Wow, the Holiday season coupled with Winter is sure doing a number on me. What's the date now, January 29th!?, and I finally feel like I'm mentally getting back in the game. I'm either going to do this or I'm not, it's that simple. I'm sorry if I seem like a crazy person to some of you with all my back and forth thought patterns, ideas and strategies for weight loss. One of the reasons I wanted to do this blog (in addition, to having it be a way of keeping myself held accountable) was that I wanted it to be a place people could come to and read about one person's day to day triumphs and struggles on a weight loss journey.
Just last week People magazine put out an issue called "Half My Size." It was all these success stories of how people lost a ton of weight, and it truly WAS inspiring and made me think, "YES, *I* CAN do this!" However, the thing I don't like about those stories and other ones like them, is there is no mention of the day back in November of last year when Betty Lou had a setback and ate half a bakery and how she felt like I failure on her diet and it took everything she had to rise above it, or how in May of last year Joe Schmo didn't get to exercise for a whole weekend and it took him a full week to get back on track again, or how Sally May had plans to exercise and then two of her three kids ended up getting sick, and at the end of the day she was proud of herself for managing to brush her teeth.
I'm not making up excuses for myself but I will tell you right now that if I were working and on some type of a schedule, and I wasn't in the kitchen most of the day either preparing food, feeding people or cleaning up, this journey that I'm on would be a WHOLE lot easier. But it is what it is. I can't exercise for hours and hours each day to lose the weight, and as healthy as I try to feed my children, I am ALWAYS going to be surrounded by extra food because of them. So I'm going to do my best and I'm going to have to be happy with that.
So what the heck is my plan now? I'm taking it one day at a time. I went to the gym today and did 40 minutes of cardio (burning 500 calories) and I lifted some weights (working mainly on chest/back and triceps/biceps). I also HAVE TO commit to sticking to an eating plan. For this ONE week I'm going to post what I'm going to eat the following day and then at the end of that day I'll post as to whether or not I stuck with it. Please GOD let me stick to this ONE WEEK goal I have for myself!!
Here it is - My meal plan for Sunday, January 30th (Oh, I should mention that I'm going to let Sunday be the day I can have a dessert, and I have to eat it with my husband :-) I need to get used to having dessert and then stopping, so Sunday is the day for dessert with the family.)
Weight Watchers is what I'm used to using to keep track of the amount of food I should eat in a day. This day is roughly 26-27 points, and I should be having 28 points per day. SO, even with the dessert this day is right on track :-)
Breakfast: 1 egg with two egg whites on a slice of Ezekiel bread (toasted) with a little butter
Snack: apple with a TBSP of peanut butter
Lunch: 4oz chicken breast (cooked in a little olive oil), with veggie/rice soup (probably 1 1/2 cups)
Snack: 1/4 cup almonds with an orange
Dinner: One serving of lasagna with brussel sprouts
Dessert: One "No Pudge Fudge Brownie" with 1/2 cup strawberry ice cream
Wish me luck and if you pray, say a prayer for me!!
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