- more bullet points because I seem to be into this stream of consciousness thing
- drove to a nearby (135 miles away
) town to have lunch with a friend yesterday. Did a salad, dressing on the side, no thank you to the scones. Too bad she wasn’t with me when I stopped at McDonald’s on the way home to use the facilities and felt that I needed to buy something. I’m trying to restrict my diet cokes so instead I had … a triple thick chocolate shake. WTH????? Yes, in that case, the DC would have been a better choice. Sheesh. - I keep saying, it’s not that I don’t know better, I just don’t DO better. There are times when I feel that time is running out for me. I’ve already wasted years being overweight (although in the larger cosmic sense of the world nothing is ever wasted, but I digress). I don’t want to waste any more time, but I still make a choice like that.
- I’m liking the Primal Blueprint. It’s very similar to SB … identical in a lot of the ideas. The primary difference is that PB would prefer no grains at all while SB incorporates them into Phase II and PB is a fan of full-fat and SB is low-fat. I’m still reading PB so am making no commitments until I’m done.
- along the same line, the last time I did SB successfully I only had grains at the most one serving one day a week. It was usually on a Saturday when we’d go out to dinner. I’d have about half a roll and half a baked potato with my salad, meat and vegetables. So obviously the no grain thing works for me. It’s just a matter of continuing to do it.
- it’s rained pretty steadily for the past two days and is raining off and on again today. Highs have been around 55. I don’t hike in the rain (unless it’s the only way to get home) so haven’t go out in the last two days. Probably won’t get out today either.
- I tried the kettle bell. I loved using the bell but hated the video … I thought it was jerky and hard to follow. I’ll try it a couple more times before I totally give up on it. Strangely enough the muscle that got worked the most was my inner thigh. I was afraid, during some of the swinging of it, given my being extremely uncoordinated, that the bell was going to fly out of my hands and through my beautiful picture window (or, even worse, through my flat screen TV).
- When I was drinking my shake, I was thinking about the secret eating. Not sure who I’m trying to fool there. It’s obvious I didn’t get 50 pounds overweight by eating salad. OTOH my being sensitive about what I eat in front of others means that I don’t overeat in front of others. So maybe the secret to my success is to only eat when I’m around others.
- and then there was the elderly man in line at the grocery store who was buying a cake and a tub of ice cream. The check out clerk asked if somebody was having a party, and he said, no, he just liked cake and ice cream. He didn’t look like he ate a whole cake with ice cream by himself … wish I had that kind of metabolism. (ETA: if it had been me, I would have said, it’s for a party. Might have been only a party for me, but I sure wouldn’t have admitted I was going to eat the whole thing myself.)
- I’m not ready for winter. We barely had summer. I don’t mind fall hanging around for a while, but last year our first snow fall that stuck was September 26th.
going from knowing to doing
2010
shaking things up … or not
2010
- I tried a new plan this week … the flat belly diet … despite my misgivings while reading the book. Sunny had had great beginning success on it and I felt like I needed to shake things up. My misgivings while reading the book included the fact that I don’t carry most of my weight in my mid-section … I’m much more a hips and thighs kind of girl. BUT I had just seen a picture of me not standing up straight and it looked like I had a lot of belly. In fact my waist to hip measurement is okay at .7999999999999999; not great but okay.
- One of the things I hated about the plan was the sassy water … I gagged. Honestly it tasted awful and looked worse.
- As long as I’m exercising and not traveling, I drink a lot of water during the day. I downed the required 64 oz of sassy water before 10 am which is normal for me. I usually have another 32 oz with lunch and in the afternoon. I try not to drink much after 5 pm because then I’m up all night.
- I was thinking I wanted to quit my diet coke and this was one of the things that attracted me to this plan. You have to not have coffee or carbonated drinks at all in the first four days. I decided, though, that I’d rather cut down, than to stop altogether. Especially since I’ve got about 2500 miles of driving I’ll be doing in October and I know I’ll want a diet coke or two on the journey.
- I really, really, really dislike deli turkey.
- And string cheese … yuck.
- I’m kind of freaked out by canned tuna now too. And it used to be a staple. :::sigh::: I might try it one more time, but last time I had it I threw it out after one bite.
- The book talked about having 28 meals for breakfast. Unfortunately 98% of those meals appear to be made with oatmeal. I despise cooked cereal, can’t even think about it without gagging (I know, I’m as bad as a little kid with my “yucks”). Now if we’re talking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies … I’m all over that.
- One of the reasons I even thought about a new plan was that Phase I just wasn’t doing it for me. I couldn’t tolerate the idea of any more meat … I wanted the cornflakes and potatoes. I’m Irish after all and potatoes are in my blood.
- Before I started on my one and only day with FBD I thought maybe I could do the primal diet … you know the “even more meat than Phase I” thing. Yeah, the only successful thing about that was the bacon and butter and full cream … yum.
- One thing I liked about FBD (and I think I remember this is what Sunny did also) is the idea of 400 calories/meal or snack. Now given my expressed dislike of counting calories, one may wonder why this would appeal to me. Who knows. I think that I’m thinking it’s a way to keep my eating under control and get the scale moving again.
- I really think I just need to go back to SBD. And quit being seduced by any others.
Sunday
2009
Got back about 3 pm and went to dinner at Montana’s. It was okay. I had a Casear salad with no dressing and a plain chicken breast with broccoli. During the five plus hour drive I had some peanuts and one babybel cheese. Lots of water once we got here.
I’m still contemplating life without Diet coke. I know that I thought I could never give up my toast with peanut butter for breakfast, but it’s gone and I don’t even miss it. I wonder if it would be the same with diet coke. Some of the problems, though, that people have named from having diet coke just don’t seem to bother me. I’m drinking it and not getting any cravings and I’m drinking it and losing pretty steadily. Actually I’m more like to have cravings and not lose if I have bread every day, much less two times a day, even if it is 100% whole wheat.
I like the taste of diet coke and I like having something that tastes good to me that has minimal calories. Plus there is the whole migraine thing that I talked about before.
I might go down to no more than one a day and see what happens with that. One good thing is with the colder weather I’m all about the herbal tea.
Plan is to do the two weeks of Phase 1 cleanly (or I guess keep starting over with day 1 of phase 1 until I get through 2 weeks. )
