January 1st and a Monday! Was there ever a better day to start your diet?!?! But...I didn't start yesterday, I started today. Why? Well, mainly because we had a New Years day party yesterday and I am just not good enough to pass up party food just yet. I'd rather start today when I can have a good day, for sure.
I bought the new Bob Greene book, Best Life. I guess I like to buy books. I'm sure there is nothing in there that I don't already know, but I think it helps to read about it presented in different ways. One thing that he has always stressed was nothing to eat 2 hours before bed. I have always ignored this. I like a snack after dinner. But as I have been thinking about it, that after dinner snack never has any nutritional value. FF pudding, light ice cream. So, I am going to try it. But my rule will be nothing after dinner. Kitchen closed. Not only will this leave more room in my diet for nutritious food, I think it might help me shave some calories.
My max will still be 1800, but I am switching to more of a range. No less than 1200, no more than 1800. When I say 1800, I tend to eat to 1800. That leads to dinners that have more than necessary calories (Oh, I have enough calories for more food, so let's eat it!), just because I can. I am hoping the range will nip that in the bud. I am also going to set my exercise goal for daily. I figure if I shoot for daily, hopefully I'll end up at 5 or 6 days a week! Water aerobics starts up next week again and I will go to the YMCA when I can for weights & cardio. If I can't make it to the Y, I have a step tape I love at home and if nothing else, I will at least walk the dog. There is no reason I can't be active every day.
I am sticking my what I said about July 1st. If I have not made some headway by then, I will get the lapband. One way or another, my situation will get under control in 2007!!!
For some reason, I am the only one at work today. Is there some extended
I weighed in...331.6. Not the best, but it's my 2007 starting point. Onward & downward!
Last night I had Steve take a new picture of me, and I still didn't like it as much as the one I have been using. I just look bigger. I realized that the picture I use, is from 2002. In 2002, my highest weight was 293. That's 38 lbs less than now. So I will soon be changing my picture to what I look like today. No more head in the sand.
2 comments:
rock on Sandi! You can do it. :)
Good luck in 2007 Sandi! I think you've made a good decision to go with the calorie range. That is what I've been doing since I came back in October and I'm actually finding that I'm eating at the low end of the range the majority of the time. For so many years I did WW's and they stressed eating your daily points so I would eat even when I didn't want/need something. And I don't know if it's just me (probably) but having a calorie range is like a mind game for me - I spend so much time saying "if I eat this instead of that I'll not only get more protein in, but I'll be saving 50 calories, etc." that I end up distracting myself from eating.
I'll be looking to see how you do on the after dinner snack because that sounds like something that I might need to incorporate. One of my actoins in the Goal and 5 Actions post was to reduce the number of wasted calories I use each day. I was allowing myself a daily treat - sometimes even two!! Here is is day two of 2007 and I still don't have a handle on it yet (even though I have made better wasted calorie decisions both yesterday and today which counts for something).
And yes - all the government offices were closed because of President Ford's funeral so there were a lot of folks off again today.
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