It's been a weird week.
Sometimes I behaved, sometimes I caved. I was tempted and both failed and succeeded- sometimes in the same day!
Let the scale show I've dropped two more pounds. I'm now 307!
Surprised? Me too. Especially after having more than one doughnut that was brought home from the bakery. I really need to thank my husband for that...not.
The first major change this week was the snacks (minus the doughnuts). I took a banana or apple slices with me in the van and ate during work breaks. Apples go a lot father than bananas (and travel better!) so the main fruit this week was munchy, crunchy apples.
Good stuff, but after a week of eating apples, it does get a bit boring. Grapes are a good choice, but more sugary than fibery. Not as filling as apples, but maybe a combo of both would work.
Since I won't have time to wash hands during my driving jobs, the fruit has to be finger-friendly. Time to go to the market and start experimenting.
Soup was also prominent this week, but too many times I found myself having two bowls at mealtimes. Or a ton of buttered bread to go with the one bowl. I still need to cut back- not out. Bread is great with soup, but I don't need two huge slices- which is more like four regular ones!
The cold snap has finally arrived here so exercising outside of the van is a no-go. Exercise will have to be in the house or running around the downtown marketplace for now. At least until I save enough to get some kind of exercise equipment.
I was thinking of getting a rowing machine; something that would exercise all of me, and tighten up my muscle. I have a lot of muscle- it's just well insulated. Really well insulated.
Hopefully some of that insulation will melt off when Spring gets here sometime in July! (Juuust kidding! But it is a very late winter here!)
Lessons Learned:
Fruit works. Find more finger-friendly types.
Soup works. Make more varieties of clear broth soups for the week's lunches or dinners.
Quiche works. Much better than store-bought sandwiches, and much healthier too- since there's hardly any bread (I used a tortilla for the 'crust')- and I made it at home!
Lunch boxes work. They keep the apples from browning and the bananas from getting squooshed. And the containers keep grapes from rolling around.
Finding a compact, all-over body workout machine is harder than I thought.
I'll be honest with you- I didn't think I lost anything this week. Doughnuts are not my weakness, but taste really good when temptation comes and you've had a rough day. I was surprised I lost anything, no less two pounds! I give full credit to the fruits and soups this week. They saved my proverbial bacon.
Mmmm..bacon....
I never thought working and eating healthy would be so hard! Sometimes it seems to work great, then I fail- and I don't just fail an eensy-weensy bit, I fail gloriously! But as long as I learn from yesterday and plan for today and tomorrow, I should prevail- with a lot of prayers to God for help- because there's no way I could pull this off on my own!
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