9/30/17
Good Morning - Happy Saturday - My favorite day of the week! It's 7:15 am and I slept really good last night. This morning I weighed 179.7 - that's just about 6 pounds from 9/19. I'm very excited about this journey and very hopeful. Brightline eating is hard in some ways, but very easy in others like prepping my food the night before. Which I realized when I woke up this morning I forgot to do that. But I'll just get up when I'm done posting and write out my menu.
A couple of things - I meant for this to be a daily journal for myself, but obviously that didn't happen, but looking back over the week, I'm sure a weekly or a few times a week will be good to start.
Friday was a bit of a mess. I started out at 5:15 hiking up Cowles Mountain with my bestie Diana. We didn't go all the way up as I was on a bit of a time constraint. It's really fun to chat with her while hiking. I wouldn't go if she wasn't there with me. Anyways, I had a walking date with my new friend Melissa at Lake Murray at 7:30. I got to meet her cute little Corgi Bruce. He's 8 mos old and just adorable. I got home, took a shower, ate breakfast of eggs, rice and a banana and off to work I went.
At lunch time I went in the kitchen to eat and couldn't find my lunch bag. I searched around for it and then realized I left it at home. Panic ensued. I knew I couldn't go the rest of day with out eating or I would turn into a crazy person and eat every m&m in the office. My boss said - "go to the Marketplace and get a salad"! Great idea because I was thinking taco shop. In my mind I'd already bought a burrito and threw away the tortilla! I drove down the street, past the taco shop and up to the Market place deli on 5th. I went over to the sandwich counters to review the menu but didn't see a salad at all - I'm like what kind of deli doesn't have salad? I finally decided to ask the lady at the counter if they had salads, she said "Oh yes, they are in the case right in front". Whew, I had walked right past them! They had about 10 choices of pre-packed salads and I almost went for the greek but there was no chicken in it and I figured I might be starving an hour later if I ate that. Then I was slightly tempted at a Cobb salad for the bacon. I'm a bit afraid to eat pork right now. It's my favorite meat - Bacon, Sausage, Ham - Yum. But I think I might go over the edge if I eat any of that. So as I move down the counter reading the ingredients and the prices, I notice they are in order of price. I get to the end and see they have a salad with Lettuce, chicken, blue cheese crumbles, blueberries and green apple. Perfect, the most expensive salad at 7.99! But thankfully I got paid today and could swing it. I chose a red wine vinaigrette to go with it and out the door I went. Disaster averted!
Dinner was another story - I came home and had to pick a chicken. Meaning pick all the meat off the bones. I buy Rotisserie Chicken from Costco. They are $5 bucks and delicious. I bought 2 yesterday and put them in the fridge. It was a bit harder to get the skin off a cold chicken, but I think I plucked more meat off of it cold. I mean, I could man handle the chicken and really rip it apart. It was gross but the net weight of meat was 22 ozs! That works out to $3.63 per lb of tasty cooked chicken. I don't think I've mentioned that raw meat kind of grosses me out so I'm not sure if I would ever take the plunge and bake a whole chicken myself - plus it's summer and too hot! Anywho, I was really tired after that busy day and decided to lay down before Ted came home. As I drifted off to la la land he walked in the door and woke me. Then Kels came home and we were going to listen to a speaker at church with the campus ministry. I hadn't ate dinner yet but I really wasn't hungry. Ted had Chipotle for lunch and still full from that. I heated up the edamame from my lunch and ate a few bites of carrots and radishes, ate the olives and left for church. I munched on the edamame on the way and that was dinner.
Today is a new day and when my post is complete, I'm getting in the shower and put my menu together. Thankfully a new day is a fresh start :-)
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
BLE - Day 2 Down
9/27/2017
Day 2 (09/26/2017) was good, I was feeling a bit ho-hum and the cravings were getting to me just a bit. I ignored them and stayed as busy as possible so overall it was a success!
Weight today (09/27) 181.00 lbs! Yay! I'm seeing the scale move which gives me hope and excitement.
Breakfast - 2 eggs, 4 oz of Seeds of Change Rice/Quinoa, 6 oz of Cantaloupe
Lunch - 4 oz Rotisserie chicken with salsa, 2 oz Green Olives, 6 oz mixed veggies, mostly red and orange peppers.
Dinner - 4 oz Rotisserie Chicken, 8ish oz of salad and 6ish ozs of baked veggies, 2 ozs of Blue Cheese for my fat.
Dinner was a bit messy. I messed up my salad and I'm not sure if I ate 7 ozs or 8 ozs and I also ate starchy veggies like potato and parsnip. I was chatting with my new friend Melissa who came for dinner and I got a little lost. But I just ate, moved on and went to our weekly bible class.
Tuesday's I only work a 1/2 day so my regular routine is off. I need to make sure I'm not being lazy on Tuesday's and slip especially since I have more time.
This Tuesday I had a chiro and hair appt back to back in the morning starting at 8:30 so I didn't get up until 7:30. I need to get up at 6:15 - my normal wake up time. I did sleep really good last night though, and I don't remember waking up to pee at all!
Back to feeling Ho-Hum. While I work I just wasn't very motivated but I think it was because I didn't want to be there. Once I left the energy perked back up and I stopped by my friends house to drop off the book, then went to Costco to pick up Chicken/Lettuce and Tomatoes.
We have cookies and bread in my house, the bread is almost gone but I'm looking forward to not seeing those cookies in my cupboard soon! At this point in the game, the cravings are there, but I can ignore them, they are not overpowering me thankfully. I have been saying "Not My Food" When I was packing my food for today (last night) I was over by 12.1 on Olives. I put the jar in the fridge and said it's no big deal, but I heard Susan's voice say "there's no integrity in that". So I turned around and pulled the olives back out and fixed my lunch with 12 ozs on the dot, that was my veggies/protein/fat together, with a bit of salsa for my chicken.
I just watched Susan's video Badly Behaving Brain - it was basically the same info in the book but it was great to hear again.
Have a great day!
Day 2 (09/26/2017) was good, I was feeling a bit ho-hum and the cravings were getting to me just a bit. I ignored them and stayed as busy as possible so overall it was a success!
Weight today (09/27) 181.00 lbs! Yay! I'm seeing the scale move which gives me hope and excitement.
Breakfast - 2 eggs, 4 oz of Seeds of Change Rice/Quinoa, 6 oz of Cantaloupe
Lunch - 4 oz Rotisserie chicken with salsa, 2 oz Green Olives, 6 oz mixed veggies, mostly red and orange peppers.
Dinner - 4 oz Rotisserie Chicken, 8ish oz of salad and 6ish ozs of baked veggies, 2 ozs of Blue Cheese for my fat.
Dinner was a bit messy. I messed up my salad and I'm not sure if I ate 7 ozs or 8 ozs and I also ate starchy veggies like potato and parsnip. I was chatting with my new friend Melissa who came for dinner and I got a little lost. But I just ate, moved on and went to our weekly bible class.
Tuesday's I only work a 1/2 day so my regular routine is off. I need to make sure I'm not being lazy on Tuesday's and slip especially since I have more time.
This Tuesday I had a chiro and hair appt back to back in the morning starting at 8:30 so I didn't get up until 7:30. I need to get up at 6:15 - my normal wake up time. I did sleep really good last night though, and I don't remember waking up to pee at all!
Back to feeling Ho-Hum. While I work I just wasn't very motivated but I think it was because I didn't want to be there. Once I left the energy perked back up and I stopped by my friends house to drop off the book, then went to Costco to pick up Chicken/Lettuce and Tomatoes.
We have cookies and bread in my house, the bread is almost gone but I'm looking forward to not seeing those cookies in my cupboard soon! At this point in the game, the cravings are there, but I can ignore them, they are not overpowering me thankfully. I have been saying "Not My Food" When I was packing my food for today (last night) I was over by 12.1 on Olives. I put the jar in the fridge and said it's no big deal, but I heard Susan's voice say "there's no integrity in that". So I turned around and pulled the olives back out and fixed my lunch with 12 ozs on the dot, that was my veggies/protein/fat together, with a bit of salsa for my chicken.
I just watched Susan's video Badly Behaving Brain - it was basically the same info in the book but it was great to hear again.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
BLE - Day 1 Down
9/25/2017
My First Day of BLE = Bright Line Eating
No Sugar, No Flour, Portions and 3 Meals a day.
So far so good, but it's only 12:00 and lunch is not for another hour...
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat. I feel gross, I'm squeezing into clothes that are too small so I probably don't look all that awesome = frump.
Some of the things that I suffer from being overweight and eating a poor diet.
Incontinence
Chronic Leg, Hip and Foot Pain
Foul Bowel Syndrome
Dandruff
Headaches
Lack of Energy
Grumpiness/Moodiness
Chemical Dependence on Sugar/Flour
Poor Self Image
Poor Self Worth
Lack of Sex drive
Today I weighed in at 182.8 - my highest weight I ever weighed was 190 on my honeymoon.
My morning started off great, with a quiet time reading starting at 6:15 for about 20 minutes. I wrote out a prayer for the day as well. 7:00 in the shower, left the house at 7:50, got to work at 8:30 and ate breakfast. Lunch will be at 1:00-1:30 and dinner around 6:30 or 7:00.
I am almost done ready the BLE book and I'm really inspired. I did some experiments last week and make the commitment 2 days ago - Saturday to start today.
Last night I wrote out my food for today and a couple points a) my morning routine was much easier, no decisions to be made, just grabbed my breakfast and lunch out of the fridge and headed off to work b) because I basically followed the diet as close as I could over the weekend, I already had much more energy.
I did quit drinking coffee on 9/18 but I did have about 1/3 of a cup on Sunday, just to get rid of the headache that was forming before church. That would have been a painful 2 hours. I didn't have a scale until Sunday evening so I'm sure my portions were not correct either but now on point.
There is candy everywhere and donuts in the break room - but that's Not My Food.
Breakfast = 1 oz dry oatmeal cooked with 3 oz of blueberries, 3 oz of pineapple with 4 oz of fat free cottage cheese. I bought fat free so the cottage cheese would be a protein and not a fat.
Lunch = 4 oz of rotisserie chicken, 2 plums, 6oz of radishes, 2 oz of green olives
Dinner = 4 oz of rotisserie chicken, 8 oz of salad, mixed greens/carrots/tomato, 6 oz celery, 2 oz of blue cheese dressing.
09/26/2017 - AM
I was so stuffed after dinner, 14 ounces of veggies and salad is a huge portion. But I'm feeling pretty good today. I didn't lose any more weight, but I suspect my body is in shock and in a few days it will start to drop off. I had a heavier breakfast this morning including eggs, This afternoon we are having cake for someone's birthday, but I'm going to need an excuse to leave. I don't want to be in the conference room with everyone else watching them eat it, I don't think I'm ready for that. Maybe I'll run down to the mail box or something.
I do notice that I need a better spiritual practice in the morning. I'm a person of faith, but have never had a great commitment to a morning devotional. Or even an evening one. I'll get working on that.
Stay Tuned for tomorrows post!
My First Day of BLE = Bright Line Eating
No Sugar, No Flour, Portions and 3 Meals a day.
So far so good, but it's only 12:00 and lunch is not for another hour...
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat. I feel gross, I'm squeezing into clothes that are too small so I probably don't look all that awesome = frump.
Some of the things that I suffer from being overweight and eating a poor diet.
Incontinence
Chronic Leg, Hip and Foot Pain
Foul Bowel Syndrome
Dandruff
Headaches
Lack of Energy
Grumpiness/Moodiness
Chemical Dependence on Sugar/Flour
Poor Self Image
Poor Self Worth
Lack of Sex drive
Today I weighed in at 182.8 - my highest weight I ever weighed was 190 on my honeymoon.
My morning started off great, with a quiet time reading starting at 6:15 for about 20 minutes. I wrote out a prayer for the day as well. 7:00 in the shower, left the house at 7:50, got to work at 8:30 and ate breakfast. Lunch will be at 1:00-1:30 and dinner around 6:30 or 7:00.
I am almost done ready the BLE book and I'm really inspired. I did some experiments last week and make the commitment 2 days ago - Saturday to start today.
Last night I wrote out my food for today and a couple points a) my morning routine was much easier, no decisions to be made, just grabbed my breakfast and lunch out of the fridge and headed off to work b) because I basically followed the diet as close as I could over the weekend, I already had much more energy.
I did quit drinking coffee on 9/18 but I did have about 1/3 of a cup on Sunday, just to get rid of the headache that was forming before church. That would have been a painful 2 hours. I didn't have a scale until Sunday evening so I'm sure my portions were not correct either but now on point.
There is candy everywhere and donuts in the break room - but that's Not My Food.
Breakfast = 1 oz dry oatmeal cooked with 3 oz of blueberries, 3 oz of pineapple with 4 oz of fat free cottage cheese. I bought fat free so the cottage cheese would be a protein and not a fat.
Lunch = 4 oz of rotisserie chicken, 2 plums, 6oz of radishes, 2 oz of green olives
Dinner = 4 oz of rotisserie chicken, 8 oz of salad, mixed greens/carrots/tomato, 6 oz celery, 2 oz of blue cheese dressing.
09/26/2017 - AM
I was so stuffed after dinner, 14 ounces of veggies and salad is a huge portion. But I'm feeling pretty good today. I didn't lose any more weight, but I suspect my body is in shock and in a few days it will start to drop off. I had a heavier breakfast this morning including eggs, This afternoon we are having cake for someone's birthday, but I'm going to need an excuse to leave. I don't want to be in the conference room with everyone else watching them eat it, I don't think I'm ready for that. Maybe I'll run down to the mail box or something.
I do notice that I need a better spiritual practice in the morning. I'm a person of faith, but have never had a great commitment to a morning devotional. Or even an evening one. I'll get working on that.
Stay Tuned for tomorrows post!
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