Angel Food (lowfat)

Ok - weekly weigh-in time. Blessedly, I weighed 156.2 Monday morning - a loss of 2.8 lbs last week. I’ve embraced using my food journal as a weight loss tool. Reflecting on the week, I feel like I might be made up of sodium phosphates and maltodextrin. I’m still in the easy trap of heating up a frozen diet meal for lunch during busy workdays. I recognize that I need to step away from my desk, stop buying cheap meals, and eat something healthy away from email, phones, and coworkers.

Journaling my food intake has been eye opening for me in another way. Although I claim not to be a “bread person”, apparently I’m quite the lover of refined flour products. A cracker here, a cookie there, and suddenly I’ve eaten more bread products  than anything else. I had somewhat of a biscuit fetish last week, making an otherwise annoying 45 minute commute quite pleasant with a cup of coffee and a home baked biscuit (or two). I’m not talking frozen or fast food biscuits here - I kneaded these myself! They were delicious with honey from my grandpa-in-law-to-be’s farm. Alas, biscuits in all their refined white flour glory are now a weekend treat for me. So, strategies for the remaining few days until my next weigh in are cutting back on refined flour products (I’ll concentrate on the whole grains later), eating more whole foods, continue writing in my food diary, and recording my WW points.

Also, perhaps most importantly, I’ve been more open with family and friends in my life about wanting to lose some of the weight I’ve gained. Opening up has made me much more accountable for what I’m putting in my body and what I’m doing to be more active. I thought it would be embarrassing to be honest. But, the feedback I’ve been receiving has been amazing. One woman at work even called me an “inspiration to us all.” At times when I feel like I’m pudgier and more sluggish than I need to be, those words sure sound sweet.