Keeping my eyes on the prize!

a_gingersnap_girl · 02-07-2007, 09:21 AM

Well here I am again. I have read so many journals and realized we are all in the same boat. We eat to comfort. We eat because the clock on the wall says to. We eat to celebrate. We make excuse after excuse of why it is ok to make bad food choices. How do you tell yourself that celery IS a snack food?? Unless it is covered in chocolate or peanut butter I don't think so. My mind set is back to my old habits and that is why I am here journaling again. I have packed on almost 20lbs of what I lost last year.

For the record, scale said 182 this morning. UGH!

This morning I let the scale upset me and because I was upset I ate, what did I eat - a cream cheese danish and a grande latte from Starbucks! Lunch I brought a salad and leftover steak from dinner last night. I am already craving a Dr Pepper. I still have the sweet taste of the latte in my mouth.

I vow to keep this journal just about my food choices - good or bad - and not a personal journal. I have one of those at home. I need to focus on my ideas and habits. This will reflect how my life affects those things but not in great detail like before.

I cannot look at the longterm goal now. I need to face each day individually until I get a grasp of why I do what I do. The goal is to lose weight, to feel better outside and inside and to know I have beaten that little monster within. I will teach myself that celery is a snack and not look at it as a punishment to eat it. I will not starve myself but I will not practice glutony anymore. Exercise will be a key - walking at lunch - bringing my tennies and having no excuse not to do it. Bring the ski machine out of the garage again and rearranging the house so there is no excuse why I can't do 30 minutes after the kids go to bed.

I am not in this to be supermodel thin. I am in this to like me. To like what I see in the mornings. To know my kids are making good choices. Knowing that maybe I influence my husband to put down the chips and work out with me once in a while. I will carry a little black book for my eyes only to write down what I eat good or bad so it is with me always. To tell everyone I know that I am on the wagon again so they help keep me accountable and help me make good choices.

Here's to 2007 - today is a new day. Off to drown myself in water.

a_gingersnap_girl · 02-07-2007, 01:40 PM

So breakfast was off the charts: cheese danish & grande latte. Snack was a 6oz. V8 juice, lunch salad with 6oz. steak 2 tbsp of creamy ceaser dressing and a Dr Pepper also 4 chocolate Oreo-type cookies. My sweet tooth is awful! Gotta get some gum and a mini toothbrush for work. Thank goodness friday is payday so I can get these things and get a plan down.

a_gingersnap_girl · 02-07-2007, 03:27 PM

So here I am again to confess my sins...

I forgot I also had two 1/2 red potatoes with cheese on top - they were canapes and a mini butterfinger and mini almond joy!

I can't figure out how people do it. How do you eat one egg for breakfast, one piece (maybe 6 oz.) of chicken or meat for lunch, and another meat portion with a salad for dinner and be satisfied. Will I ever reach that point? I need to definitely kick this sweet tooth.

Snowangel81598 · 02-07-2007, 09:13 PM

I hope you don't mind me popping into your journal, but I was wandering through and thought I might let you in on a secret. There is no way I could get through to lunch on only 1 egg. Most days I eat 3. A few days ago, I was so hungry at breakfast that I ate my 3 eggs scrambled with cream cheese and added 2 sausage patties. I don't eat that much most days, but once in a while, I'm just HUNGRY!, ya know?

Assuming you are on Atkins, or some similar LC plan, you don't have to eat only 1 egg. Especially in the beginning, eat what you need to eat of LC acceptable foods to get you through until you are in ketosis. It gets easier then. Lunch today for me was a Cobb salad with ranch dressing. Dinner chicken, green beans, and spinach. You don't have to starve yourself. That is a surefire way to fail.

Good luck! I'll keep track of your progess, if you don't feel like I am invading your privacy.

a_gingersnap_girl · 02-08-2007, 08:27 AM

Got a full nights sleep! Went to bed at 184.5 and woke up at 182.5.

B - 6 oz V8 Juice
2 scrambled eggs and 2 sausage patties

L - brought leftover hamburger helper but leaning on grabbing something else.

a_gingersnap_girl · 02-08-2007, 01:17 PM

Lunch was a naked steak burrito - rice, black beans, guac, corn and tomato salsa, lettuce, cheese and spit of sour cream. I had about five chips too and water to drink so far no Dr Pepper even though it is sitting here on my desk staring at me.

I am very full right now too so hopefully it will last and I won't have a sugar jones around 3:30/4:00. I did have a piece of gum too just sayin'

Dinner will be reported in the morning because right now I can't even think of food.

02-07-2007, 09:21 AM	#1
a_gingersnap_girl Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 601 Gallery: a_gingersnap_girl Stats: 195.5/193/155 Start Date: restart 5/30/07	Keeping my eyes on the prize! Well here I am again. I have read so many journals and realized we are all in the same boat. We eat to comfort. We eat because the clock on the wall says to. We eat to celebrate. We make excuse after excuse of why it is ok to make bad food choices. How do you tell yourself that celery IS a snack food?? Unless it is covered in chocolate or peanut butter I don't think so. My mind set is back to my old habits and that is why I am here journaling again. I have packed on almost 20lbs of what I lost last year. For the record, scale said 182 this morning. UGH! This morning I let the scale upset me and because I was upset I ate, what did I eat - a cream cheese danish and a grande latte from Starbucks! Lunch I brought a salad and leftover steak from dinner last night. I am already craving a Dr Pepper. I still have the sweet taste of the latte in my mouth. I vow to keep this journal just about my food choices - good or bad - and not a personal journal. I have one of those at home. I need to focus on my ideas and habits. This will reflect how my life affects those things but not in great detail like before. I cannot look at the longterm goal now. I need to face each day individually until I get a grasp of why I do what I do. The goal is to lose weight, to feel better outside and inside and to know I have beaten that little monster within. I will teach myself that celery is a snack and not look at it as a punishment to eat it. I will not starve myself but I will not practice glutony anymore. Exercise will be a key - walking at lunch - bringing my tennies and having no excuse not to do it. Bring the ski machine out of the garage again and rearranging the house so there is no excuse why I can't do 30 minutes after the kids go to bed. I am not in this to be supermodel thin. I am in this to like me. To like what I see in the mornings. To know my kids are making good choices. Knowing that maybe I influence my husband to put down the chips and work out with me once in a while. I will carry a little black book for my eyes only to write down what I eat good or bad so it is with me always. To tell everyone I know that I am on the wagon again so they help keep me accountable and help me make good choices. Here's to 2007 - today is a new day. Off to drown myself in water.

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02-07-2007, 01:40 PM	#2
a_gingersnap_girl Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 601 Gallery: a_gingersnap_girl Stats: 195.5/193/155 Start Date: restart 5/30/07	So breakfast was off the charts: cheese danish & grande latte. Snack was a 6oz. V8 juice, lunch salad with 6oz. steak 2 tbsp of creamy ceaser dressing and a Dr Pepper also 4 chocolate Oreo-type cookies. My sweet tooth is awful! Gotta get some gum and a mini toothbrush for work. Thank goodness friday is payday so I can get these things and get a plan down.

02-07-2007, 03:27 PM	#3
a_gingersnap_girl Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 601 Gallery: a_gingersnap_girl Stats: 195.5/193/155 Start Date: restart 5/30/07	So here I am again to confess my sins... I forgot I also had two 1/2 red potatoes with cheese on top - they were canapes and a mini butterfinger and mini almond joy! I can't figure out how people do it. How do you eat one egg for breakfast, one piece (maybe 6 oz.) of chicken or meat for lunch, and another meat portion with a salad for dinner and be satisfied. Will I ever reach that point? I need to definitely kick this sweet tooth.

02-07-2007, 09:13 PM	#4
Snowangel81598 Senior LCF Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 814 Gallery: Snowangel81598 Stats: 205/140/145 WOE: Atkins Start Date: Jan. 2003, Restarted (after 2 babies) Oct. 2006	I hope you don't mind me popping into your journal, but I was wandering through and thought I might let you in on a secret. There is no way I could get through to lunch on only 1 egg. Most days I eat 3. A few days ago, I was so hungry at breakfast that I ate my 3 eggs scrambled with cream cheese and added 2 sausage patties. I don't eat that much most days, but once in a while, I'm just HUNGRY!, ya know? Assuming you are on Atkins, or some similar LC plan, you don't have to eat only 1 egg. Especially in the beginning, eat what you need to eat of LC acceptable foods to get you through until you are in ketosis. It gets easier then. Lunch today for me was a Cobb salad with ranch dressing. Dinner chicken, green beans, and spinach. You don't have to starve yourself. That is a surefire way to fail. Good luck! I'll keep track of your progess, if you don't feel like I am invading your privacy.

02-08-2007, 08:27 AM	#5
a_gingersnap_girl Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 601 Gallery: a_gingersnap_girl Stats: 195.5/193/155 Start Date: restart 5/30/07	Got a full nights sleep! Went to bed at 184.5 and woke up at 182.5. B - 6 oz V8 Juice 2 scrambled eggs and 2 sausage patties L - brought leftover hamburger helper but leaning on grabbing something else.

02-08-2007, 01:17 PM	#6
a_gingersnap_girl Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 601 Gallery: a_gingersnap_girl Stats: 195.5/193/155 Start Date: restart 5/30/07	Lunch was a naked steak burrito - rice, black beans, guac, corn and tomato salsa, lettuce, cheese and spit of sour cream. I had about five chips too and water to drink so far no Dr Pepper even though it is sitting here on my desk staring at me. I am very full right now too so hopefully it will last and I won't have a sugar jones around 3:30/4:00. I did have a piece of gum too just sayin' Dinner will be reported in the morning because right now I can't even think of food.