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I want to learn about healthy snacks. As an emotional eater it is hard to eat not so healthy foods when I am stressed out. Even thought I took food to work, the week was so stressful that on Friday I had to open a bottle of sparkling wine. Well, I did not have to open it, but you know what I mean… LOL I think that since my office does not have a good lunch room and the refrigerator is always so dirty, I do not feel comfortable taking the food. I take things that can stay on my lunch container, but nothing that require to be on the refrigerator. Maybe I should get a cooler; does anyone know about a small cooler? Let me know. I have been trying to give up soda again. I have been using the sparkling water with strawberries and crystal light. I have to admit that when I am really stressed out it is either a frapuccino or a diet coke, so I guess I always choose the diet coke… I do not know what is going on with our health. My son and I are AGAIN, sick. Not too bad, but the fever, sore throat and muscle pains are enough to keep us on bed for most part of Sunday. I hope are not sick for the rest of the week. I really want to get back on the elliptical. At least 30 minutes at night while I watch some TV. I am trying to get into a routine, but with the stress at work and the sickness at home it has been difficult. I am hoping for better luck this week.
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This was a better week. Finally we are getting better. It was my birthday and being good with food was not easy. The invitations out for lunch, dinner, the cake. It is hard to be good with all those temptations. It is really hard.
The week was busy but the weekend is perfect. We needed a long weekend to enjoy quality time with my son. I want to share with him more than the homework and usual. It was a mom/son weekend and all activities were thinking about him. We went to the movies, we also had some fun shopping for books and shoes for him, bike rides and visit to the museum to see the butterflies alive and dinosaur bones. With a busy weekend with kid, I moved more than usual. Really good for me. Besides the elliptical we also walked a lot and had the bike ride. We also ate healthier with a lot of fruits and veggies. My goals for this week is to keep moving. I am looking forward for the next 2weekchallenge to keep me more active. I guess that I need to report to someone what I am doing so I do not slack on it. I am also packing lunch to work. It is easy to eat not that healthy when eating out and it gets expensive. I had stopped drinking soda and I went back to my diet coke. Trying to be with more sparkling water instead. I just get stressed out and rather have a diet coke than a piece of bread. One day, one day I will be able to leave my vice, to stop drinking soda. One day! Happy Memorial day and I hope your weekend was as wonderful as mine Yesterday was hard. My first day of the new healthy eating plan. There is so many temptations out there.
I am home by myself, my son and husband are out of town, so cooking for one is not that easy. It seems easier just to get some junk food. Had a couple of appointments and I was out during lunch time. There we no healthy restaurant around, mostly just fast food restaurants. I decided to eat a soup and sandwich at Subway. It seemed the healthier and I stayed away from Ranch and fatty staff. I did have a diet soda, because I think that if I try hard to achieve both things at once I would be setting me up for failure. Then dinner. I decided to have a salad at home. I added some chicken for protein and I had water. I had 9,000 steps on the pedometer. Since I had a Dr appointment and was not feeling too well, I did not did Zumba, but I stayed under my 1200 calories for the day, so hopefully that would be enough. Today, it is going to be Cereal for breakfast, banana for midmorning snack, fish and broccoli for lunch. I am going out with some friends in the afternoon and that would be hard, because they want to go ice cream, so I will order the low fat yogurt, only one scoop. Dinner is going to be chicken with some pasta salad and milk. As for exercise I am riding my bike. Life style change
So I have been in the yo-yo dieting wagon for a while. I lose weight, I gain weight and even gain more than I lost. You might know what I am talking about. I want to put this here on the blog, to make myself accountable now. I want to make a life style change and once for all loss the weight and keep it down. I see some of the other bloggers losing weight, and I read about their struggles, so I guess I feel inspired by them to do the changes on nutrition and also exercise. My main problem is that I am an emotional eater. I eat because I am sad and anxious and lately things have been difficult around here. I eat because it gives me comfort, but then I feel bad. The other problem is that I do not like to exercise. I however like to dance so I am doing zumba. I am starting, again, my journey of losing weight at 180 lbs. I am expecting to lose 2 lbs per week. Let’s hope that now that I am making my goals public I can stick to them. I need all the support I can get and knowing that some might be checking my progress would probably make me stick to the diet and exercise program. Wish me good luck…. |
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