eat healthier

The smaller plate is working, I think. However, I was NOT happy when I got on the scales! I really weighed about what I expected to weigh but more than I had hoped! Back to the drawing board. I’m still going to use the smaller plate but plan to eat more raw fruits and veggies on that plate. :)

No pop, no pop, NO POP, NO POP, NO POP!!!!!!
NO MORE POP FOR ME!!!!!!

Also, no Fast Food

The negative side of me thinks “wow. You’re really not doing a lot to help yourself lose weight. You have to completely change your diet to lose those pounds” but then the optimistic side of me KNOWS that by replacing my pop with water, tea or milk, not eating any fast food and staying away from fried stuff… those are A LOT of calories I am not putting into my body. That means that those extra calories I am not taking in and just by walking just 1 mile in 12 minutes every day, that right there is so much better just sitting there doing nothing and stuffing my face with all that other crap. So this is definitely a good start.

Breakfast:
1/2 litter of water
power bar

Snack:
Handful of peanuts.
6oz of soda
1/2 liter of water

Definitely doing well on this goal! My diet is now:

Breakfast:
Porridge every day

Lunch
Two boiled eggs on wholemeal toast, or
Tuna (in sunflower oil) and mayo on wholemeal toast

Dinner:
Brown rice with diced chicken and sauce, or
Brown pasta with tomato sauce, cucumber salad side

Supper (if hungry):
(as lunch)

Just need more recipes now to make it more interesting but I think this is definitely something I can stick to!

Already feeling better!

I can’t really say that I’ve been eating healthier foods, but I am eating less of the foods during the day. (At least I think thats whats going on). I’ve been losing weight and I just am not hungry as often as I used to be. I don’t snack nearly as often which means I’m getting much less junk food. Part of it is how often Noah and I cook. We don’t do it a lot, but when we do its always rather healthy. Also when we eat with his family they cook healthy food. I don’t eat big lunches either so I’m not gorging on food any more.

So, I feel like I’ve basically nailed breakfast! I had been buying store-prepared porridge on the way to work, but it was kind of killing me because I had to leave the house without eating AND the porridge was kind of hit-and-miss (some days completely inedible). But now I’ve found these “quick oats” which are basically measured sachets of oats to which you add a glass of milk and microwave for 2 minutes. It comes out perfectly every time and takes no effort at all. Initially I was skeptical and thought anything that comes in a sachet must be full of weird additives but it’s just cereal and milk and I’m not finding it difficult to stick to at all!

Onto dinner. I’ve definitely improved in this area. I’ve cut down on take-aways with a view to phase them out completely over time. I’ve started replacing them with pasta and chicken/sauce/rice dinners. The trick I think is to find things that take about 10 minutes to prepare because the task of preparing dinner for 30 minutes when I’m usually already hungry is the reason I tend to wander down to the chipper. Again sachets have helped here – those boil-in-the-bag brown rice things make life so easy, and a bag takes about the same amount of time to boil as it takes to fry up some diced chicken and vegetables and add some sauce. And because I can get all kinds of different sauces ready in jars (sweet and sour, all kinds of curry, etc etc) I can have variety with little effort.

I think the next thing I need to work on is just getting a few more easy recipes. Basically I need dinners that can be prepared in about 15 minutes and that won’t leave me hungry. Any tips on that would be excellent. The more convenient the better!

How can I start eating healthier if my husband constantly packs the cabinets with chocolates and cookies????

My girl and I are going to start doing this goal together. I was doing it just 2 weeks ago for about 3 weeks and I stopped bc it got so hot out I sotpped exorcising which then lead to me eating like I would before (except for only a few slip up of fast food – better than eating it every day though). So now I am starting again bc I am short. And short people should not be fat like me lol Granted I had a baby but still, it’s gotta go. I was 130 in high school, i dropped down to a size 9 and I walked for at least 5 hours every day (bc of my job) and I ate healthier. Now, well I am the complete opposite. soooo here’s what I am going to do:

1. Drink more water
2. No pop (just tea, milk, Gatorade, etc)
3. No fast food
4. Nothing fried
5. Eat Breakfast within 1 to 2 hours of waking up
6. Do some kind of physical exorcise everyday (I’ll come up with a plan for that later)
7. Eat healthy alternative snacks (instead of chips, have crackers and cheese, etc.)

Honey Nut Cheerios with milk

Have recently been off work sick with stress and high blood pressure and am now on the dreaded meds, so the diet is under review as well. Am so lucky to have a good friend, a kinesiologist who gave me a thorough health check, and am now on mega supplements and tinctures as well. I’m a walking pharmacy. Have never been on medication im my life and I don’t like the idea. Anyhows, the diet. Have to eat without potatoes (terrible news for somebody Irish and quinoa doesn’t quite do it for me!), salt, sugar, watch all carbs, cows milk. I don’t know what to eat. Will be losing weight through indecision and uncertainty at meal times. Suppose as long as I lose it. Have sent for a book “Cooking Without”, so hopefully will get some ideas and become a shadow of my former self. Have started walking too in earnest.