shoot, just lost a whole explanation! I weigh myself daily to keep my goal "front of mind", and sometimes I imagine that I've "blown it" when I really haven't. So, most of the time it helps, it can be discouraging occasionally, when I go weeks at the same weight.
I've been away for awhile and had lost motivation to really work at this, but I have maintained at about 204-206 for several weeks. I think this is pretty good. Usually I would have gone totally back to where I started.
Feeling ready to try again, but I'm not thinking of this as an "experiment" because that made me feel I had to be perfect, and I can't maintain that for long. I was also not always eating enough calories.
My goals for now:
Keep fat to just 1 serving of nuts (peanut butter)/day and a half tablespoon of flaxseed if I have oatmeal.
Balance meals with vegetables and watch how much and what I'm snacking on outside of meals.
Maybe adjust amount eaten at meals, so that I don't need to snack.
I might still weigh daily, but I'm not going to expect a big change. As long as I'm at or below 206 by the end of May, that would be good. Want to be below 200 as an intermediate goal, but trying not to count on when.
Oh, forgot that I'm working on walking again. I'd like to do 45 minutes most days. Next month I signed up for a beginning runners program....
Food plan:
Breakfast: 2/3c oatmeal, 1 banana, a few strawberry slices, flax, 1tsp sugar.
Lunch/Snack: 1/2 c rice, 1/2-1c frozen broccoli, 1/6th block of tofu (1 svg). Carrots, celery, 2T peanut butter. (there was a little oil on the tofu, still working on how best to prepare this--better next time, usually eat beans, wanted something different).
Dinner: Whole wheat pasta with tomato and zucchini. Maybe raw veg and bean dip if still hungry.
Want to have more salads and more fruit, but having trouble buying husband's preferred food and also additional healthy things on our current budget (trying to pay off debt). Will look at budget again this week, see where I can change something.
