26th February 2015
Learn to let things you cannot control go.
Oh ma'an my alarm clock just scared the life out of me! I wasn't ready for that, normally I'm well
awake before it decided to go off and it was so load, I need to sort it out so
it starts playing music or something, that's a heart attack alarm at the
moment.
I made it through day one of my new journal, I started it
yesterday morning, took my measurements too, I even took a before photo, but
not the normal full length on, just one side shot of my belly ;-) that's enough
motivation for now. I measured out the
milk I use in one cuppa then throughout the day counted how many drinks I had
so I was 100% accurate with my tracking.
I ended my day on 28pp, earned 1pp on my fitbit so I've used
one weekly. I've started my week from
yesterday and drawn a line under everything that's gone before. I've made a mess of the first page from a
"neat" point of view and that's how I plan to continue it, it's not
about perfection, it's about persistence and progress.
My lunch was absolutely scrumptious, treated myself to
scallops in garlic butter from Co-op reduced to £4.50 (ouch I know) but they
were lush for 8pp, and I had them over large mushrooms and veg, really tasted. Breakfast too was good if not too many
ProPoints at 10pp, which mean my tea was soup and a warby thin with beef on it
for 8pp. Need to get some shopping in
but I need time to sit and think about what to buy, just too busy this week to think,
but that's all changing, I'm going to limit the work I do in future. There's the long term cover I've agreed to
and in addition to the meetings and other stuff I already do, that's more than
enough. I need my work/life balance
back, I don't want to be too tired for the part of my life when I'm not at
work!
I'm thinking crumpets, tomato and egg for breakfast, that
way I can go either F&H or ProPoints today when I decide what to have the
rest of the day! There's salmon in the
freezer, that's an option, I have rice or potato to have with that, mash is a
favourite food of the moment so I may opt for that, then for tea, I could be
lazy with homemade egg fried rice, quick and easy to cook. Mmm, I'm remembering how to do this lower
ProPointed healthy eating stuff. It's
one thing always eating healthy, but healthy doesn't necessarily mean weight
loss when you eat the portion sizes I've got into the habit of having!
Yeah my journal has re-focused me just the way I hoped, as
it says in the front,
"Tracking works, keeping a note of everything you eat
and drink is an effective tool for successful weight loss.
And as Emma commented on my blog yesterday, "I always tracked on paper and I'd never completed a whole
journal before (after many attempts) but bought one and decided to really try
with it and take it 1 week at a time. I'm now on week 7 and love it! You can't
avoid what's written on previous weeks and gives you a nice view of your
progress."
How true is that, you can't avoid
what's written! Mmm, this could be the
reality reminder I need to keep me focused and remembering why and how I'm
doing it, tracking is how I got to goal originally, I didn't have any of the
advantages of using the 'app' or 'esource' back then, it was pen and paper, so
here's to the written success.
We make our own success
BeYOUtiful, let's start writing our success story one page at a time. xx
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