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moonlight wrote:Monday Day 71
I couldn't sleep last night. I got up and ate some cheese and way too many Ritz crackers. Argh! Today I've stayed within the MWL guidelines. I've had visions of eating toast, a sandwich, Mexican food with cheese.... I have had cravings all day but I've made the right choices. Such a struggle at times. I wonder if I'll get to that place where I'm not constantly thinking about food. The motivation now is the weight I've lost. I've gone down a size. I'm 4 lbs away from the overweight range of BMI rather than the obese range. It seems when I go off plan I want to eat everything that I've been abstaining from... hopefully this will level off. Years ago when I chose to be a vegan I wasn't overweight. I chose it because I wanted to have a better diet for health reasons. I didn't want to contribute to the meat and dairy industry. It wasn't hard to switch over to that lifestyle. This time is different. I switched to eating meat in 2007 after 15 years of a vegan lifestyle. By 2013 I was overweight and feeling unhealthy. I tried to go back to a vegan diet but I couldn't stay on the plan. I gave up and gained even more weight. This time when I started again I was 50 lbs overweight. It's been a struggle. I think I developed an eating disorder while I was getting a PhD from 2007 - 2014. Emotional eating. All the stress. I've developed a different relationship with food. Hopefully, if I keep working at it, after I get back to a normal weight, I can stop obsessing about food!!!
B: baked sweet potatoes
snack: zucchini corn salad
L: baked potatoes with steamed veggies at McAllister's Deli
D: Lentil soup, mushroom wild rice, broccoli salad
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