In some ways I did better, other ways not. I had more chips because I was hungry and my in-laws were visiting. I should have made a better choice. Dinner was definitly not the healthiest--fish sticks and those Ore-ida fries.
So I wore jeans for the first time yesterday since last spring and they are pretty tight. I put another pair on today and I couldn't breathe.
That was a wake up call. I must stop this eating.
I am taking steps toward it, but I need to take more. I thought about this a lot today and prayed about it. At first I was in that mode of "okay, strict with the calories, let's plan out all meals for the week" and all that.
Then I slowed myself down. That's partly what lead me to this trouble. I don't think I do well on that kind of plan. I think I need to take things slowly.
I was thinking about how to lose a pound I really just need to cut out 500 calories a day. And I was also thinking about how I would like to give up my nightly icecream ritual. That's probably a good part of thos 500 right there. I may go back to my protein pudding.
But I'm not going to tell myself that I can't ever have these things. I just want to give it up for a little while and see how I do.
I want to focus on small changes instead of diving into a "plan" and then getting rebellious. I think gradual small changes is the way to start for now. Otherwise, I seem to turn into a two year old throwing a tantrum because I can't have "my food".
So the focus is on avoiding emotional eating and making small healthy changes. Tomorrow I'm doing my junk food fast, so that should help me get the ball rolling. And then my first change is not having icecream every night (that's actually a pretty big change for me).
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I'm not sure I'm going to log my food today so I'm going to record what I eat here.
So far:
B-Honeycomb cereal and 1% milk
S-Kettlecorn a bunch of it (reason I'm not logging--don't know if you could log that properly and do I really want to know?)
L-peanut butter on gf crackers and 2 servings of On The Border Chips
S-more chips
D-fish sticks and french fries
S-icecream

Excercise: 30 mins. elliptical, burned 328 cals.

More later! (I'm sure you'll hold your breath waiting.)