Accidentally posted this to the weigh-in thread, but it's fine. I'll post it here, too.
I missed weigh-in because I spent the last few days in the ICU with my mom. She's home now, and I'm down 0.4 pounds to 306.8, which I think is great, since it can be easy to just stress-eat constantly in that circumstance. (Also, it was good that the cafeteria for this heart center was about a quarter-mile walk each way, through underground tunnels, so I didn't spend all my time there.)
I don't mind that I didn't eat 100% compliant while I was there, but I made good choices even if they weren't perfect. A soyrizo and egg burrito is probably the worst thing I ate, but mostly I had cereal with soymilk for breakfast, and then tried to minimize the damaging foods otherwise. I didn't stress too much about it, though, because it wasn't my top priority.
While I was in the hospital, Amazon had an e-book special where you get a $5 credit if you buy $20 worth of e-books, so I got some of the healthy cookbooks I don't already have. I have a little plan to choose the MWL-friendly recipes from them and share them here and on my MWL recipe blog. We'll see. Reading the Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease cookbook is encouraging me to eat oats more often, preferably every day, so I'm gonna try going back to oatmeal for every breakfast.
I've also decided to take the plunge and stop allowing for "cheat meals"/"cheat days." I know from past experience that it's perfectly possible for me to eat 100% compliant, so that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do it in stages first, though:
Starting now: McDougall, with small amounts of sugar/salt/plant milk (I do sugar/milk in my tea, and milk on cereal, but otherwise, it's not much of an issue for me since I don't have a sweet tooth)
Once I've done that for a month or two, or if weight-loss stalls: MWL
Once I've done that for a month or two, eliminate sugar and plant milk completely
And then I'll see how I feel about eliminating salt.
I have low blood pressure, so I'm not 100% convinced I need to cut out salt, but I'll keep reading and decide later.
Plan for today:
B: Oatmeal and an orange
L: Veg soup that partner made while I was gone
D: Gonna find a recipe to make from one of the new cookbooks
S: We have a bunch of fruit and veggies in the house right now. Plus I have some store-bought hummus; if it doesn't have oil in it, I'll have that, as well, or make some oil-free, tahini-free for myself.
Actual:
B: cup of tea with sugar and almond milk; Coach's oats with a teaspoon of date syrup; an orange
S: a completely mindless (but thankfully small) handful of trail mix (raw nuts and dried fruit) -- basically an almond and some craisins, but I didn't even realize I was doing it! Grr.
L:
S: sugar snap peas. Tasted the store-bought hummus and it had cumin in it (yuck) so I didn't even check to see if it had oil; just chucked it
L2: Made a bowl of brown rice, navy beans, cooked veggies (mushrooms, onions, garlic, celery), and some raw diced red bell peppers, with some hot sauce and a little salt. Was gonna put corn in, but forgot.
S2: cold oats with plant milk, brown rice syrup, and prunes
Numbers:
Wt: 306.8
Fasting blood sugar: 99