Monday, May 3, 2010

mcfatty monday

I'm still maintaining my weight despite multiple efforts over the past couple of months. I've been discouraged and took a step back for a few weeks, but am ready to get back onto the bandwagon. I want to be healthy and not focus on just the weight, but how I feel overall. I've noticed that I feel better when I work out and eat better despite the lack of weight loss and I really like how that feels.

Right now I'm going to focus on avoiding the foods that I crave when I'm stressed. Of course, it doesn't help that when I walked into work this morning there are chocolate cupcakes sitting out waiting to be eaten. So far it's been easy to avoid them. I had a bowl of Special K cereal this morning and have no desire to eat the cupcakes, but that's probably because I'm not super stressed right now so we'll have to see how well this afternoon goes when the kids are running a muck in the house.

It's so easy to run and pick up something through the drive-thru when I find myself hungry. Hunger hits me quickly and once my blood sugar gets too low I need to eat something right-that-second so that the dizziness, shakes, and weakness goes away. It's been easier to make sure that I'm eating plenty of small snacks to curb the starvation problem and often times I will stop by my house for lunch since there aren't many "ready to eat" things at my bosses' house and I can only eat so many PB&J sandwiches...seriously.

The other things I'm gong to focus on is my water intake and regular exercise. I like going to the gym and the feeling of happiness that brings, but it can be difficult to get to the gym. It's a lot easier to go with a friend, but sometimes no one is available to go and I must make the decision to go anyways. I like to think that I'll do a video at home, but usually I end up avoiding the at home workout and just watch a movie instead.

I believe that the weight will come off naturally with living a healthy lifestyle and maybe by focusing on being healthier and more fit and less on the weight itself, it will put me in a better frame of mind and perspective to be able to do more.

Does anyone have any tips for getting past food cravings or getting the right frame of mind for the gym? Leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts!

4 comments:

Heidi - D said...

You can do this! I am in the same boat... Or I was. I was trying and getting nowhere. Not back to my start weight, but not losing anything more. Until this week, I was almost ready to give up! I stopped thinking about it, and almost forgot to weigh this morning - but AMAZINGLY this week I lost something again. I am SO back on the bandwagon.

Good luck to you!

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Kelly said...

You're doing great!

I find the hard part for me is water intake. I honestly feel like a 5 year old trying to eat veggies, I have to choke it down.

But! what works for me is green tea. I use a mug that holds 2 glasses, and i make naturally decaf green tea, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and a little splash of milk for color, and I can drink 4 of those a day, easily!

I had to change my entire eating habbit. I had to eat my "big meal" at lunch time, to help with over eating at night..my big meal isn't that big either haha. But I would suggest writing EVERYTHING you eat down..everything, cause you will be amazed how much extra youre consuming.

When I cook, I alwasy "taste" and one day I started to measure how much I was "tasting" 1 spoon here, one there, it added up to half of a cup! ugh haha..taught me a lesson

Good Luck!

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Unknown said...

Thanks for all of the tips and encouragement! It's been hard, but I'm definitely keeping up with it!

Tristan said...

oh, Lord...girlie good luck with this weight loss..wish i could..lol!!