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I ate a lot of junk in the last week or so, knowing I was going to begin seriously dieting today. I've read before that you should all but binge on your trigger foods, so you're almost sick of them, and therefore won't be craving them, and that does seem to work for me. I woke up this morning knowing not only what I would be eating, but what I would not be eating.
And I did well today, really. Eggs for breakfast (I need protein or I'll be craving sweets all. day. long. I know me that well!) An apple and an ounce of cheese for lunch; baby carrots with homemade avocado ranch dip (more carrots than dip, go me) for a snack. And then a really great dinner (broiled cod with a Parmesan/lemon/mayonnaise sauce, hash browns with sweet onion and shredded carrots, and steamed green cabbage. And even though I'm under my calories for the day, I still ate too much; it tasted good and I wanted more of the veggies. So I will need to remember that my eyes are still bigger than my stomach, and maybe my mouth wants more but my tummy doesn't.
I am pleased, though. It was a stressful day here at home--parents fighting, teenage daughter having a painful orthodontist treatment, husband still not feeling well--and I can think of at lease six things in this house that would have been a good quick 'stress' eat. And I didn't have any of them. There are two huge cookies at my right as I type this; my mom handed them to me, leftover from their takeout lunch yesterday. She knows I'm trying to diet, so I'm not sure what that was about, but the point is, they're sitting here, and I am not tempted to eat them, and I'm not GOING to eat them.
I bought things to make another big chopped salad--that's one of the ways I stay on track, having several days' worth of salad ready to eat. This one will be romaine, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, sweet corn, grape tomatoes, celery, cucumbers and herbs. I fixed the rest of the celery into sticks to have with baby carrots and dip for snacks, because I like crunchy things. I bought plain chicken tenders that I saute with a little butter and lemon and chop to eat hot on top of a bed of cold salad, and I have two fresh homemade dressings ready to go (they taste so much better than bottled and they don't have all the preservatives, chemicals, and artificial things in them, and I actually eat LESS dressing because of it.) Three kinds of apples, a dozen eggs boiled and ready to grab, and a bowl of ruby red grapefruit peeled and ready for breakfast (I take it out of the membrane and then heat it in the microwave for a few seconds with a tiny bit of brown sugar or honey, and cinnamon--the membrane is what causes the bitterness, and warming it sweetens it even more; grapefruit and eggs are my favorite breakfast.)
Planning ahead helps me. Keeping lots of good-for-me things ready to eat in a moment's notice helps, too. If I lived alone, there would be nothing in this house that I should not eat, but I don't. I have two aging parents (who are very picky eaters, more so all the time) and a teenage daughter who is equally picky, and a husband whose health is beginning to require a diet different than he is willing to eat. I have stressed myself too much trying to get them all to eat the way they 'should.' It does no one any good.
So I shop and I plan and I eat, savoring each bite. I drink my water, I plan to fit in exercise (and get plenty just doing things around the house, believe me--each load of laundry means running up and down three flights of stairs!) and focus on 10% losses, one by one, until the huge number is manageable and the end is in sight.
It'll be a long, slow process, but I didn't gain this overnight and it's not going to fall off overnight.
But I can do it, I want to do it, I AM doing it.
Watch me.
View Diet Calendar, 04 November 2013:
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1684 kcal
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Fat: 101.79g | Prot: 82.45g | Carbs: 115.16g.
Breakfast: Egg. Lunch: Colby Cheese, Golden Delicious Apples. Dinner: Pepsi Diet Pepsi, Sweet Onions, Cooked Carrots, Hashed Brown Potatoes (Home Prepated), Cooked Green Cabbage, Lemon Juice, Butter, Mayonnaise, Dry Grated Parmesan Cheese, Baked or Broiled Cod. Snacks/Other: Avocado Dip, Master Choice Baby Carrots. more...
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2904 kcal
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Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 3/kph - 15 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 45 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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