Well, so far, so good. I've been SF since last Friday, and I've managed to avoid junk (chips, etc.) I've also done something active every day but Saturday, so something has certainly shifted in me! I haven't been totally white flour free, but am trying to be conscious of that, as well.
Some things I've noticed are:
* I have a LOT more energy
* It's hard for me to separate what I eat from what others eat. For example, going through the Wendy's drive-thru, it took everything in me to order a grilled chicken sandwich because Darren, my husband, was having a burger. Not that I won't have a burger from time to time, but it was just really good to notice where my desire for a burger was coming from in me...it was more about my definition of "fairness" (if he gets one, it gives me "permission" to get one) and about impulse (immediate gratification) than from thinking, "Hmmm, a burger is what I want to eat right now." Turns out I really did want chicken! I'm not used to listening to that voice.
* Somehow making healthy choices seems easier on sunny days.
* The time between leaving work and eating dinner is by far the toughest part of the day for me. Not only because I'm hungry and want to eat without cooking first, but also I seem to have a hard time shifting from work to home-life. Darren and I commute together, so by the time I leave my office and pick him up, I'm in traffic for an hour. I start the drive all bright-eyed, and by the time we pull into the driveway, I'm deflated. The last thing I want to do is cook. But, I did last night, and it was really good (grilled chicken, spinach and garlic mashed potatoes). This is why planning meals in advance is so, so important. I need to help myself as much as possible so that the critical hour and a half is doable.
* All of this is certainly tied into numbers for me...how much weight I lose. I want to lose 24 pounds by our vacation. When I started eating healthy last August, I weighed 247. I got down to 212, but then the holidays hit, and I got off track. When I weighed myself on Friday, I was at 224 (and glad to learn I didn't gain it all back!) To be at 200 for vacay would be really super. This is tricky, because of course I want to lose weight! After all, that's part of getting healthy. But when that number doesn't move quickly enough, it can be discouraging. KB has set a goal to weigh herself every week. I'm going to try that, too, because I'm very tempted to weigh myself every day, and that's set up for feeling discouraged.
KB was supportive even though she was travelling! I got a sweet card from her in the mail, and in it were three little cards that listed my goals from our previous planning post. I can put them in places and use them as reminders of what I want to do for myself...super!
I've walked Rocky twice since Friday. I'm going to take him for another one tonight.
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