Wow. Cabbage is filling. I bought a beautiful head of cabbage and did a simple panfried dish. 3 cups of cooked cabbage, even with the bacon and olive oil in the dish, less than 300 calories and I am so full I can hardly believe it. Also tasted pretty good….:) I am now making turkey and vegetable soup. Don’t ask me where this cooking surge came from but I will take advantage of it and fill the freezer.
Three more big assignments and 10 little ones and I am finished this course. Two more weeks. Here it is a three-day weekend and I am spending two full days at the computer researching and writing about business leadership. Go go go.
I am using loseit.com to track my stats. It is pretty slick but the food database they use isn’t quite as comprehensive as some others. For instance, it doesn’t give you as many options for recording fresh food as some of the others I have tried. However it has the easiest and cleanest android app that I have found and that makes a big difference for me. I am being honest so I can take a nutrition report to my doc next week. The big thing is to break the wine-and-cheese-a-day habit and make that a treat for special occasions - like Fridays…lol.
In the midst of a three week stretch away from home for work. I am staying in a very nice house with one other person, and I brought my dog with me, but it is still not home. I am resisting making it too ‘homey’ because I see this as a temporary solution, no more than one year, if the company lasts that long. That’s the risk of working for a new company, I know 80% or more of new companies fail within the first 2 years, I figure if we make it to the end of 2012 we’ll be out of the danger zone.
The dog is injured so we are not getting long walks but several short ones during the day. I can zip home for lunch, which is a bonus. I don’t have a scale and I hope I don’t weaken and buy one, I am just watching my calories and eating lots of vegetables and fruit. I keep telling myself my clothes are fitting better but they aren’t really. Still I have a whole closet of clothes I will be able to wear if I can get down 15 pounds. I have a long overdue physical with the doctor at the end of the month and I want to feel good when I get there. I know I won’t be down 15 but I would like to weigh less than I did at 9 months pregnant ( a lo-o-o-o-ng time ago, but still).
Well, not really staying on track, sort of wandering around looking for it, actually.
I decided that I am going to move my daily weigh in from morning to just before dinner. That’s when I need the reality check/motivation. I run out of decision-making energy around 6pm, maybe looking at the number then will help. Recharge my motivation, congratulate myself for a good day…like that.
Ok, just wrapping up my day job and then heading into my homework phase. Going to do the circuit training in between, for a mind break. I hope to get my homework done early enough that I get some sleep tonight.
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circuit training workout 30 minutes [check]
decent dinner with Sailorboy [check]
homework done, bed before midnight [check]
Another gold star day - staying on schedule with the circuit training - every second day. Muscles are sore but not too bad. I like feeling like I worked hard. I tried a latin dance cd…got through the warmup without tripping, then thought I’d better learn the warmup moves before I got into the dance moves.
