Journal for change.

Good afternoon!  Tomorrow is my weigh in.  It will be 7 days from my first weigh in on the 27th.  I have a feeling I haven’t lost many “pounds” (especially considering it’s my TOM :/  )  but my clothes feel looser and I feel better already.  Here’s some info about the past week.  I think it’ll help me to put it all in one place:

- Hubby and I trained for the C25K five days this past week!  I’m so proud of us!!!  I think we’re going to repeat week 1 of this training though, just because I’m still struggling through the last 5 minutes of the 20 minute jog/walk intervals.

- I didn’t binge at all!!!!  I came close one day when hubby was out to the basketball game with his family, but luckily for me, there weren’t any chips in the house.  There really is merit in not buying things you don’t want to eat.  If there would have been chips in the house that evening, I would have eaten the whole bag.

- I worked hard on eating correct portion sizes during my meals.  One of the biggest ways I did this was to serve the meals with a big side of veggies.  When I eat pasta, if I eat the veggies first, I’m not ravenous and craving the pasta the way I usually do, so it helps me to eat less.

- I’m finding the need to eat snacks.  Usually I would have chips around to binge on - but with those no longer around the house, I don’t have any snacking options.  Or at least that’s what I feel like.  I bought some greek yogurt, and that was very satisfying - but I want some other snack options that are easy and cheap.  Any ideas?

<3 Emily