My day started great with another 1/2 pound loss, bringing my total loss since I stopped eating sugar one week ago today to 5 pounds. That kind of a loss is really motivating to keep doing what I’ve been doing. My total loss is at 7 1/2 pounds, which is about 20% of what I need to lose.
I didn’t have the best day today, though. I was out shopping when my normal snack time was, so I’d planned to get croutons at the Mennonite store, which I did. But I forgot that once I start eating them, I can’t stop. I also bought some squeaky cheese curds. Now, neither of them contains sugar, so I’m alright there, but I didn’t exactly stick with my menu. Oh, well, no-one’s perfect. I think I adjusted the rest of the day, though, so it should come out about the same, point-wise, as it would have.
So here was today’s menu, with notes where I strayed.
Breakfast: Oatmeal with golden raisins; cutie
Snack: SlimFast
Lunch: Eggs Plus, made with a diet bun, since I was out of bread: Romaine and dressing.
Snack: Baked apple and orange fizz (Okay, so here is where I had that other stuff instead, plus I can’t find the orange juice I like, so I skipped that part, too and just had pop)
Supper: Spaghetti hot dish, made with whole wheat spaghetti and ground turkey; green beans, soy milk, which I skipped because of the afternoon fiasco!
Snack: supposed to be about 5 points (250 calories) of popcorn, but I’m skipping that too and just having a small banana again. That way, my day should be pretty close to where it would have been if I’d eaten what I’d planned.
Today was a lot less hectic than yesterday. For one thing, it didn’t snow (for a change!) Oh, I forgot to say that I shoveled snow yesterday morning for about a half hour before work, too. I did go to school again and practice, but no recording with Emma and no lessons or tai chi class or choir. Just grocery shopping and starting the laundry. Now I’m off for my evening stroll with Sherlock.
Nice work on your progress–7.5 pounds is great! And I think you really recouped nicely after the “extra” snacks. 🙂 I find that I have a hard time stopping when I eat popcorn so I now package it in containers when I make a big batch. It’s just one of those foods that I can eat and eat and eat and never get full! Anyway, it sounds like your plan is really working!
I learned that it isn’t just sugar that sets me off, but also salty-crispy. So, like you said, I need to portion them out and avoid eating them in mindless eating sorts of situations, like driving or riding in the car, reading, working on the computer and watching tv or movies. But the real difference is that after I stop on the salty-crispy, I don’t have a craving to have more. I just forget to stop. I think it is more a behavioral thing, which is why I don’t think I have to give them up entirely.
By the way, after I posted, I ended up munching down the remainder of the croutons while doing computer stuff before bed. Oh well, at least they are gone. But I’m up a pound today. No big deal. (I wonder how many calories in a bag of croutons…)