What SMALL thing did you do today to help with your journey?
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Today is my cheat day. I allow myself 1 day every two weeks where I can eat what I deem "totally inappropriate, marginally nutritional" food. I allow myself to go over my allotted calories by 200 calories. So for lunch today, I had a Whataburger hamburger, fries, and a Dr. Pepper. After 2 sips of the soda, I decided it was too sweet and switched to water (saving me a ton of calories). As a lifetime member of the "clean plate club", I am trying to reprogram myself to stop eating when I'm full and not when the food is gone. So, as I am eating, I notice that I am getting full. I stopped eating before I ate all of my fries (I ate about 1/2 the box). This is HUGE for me. I never leave fries. So not only did my body not like the soda, but I listened when it said that's enough food and I am satisfied. This is a cheat day first and I am so proud of myself! Hope everyone else can remember to celebrate the small steps that lead to a new life.2
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sewicanquilt wrote: »Today is my cheat day. I allow myself 1 day every two weeks where I can eat what I deem "totally inappropriate, marginally nutritional" food. I allow myself to go over my allotted calories by 200 calories. So for lunch today, I had a Whataburger hamburger, fries, and a Dr. Pepper. After 2 sips of the soda, I decided it was too sweet and switched to water (saving me a ton of calories). As a lifetime member of the "clean plate club", I am trying to reprogram myself to stop eating when I'm full and not when the food is gone. So, as I am eating, I notice that I am getting full. I stopped eating before I ate all of my fries (I ate about 1/2 the box). This is HUGE for me. I never leave fries. So not only did my body not like the soda, but I listened when it said that's enough food and I am satisfied. This is a cheat day first and I am so proud of myself! Hope everyone else can remember to celebrate the small steps that lead to a new life.
Nice accomplishment. I can relate to the "clean plate club" guilt.0 -
I am definitely a texture person. I crave foods that crunch when I eat them.
Instead of grabbing a little bag of chips that they keep stocked in my office, I just ate a bag of sugar snap peas!0 -
A friend took me out to lunch. There was nothing healthy on the menu, but I noticed they serve lunch until 2:00 so I ordered 2 poached eggs and went home to a nice green salad.0
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Found the kettle bells and dusted them off. Only did about 10 minutes but it is 10 minutes more than I did the past 3 months.0
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Yesterday my office celebrated a few birthdays and had cake and cookies brought in. Multiple people asked me if I wanted a slice, and I said no each time
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Yesterday I hopped on my stationary bike while the kiddo showered, only 10 mins but a start. Today I packed a protien shake instead of a bunch of snacks! Hoping to do a little lifting in my office today too!0
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Oh I also skipped the bread on my breakfast sandwich to help save calories!0
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My honey has had red velvet cream cheese cup cakes in the fridge for three days now and I have yet to touch one! Go me !0
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silverstar65 wrote: »My honey has had red velvet cream cheese cup cakes in the fridge for three days now and I have yet to touch one! Go me !
That one would be really difficult for me. Nice going0 -
Started off this morning with a nice cold glass of water and instantly felt more alert and ready for the day!0
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Too cold to walk yesterday morning so I went out after work and at least walked 25 minutes in before it started getting REALLY dark out. This morning, got my kettle bells out . I also brought my lunch and snack for work to avoid break room snacks.0
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Got hot tea with Splenda instead of a latte. Also packed workout clothes on a weekend trip.0
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Downsizing the drinks!!
I used to get a large, full fat hot chocolate at 451 calories and I've slowly worked that down to a small, soya hot chocolate at 160 calories. Cappuccino has gone from a medium full fat (218) to a small soya (60.) Today the big thing was having one less coffee. I really needed the caffeine though so had a diet coke but that is 0 calorie.
I've never really paid attention to my caffeine intake (no idea what the recommendation even is) but almost everything I drink is coke, red bull or coffee so that's tomorrows challenge; one more caffeine-free drink!0 -
For me, my first small step was cutting out all soda. But I know this might be super hard for some people. Surprisingly what was tougher was cutting out unsweet ice tea so that I could stay more hydrated </3 lol so now it's just water all the time other than tea0
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Got the apple instead of bread as my side at Panera. 0
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I am avoiding the donuts in the break room! I love donuts! Go me! I can do this!0
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I am avoiding the donuts in the break room! I love donuts! Go me! I can do this!
nice going. Unfortunately I have to walk past the little chip bags as I go to the water cooler. We CAN do this!!! Why put those on the counter in the break room? Maybe I can find a space in the cabinets and just tell everyone where they are.0 -
I am avoiding the donuts in the break room! I love donuts! Go me! I can do this!
nice going. Unfortunately I have to walk past the little chip bags as I go to the water cooler. We CAN do this!!! Why put those on the counter in the break room? Maybe I can find a space in the cabinets and just tell everyone where they are.
A few months ago someone took the initiative to throw all our junk food snacks into a cabinet, and at that point I thought nothing of it. Everyone knows we have those snacks, how would putting them out of sight really help? But now that I'm really watching what I'm eating and purposely avoiding those snacks, I'm super appreciative that they're (mostly) stored out of sight, out of mind. Someone left a bag of Chips Ahoy (which I don't even like) on the counter, and having a stressful day, my initial reaction is to grab and eat them. The struggle is real!!!0 -
I only ate half of the Mr. Goodbar my boss brought to me, logged it and all.0
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I chose salad over fries with my panini at lunch0
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Took the stairs!!!0
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I logged all my food. I felt guilty because I went way over my calories goal0
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Oh man... this one is tough. I have caught myself nearly skipping out because I didn't want to go over. However, I remind myself that it happened, and lying to MFP doesn't change the actual intake.123stefania wrote: »I logged all my food. I felt guilty because I went way over my calories goal
Once you get those numbers plugged in though, it's oddly satisfying. Even if it's also a bummer
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Today I was being lazy with my workout and was just going through the motions. My friend showed up and I decided to kick my butt into gear and restart it and do it right! Old me would have stayed in bed this morning.0
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Went grocery shopping and bought tons of fruits and veggies. Also instead of my usual separate snacks for me, and snacks for the kids, I bought stuff that is healthy for all of us (yogurt, nuts, fruit).0
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Too lazy to pack what i had planned for today but I managed to scrape up a healthy lunch with similar macros with no cooking. Keeping lots of healthy choices available works.0
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I paid real close attention to calories and am visualizing my skinny self . 1
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Did a 30 minute zumba routine instead of binge-eating, something I felt coming on due to an emotional day.1
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