What worked for you today?

I'm finding my pms worse post kids, and from charting symptoms on my fitbit I know that it really fatigues me, with the appitite increase that goes along with it. After spending a week and a half eating like crazy last cycle, I promised myself that if I wanted to each at maintenance this week I would, but not more, and that I have to still exercise. The effort it takes me to get out of bed when I'm this shattered is astronomical, but I did yesterday and the day before and eating is not gone too far up yet, I think the exercise helps keep the urge to eat everything down somehow.

I'm not feeling the heavy compulsion to eat whether I want to or not. Dinner was tasty. I CAN have a snack-size frozen candy bar if I want it. I logged it. I haven't eaten it yet cause I don't want it yet.

When my addiction ruled me, I would have eaten the entire three packages of snack-size candy bars when I bought them, even when I felt sick from eating them. I know that the addiction doesn't go away, you only manage it. But right now I'm okay with having lots of little candy bars in the freezer. They aren't singing. They're just pleasantly there. And I'm here, and I'm good. And that's a big deal to me.

Adding a couple ounces of plain nonfat Greek yogurt to my oats really worked this morning! The 2 ounces of blueberries weren't bad either. It kept me filled up nicely till lunch.

Having the meal I was craving, early in the morning. Worked it into my calorie count. If I had resisted it too much, I know it would have blown up and I would have had more of it. I can also now plan to workout a bit more later in the afternoon. It was just pizza, but I added lots of good ingredients on there, so we should be good.

I moved my calories up recently. I realized that I'm not taking care of my body well enough to support the things that I want it to do because of my limited amount of movement and lack of stretching. Also, the calories I have as a 'sedentary' person aren't sustainable for me, even with adding lots of volume to my food.

So, after some reflection, I'm now aiming for 'lightly active' instead of 'sedentary' because it gives me a satisfying amount of calories (1800) and taking two 20-minute walks a day to hit around 5k steps, in addition to my 'actual' workouts (lifting and yoga), feels like a pretty reasonable compromise to make for a healthier lifestyle.

Logging my food ahead of time, and than thinking "nope i can't eat that because it is not on my list for today". Also, making myself go for a walk even though i did not want to...... by the time i was 5 minutes in, i felt better, and managed to walk half a mile more than i normally do!

Today, what worked for me was taking a measured amount of spelt flour and making leavened flatbread with it, with pieces scored so I had automatic 100 calorie sections. Then I had some with green soup and it was amazing. It worked well for portion control. Another thing that worked was listening to a really inspiring podcast about weight loss theory as it rekindled my interest and gave me a boost of motivation.

Today I completed day 3 of Walkfit, and logging, even when I know my meals and snacks aren't the healthiest but I am feeling like I am taking baby steps, and moving forward. I have a dog and work from home right now, so I have 4 very important walk breaks for Storm's potty breaks. We take a walk every morning, lunch, after work and before bed. These walks have been about a half mile and really at a leisurely pace. I knew since I was already doing this walks I could make at least one of them a workout. I also have physical limitations (I have had a back fusion about 5 years ago, and I have permanent damage to both of my sciatic nerves. I have also had 3 surgeries on my right shoulder for rotator cuff tears, and carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists). As a result doing full tilt workouts were not working for me. I can't do even my walkfit app every day but I am doing every other day right now.

Doing my workout when I didn't want to 😐