realisticness

Losing 5 lbs in a month is a realistic goal. If that month is not December and you aren’t attempting to finish your graduate work, including 2 term papers that you pretty much ignored in November. Oh it also helps if you aren’t moving that month and have actual food in the fridge and cupboards. Probably.

Weight Watchers teaches us to set achievable goals. I didn’t do that this month. Instead, I tried to lose when I should have been aiming to maintain and ended up gaining. So it goes.

A co-worker commented on my weight loss yesterday, we chatted about what I did top drop the weight and she expressed interest in attending Weight Watchers meetings. It has been some time since I have been to a meeting, but it might be the boost I need to help me lose the extra 15ish lbs that I am carrying. And going with a buddy will help me be accountable.

Also, moving in with people might help me with really, really poor food choices that people can make when they live completely alone.

the most difficult part is the trying so hard

I need to start the day off with a good breakfast. When  I start off with a blueberry fritter that is never the worst food choice of the day.

If I don’t have a lunch I find satisfying things start to run amuck. It doesn’t matter if I am full, if I have a mushy eggplant riddled lunch I want to eat a box of chocolate fibre one bars to compensate. Which is probably negative.

I need to eat food that I like that doesn’t make me feel like I am on a diet.

Starting next week I am changing my work lunch routine. I am going to bring a sandwich and some veggies. I love sandwiches. I have this weird bread fear and I have no idea where it cam from. No more dinner for lunch. Dinner, you shall be relegated to the evening where you belong. Good day.

The most difficult part of my day has been the trying so hard to make good food choices. Knowing what I am going to eat for lunch everyday,  in addition to knowing what I eat for breakfast, will require less thought, and — ipso facto — less trying.

And I love sandwiches.

They are glorious.

I’m not sure how I got into the mindset that they are a bad thing.

and for dinner? a bag of chips

I am having a hard time at work. My boss is a douche. I have PMS. And emotional eater p4p won out last night, if you can call that winning — I had a bag of chips for dinner. It actually seemed like a good idea at the time. Stomach didn’t appreciate that though, as far as I can tell from the grumblings.

But, one bad night isn’t going to turn me off course — I am down 1.1 lbs from last week at this time, so I am on par for reaching my goal of losing 5ish lbs for Christmas.

bringing my lunch to work week — good for my wallet and waist

I made a pact with a co-worker that I would bring my lunch to work EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. I work downtown and sometimes bring lunch 0 out of 5 days, so this is requiring more forethought on my part. She hasn’t actually done that yet. But, it is going well thus far for me! I eat my biggest meal at lunch — it tends to be more dinner-y, content-wise — because I gym it up after work, and then have a small dinner.

Yesterday and today I had potatoes, which I slow cooked in burrito spice (umm delicious); chicken — rubbed in a bit of oil, garlic, rosemary and a pinch of lemon juice; and mixed veggies. I am about to cook some eggplant and mushrooms in veggie spice in foil in the oven, as well as some chicken skewers for tomorrow and Thursday (with left over potatoes, probably).

Bringing my lunch in makes me eat healthier, whole foods, costs less, and is probably better for the environment, given the amount of waste take out creates.

Also, today I did the split your lunch into 2 and eat half of it now, half later thing and it really curbed my usual 2 o’clock sugar crash / ravenous chocolate craving that I get EVERY DAY. w00t. Recommend trying if you have not!