet are swollen from retaining fluids. That is just how I am - always have been. My body is very sensitive to small amounts of sodium. Which is why I REALLY REALLY NEED TO DRINK LOTS AND LOTS OF WATER!!!!
Just another curve in my journey of life!
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10/06/2006 10:44
Not floating away
I need to be though. I am not drinking enough water. Just can't bring myself to do it - which tells me that it is ALL IN MY HEAD!!! It is psychological with me. I have a big bottle of water in front of me, which, in the past, has never been a problem to drink. I have tried going to different size glasses/cups to see if I could change my way of thinking about it lately. NO! It doesnt seem to matter.
So I went to Whole Foods and got myself a 1.5 liter bottle. I have the thin me on one shoulder telling me to pick up the water bottle and drink it and the fat me on the other shoulder tell me that I dont want to. AAHHHH!!!
I know that I have figured out this game with myself - but now I just need to figure out how the thin me gets out to win it!
Drink up everyone!
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09/20/2006 12:11
HUGE DECISIONS being made
I was out running errands yesterday (actually had another LHR appt - which is going really well by the way) and I was starving!!!
I immediately thought of going to a drive thru to get fast food (fill in whatever fast food we happen to be passing by at that minute). But I stopped myself with that thought. I decided that if I was going to make this lifestyle change in my eating habits then I needed to stop the bullshit also. The bullshit of eating the fast food crap.
The thought of stopping kept coming to my mind, but do you know what then popped into my thoughts? The fact that if I went to get fast food, noone would know that I ate it. I could eat it, then throw the bag away and noone but me would ever know that I ate it. How sick is that? But how many of us think that way?
Well, I didnt get any fast food. I decided (HUGE, HUGE. HUGE DECISION HERE) that I would go home and make myself something. Which I did. I went home and had a low-carb tortilla (soft) with 2 slices of turkey deli meat, sunflower seeds and a little bit of balsamic dressing. I warmed it up and it was yummy!!!
I really wanted those McD's french fries though! But I am a new woman. I have new thoughts on eating the crap that is out there and that is that I am not going to eat it!!!
Drink you water and keep on smiling!
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09/13/2006 08:37
This is HUGE for ME
It reall is. I have finally, FINALLY, figured out that I dont have to eat when my head tells me I should. When I am at home, which i am during the days and evenings (Ok, except when I am golfing or running errand or volunteering at school) I get bored sometimes. When I get bored what do I want to do? EAT!!!
I sometimes will eat and eat, not enjoying what I am eating, just going through the motions of eating. It could be anything at all. I dont even taste the food sometimes. It is just the motion of doing it.
Well, now I am fighting back. I have been, for a long time I might add, working on stopping that habit. My head and my mouth are now listening to me. I stop myself. I stop myself and tell myself that I dont really want it or need it and I am listening. This is all new to me. It has not just been one day, but for about 2 weeks. And you know what? It is getting easier and easier.
It is not to say that I might fall back a step or two, but for now, I am doing it. I am pleased with myself.
I now know that most of those times I was also thirsty and not really hungry. So drinking a glass of water helps out then as well. It gives me something to do but also fills me up. It takes my mind off of the "need" to eat something right then and there. Which is what I need - to get myself a minute or two ahead. Because then I dont want to snack anymore.
It seems to be working - so for now I am going to consider this a HUGE HUGE step for me.
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09/05/2006 05:52
Counting Them
I think for now I am going to be couting points. Yup, that would be WW points. I dont want to go back to JC to continue my journey. I am not a fan of low carb stuff (I LOVE POPCORN!!!) and WW is a healthy way of eating.
Here goes!
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09/01/2006 11:09
I am baaaaack
Ok, so it has been a really long time since I have updated my blog. Oops! Kind of a busy summer - too much golf! Got plenty of golf in this summer. Now kids are going back to school and back to the grind.
I only gained about 2 pounds this summer, not too bad since I have been able to gain much more than that in a week! I have been paying attention to what I am eating. I do need to work on getting back to drinking my water. I think about it but then my mind says dont drink it. Not a good mind/controlgame.
This whole journey for me is somewhat of a mind game. Getting back in control of myself and my body. Only I control what I put in my mouth to eat or drink. So why can't I think like that when I am actually eating? It is like I just plain old forget that. I just eat. Truly a difficult battle for me to overcome.
I was raised with the clean plate club. It is so hard to not raise my children that way. I dont make them "finish what is on their plate". I dont tell them that we will send their left over food to the starving children in "_____" (whichever country was told to us that day). I let them eat until they feel that they are full - done. I refuse to force them. I do have to say that they do make pretty healthy choices. Most often, they will choose fruit over candy or cake treats. They will snack on healthy choices during the day. Maybe I should learn from them.
Well, I am going to try to get back into posting here, it is a good way for me to go back and look at what my issues were in the past.
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