eat healthier

My weight has been going up steadily for weeks now. This past week I’ve eaten healthy stuff, and exercised a lot. However, my weight is still going up, and every morning I expect it to go down, but it doesn’t. I know I shouldn’t expect overnight results like that, and I don’t act healthy only for the scale, but still…

To make up for the bad eating I did the last few months, I’ve added a vitamin supplement to my daily routine. But of course it’s in addition to the “regular” vitamins, not instead of…

Slowly I’m improving again. Would have been hard not to improve, considering I was at an all time low point… But the past week has been okay. The results say it all: just by eating more normal again, my weight went down 1,4 kilos in 5 days!

Looking at my subgoals:

don’t buy bad food stuff: I didn’t! This is the issue with the most impact of course. If I can keep it together in the store, things will probably be okay…

eat a healthy snack in between meals: My snacks these days consist of peanut bars, muesli bars and corn crackers. Could be better, could be worse.

have breakfast every day: If I’m up in time, I do. But I often sleep the whole morning away…

have lunch every day: I do, but on most days, lunch=breakfast.

prepare lunch on class days: Haven’t had classes lately.

have just one plate of dinner: Doing okay with this.

eat fruit and veggies daily: Not doing very well, especially on the fresh veggies. I’ve got lots of fruit right now though!

Having dreadful eating habits lately. Control was completely gone up until today. Starting over now.

I was doing very well with the not-eating-bad-stuff subgoal, but lately I’ve been losing food control again, at least on some days. I’ve been doing okay with some of the other subgoals (breakfast, veggies, portions), but this one is (for me) the most important. Time to refocus!

During the rehearsal week last week my eating pattern was automatically regulated, because the meals were at the same time every day. They were also pretty healthy and varied. And when you combine that with lots of water and tea (3 liters a day I think), what do you get? Weight loss! Yeah! I’m getting very close to the “good numbers”, only 2 or 3 more kilos to go before my BMI is okay. (Plus when I get there, a few more for a safe margin ofcourse.)

I must be doing something right, because I’ve been getting several “hey have you lost weight”-remarks lately. I haven’t really been exercising and my drinking habits are not that good, so it must be the food.

Current food situation: I haven’t had breakfast daily due to bad sleeping patterns, but I haven’t done (a lot of) bad snacking, just a tiny bit. Most dinners were healthy, containing veggies, and not too much. Plenty of fruit. Most important thing to work on: regularity. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and at about the same time everyday. No use in eating dinner at 20:30, how am I going to burn that…

Either way: I’ll check my weight tomorrow, but I think I’ve lost some pounds in the last few months.

After a really really good week on all fronts, I stumbled down big time. I’ve been sleeping at bad times again, and therefore not having breakfast. I haven’t done enough groceries which resulted in some bad food choices. I even had a bucket of ice cream for no apparent reason.

I’ve been very good this week. The trigger, as for most of my other goals, was sleeping at normal hours. When you get up around 8, you’re definitely not going to skip breakfast. Plus, by the time it’s 12:30 you’re really looking forward to lunch again :) So, I had breakfast and lunch everyday this week. Furthermore, I had healthy dinners, apart from one pizza-evening when I wasn’t feeling well enough to cook. But it was a spinach pizza, that’s good right… I didn’t buy bad snacking stuff, and when I had snacks (I did forget some times), I had corn crackers or fruit. I also refused snacks sometimes when offered, or took only one small piece from something.

So: good work so far. Things to work on (apart from keeping this up) are: don’t forget snacks in between meals, and at least two pieces of fruit a day (I’m having at least one now).

Most importantly I have to control my eating and never again turn to (bad) food for comfort.

Subgoals:
- don’t buy bad food stuff (and if the urge arrises: talk to a friend who knows about my food issues)
- eat a healthy snack in between meals
- have breakfast every day!
- have lunch every day
- prepare lunch on class days
- have just one plate of dinner
- eat fruit and veggies daily