Normally 3 days a week we have lunches provided at work by various reps. They aren’t always health so with the new puppy I’ve been running (driving) home at lunch each day to let him out since he’s being crate trained. We have good food choices at home so on the days I eat there I’m usually pretty good. Since I got sick last Thursday I’ve been BAD on my eating. We had Frito Chili Pies one day at work. I had 2. Wednesday lunch cancelled and we went and ate Pizza. While I enjoyed every bite of that pizza at lunch yesterday, I regretted every bite of that pizza during class this morning. It was ab day. Every crunch, every sit up, EVERYTHING we did reminded me of the pizza the day before. It was funny because he also handed out our “meal” plan of what we should be eating. Ummmm….. yeah, about that. We have a weekend away this weekend so I have set it in my head that Monday I will get back on track. Not that I’m going to be horribly BAD this weekend. But as far as getting back on my low carb diet and removing pizza and sweets from my diet plan, I’ll do it on Monday. I’m a planner, so I’m planning for Monday to be my accountability day. I did it before I’ll do it again. Getting sidetracked last year when Kaleb died saw me lose my motivation. It’s been a lot harder than I thought it would be to get back on the bandwagon. Not so much with the exercise because I love going to class. I love pushing myself. I can’t wait for it to warm up so I can start running again. (I’m not a winter person. I can’t do cold.)
My problem is my nutrition. I’m aware of this. I know I have no willpower. We have to remove the food from the house because if it’s there I will eat it. Since Jimmie had his gastric sleeve surgery I have been nothing short of AMAZED at his will power. He has given up so many of his comfort foods. He has really pushed himself to stick with his good eating. He’s a year and a half post surgery and he’s kept all the weight off. He’s getting healthier and healthier each day. If he can do it, so can I.
Back to the meal plan. I’ve done Atkins before and had good success with it. My body doesn’t do well with the bad carbs. Breads, pastas and white flour. I know these things and I know if I can get past the 2 weeks it will take me to get rid of the cravings I’ll feel so much better than when I eat those foods. That was the initial reason for losing weight originally because my body wasn’t processing sugars right. (there is a word for it but I can’t remember what it was.) After reading the foods not to eat (of which pizza was in its own category) I was wondering what foods are left. Basically it’s a clean eating diet with no processed foods. This is something I’ve been working on getting better at ever since Jimmie’s surgery. So I might not follow the meal plan exactly, I am going to work at getting as close as possible. Some of the key things on it are things I do not like at all. I can’t do coconut oil, or olives, avocados or sweet potatoes. I do like the fruits that are on the plan and I’m a meat person and we always have wild game meat so that’s good with me. But I don’t do seafoods so the lobster, crab and shrimp are all out. and I can handle quite a few of the vegetables so I can probably stick pretty close to it. It’s just getting back in the right mindset to know this is what my body needs and I don’t want to end up a diabetic a few years down the road. I plan on being around for a long time to be a pain in everyone’s butts. If I wasn’t around what would you be reading, some boring old blog about food and exercise!!!
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