Officially down 6.8 pound since 9/9. Not too shabby seeing how the only thing I changed is what I was eating. I wanna do a recap with some lessons learned from the past week.
Positives:
* Eating more fruits and veggies will not only help me lose the weight, but I feel more energized after eating these foods.
* Vegan breakfast is totally do-able. I already typically have a vegetarian lunch, so this wasn't really an issue.
* When I did eat McDonalds, instead of my usual McDouble, McChicken, and a large fry, I had a McChicken and a small fry. I ate right before my mani/pedi and I told myself that if I was still hungry after I could go back for more. I didn't go back through the drive-thru.
* I don't like drinking milk. But if I was going to eat a cookie, I had to have a glass of milk with it. I left the cookies sitting out on the counter in eyesight. It was less tempting to just eat one mindlessly because I knew that only 1 cookie was 5 points. I was definitely more conscious of what was going in my mouth.
Negatives:
* Craving junk food. I really wanted to binge eat McDonald's and warm chocolate chip cookies.
* I did not exercise.
* I really didn't have enough healthy foods in the house. I need more foods on hand so I don't just grab whatever is sitting out.
* When I had leftover points, I felt it was OK to splurge on dessert. Dessert is not a nightly right. A big dessert should be a special occasion (even if it's weekly), not daily. When chocolate cravings hit, try a couple M&Ms, and maybe a bite of ice cream. Definitely not a waffle cone full of chocolate peanut butter buckeye ice cream :(
Goals for next week:
* Buy a ton more veggies to have on hand!
* Eat a vegan breakfast/vegetarian lunch for 5 days
* When not at work, chew food until food is fully macerated. I'll post more on this later this week.
* When dessert cravings hit, have a few M&M's, drink some more. Ask if it's really what you want right now.
This all seems very neurotic. Tracking every little bite that passes my lips. I'm thinking about food in not a very fun way, but in an analytic way. I know that I'm the person that will do whatever I want if I don't keep myself accountable by writing it down. So I apologize if this is a boring post for y'all.
Oh yeah, I promised some corgi lovin' on here. Well TGIF, Faith's getting excited for this week's football game! Happy weekend!
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