eat healthier

I had some bad weeks. On the scale it doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would, but I haven’t been eating healthy. Especially eating bad stuff late at night has been a recurring problem. I will change my ways in 2009, but I’ll start early, as in now ;)

Progress on the sub-goals of the last post:

• I planned my menus for a week, and I’m going to do that again tomorrow. I stuck to my plan, which gave me more peace, and I ate a lot healthier.
• I didn’t have cheese in between meals.
• I had a bit more fruit, but it still has to improve a lot.
• Eating after 22:30. Now that’s is still a tough one. I have to be really honest with myself, and not listen to the little devil on my shoulder. I know that eating late or eating bad stuff (or both) won’t give me anything positive. On the contrary: the minute I take the first bite, I feel guilty. REMEMBER THAT!

Since my last post I have been eating better, but it’s still not really were it should be. I need to be specific about what needs improving, vagueness never helps a goal…

*No eating after 22:30, not even healthy stuff. If I think I’m hungry, I’m probably thirsty.
*Get back on track with menu planning. When I plan, I have much healthier dinners with fresh veggies etc, and it’s financially healthier too.
*No more cheese in between meals! I need to save my cheese for my bread.
*More fruit: at least one piece of fruit a day. And bananas don’t count!

This is such a big thing. Since my last entry I’ve had several bad “episodes” again, where everything was going wrong, and that always translates to bad food too. No wonder I’m never able to lose weight without eating it all back in a few days… However, I just discovered that I’ve got some financial problems, and looking at what I spent on food the last few months, I can definitely save a lot of money there if I can control this. It might be a strange motivator for healthier eating, but it’s a new one, so that might help.

I’ve been on a veggie roll lately. Lots of very healthy dinners, salads, snacking on veggies, you name it :) It feels great, I get more creative in my cooking again, and housemates keep commenting “that looks really good” every night, so I get compliments out of it too.

Weight is going down too, but I’m not celebrating yet, because it’s come up a long way too…

During my recent rough patch I ate a lot of fast food and ready made meals. The last few weeks I’ve been cooking good food again. Lots of salads, rice with veggies, stuff like that. I also noticed (but I guess I knew that already) that when I’ve cooked something I’m proud of, I actually eat it in the common room, instead of sneaking to my room. So cooking is good for my social life too…

Anyway, I take it one day at a time, and I’m doing reasonably okay now, but moderation is still an issue. If I buy something “snackish”, it will be eaten pretty much in one go, even if I really don’t plan it like that. I have to work on this, and I must avoid buying these things until I can handle them.

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.