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09 February 2010

So I made my first "health concious" grocery trip today. How miserable! I have such a hard time coming up with dinner ideas that are healthy. I want Cheese on Everything! I bought baby carrots, grapes, and grape tomatoes because they are munchy and will hopefully satisfy me sometimes when I'm craving junk food. I got fish fillets and chicken breasts so hopefully I can make some low-cal dinners with those that the kids will eat. I realize that if I don't have junky food in the house, I can't eat it, but that seems nearly impossible when I have to buy stuff for Daniel's lunch. He gets yogurt and fruit and a sandwich everyday, but I always pack some kind of chips, or gold fish, and a desert snack too. Guess I may need to cut those out and see if I can find some better stuff for him to be eating too. I think my efforts at healthy eating would be greatly improved if I had some modicum of cooking skill...but I don't...so I'll have to stick to things I can try and make quickly and easily. We'll see how it goes.

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08 February 2010

Weigh-in: 204.0 lb

lost so far: 20.0 lb

still to go: 49.0 lb

Diet followed poorly

add comment gaining 0.6 lb a week

03 December 2009

Ugghh! I feel like I've gained 15 pounds since the first of November. Its definately the winter blues that I feel setting in. I've spent more time on the couch sleeping, watching tv, and playing on the computer than I have in a really long time. I can tell that I'm cranky and tired and emotional, which makes my eating patterns worse. I don't feel like I've been overeating, but I know that I have been making really poor choices. After some self-evaluating I realize that I've been kind of self-destructive in the last couple of weeks...that first two days of not feeling good had me eating a bunch of crap and not exercising. Then I didn't enter my foods because I didn't want to have to face up to how many calories I had eaten. Then I started beating up on myself for not entering my food, then I feel worthless, so I just eat whatever the heck I want....not a very good pattern. So, starting today I am setting some mini-goals for myself...1) Eat a healthy breakfast every day (preferably fruit); 2) Only 1 sweet snack a day; 3)no more than 5 sodas per week; 4) drink at least one bottle of water a day. I want to stick to these goals for 4 weeks and then add in the next step, exercise! Change can't happen all at once...baby steps!

And I have to quit beating up on myself! Just because I didn't make time, or make it a priority to enter my food intake in a website does not mean that I have failed in some way. The fact that I have probably gained 7 pounds since my last weigh-in also doesn't mean that I have failed. I have to recognize that it is not unusual for my weight to fluctuate as much as 10 pounds over the course of a few months. I've got to try and be nicer to myself!

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05 November 2009

Ugh! I felt bad about the way I ate on Halloween and I stopped entering everything for a few days. And I ate anything I could cram in my mouth...including soft batch cookies for breakfast, truffles at the office, too much beer, and lots of fast food. But...okay...Keri jerked me back to stop feeling like a loser and I'm going to start today making better decisions. I'm considering purchasing a treadmill since I can't seem to find time to get out of the house to walk. Found a couple of used ones on craigslist cheap enough for me to afford. It'll be a better day tomorrow. I'll be a better day tomorrow. It'll be a better day tomorrow!

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30 October 2009

Ugh...still having a hard time eating healthy with my crazy schedule. I am never going to lose weight eating pizza and taco bell. It seems like making time for meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking, is just as hard as finding time for exercising. I was totally craving carbs all day yesterday and snacked on unhealthy snacks several times. Challenging myself to make it to get to the grocery store tonight and buy some healthy snacks.

Weigh-in: 195.6 lb

lost so far: 28.4 lb

still to go: 40.6 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

(2 comments) gaining 3.3 lb a week

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