W3 D2

I skipped a few days. Blame it on depression, blame it on crazy eating over the last week or whatever, but today when I weighed in I was at the same weight I was at last time I was happy and was that almost a week ago.

W2 was marked with disappointing weigh-ins and generally lackluster eating. Also, mark the complete lack of exercise and you have a recipe for depression. No binge eating though and I powered through the whole thing by Sunday night.

I went shopping pretty much for the first time since starting with the food diary so you'll be seeing more home prepped meals at work and more low cal frozen dinners augmented with salads and fruit and the like at home for dinner. This should result in a bulking up of the wallet that hopefully coincides with a slimming of everything else.

I am still reluctant to release myself from breads and cheeses entirely. I did however invest in some G2, essentially vitamin fortified water from Gatorade, to get myself off the sodas. Supposedly any soda, diet or regular and caffeinated or not, is bad on the Healthe Trim. Either way, regular soda was between 120 and 140 calories per pop and two or three of those a day replaces an honest to goodness meal. I can still remember as a kid getting to drink Coke once or twice a week was a special occasion and now it will become so again.

I didn't think I was eating significantly less than I usually do, but that bubble was convincing burst. Maybe the claims from this diet pill about needing to eat less and feeling full are true. Anyways, making and bringing lunch should also help with another problem I have with lunch.

Every time I go out to eat I have a fear that whatever I get won't be enough food. So I get the spicy chicken sandwich and the fries and the root beer. Then I think I might still be hungry after all that so I add on the double stack (just in case) and if I am really feeling iffy I might LARGE size the whole thing to be more sure I don't starve in the 5 hours between lunch and dinner. Then I am lucky if I eat half the fries and even if I feel full after the chicken I can't let the double stack go to waste, right? And I always finish the soda and maybe get another from the vending machine downstairs. When I ate that lunch it was 1640 calories and 60 grams of fat (16 saturated). The good news I still have about 1000 calories for breakfast and dinner combined that day and 5 grams of fat. The bad news is that I can almost hear my arteries screaming for mercy.

So the grocery shopping focused on some veggie cheese substitute that I tried before and liked, bananas and salad which are meal staples and the low sugar Gatorade to help with non-soda drinking. I also got the Lean Cuisine dinners, some yogurt and some fruit cups. I should get more whole fruits and veggies but they are tricky and require slightly better meal planning than I have gotten to so far. I also didn't get any squash or zucchini so the veggie instead of noodle pasta dinner will be a few days delayed. That should be an experience.

I am hoping to add meal planning for next week and that means writing out a menu and shopping to the menu so I can make what I plan to eat and only eat what's on the meal plan. Got to talk to someone at work about a website they use for meal, menu and shopping. I think it's emealz or something like that.

Also need to focus on exercise, more the Nike tag JUST DO IT. Maybe force myself to sit on the exercise bike for 10 minutes and build it up. And if I'm already sitting there I might as well pedal it a little. It is hard to tricky myself into the whole thing.