I have been divorced for 9 years. In that time, I have taken care of my two sons and neglected myself. If you have been following my blog you know that last week, I challenged myself to get back on track and lose the weight I’ve been carrying around for the past few months.
Of course, I talk about making changes and I know all the things I should or should not do or eat, but of course making changes to do something as basic as choosing the correct things to eat is not met without challenges.
First, I had to decide what it was I wanted to do to lose weight, low-carb, Keto, Atkins, Weight Watchers, my head was spinning. Then I thought to myself, why am I going to drive myself nuts following a plan, I will eventually not follow? Why set myself up to fail? I am not saying this is the correct decision for anyone else. I am saying, I know myself well enough to know, I won’t stick with it. That’s why I feel you need to know yourself well enough, to know what you can and cannot handle when it comes to making a commitment to a new healthy lifestyle.
I know this about me, I hate when people are on a diet and every time you go to eat or drink something you have somebody in your face asking, “are you allowed to have that???” I’m over 21 I am “allowed” to have whatever I want. Does the “diet” dictate that I should stay away from it? Perhaps, but then again, I am over 21 and I will eat what I want to eat. Knowing this about myself led me to realize… diets won’t work for me. So, what should, or could I do? I can commit to 6 meals a day. I can also commit to eating half of whatever I want to eat.
And, with that in mind, I set out to a new me.
In the morning I ate breakfast, oatmeal with fruit; I hate oatmeal, but as weird as it sounds, I love “overnight oats” and here is my recipe you can make if you would like to try it: 1 cup milk, 1 cup peach yogurt, 1 cup oats placed in a mason jar and then added chopped walnuts and blueberries & black raspberries– put the jars in the fridge overnight and you are good to go in the morning! I also tried the “Quaker Oats Overnight Oats” for these you buy them, add milk to the line and you are good to go! I like them all, but the Peach and Pecan are my favorite. Other days, I had farina, or a hard-boiled egg and bacon.
During the week at lunchtime I had sandwiches, leftovers from dinner the night before, salad, and chili with cheese. In between my meals I snacked on clementine’s, crackers and cheese, just cheese, and twice I had a peanut butter (think “thick peanut brittle”) bar from the vending machine at work, I also bought Kale chips from the vending machine thinking they were a healthier choice than potato chips. Live and learn. They had 20 more calories, 3 more grams of fat, a ton more sodium, and tasted like plain, stale tortilla chips. Big disappointment.
Also last week, I went out twice for dinner with friends.
On Saturday, I was busy all day and went to Burger King with my son, he had a whopper and I had ½ of a whopper junior not tomato no onion, with ½ a small fry and small coke. I came home and later had my first ice cream of the week (I usually have one per night!) and I also had popcorn later in the night while watching TV with butter and salt.
Again, let me make it clear whatever I made, I would take what I would normally take and then ate half the amount. I usually drink 2 sodas a day and barely touch water. However, another change I made this week was drinking two bottles of water and three cans of Poland spring sparkling flavored water per day and I limited myself to three sodas for the week.
This morning I weighed myself as I did last Sunday, and I am happy to announce. I lost 1.4 lbs.!
Getting through the first week of anything is hard, but if I could do it, I know you can too… just find what it is you like and what you know you can commit to and you will be just fine!
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