My day is going well, so far. Thank you for asking! I like the preplanning. It helps keep the temptation at bay.
Robin, I will look into that cereal. Your success speaks for itself. You have made an awesome life change!
Another suggestion from the forum was the snacks and now I couldn't do without them. I bring a low-fat chewy string cheese, an apple and a small banana and parcel them out over the day. It really helps me to drive on past McDonalds after school if I'm chawing on an apple!
I decided to be completely honest with my fitday counter. Yesterday I ate lunch at Taco Bell with my son then went for ice cream with a friend. (Maybe I just need to broaden my social activities!
) Rather than denying myself the treat and feeling 'poor me', I found the food contents through calorie-count.com and put the info into fitday. Wow! Reading the info and seeing what it did to my day's total is more of an incentive not to indulge too often than anything else.
My weight loss is slow, about 1 pound per week. But I feel like I'm learning a whole new way to live!
Lisa