I thought I was doing the “right” thing and announcing to the world, “I’m not going on a diet. I’m changing my lifestyle.” I vowed to take it extremely slow and not start out at an unrealistic pace. I have to be real though, it’s going about as well as Mariah Carey’s performance on New Years Eve.
For example, allow me to show you what I ate yesterday. Please note this was after forgetting my Lean Cuisine on my front porch but being saved by a vendor who put food in to go containers to show me the usability of their line. All I thought was, ‘that’s all fine and well but I’m going to eat all of that’. And so I did.
Breakfast
- 3/4 blueberry bagel with strawberry cream cheese, courtesy of my 8 year old who “wasn’t very hungry”.
- 16 ounce vanilla latte I made, because I’m awesome.
Lunch (this was the samples I ate)
- yougurt parfait with granola
- cheese cubes with beef jerkey
- spinach and blue cheese salad in a strawberry vinaigrette
Snack
Some sort of fancy chocolate my co-worker has. It looks like powdered hot chocolate but once you add hot water, it becomes this decadent, thick, dark chocolate. When I’m exhausted, it gives me the boost I need to get through the day. I’m pretty confident they will find crack in it at some point.
Dinner (Oh Lord)
- Texas toast
- Shrimp scampi
- Olive Garden-esque salad
- Rice
Night Cap
- 1/2 a glass of red wine which would have been a full glass but my dumb ass spilled it ALL OVER THE BED. I was so pissed at myself, having to change the sheets and pretend I hadn’t taken a glass of wine up to my room.
Exercise since 1.1.17 has included the following:
- 2 walks around the block with coffee
- 2 walks around the block at a faster pace, sans coffee
Oh my God, oh my God, I have GOT to get my shit together. Who else is dieting, exercising, etc.? I only want to hear from the failures. Just kidding, sort of…..
Ah! I get you so much! But, I mean, it looks like you’re actually doing better than you know. Can you see that? Because maybe you weren’t as aware of what you were consuming and how you were moving before, so that has to be some sort of step forward, don’t you think?
I’m a serial “lifestyle changer.” I used to be able to recognize when I was losing control and re-gain control immediately. A few years ago, I completely lost control of my weight and am now 30 pounds heavier than my typical adult weight and am incredibly sedentary. I once again decided it’s time to count calories and to walk 30 minutes 6 times a week — starting on the 15th.
There’s no reason for that date. It’s just that I’m revisiting my resolutions monthly and even though I won’t have a Valentine, I figured it’d be nice to make the end of my first goal land around Val’s Day.
You’re fiiiiiine!
My Jimmy Dean sandwich and I thank you for the support. No seriously, I’m grateful. I am just worried I will forget that I want to get healthy and will continue an unhealthy lifestyle. I like your thinking about the 15th. I reread that date, questioning the significance, but then you explained. Totally makes sense. I need to get trimmed down if I’m going to LA to visit my cousin in a few months.
Mmm-hmmm. I always lose interest at three weeks. I don’t know why. Twenty-one days is supposedly how long it takes to make a habit. I guess that’s why I made a resolution to check in with myself every month.
I’ve been fed up with my lifestyle of laziness and an unhealthy weight for some time and would love to be active and slender by the summer. So the goal is to stop complaining to myself and do something about it. I just hope I don’t forget and end up being this weight in June. Here’s hoping! And… doing?!
I just wish I loved to work out. I hate working out. Working out is as painful as being hungry so I try to never workout and never be hungry which is like two stubborn people butting heads you know? I want to take a pill that will make me enjoy working out. The only joy I gather is how awesome I feel afterwards but that is only if I didn’t half ass it.
It’s like you crawled into my brain and wrote exactly how I feel about this “getting healthy” thing. Ugh.
Even as a kid… I loved playing all the time, but if you worded it as “Lets go for a run,” then suddenly I hated exercise.
Maybe that’s the ticket? Oh! Maybe if I found an ice cream (or hot cocoa) truck to chase after when I’m hungry I wouldn’t even know I’m getting exercise. The trick is that the truck would then need to have salads…
:-/
I like to dance despite looking completely ridiculous. Don’t get me started about running. I hate it so much. I am lacking that “you’ll get a runner’s high” gene.
Yes! I can be found dancing all the time. Mostly in the most odd circumstances — while sweeping, shopping, working (I work from my computer at home…. not as a dancer). But that runner’s high gene? I don’t believe in it.
Yes, it’s a unicorn. What do you do to work from home? I would kill to work from home!
I have begun keeping a food log on a website that shows me my daily calorie intake, along with other dietary components (carbs, sugars, sodium, etc) and have been ‘watching’ what I eat more closely as a result. I’ve also been doing at least 15 minute cardio or strength exercise with 30 minutes walking on the treadmill at work every day.
With all that being said, I went to a lunch meeting yesterday where they fed us roast beef, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and salad. Not bad right…? Well they also offered 3 kinds of desserts: chocolate/chocolate cake, carrot cake/cream cheese frosting, or apple pie…
I had me a slice of the chocolate cake because no one ever says no to free chocolate cake! I also went home last night and consumed 3 slices of pizza. No shame!
You did the right thing. You can never say no to chocolate. What website is it? Please tell me it’s free? I considered weight watchers again but don’t want to pay the fee. I’m not overweight but I will be if I don’t start eating better, I’m going to be on My 600 Pound Life, sitting on my bed, waiting for the Fire Department to cut me out of my room.
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/
It’s nice because when you’re searching for foods to log, they have a pretty large inventory of preset foods with nutrition facts already set; you just have to enter your serving size. I’ve been using it for about a week and a half, not including weekends, and it’s helped me look at what I eat. Let me know if you start using it and how you like it. 🙂
I will! Im totally checking it out! Thank you!!
I’m not so much dieting as I’m trying to eat better haha. Before my Christmas break, I was eating just horribly! Now I’m trying to balance it all out a little bit more since I have more things in my kitchen to get make food easier and better. The exercise thing I have failed on! I have a yoga mat which I used a few times last week when I wasn’t working but now that I’m back to work, I don’t want to change for it and then change again haha.
My problem is my tv has different work outs on it. Hell, the XBox has a workout thing on it. The trouble? I have 1 to 2 tv hogs in the living room and 1-2 tv hogs in the front room. Then on top of that, if I do get the tv, they will just sit there, watching me exercise making occasional comments. If I’m down on the ground, Chichi will come to lick my face. Wow, I just have 1 excuse after another don’t I?
HAHA! don’t worry I have one excuse after another as well. But meh it happens. I get a good work out just doing my job. Last night I cleaned two different kitchens, dead lifted a child off the floor three times (pretty sure I hurt my back doing that), walked at least 30 minutes up hills, more walking but while carrying a bag full of school lunches so that’s added weight. I think I don’t need to exercise haha
Dear God, are you Amish? That sounds like the work of the Amish. BTW, I can’t remember, did you say you have Amish up there? I digress, if you keep a schedule like that, you definitely don’t need to exercise!
hehe no, not Amish! Just up a smallish hill once to stand at a bus stop and wait for the oldest, then up the hill again to go to dinner, then up a super long hill to get home at the end of the night. The rest of it is on top of all that. And I don’t know if we have Amish, but we most certainly have Mennonites.