What worked for you today?

Since I'm never hungry in the morning, I've always struggled to find something I was willing to eat at that time of day. Usually, that's meant an Atkins bar and a glass of diet rite. Not great, but it's what I could face eating. However, those bars have been getting really expensive lately. So what worked for me today was a piece of peanut butter toast and a glass of diet cranberry juice. Much cheaper and I get my peanut butter fix.

Smoothie made with
Grapes 🍇
bee pollen 🐝
soda water
plain Greek yogurt
✅💞💞💞💞

Had my first weight lifting class. Goes through the end of the month, twice a week. All women. It was fun!

So I'm not able to reliably do meal planning, but the one thing I've made it a point to do is small, tiny, baby steps. Small steps that are super easy for my brain to adapt to without any resistance.

At first it was reducing soda to a couple of glasses a week.
Then I reduced sugar in my coffee to 2 teaspoons, if any (a friend got me into BETTER coffee and honestly I can't imagine having sugar with a lot of different coffees)

As of now I've fully cut out soda from my consumption - with the one exception of treating myself to Taco Bell, which I've made it a point to only have once in a while, if nothing else (gotta love the Baja Blast!).

But again. Baby steps. I've also been having meal replacement shakes (protein and normal), and having smaller portions overall. Fidgeting and moving at my desk job so I am not just sitting there for 8 hours.

Logging before I ate. Planning what I'm going to eat today. Sticking to the plan.
I have a bunch of "leftover snack calories" because I will probably get hungry enough to have them. And with all of my meals fully logged I know I can have some snacks. I like variety and being able to pick what I feel like having so I don't pre log my snacks and when I feel like it and I'm hungry I can see what snack I want to have & easily fit it in with the meals & other calories consumed during the day.

I ate far too much sugar today as its my time of the month and I couldn't resist it.
So I've logged it and moved on.
I will fast for the rest of the day and I haven't gone over my maintenance calories.

@yayamom3 ....No offense taken. It's a reasonable question, so I'll tell you probably more than you care to know!

I don't have a medical condition, but I've noticed I do feel better when I eat something in the morning. Kicking my blood sugar helps me wake up.

I also use it to help me keep my sleep schedule. This may be woo, but years ago I read that setting your mealtimes can help your body go to sleep regularly because we're genetically programmed to be awake when there's food and to sleep when there's not. So by literally "breaking your fast" first thing when you wake up, your body learns to wake up at that time. Like I say, this may be nothing but woo, but I've found it works well for me. So I do it.

My final reason to make myself eat in the morning is because I have trouble getting enough calories. So if I don't eat breakfast, I get to the end of the day with too big a deficit. Not a good thing now that I'm trying to maintain and not lose. Mind you, I had NO trouble eating too much in the past. That's why I came to MFP to lose weight. But, after changing all my habits and finding new favorite foods, I now tend to feel satisfied even when my calories are too low. Probably that will change as I spend more time in maintainence.

wanderinglight wrote: »

A motivational sign I saw posted online that said:
If you quit now, you'll end up right back where you first began.
And when you first began, you were desperate to be where you are RIGHT now.
KEEP GOING!

It really resonated with me because even though I'm making slow progress, it's progress that I felt was impossible this time last year. I'm doing it. I just need to keep on doing it.

Love it and I get what you are saying 100% @wanderinglight !!

What worked for me yesterday was half accident, and half deliberate. I didn't MEAN to skip lunch (just One Of THOSE days at work). We decided to have home-assembled pizza for supper (so i looked up the crust-kit stats for the crust and sauce - made a note of total-package beforehand for cheese; mushrooms; pepperoni - told hubby to assemble as usual, but just make a note of what each package weighed after ; NOT TO TRY FOR ANY SPECIFIC, AMMOUNT of anything ... JUST ASSEMBLE. (i was prepared for it to be whatever it turned out to be - first time assembling since restarting logging Nov 1)

Then I went and peddled my stationary Bike for 35 minutes (the Deliberate part) so that at least I would be minimizing the potential uptick ...

Between the food calories NOT eaten and lunch and the biking calories PURPOSEFULLY burned ahead of time, I ended up with enough wiggle room to not only have a relatively high (for me) calorie supper, but also a planned snack later so that my day didn't feel like I hadn't had enough.