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Day 7. It's still Jan 29/13 here. I was down a little this morning, not as much as I would have liked. But maybe because I was drinking my smoothie until almost bed-time, made a difference. I'm having a terrible struggle in the evenings from after supper until I go to bed. I so want chocolate!!!!!
However, I was able to put on my own socks today, where sometimes I've had to get my husband to do it. I can't reach my feet, even sitting on a chair & trying to get my foot up & over my other leg. But today, was not perfect, but certainly a lot easier. I'm sure it's the stretching exercises that are helping. I also haven't had a flare-up of my Fibromyalgia since I started watching my sugar intake last week & exercising. I also know, that if I eat wrong at night, I wouldn't be able to talk myself into getting out of bed in the mornings & getting on that Treadmill. But knowing isn't enough, it's putting it into practice that's so hard. My husband is telling me that the longer I hold on & stay away from the desserts & the chocolate, that the easier it will become. I know that too, but I'm even finding that I'm dreaming about making cupcakes with lots of cream & fresh buns with butter & some nice sliced ham & lettuce. I will allow myself to have the bun etc on the weekend, but I dare not have a dessert that I love. Like Molten Lava Cake with Ice-cream, which is one of my all time favourite desserts. Okay, back to what I ate today.
My usual morning orange juice with my meds.
Instead of a smoothie, I made myself porridge, about 1/3c dry, 1/2 tsp raw bran, 1/2 tsp salt & 1 1/4 cups water. I'm thankful that I wasn't brought up to put anything sweet in porridge. Thank God for being Scottish.
Porridge was at noon, after my 45 mins on the treadmill, incline 3 & 2.7mph. Then my stretching for 20 mins or so.
I lay down with my husband for 1/2 hr, then I had to get showered & go to a hair appt & get my eyebrows sugared & tinted. Then I had some shopping to do & it was getting close to 5pm & I was hungry. I bought some Gala apples & ate one in the car while driving. I was quite proud of myself for doing that, as I don't really care much for apples. It was -21Celsius today. Can't complain though, as the winter so far has been quite mild.
I got home at 5.30pm & we ate supper at 6.30pm. I had 3 pcs of Battered Fish done in the oven, which according to the box, was 524 cals. I had 1/2c peas & a large tossed salad with some egg & lobster in it. Within about 20 mins I was craving chocolate. That's from the white flour in the batter of the fish. I didn't have any homemade mushroom soup today, because I figured it was what made me crave so bad yesterday.
So at 8pm, I had a 100 cal Crunch popsicle. That didn't do it for me, so I now have one of my homemade rice & fruit bowls with me at the computer. I've eaten about 1/2 of it & I think I can stop. It's almost 11.30pm & even if I don't go to bed for another hour or so, it's too late to be eating & expect to be down in the morning. Although, I really can't figure out why I'm not losing more. At 215lbs, I must need in excess of 2000 cals I would think to maintain that weight. I wasn't exercising at all before & every night, I would have some form of sweet. Usually four full size chocolate bars or more. And that's 1000cals right there. So I am quite disappointed that the weight isn't coming off more rapidly just now, but I have yo-yo'd so much in the past, they say it's harder to come off then. Tomorrow will be a week, so I hope the scale doesn't disappoint me in the morning!!
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