Mmm I
came up again my first obstacle yesterday since I got back on track 17 days
again (I just checked on my diary). So
what was this obstacle, a combination of two things I think, first my taste
buds, I have never enjoyed eating the same things week in week out so this
involves a lot of thought about what I eat and some planning to a certain
degree, yesterday I hadn’t done either of those things. Well actually I had a little bit but not
enough, I took chicken portions out of the freezer first thing and they hadn’t
defrosted by lunchtime so I had to change my lunch plans, I put them in when I got
home on the night and they didn’t cook in the time it said they would so by
then I was ravenous and couldn’t wait any longer so ended up eating ryvita and
feta cheese. Funnily enough this wasn’t
a bad thing because it reminded me I enjoyed both those foods and that tea
doesn’t always have to involve cooking something hot, so at some point today I’m
going to start a list of foods I like to eat, not necessarily meals but foods,
the list will start with ryvita and feta cheese ;-)
Once I
have my list, I can prepare my shopping lists in the future and plan meals I will
enjoy and will help me stay on track. Most
of us think our favourite foods are those foods that aren’t great for our
weight loss efforts, chips, burgers, crisps, cakes etc but when we bother to
taste the other foods we actually start to realise that’s not necessarily true.
What I ate for my tea last night was
delicious, it would have been better with a side salad but I didn’t have the inclination
to make that at 8.30 (note the word inclination not time, I had the time just
couldn’t be bothered). So today I will
be buying salad stuff and chopping it up in a tub to last a few days, I will
find a tub that fits in my salad drawers in my fridge. It’s all about making changes that will be
able to be kept in place for life not just whilst you lose the weight.
My mate
plans her meals because she has a family, I know Tracey my clerk does do
because she has an army (sorry I mean a large family!) and it helps by their
weight and their wallet, it’s cheaper to only buy what you need and to think
about what you have beforehand. I’ve
noticed that I end up with food in the fridge that has to be eaten or it’ll go
off/out of date so I end up eating something I didn’t particularly want to
which isn’t good when you only have so many meals a day to enjoy.
Planning
really does make a huge difference and not just to your daily meals, to
everything, yeah impulsive is great sometimes and for some things, but if you
plan your meals, and plan time for exercise, if you’ve slotted in the space you’re
more likely to do it than if you keep saying ‘yeah I will…’
Plan what
you’re going to eat/drink on a night out, or a weekend away, or a longer
holiday, if you have in your mind some ideas of how you plan to cope then you’re
more likely to stick to those plans. I’m
away at the end of the month for the weekend and I’ve been thinking about how I
plan to handle it because I don’t want it to undo all the good I’ve done so
far. I don’t expect to lose weight that
week however I don’t want to gain lots either, so that means not doing what I did
the last time I went to see my brother, it means deciding what I will indulge
in and what I’ll give a miss!
So today,
plan your meals, plan your treats, you’ll particularly enjoy your treats more
if you’ve decided on them beforehand, earlier in the day when you’re in control
rather than later in the day after dinner when you’ve got the munchies and YOU
JUST WANT SOMETHING, then you feel like you’ve failed/gone off track/let
yourself down, when really you don’t need to feel that way, that’s what those
weeklies are for, and of course you can have a treat of fruit.
Right I’m
off, Alfie needs his walk, actually I need my walk, I’ve finally found an
exercise I’ll happily do once or twice a day, heck I’d do it three times if I can
fit it in.
Another
beautiful sunrise, enjoy your day. Xx
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