[Evilah]

Today i want to focus on thinking before I eat. Yesterday at the end of the day, I found myself wondering if I remembered everything I eat. I want to think my eating choices through thoroughly today, and begin devleoping that as a habit.

1. excercise 40 minutes

2. Eat 2 protein shakes (1 with fruits and ultimate meal) and eat one meal (veggies and lean protein), and one snack if get extra hungry. ~1200 cals

3. finish cleaning off the ironing board.

4. Spend extra time playing with my daughter

I know the goals aren't novel or interesting, but I wan tto work on being conscious of my food intake. tasting every bite, planning my meal carefully.

Any weight management skills you want to share?

Evilah

[JayEll]

Good morning!

I have to admit that by the end of yesterday I had exceeded my calorie intake goals. It was just one of those days. I still had a small deficit between calories burned and calories eaten, at least.

Thinking ahead is a really good idea! Just as important is keeping a list of what I really eat, so that I don't just "forget" a snack. FitDay helps me do this easily, but a notebook or other paper and pen will do.

I suppose one weight loss "skill" I use is making sure I have planned food spaced out at intervals throughout the day, so that I don't get really terribly hungry and start grazing through the kitchen.

My goal for today is to stay on plan.

Jay

[lumifan4ever]

I guess my only goal is to stay on plan today. When I came into work this morning I had to re-work my fitday. I had to take ALOT of food off that I didn't get around to eating. But I managed to get 1200 calories, so i guess it's okay. Not the best percentages of fat/carbs/protein, but not horrible either i guess.

[Evilah]

So the surprise of sorts for today was that we went to see the opening show of pirates III Nice surprise, but it totally ate up my excercise time. Also I was tempted with popcorn and soda (yick! soda!). I also didn't have time for extra chores, like the ironing board this afternoon. This has turned into a day by day chronicle about how someone could continually fail to clean off her ironing board.

1. no excercise.
2. 1 protein shake (the one with 3-4 servings of fresh fruit blended in, that also contains a couple equivalent servings a fresh veggies), 2 diet burritos, 1 4 oz. piece of broiled chicken and some popcorn and soda. I ate the popcorn one by one, not by the handful, which really slowed me down, and I didnt' finish, I stopped because I was full from having eaten them one at a time, slowly chewing each one for a hour
3. no ironing board
4. To the park with the kiddo! YAY!



Jay ,
About spacing food throughout the day== I've tried that before and for me it just didn't work. (I know it works for some) because if I'm not hungry I will look at a piece of food I planned to eat and want to throwup. With a picky stomach like that... I wonder how I'm fat. My problem is that when I want to eat and I find something I want, I want to eat and eat and eat and eat. And somewhere in that madness I usually end up eating a "trigger food" (a food that causes me to want to eat something salty, sugary, doughy, etc. later)-- foods I know I need to avoid at all costs. I'm working on being able to get to that hungry point, eat something I want to eat in a sensible portion and STOP! But sometimes it feels like stopping in the middle of sex (i hope that's not too pg13 of a reference) ... you just don't want to stop until you reach that climax of food ecstacy. So far I'm able to stop myself about 30% past where my sensible conscious brain says stop. (My brain slams on the brakes but my hands and mouth just keep skidding). Continuing with that analogy-- I try to practice "tapping the breaks" while eating so I don't get carried away, barreling down the hill, completely overeating. So I can stop!!!.

[Evilah]

Jay, Lumi,

How did it go?

Lumi,
Do you plan everything you eat ahead of time everyday?

Jay,
How did you do with eating throughout the day?

[JayEll]

Hey, good morning,

In answer to your comments, Evilah-- I do well with the spaced meals/snacks, but there is one rule I needed to mention, and that is, if it's "time" for a meal or snack but I'm not hungry, I don't eat it! I'll wait for awhile until I do feel a little hungry. The basic rule I follow is a meal or snack no less than 2 hours from the last one.

Yesterday is a good example--I was "supposed" to have a snack at 3, but I wasn't hungry. So, I didn't eat it. I went to the gym on schedule, and when I got out of there I really was hungry, and I didn't have any snack food with me. (Silly me! ) I was going food shopping, though, so I bought some BabyBel Light single-serving cheeses (also known as Laughing Cow in some parts of the country) and ate one of those as a snack. 60 cals. Solved the hungry problem and got me to supper, which was around 6.

Drinking a lot of water with a snack helps--but I drink water anyway.

Sorry to hear about your difficulties! I imagine that you could get really hungry following your current plan, though... a couple of shakes would not hold me.

Jay