I lost 5lb. This morning I weighed 194.4. I put my mind to it, have eaten nutritiously and exercised moderately (lots of walking, without breaking a sweat so far). I'm stoked :)
Today is my planning day. I am reviewing the week just past and planning for the week ahead. I know I had a couple of hiccups during the week and on those days, I was lucky to manage and not eat too poorly. But I know being prepared will work better than relying on luck.
My diet has consisted of eating a lot of whole foods (vegetables, salads, fruits) along with some seeds, meat and some grain products - bagels occasionally and oats for the most part. It occurred to me I'm on a low carb diet, but this wasn't intentional. I focused on reducing my caloric intake. Trying to get the most substance out of those calories defined the foods I've been gravitating towards. I can eat platefuls of vegetables/salads or I can eat 1/2 a chocolate bar or bag of chips. It seems so clear to me now.
I knew my food choices in the past haven't been brilliant (you don't get fat by eating celery) but in a typical day in the past I would have eaten both the chips and the chocolate without the vegetables.
I'm craving chocolate at the moment and I believe it's coz I'm due for my monthly troubles. I'm hoping with the reduced amounts of crap in my diet that my blood sugar and salt levels are ok and won't make the cravings insurmountable. I've also started taking a B-complex multi-vitamin which is supposed to help.
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