Not much happening, so I don't have much to report; just journaling, really.
The weather has turned cool here, it's only supposed to be in the mid 70s for the next 5 days. It is sunny and gorgeous, though - perfect weather for walking so I'm going to log a couple miles this evening.
I haven't weighed for a while, TOM is here and I'm bloated. I've been giving the scale too much power in the past couple of months and driving myself crazy with maintaining when I want to be losing. I need to set myself some mini goals and concentrate on them instead of the scale.
Here are some things that I want to concentrate on weekly:
Drink more water. (I noticed yesterday afternoon around 5:00 that I only had one cup of coffee and one bottle of water all day. Wth? No wonder my energy is waning.)
Be more diligent on my food logging, calorie counting and portion control. (I've been slacking in this area and it's too easy to overeat without realizing it. It's a pain for me to get out the iPad and log in MyFitnessPal every time I want to log my food so I'm going to buy a pretty notebook and give that a try.)
Get back to exercising at least 5 days a week. I was on a good routine there for a while, but then started exercising only when I'd feel like it. Mistake. That makes me lazier. When I exercise I have more energy and feel better, so the more I exercise, the more I want to. Just do it. I used to have an almost obsessed feeling about exercise (particularly walking) and would get pissed if it would rain and I couldn't go. I was my me time. My meditation time. I want that feeling back.
I feel good, other than decreased energy (which I can easily solve). Eating is good. I need to buy less produce at a time and bite the bullet and make more trips to the grocery store. I've noticed that for the past 2 months I've been throwing away around $15-20-ish a week in fresh produce that goes bad before I can eat it. That's gotta' stop. It's hard to buy/cook for one person.
For those of you that count calories/track your food - how do you do it? Maybe one of you have a great idea that I'll have to steal ;)
That's it for now. Make it a great day!
Good for you to take a step back and look at what's fallen off in terms of healthy habits and commit to getting back to them.
ReplyDeleteGreat adjustment, Sunny! I stay at roughly 1200 calories a day, but I eat a set group of foods/combinations, and know their values by heart. I allow roughly 350 calories each for breakfast and lunch, and the remaining 500 for dinner/small nutritious snack. Easy peasy. :)
ReplyDeleteI actually now SCHEDULE exercise into my day... If I don't then it won't happen. I usually get 2-4 workouts a week. Because I don't workout until after work, I usually skip Fridays because I want to get home and avoid the crazy Friday traffic!
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