Posts Tagged ‘ dieting ’

Today Was One of Those Days… and I Didn’t Cave

10/19/2010

Today was just one of those days. Got up late and had to rush. Work was tough. Non-stop phone calls, not my favorite thing. They make me nervous. Bills to pay. Aggravation, and just a lot on my plate. My knee-jerk reaction to stressful situations is to eat, and not the good stuff. But today I resisted. I stayed on track all day long. I stayed in points. I was conscious of my fruits and veggies, sort of. It wasn’t a perfect day but it was going pretty well. I felt in control. Of my food intake anyway. Then I came home. After an aggravating day. Not knowing what I wanted to eat for dinner. Knowing I really didn’t want something healthy. And we had a flood in the basement. We’re still not sure what was leaking or what overflowed, but the source of the water seems to have...

Today, Fat Girl Is Winning

02/14/2010

Sometimes lately, I think this blog should be called Fat Girl vs. Fit Girl. This being fit thing can certainly feel like a championship fight some days. Today is one of those days. In fact, this has just been one of those weekends. As Fit Girl, over the last week, I’ve been assessing what I eat and trying to incorporate better choices and get rid of some of the empty calories I consume. I could live on 100-calorie snack packs, and since the beginning, I definitely consumed more of those than I should. Weight Watchers is great for portion control, and while I lost weight, I was still not making the best choices from a nutrition perspective a lot of the time. When my weight loss stalled 6 months ago, any amount of climbing back on the Weight Watchers points wagon has been to no avail, I’m suspecting because...

Swearing Off Sugar

11/09/2009

I’m a firm believer in dieting moderation. I have more or less managed to lose 63 pounds eating foods I enjoy…in moderation. Weight Watchers taught me to balance the good foods with the fun foods and to even appreciate the good foods as fun foods. I get lots of exercise too, something I hadn’t done while dieting before and even when there are some over the top days or over the top weeks, I’ve maintained my weight loss. I still have 15-20 pounds I’d like to lose, but I’m thrilled with how far I’ve come. I have changed my lifestyle enough that I can maintain a healthy weight and still enjoy the foods I like. Lately though, more and more sugar has been slipping through. I have sugar issues; this I know. Once I get started with sweet stuff, it’s all I want. And for whatever reason (maybe because...

Fessing Up

10/20/2009

You may have noticed my absence from the blog world and even twitter this week. Well, not only did I fall off the edge of the virtual world, I more or less fell off of the “watching what I eat, exercising regularly” wagon as well. I can’t really pinpoint what did me in. A change in the weather (which I had hoped to conquer per my last post)? Stress? Hormones? I’ve been married for 25 years and I deserved a reward? An unrelenting urge for brownies? Whatever the cause, it derailed me big-time. From Tuesday through Friday, there was no exercise. And while I would start the days off eating healthfully, by lunchtime, I was throwing my food out of whack too. The result? I gained 5 pounds in a week. I got back on the exercise train on Saturday with a really strong 3-mile run. The clouds broke...

The Cost of 100-Calorie Candy

09/22/2009

I was out shopping last night, knowing today was going to be a tough work day…again. I was right. I decided, while I was in Target, that I better have some manageable, calorie-counted chocolate on hand if I planned to make it through the day without ravaging the vending machine for the Linden Chocolate Chip Cookies and Milky Ways that are in there (yes, I know what’s in the vending machine at all times, but I am careful never, ever to put change into it anymore). Wondering what 100-calorie treat might just do the trick today, I spied 100-calorie M&M packs. They were like a beacon on a dark night. I scooped ‘em up and threw them in my cart. $3.99 for seven carefully calorie-counted-out packs. I grabbed a pack today when I went home for lunch, so I would have it for that much-needed 3:00 pm sugar injection....

Climbing Back On The Wagon After A Hard Fall

08/24/2009

When I wrote my blog post on Wednesday, I wrote that I was struggling with staying on track food-wise. I somehow managed to stay in control until that evening when I came home to pizza and scarfed two pieces without even thinking about it. I will admit, even though I felt a little guilty later, it felt GOOD to eat with abandon. So good, in fact, that it sent me on a downward spiral for the next four days. By day four, however, it didn’t feel so good anymore. Thursday there was seafood bisque in a bread bowl and delicious chocolate truffles. Friday it was an overload on english muffins with butter and cinnamon sugar (a favorite treat but I always stop at one. Mind you, these are the high-fiber, low-cal multigrain english muffins and I used light butter, but still. Did I really need two of them? Saturday,...

When The Going Gets Tough…

08/06/2009

I’m having a bad day. I woke up with a headache and I’m cranky. I was up .8 at weight watchers this morning for no apparent reason. Down yesterday on the scale, up today. Ah, the joys of being a girl. I miscalculated bill payments and I’m broke until payday tomorrow. I have a doctor’s appointment directly after work and then an appointment with my accountant directly after that. Did I mention I’m being audited by the IRS? Just one more thing to worry about. Ugh. I am generally a positive, happy person. I take things in stride. I handle stress well. I am grateful for good things that happen to me or come my way. I’m generous where I can be and I’m a nice person. Really. This, though, has been a tough year with one challenge after another after another. It seems we get one thing cleared...

Frustration and Fat Days

06/05/2009

I was down .8 lbs. at my Weight Watchers weigh-in yesterday and I should be jumping for joy. I have consistently lost weight since I started in July of 2008, with only one or two little gains and a month-long plateau. The weight loss has never been speedy (5-6 pounds a month), but in the past couple of months, wow, it’s been even slower. .8 was great, but I haven’t seen a loss without a decimal point in front of it in about 10 weeks. And instead of inspiring me to try harder, that little decimal point can sometimes set off a chain of events that leaves me making wrong choices and feeling, well, fat. And that’s what happened yesterday. I made some positive changes to my food choices and my tracking last week, I stayed on target, I exercised…even had a triumphant 2-mile run on Wednesday. And then...

Christmas Cookies…All Cookies…Are Evil

12/09/2008

I’m having a somewhat tough Weight Watcher’s week. Between work stress and at-home business deadline stress, as an emotional eater, not shoving everything under the sun into my mouth takes lots of willpower. Fortunately, I don’t keep anything in my house anymore that could do too much damage. Add to that that because I’ve had so much work to do, I’ve not gotten to the gym in a week (not really a good enough excuse, I know). And this morning, after 5 months on Weight Watchers and 30 pounds lost, I decided that I’ve got to come up with some new favorites. I’m getting a little bored with what I’m eating on a regular basis. I need a routine to stick to this program, but I think it’s definitely time to change that up a little. Which brings me to why Christmas cookies are evil. I am addicted to...

Fifty by Fifty

10/03/2008

I’m turning 50 in May. Ouch. Not sure I’m loving that number. Someday I’ll blog about my torn rotator cuff and the doctor telling me I had a 48-year-old shoulder. But I digress… So when I started Weight Watchers in July, I decided that I wanted to be 50 pounds (or more) lighter by my 50th birthday. If I have to get older, I’m going to feel better about myself at 50 than I did at 48 or 49. I lost this kind of weight just before 40 too (65 pounds when I was 38 to be exact.) Before I gained it all back…I have gained most of it back…I decided it was time to get back on the stick. So that’s my goal. And it feels achievable. I’m down 18.8* pounds as of yesterday. And I’m now walking 3 miles at a clip. Today, I even ran a...

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