Great to have a few more posts! We can do this. I copy, cut and pasted my goals here and I'm going to address each one and talk about what I have done. Forgive this for being too long!
1. Walk, either on the treadmill or at the mall or in a neighborhood, I can do this. I will walk at least 3 - 4 times a week. I will make time for it.
I have been on the treadmill a few times, but since creating this goal have gotten the wii fit and I have used it each day and enjoyed it so much more than the treadmill. My husband and I also went to the mall over the weekend and walked the entire mall, upstairs and down and also went to a flea market and walked the entire thing.
2. I will not pass through the kitchen and grab cookies, cookies are not for me. They are for the other people in this house. Pretzels are permissible about every 3 or 4 days only. I will make and keep air popped popcorn in zip lock bags for myself, so the "oh, I need it now and I'm in a hurry" thing won't happen.
Doing better with this. I'm really aware. Having to write down everything helps control that out of control snacking.
3. Meal planning, If I make a plan I generally stick with it, but the plan needs to be made each day. So, today is day one and I will have a written plan in place for the entire day.
I have done better with this as well, but not 100% perfect. Like, over the weekend I forgot to defrost the chicken I was going to cook and we ended up eating out. But, I handled it much better.
4. Do not allow other family members to get in the way of my success. This is where I am very bad and their insistence at ordering out for pizza and picking up Chinese food are just not right for me. There are healthier choices at these places for me, but I give in to be "part of the party". Good luck to them if they want to be eating like that, but I have to do better.
We ate out twice over the weekend, but I did so much better. For example, we went to Pizzeria Uno and I looked up on Dottie's Weight Loss Zone the points for certain foods. I had an 11 point meal there, a 2 point vegetable soup, a 7 point house salad with grilled chicken and 2 points for olive oil and none for the vinegar. It went well and I felt satisfied.
5. Forgiveness. There will be Thanksgiving and a few holiday celebrations with all kinds of food. I know this and I forgive myself for those special occasions, but every day is not a special occasion. Get that? Every day is NOT a special occasion. There may be three or four "special occasions" in the next 7 weeks, not one every day.
I have to forgive myself for yesterday. I went to a meeting and there was homemade pecan pie with cool whip. I had some. I lived through it. I journaled it and I counted the flex points. I'm heading to Boston tomorrow on a college tour with my daughter and we'll be eating lunch out. That is going to be hard as I have no idea where we will eat, but I will do my best to stay in control.
6. Experiment, you have been reading a great deal about raw foods and vegans and pretending you are doing certain things, but you have not changed your diet a single bit. You just read. You don't have to convert to an entirely new thing, but you can try a few things and improve your over-all diet and get as far away from processed foods as you can. Tinkerbell is not going to come in and wave her magic wand at you and suddenly a spa chef will show up and make it happen, you have to make it happen.
I had my first raw food meal for lunch this week. Shaved zucchini with a raw tomato sauce made with fresh tomatoes, olive oil, sun dried tomatoes, basil, oregano, and fresh red pepper. It was good. I was hungry an hour later though, so I had 94% FF popcorn as a filler with water. I did OK. Also, used the leftover sauce on top of big portabella mushrooms and baked them with some fresh mozzarella, they were great.
7. You have a certain number of points (or calories) that are in your range for each day. You know this and you continually "forget" to write it all down and then wonder why you can't drop these extra pounds. Write it down. You look at a serving and guess that it's a proper serving size, measure it. If you are still hungry at the end of a meal, popcorn, water and fruit.
I have done this! I have written everything down since I started this Christmas challenge. I ended the week, yesterday, with 11 flex points unused. That was a good feeling going into Thanksgiving week. However, this week is already different and I need to be careful.
8. Get back to a few WW meetings. Going to those meetings does truly help inspire. But, you know you are very very busy and the approaching holiday season is going to get out of control. Forgiveness for not going is important, but that doesn't give you permission to get out of control.
check! Have been to two meetings since this challenge started. I feel better about myself and did have losses.
9. Read your "lite" and WW cookbooks, try those recipes for fun and see what happens. Goal is to try at least one new recipe per week. If you are busy, try a crock pot recipe.
Made a few recipes that were "lite" including a chicken, pasta, garlic, broccoli thing that was pretty good. I'm doing much better here and it's helping with boredom.
10. Read these goals over at least once every two or three days and remind yourself of what you need to do.
I'm doing that too, they are on my mirror in the bathroom. I am even re-listing them and addressing them here for all to see.
I feel good about this! I think it's a great thing to list what you said you are going to do and address it.
