Over the last years (or decade) changing my habits and
routines around food has always made it to both my resoultion lists and often
on my vacation to do lists where I come back and aim to do things differently.
And I can say that in the 18 yrs. I have been married-not
a hell of a lot has changed in terms of my food habits routines. Which is off
for me-as I am a mover and a shaker! If I want something I get it. If I set my
mind to achieve something-I always do. It’s who I am.
Well not in the food area.
In analzing why this is-I have realized it has never
been a real goal for many reasons.
Have not wanted or cared enough about it to make really changes for the
following reasons: Beware very very honest like I always am!
I adore food and the taste of it
The family I live with find cutting out and changing food very boring
I am an attractive person I think that has always worked
in a large company with many cute males and have never felt a lack of attention
so has made me care less about the pounds I should probably lose. I have a very
curvy body so people look at my boob’s way before they look at my hips I
guess!!! Thank God!!!
I have had many other bigger issues to deal with other
than food that have needed and deserved my attention over the years
Food loving is a bit of a cult to me-if you cut it out you are
out of the cult
Even when I have tried to make changes-I seem to be able
to eat way less and barely shed a pound so what’s the point anyways?
I have never really thought about health that much. I am sad to report I have taken it for granted in many ways. This year woke me up with three family members with big challenges
I don’t have time to think about food and eating it or
not eating it
Dieting bores me to deaths the fun part of my life
revolves around meals and restaurents and travel so how could I be on a diet
My husband could not care less if I am plus or minus 10
pounds. He cares very much more if I do
not accompany him in a cupcake.
Now reading the above I make our family sound like Rosanne
Barr's family or pigs!! Far from from it. Our three kids are three of the most
in shape and skinniest kids I know. My husband is over 6 feet tall and weighted
140lbs before I met him (and now at a comfortable 204 which for his height is
good but now has a beer belly he could do without… and I… Well I am just kind
of your average girl who has always been a good curvy and loves clothes but yet
in the last few years have had more and more lbs cropped up that have bothered me. And I have
liked less how I look.
And I am so not a binger on food naturally . I never ever
snack at night, prefer big lunches to big
dinners, don’t have a huge sweet tooth, don’t love cream sauces and am just
naturally not an obsessive eater at all. It should be so easy for me to lose weight as I have naturally fairly good
habits . Nor do I drink.
But I love love love my weekend, meals, the freedom of food,
looking forward to a meal with a friend, enjoying and indulging as a family and
generally food is just a healthy part of my life and has been for years. And a
pleasure,.
BUT..over the last years I have gained about 10 lbs (and
I was not ever skinny before so this
bothers me a lot-I was already at my
personal borderline weight) , I notice that compared to a lot of my friends I
make less healthy choices more often,and I am not 30 anymore and need to watch
out for my health.
But over 5 yrs. have found no health plan that does not
make me feel deprived and on a diet and boring and useless and pretty much like
staying in bed all day out of boredom or not so excited for the weekend to come around that
I can’t wait to dig into the treat food. Not a healthy cycle and even when in
it never lost more than a lb as then would juts gain it right back after a
normal meal.
Well fast forward to august 2014 when a friend of mine came back to work that was on maternity leave
and had lost 30lbs!!!!!! She looked amazing!!! And still does. For some reason
it hit me because she and I are very alike. Very similar bodies (before)...same
light colored eyes, same hair in a knotted bun or messy ponytail. Like clothes lots-purses.
Same kind of au natural feminine style.
People never really noticed she could stand to lose a few lbs because you look
and notice all the other stuff first. When she lost the weight-for the first
time in my life I was inspired to do the same.
I will never lose 30 lbs as I am not motivated enough to
go this far-but 15 would be great! And you know what? So far I have lost 7lbs! And
I bet by Xmas will be 10 lbs I have lost! I seem to be slowly but surely losing
about ½ lb to 1 lb per week!!!!!
py. And you know what….almost scary to write
but it is very pleasant and almost effortless by this point. I have never thought I would write these words. It
took about 8 weeks to really get in the habit but now after 10 weeks it is
pretty easy actually.
I
actually missed the routine and food when on
vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So here it was it looks like:
Breakfast within 30 minutes of getting up:
Shake with fruit. Special protein smoothie
Snack 10:30: 1 Melba toast and cheese
Lunch –stir-fry-rice and chicken and tons of veggies and beans
with peanut sauce or a chicken sandwich and a small salad (or something similar
at a rest0)
3:00pm- protein bar that is so sweet I can barely eat it
but tastes like a Mars bar in general
5pm-some yummy smoked almonds or a handful of trail mix
Small portion of dinner whatever we are having and try to
avoid the starchy carbs or second shake and a salad (which would be hard for me
at lunch to not have carbs but weeknights is easy for me as not very hungry)
7:30 pm- Small portion of dinner whatever we are having and try to avoid the starchy carbs or a second shake and a salad
Plus- one special vitamin iced tea in afternoons, lots of
water with meals and snacks. Plus a multivitamin daily.
Exceptions:
Weekends I have one shake a day and one protein snack
like cheese but usually besides that eat like everyone else and lots of carbs
and always 2-3 desserts or treats on weekend etc. My weekends are basically the
same although I tend to naturally eat less and also try to only have one
dessert a day on weekend and a bit smaller portions but hardly.
During week-usually 2 times go out to restaurants and don’t
stick to the meals at all and eat
whatever always when out
in general: so much less hungry and so many less
craving for sweets or fast food or bad stuff. The protein shakes full up so
much, the protein snacks leave much less room for anything else, the shakes are
full of everything your body needs in terms of vitamins for the day so have a
way of just making you make the right choices!
It has been slow as to do this right way would need to
eat almost double the protein a day that I am eating (which tends to disgust me
as don’t love it) but for now about a a pound every two weeks...which is fine
by me! And I feel great too which is even finer.
I don’t know if I will keep losing weight –but it kind of
feels like it. I don’t feel deprived at all. And although took me a couple of
months to actually enjoy the shakes now my body craves them on days when I
don’t have them or I travel.
Plus I have cut out 80 percent of diet coke and only have
it at restaurants, trips and maybe once a week with a meal at home. So almost (85 percent) caffeine free as I don’t drink coffee. I am water all the way. I need to find a
way to get more veggies in there but other than that I am good I think.
My X-mas my goal is 10 lbs !(so 3 more than now)
I am very very very proud of myself as you can probably
tell
Because I get to have my cake-and eat it too!!!!!
