by moonlight » Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:09 pm
Day 82 (194 lbs)
Astirle and Buns, thank you for stopping by and for the encouraging words!! This website is such a godsend! It's amazing it exists! I was just reading in the MWL book the excuses and rationalizations people have for avoiding a good diet. It inspired me to write! I've been absent the last couple of days... I think that happens when I can't brag about myself and my willpower!
So, for confession time... Wednesday I ate out for lunch and dinner. For lunch at a Mexican restaurant I managed to avoid cheese, avocado, sour cream but I ate a few chips... I was at Moe's. The restaurant serves food in a similar way as Subway. Rice and beans are not cooked in meat. I order a rice bowl with beans and veggies. Chips are included with the order. If I could ever tell them when I'm ordering that I don't want the chips... Then for dinner my husband wanted to eat at Ruby Tuesday's. He was craving ribs. I had planned to get salad and a baked potato... after reading the menu I decided on pasta primavera with lemon basil sauce and salad with 1000 Island dressing. Terrible choices! And it gets worse! He ordered cheesecake to go for his dessert. When we were home I saw his cheesecake sitting on the kitchen counter... I had to force myself to stop eating it after 2 bites! I usually can just pass cheesecake up without a thought. Sweets are really not that tempting to me. On a positive note, I realized I had screwed up and it wasn't an all or nothing deal breaker (gotta find something positive to say). I knew I would renew my commitment.
Yesterday I had a good MWL diet day until I bought some candy to put in a gift bag.... I ate 3-4 pieces... then read on the bag how fattening they were. 12 grams of fat in 4 pieces!! OMG! I felt guilty for even gifting them to another person. I had a good evening, staying on my diet plan.
The last couple of nights I've been waking up and eating during the night... I think this is related to going off the diet plan.
So, back to the MWL book and list of excuses, I can rationalize in the moment that it's okay to go off plan sometimes, that in restaurants I don't have any self-control, that it's too hard to stay on the diet all the time. One in the book is "You can't find healthy, nonfattening foods in restaurants". I think that when I'm looking at the menu. If I could ever just once stay on plan in a restaurant I think it would be easier the next time. I like to say "I'm a creature of habit" as an excuse for going off plan. Why can't I be a creature of "good habits"?
In the book "50 Ways to Soothe Yourself without Food" Susan Albers suggests a way of observing your thoughts and emotions. You turn your attention toward, not away from, your thoughts to eat. You closly examine how you think and why you think about food rather than trying to push those thoughts away. She suggests imagining yourself as a bystander at a parade. Imagine each thought you have on its own parade float. The words written out on the float. Watch the float approach you, pass by, and disappear in the distance. Allow your thoughts to be whatever they are, instead of telling yourself to "Stop thinking about that cheese!" or whatever the thought is. I really like this suggestion. I'm going to concentrate on using it the next time I find myself staring at a menu... then I'm going to order only healthy food that I want to eat!
30 minutes on the water rower this morning!
Another 30 minutes rowing!
B: Corn grits with onions, mushrooms, and red peppers
L: Sweet Potato Chowder, corn grits, and Oriental Green Salad
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moonlight on Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
