by ~Skye~ » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:51 am
So, I've kind of lost track of what I've eaten the last few days. Actually, I know what I ate, I just don't know when, or at least not well enough to put it down in daily menus like I have been doing. I know I ate a lot of chana dal and white basmati rice. I made mashed potatoes last night, and I've been eating snow peas and odds and ends of vegetables I found in my freezer. Breakfast has been the same, and of course I've been eating the TopChips chips.
What I haven't eaten is anything with added oil, any flour products, or anything that is not MWL. I did have wine, and I haven't exercised either. But I've had a wonderful week. So, three out of five goals accomplished. And I lost two pounds.
If I'm being honest, the goals that were really important to me, I kept. I'm pretty good at doing what I want to do, even if it's difficult, like eating well. Where I have difficulty is if I know I should do something that I don't really want to do. Then I convince myself I don't really have to do it, and it just goes downhill from there. But the wine really does affect me negatively, so I can't have any more of that until my colon has healed a little bit.
As for the exercise, I actually seriously considered going swimming yesterday. But I didn't leave the house. I was trying not to spend any money, although going to the gym wouldn't cost anything extra. But I might have stopped by the grocery store on the way back and bought some vegetables, or peppers for dipping in hummus, or artichokes. Instead I just turned five pounds of yellow potatoes into mashed potatoes. And that sounds like a lot, but it's not really.
As for the chips, I made a mixture of Japanese sweet potato, purple potato, and purple yam. I have parsnips and carrots that I'm going to add to that, and some Yukon Gold potatoes to turn into chips too. I want to have a nice bowl of chips for my mother. Her 70th birthday is tomorrow, and she's coming over to celebrate here, so we can go food shopping on Wed. for Thanksgiving on Thur. It's a busy week. Let the holidays begin!
Eat well!
~Skye~