Archive for the ‘Bad Food Situations’ Category

When I started this weight loss journey I had decided that counting calories was what i was going to do. I struggled with the math. Even doing the counting on an iPhone app was hard for me to do. The app didn’t have the foods I was eating and all this crap just started to frustrate me.

I decided after thinking long and hard about it that joining Weight Watchers was what I needed to do. I didn’t join the meetings I am doing the online. I would love the support of a meeting but they’re all at churches and I am NOT a church goer. Last time I tried WW I found that everyone who went to the meetings was and it was pretty uncomfortable for me.

So how’d I do today? Not good.

I didn’t eat breakfast because the electricity went out at my place.

Lunch was 2 Jack in the Box Tacos and a small fries

Happy hour with mom I had 2 veggie taquitos and 3 glasses of wine.

I was hungry when dinnertime rolled around and ate 2 Del Taco Burritos.

Yeah I know that this is NOT good. The skipping breakfast and the eating out all day was horrible. It couldn’t be avoided given the electricity situation. I went 4 points over my daily points (taking a few from the weekly extras.) I did however gain 3 activity points from all the walking I did today. I walked for a combined 30 minutes at a pretty brisk pace, which is what you tend to do when catching buses!

Tomorrow will be better as long as everything in the fridge is still good.

Today’s question!

How do you handle happy hours?

Right now I am trying to figure out how being sick affected my efforts to lose weight. Before i got sick I was really excited about getting healthy. I was going to the gym, eating healthy portions (not always healthy food but my portion size was healthy,) and doing things that would put me in a place where it would be easy to lose the weight.

I was even losing!

Forward to now where I haven’t been doing so hot. Not tracking my food, eating large portions and haven’t been to the gym yesterday OR today.

What clicked off in my head when I was sick to make me go back to what I was doing before I started this? I am truly at a loss. At first I thought it was that i wanted to eat and get my strength back after not eating hardly anything while sick. Well, that’s over now so now why? I went camping. OK that’s done too now what? I spent most of my money on this camping trip and can’t afford healthy food. YEah but i could find SOMETHING.

I just don’t know how to get motivated again.

So I’m asking for all of your healthy wisdom right now. How the heck do you get back on after something like what I’ve been through? How do you manage when you realize you’ve gained all of your weight back? How do you just get back to it and not dwell on the fact that you were 10 pounds lighter a week ago?

This morning was one of those mornings where I tried so hard to say I was going to have a good day. This morning I told myself I was going to work out, stay within my calories and have the best day I could. As the day wore on I realized that this day was not going that direction.

After work, a broken glass all over my room and random things not going right I decided to indulge in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg. This ended very VERY badly.

I now realize that eating one thing like this can really throw me off track. After the egg it was some pita chips, a weight watcher’s ice cream bar (make that 2) and some Apple Jacks cereal.

I stopped tracking after the pita chips. At that point I had 20 calories left for the day.

So now i know better. I cannot tolerate the sugar. I cannot eat candy like that because it will put me over the edge.

So I am going to challenge myself. No sweets. Not low cal ones not full cal ones. Nothing that isn’t fruit.

I can do this and I am holding myself accountable right here and now.

I’ve been faithfully participating at Spark People all week. I’ve joined a couple of teams and tracked food/exercise. I am doing better at that then I’ve ever done in the past.

The problem starts when I overdo it on the food intake. There’s a little voice inside my head that tells me “Oh just don’t worry about tracking that, it wasn’t much and you’ll do better tomorrow.” Will I? I mean really will I? Or will I have another little cheat and “forget” to track that too? Maybe then I  just not even hit the site at all the day after that. Of course at this point i just chalk it up to failure and fall back into my old habits.

NO FREAKING WAY!!!

Holding myself accountable for the things i put into my body is going to be the only way I will be able to change my way of eating. If I track what I eat every day it will become a habit. It’ll be just like the email and blog checking routine I have every morning. I’ve done it for so long that I’m pretty much on autopilot when it comes to that stuff. With the iPhone app on my phone I’ll have no excuse at all not to track my food.

The reason this comes up today is because of the last few days. I have been horrible with my eating!! I’m currently living with my parents to help them out with some hard times they’ve come upon. THe problem is that I’m not the one in charge of meals here. So mom will cook, or even worse go pick something up. Usually when she cooks it’s pretty healthy or i can make some adjustments to it. The problems start when she goes and grabs take out food.

Lunch was Chick Fil A, Dinner the next night was Rally’s, McDonald’s was dinner tonight. She does this when she’s tired from working such an early shift. But yet, she won’t let anyone else control the kitchen! So there i sit with my entirely too huge portion of food worried about my caloric intake and she sits there and tells me “What’s wrong? Don’t you like it? Why aren’t you eating?”

I’m learning better how to handle this though. When she does bring take out I will sit it to the side and make a huge veggie salad with low fat dressing. Then, I drink a HUGE cup of water before I touch the meal. Finally, I will cut whatever portion sits in front of me in half. It’s still a lot of calories at times but it isn’t nearly as bad as it could be. I’ve even started asking her to give me a heads up when we’re having take out so that i can let her know what healthy items I want from the menu, or plan my other meals accordingly.

So I’m continuing to hold myself accountable and learning new ways to handle bad eating situations. I’ve come a long way and it’s only been a week. Can you just imagine what will happen within this next year?