Good morning ladies!
Delphi, so glad you got through last night without snacking! And you have an organized closet! Lol! Good for you! I did want to tell you about the green tea not to go with decaf, because that process strips the antioxidants. (So many rules, lol!) I read that too when I was trying to learn about green tea.
MrsH, I'm so happy that you are beginning to "see yourself"! That is so great! I can only imagine how good you must feel!
Lene, congrats on being POP!!! Great job!!
Keep it up!
E.mccoy, I'm sorry about your stress, but good decision to walk home! Way to get that exercise in! And great job on eating OP and NO late light night snacking! Woohoo!
Canadianangel, I do hope your leg begins to feel better really soon!! That has to be hard and you need your sleep!
But great job on ordering the salmon and veggies!! Good for you!!
Michelle, I have never tried honey in my tea, but I might have to try that! I use sugar right now because I also do not like artificial sweetners, but grandpas are pretty wise, so I might have to pick up some honey!
Musiclover, congrats on the loss!! Great job!!
I hope everyone else is having a very successful weight loss journey this month so far!!
Oh my, and now me. May I vent a little bit with you, ladies? I know it's early in the morning, but I'm hoping it will help me. You see, I really need to have a better day today than yesterday. I really feel like yesterday was all wrong and it's still got me in a funk today. I wanted to get my strength training in yesterday and didn't get to it, so that means I'll have to do it today and Saturday, and while today is not a problem, Saturday may be, because I'm supposed to go to an out-of-town college graduation. That was just the start. I also ran out of water in my water cooler yesterday, and although I kept asking my DH to please go get another bottle (it's very tough for me to carry the 5 gallon bottle with my RA), he didn't do it until late last night because he was busy. Understandable, but I didn't get my normal 5 bottles of water in and not being OP started making me cranky about mid-day yesterday and that's when I started taking a turn for the worse. As a result, I didn't get my veggies in yesterday either! I kept putting it off, just being blah. Instead, I had made spaghetti for my DH and put in the crock pot to keep warm, and I ended up eating spaghetti for lunch and dinner! I had planned to eat a big salad for lunch and spaghetti with veggies for dinner. But by the time dinner rolled around, I wasn't in the mindset to cut up veggies for dinner either! So I actually went through yesterday with no veggies! None! And every hour throughout the day, I kept saying, "Go to the gym. You don't have time on Saturday to do strength training," but I kept telling myself, "No, I don't have enough water." I should have gone to the store and picked up individual bottles! There's just no excuse! So, it's not that I overate or ate junk yesterday. I didn't. The spaghetti was made with whole grain noodles, so it wasn't bad nutritionally, but I didn't eat in a balanced way, and overall I just feel like yesterday was a total waste. Can you tell I'm a perfectionist? I have the classic "all-or-nothing" way of thinking. Either I do it the right way or it's wrong and I give up, and yesterday I did it the wrong way. I keep trying to see the middle ground--that's what perfectionists have trouble with--that I didn't overeat, that I got my walk in, that I still drank water and green tea, but it's hard to convince myself that the middle ground is acceptable. All I can see is not enough exercise, not enough water, unbalanced meals--all wrong! And yesterday's mistakes shouldn't carry over to today, right? And normally they wouldn't, it's a new start, a new day, but I think the fact that I have Saturday hanging over me is messing that up, because I woke up in just a terrible mood. I'm not in danger of overeating as a result, just the opposite, I'm more likely not to eat just because I don't feel like it, which is just as bad, so I do need to come out of this funk. I know what I would tell other people, but then I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to other people. I'm completely understanding and accepting of others! I'm just really hard on myself. So there, it's all out, and now I need to make myself go eat breakfast, go drink water, go get ready for the gym. I need to come out of this funk and get moving ...yep...that's what I need to do...
At any rate, last night I managed my cravings with cleaning out my closet. Wasn't the most creative of ideas but, at the end of the day it worked. No cravings, no extra calories! Stayed well in my calorie range but ye ol' muscles are sore this morning. So all and all another great night.
