SAXONHARP's CalorieKing blog
Thursday, Jan 10 2013
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Yesterday I had a pretty good eating day. My only mistake was mindlessly eating 4 of those fruit leather things. I was hungry right after work but at least I stopped myself and my calories ended up almost at 1,800 but the nutrients ended up not being that bad.
This year I am approaching weight loss a little different. I usually get all charged up, jump in with both feet and am super excited to lose X amount of pounds in so many weeks. But what usually happens is my emotions crash and then I run into problems. I am focusing on keeping my emotions with eating/weight loss more neutral. I will definately celebrate successes but I don't want to crash and burn either. Overall food choices are getting better and better. I am not feeling deprived and that is very important to me. Most importantly, I am feeling better. I am definately not as bloated.
I realized during the holidays I just cannot put myself on a certain type of plan that tells me I cannot eat a certain food. My brothers are into the Paleo Diet. I was interested in reading about it and I read the book they had. As I was reading it and it was saying that you should not eat certain foods I just started to panic.....I started to think "I can never go out to eat again," "how can I eliminate beans," etc. I put the book down and realized that right now this is not the food plan for me. I just need to stick with what the nutritionist outlined for me. I tend to let what my brothers say make me feel bad BUT finally at age 42 I felt confident to tell them that I have to follow my own plan right now. And when I said that with confidence they stopped pushing me. My brothers can intimidate me. They both have completed iromans and it has been hard for me not to feel like I am not as good as they are BUT I do know that it is not true. It was funny I was able to show them some warm up exercises and stretches they have never seen before and they wanted to know what I was doing and why and now they are doing those exercises. See you can learn from your little sister!
Tonight I workout with my new trainer. I am excited to get back into weight training.
This year I am approaching weight loss a little different. I usually get all charged up, jump in with both feet and am super excited to lose X amount of pounds in so many weeks. But what usually happens is my emotions crash and then I run into problems. I am focusing on keeping my emotions with eating/weight loss more neutral. I will definately celebrate successes but I don't want to crash and burn either. Overall food choices are getting better and better. I am not feeling deprived and that is very important to me. Most importantly, I am feeling better. I am definately not as bloated.
I realized during the holidays I just cannot put myself on a certain type of plan that tells me I cannot eat a certain food. My brothers are into the Paleo Diet. I was interested in reading about it and I read the book they had. As I was reading it and it was saying that you should not eat certain foods I just started to panic.....I started to think "I can never go out to eat again," "how can I eliminate beans," etc. I put the book down and realized that right now this is not the food plan for me. I just need to stick with what the nutritionist outlined for me. I tend to let what my brothers say make me feel bad BUT finally at age 42 I felt confident to tell them that I have to follow my own plan right now. And when I said that with confidence they stopped pushing me. My brothers can intimidate me. They both have completed iromans and it has been hard for me not to feel like I am not as good as they are BUT I do know that it is not true. It was funny I was able to show them some warm up exercises and stretches they have never seen before and they wanted to know what I was doing and why and now they are doing those exercises. See you can learn from your little sister!
Tonight I workout with my new trainer. I am excited to get back into weight training.
4 comments so far.
4.
a decade ago
I think you are going into the new year with a very healthy attitude. I just am not the kind of person who can do away with an entire food group for any lenght of time (unless it's vegetables
;) )
You have to know what works for you.
by TDBHALL
3.
a decade ago
I hope your training session was fantastic! I've done strict Paleo before and it definitely takes weight off, but I couldn't do it strict all the time, especially running a lot. I would just feel depleted. Most of my meals are paleo-ish, but I have more carbs and am not worried about some bread here or there. That's not what puts weight on! It's those damn office donuts =)
by RJAGER
2.
a decade ago
I think we are twins
;)
I feel the same way if you tell me I can't it's like omg this can't be and then poof I fell off the wagon on to the gravy boat...
Brothers, family members, friends etc.. can do that to you can't they. I am glad you were able to show them something. That's right lil sis knows a few things too...
by MRSDSB
1.
a decade ago
I am sooooo trying to follow your same philosophy. I never want to crash and burn again!
by CAROLBINTX