The biggest goal for today is to keep figuring out how to stop emotional eating.
The small goal is keep the energy intake down by 750 calories so tomorrow's scale would show yet another -100 gr.
Totally cloudy today, minus degrees, but yes, I'll go out there and get my cardio done. Only home office work today.
The weight today 80.7, down 300gr from yesterday.
12/24 The day is half way and everything's still fine. A nice blend of work, exercise, lunch, net surfing...
20 /24 hours of the day done. And I'm done for today. It was a good day.
*Only spent a few moments here and there about thinking / worrying about my food intake or my weight
*got a little bit of strenght training done and some 30 min running in lovely crisp winter weather.
* A good breakfast, lunch and dinner. One apple, lots of vegetables, some meat and fish. Two wholegrain cookies were not the smartest choice as a snack, but the miracle is that it was just two cookies, not eight or ten!
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
MONDAY
This would be the day number four, but it definitely feels like number one because it's the promised day of the new beginnings. It's Monday! I'm drinking my coffee now and then heading for work.
The scale, the scale says 81kg. Exactly 81. So four months of blah blah blah. Talking and thinking but no actions. I'm setting a totally minimalistic goal now. 100gr by tomorrow. Think I can minus 750cal from my intake? Yeah yeah, I know that even if it happens it's just fluids but still, that sounds like a small enough goal, and a short one. 100gr in a day.
Today's hours, 8 / 24 gone and nicely reading and sleeping, no eating or drinking in the middle of the night.
The end: an OK day on the surface, rode a bike to work and back, total of two hours of bicycling. 15 minutes of walking. Lots of water.
What I learned today? Under the surface. Well, this is not great news, but old facts. When I'm finally home from work, when I start thinking about work, I'd love to go to the kitchen and stuff my face with carbs. I absolutely use food as stress release. Now the bad news? I have no idea how to free myself from this behaviour. No idea.
The scale, the scale says 81kg. Exactly 81. So four months of blah blah blah. Talking and thinking but no actions. I'm setting a totally minimalistic goal now. 100gr by tomorrow. Think I can minus 750cal from my intake? Yeah yeah, I know that even if it happens it's just fluids but still, that sounds like a small enough goal, and a short one. 100gr in a day.
Today's hours, 8 / 24 gone and nicely reading and sleeping, no eating or drinking in the middle of the night.
The end: an OK day on the surface, rode a bike to work and back, total of two hours of bicycling. 15 minutes of walking. Lots of water.
What I learned today? Under the surface. Well, this is not great news, but old facts. When I'm finally home from work, when I start thinking about work, I'd love to go to the kitchen and stuff my face with carbs. I absolutely use food as stress release. Now the bad news? I have no idea how to free myself from this behaviour. No idea.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Day Three
8,5 hours of the day number three are gone. Kind of sad how easily time slips through our fingers. Kind of good, how this seems to be working. My goals are very minor now. Just make it through one single day, 24 hours without letting the food rob my day from me. The two goals for each day are:
* I don't want to think food all the time, I don't want to feel sorry for myself and for my overweight, I just want to live.
* I don't want to over eat.
Breakfast: coffee, coffee, coffee, one boiled egg and some sliced turkey meat.
at 21 pm The hours 12-14, 18-20 not good, after eating reasonable lunch / dinner, I also ate unreasonable white bread (at least three bread rolls) and this and that :-(
The conclusion of the day 3 : 20/ 24 fine, 4 /24 a bummer
* I don't want to think food all the time, I don't want to feel sorry for myself and for my overweight, I just want to live.
* I don't want to over eat.
Breakfast: coffee, coffee, coffee, one boiled egg and some sliced turkey meat.
at 21 pm The hours 12-14, 18-20 not good, after eating reasonable lunch / dinner, I also ate unreasonable white bread (at least three bread rolls) and this and that :-(
The conclusion of the day 3 : 20/ 24 fine, 4 /24 a bummer
Day Two
10 / 24 The day is almost half way. Well, I've slept through some eight out of those ten first hours. Drinking my breakfast coffee with sliced apples. Lots of new snow outside. It's pretty, but we'll go to swim in some thermal swimming pools, no skiing fanatics in this family.
12,5 / 24 So far so good. The lunch was vegetable stew and one half of a hot dog sausage diced up small and added to the stew. Now out and swimming.
20 / 24 A fun day. Turkey salad for dinner.
22 / 24 Hurrah, I made it. A fun and happy day. Thinking of food or overeating did not ruin this day. I feel good. Remembered to drink lots of water, stayed physically active.
Tuna fish and cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce as a night snack. Lots of tea.
I'm almost ready for bed so I dare to say 24/24 GOOD
12,5 / 24 So far so good. The lunch was vegetable stew and one half of a hot dog sausage diced up small and added to the stew. Now out and swimming.
20 / 24 A fun day. Turkey salad for dinner.
22 / 24 Hurrah, I made it. A fun and happy day. Thinking of food or overeating did not ruin this day. I feel good. Remembered to drink lots of water, stayed physically active.
Tuna fish and cottage cheese on a bed of lettuce as a night snack. Lots of tea.
I'm almost ready for bed so I dare to say 24/24 GOOD
Friday, January 11, 2013
The Day One... or maybe the Day 0.75
The Day One - not the Day Eleven (1/11/2012)
The first of January did not work wonders. No magic there.
This is my new beginning, 2/24 hours have gone OK so far :-D
Now 3/24 hours. Two things right:
*Not eating in the middle of the night
*Drinking plenty of water
10/24 Almost halfway!! I'm drinking my morning coffee with some sliced apple. It's already 10 am. I'll only work in the afternoon today.
11/24 Painted my nails and ordered L'Oreal Perfect Slim cellulite cream on line. Trying to convince myself I am worth taking care of. One more mug of coffee.
15/ 24 hours. More than half of the day number one. Worked for a few hours, cleaned and organized at home a little bit. Trying to convince myself my home is worth taking care of. Ate absolutely fantastic vegetarian dish for lunch. It was some kind of stew that had Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, celery, chick peas and it was spiced with garlic and fresh ginger. Yummy, yummy, yummy. I had two bowls of it.
18/ 24 Only six hours left. Had one more bowl of vegetable soup and a few slices of orange. Drank lots of water. Prepared (but not eaten yet) buttermilk, quark and fruit. Mentally prepared to have some red wine, too. Kind of scared of that, though. Maybe I'll skip.
the last six hours :-( Not that good. I did drink that wine and yes, as I was afraid, the wine made me relaxed to eat some rye crackers, salty sausage, regular crackers and rice crackers. And the wine led to some beer as well.
18/24 Good
6/ 24 Not that good, not that totally horrible either
The weight: Last time dared to check 80,1 (-2,3 since August)
The first of January did not work wonders. No magic there.
This is my new beginning, 2/24 hours have gone OK so far :-D
Now 3/24 hours. Two things right:
*Not eating in the middle of the night
*Drinking plenty of water
10/24 Almost halfway!! I'm drinking my morning coffee with some sliced apple. It's already 10 am. I'll only work in the afternoon today.
11/24 Painted my nails and ordered L'Oreal Perfect Slim cellulite cream on line. Trying to convince myself I am worth taking care of. One more mug of coffee.
15/ 24 hours. More than half of the day number one. Worked for a few hours, cleaned and organized at home a little bit. Trying to convince myself my home is worth taking care of. Ate absolutely fantastic vegetarian dish for lunch. It was some kind of stew that had Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, celery, chick peas and it was spiced with garlic and fresh ginger. Yummy, yummy, yummy. I had two bowls of it.
18/ 24 Only six hours left. Had one more bowl of vegetable soup and a few slices of orange. Drank lots of water. Prepared (but not eaten yet) buttermilk, quark and fruit. Mentally prepared to have some red wine, too. Kind of scared of that, though. Maybe I'll skip.
the last six hours :-( Not that good. I did drink that wine and yes, as I was afraid, the wine made me relaxed to eat some rye crackers, salty sausage, regular crackers and rice crackers. And the wine led to some beer as well.
18/24 Good
6/ 24 Not that good, not that totally horrible either
The weight: Last time dared to check 80,1 (-2,3 since August)
Friday, December 14, 2012
Day One
I can't wait any longer. It's back to too much drinking and too much eating. Forget the countdown, I'm going cold turkey, 15 days too early.
The day one starts now. It's not 1st of January, it' not even Monday. It's just NOW, the beginning.
EDITED 1/15/13 Only in my dreams. The actual day one was like a week after the 1.1.13...
The day one starts now. It's not 1st of January, it' not even Monday. It's just NOW, the beginning.
EDITED 1/15/13 Only in my dreams. The actual day one was like a week after the 1.1.13...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Handweights and Snow
Twenty days and the magical new start, new life, new year will be here. The countdown is going well. I got those handweights and thare has been plenty of snowshovelling, too, to give my upper body busy. The crazy amount of snow has slowed down my running, though.
Honestly, the countdown could have gone wild. Knowing myself I'm actually quite surprised that instead of snow shovelling I haven't been shovelling food into myself. I could have very easily slipped into a mind set of letting lose before it's too late. I'm pleasantly surprised with myself.
The snow, the snow is wonderful. I don't mind getting my toes wet and cold. I love this real winter weather. When it melts, when the spring arrives, I'm going to like it too. And hopefully I'll like how I'll be then.
Honestly, the countdown could have gone wild. Knowing myself I'm actually quite surprised that instead of snow shovelling I haven't been shovelling food into myself. I could have very easily slipped into a mind set of letting lose before it's too late. I'm pleasantly surprised with myself.
The snow, the snow is wonderful. I don't mind getting my toes wet and cold. I love this real winter weather. When it melts, when the spring arrives, I'm going to like it too. And hopefully I'll like how I'll be then.
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