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Healthy Step: Curbing the Nighttime Snacking

April 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One Healthy Step At A Time

Yesterday’s healthy step was to stop eating by 8:30 pm.   I am proud to say that I made it!  It was close, though, because we didn’t start dinner until pretty late but I did make it.  I know, I know… it is only one night but that is just it.  It was only one night and now I feel like I have accomplished something and I am ready to try again!

Part of the reason for setting daily goals is to help me move away from the all or nothing approach that I typically take.  If I set a weekly goal and have a slip up on Monday… I don’t want to ruin the entire week because of one set back.  The daily goals allow me to gain more successes more quickly and don’t sabotage a week or month if I don’t hit them.

Anyway, it is Friday and I typically struggle a lot on the weekends because I have so much more free time.  I like to stay up later at night watching TV and, of course, I end up snacking so that I have the energy to stay up!  Not really what I should be doing as I typically end up overeating. So, my healthy step for today will be to stop eating by 9:00 pm tonight.  Yes, this is 30 minutes later than last night but we have a few errands to run and after cutting it REALLY close last night, I’d rather give myself a bit more room so that I don’t feel like I need to eat really quickly.

Who’s going to join me? Do you have a healthy step to take today?

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The Week Ahead

February 21, 2012 By 2 Comments

It seems very late for this post since it is already Tuesday; but, with Monday a holiday … here I am.  I actually ended up doing quite a bit of my planning and setting up last night but just hadn’t posted it here.  While getting dinner ready last night, I peeled and cut enough carrots to last the week (I hope), cut up cauliflower, and quickly pulled together my snacks for today.

Workouts

Continue following the New Leaf Training program (Monday through Friday).

 

Daily Snacks

String Cheese, 1 cup Fiber One cereal, Carrots and Peanut Butter, Almonds, Green Peppers (or Cauliflower), and a Gnu bar.

Dinners

Tuesday: Chicken Burger, Broccoli, and Grapefruit

Wednesday: Burrito, Cauliflower, and Grapefruit

Thursday: Fiber Gourmet Mac’n Cheese, Cauliflower, and Grapefruit

Friday: Turkey Burger, Noodles, Veggies, and a Grapefruit

 

Other Snacks

Almonds

English Muffins

Babybel Cheese

Carrots

 

This week in addition to posting my workouts and food / snacks for the week, I want to meet a personal goal.  I haven’t posted too much on the blog about my struggles with food but the truth is that I do struggle and I have for years.

Eating more during the day has definitely helped cut down on the binges and overeating but it hasn’t been eliminated completely. I still find that by Thursday or Friday I end up overeating and then lose control the next day because I feel so awful about my overeating the night before.  So, this week, I am really going to concentrate on making it the complete week without overeating (Sunday – Sunday). I hope that getting a full week under my belt will help me get another week and then another…

By overeating, I don’t mean an extra handful of almonds or a cookie or two… I am okay with that because I am making a lifestyle change here and I think that eating a few too many crackers is completely normal and healthy.  What I mean is that I don’t want to binge on gobs of food because I am unhappy, sad, tired, or avoiding something.  I think last week I let myself get too hungry which ended up with my eating too much on Thursday and then bingeing on Friday because I was upset that I had eaten too much on Thursday.  So this week, I am going to really try and listen to my body… and not let myself get overly hungry!

I already have three days under my belt for this week – I will make it!  One day at a time… one week at a time!

 

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December Goal

December 1, 2011 By 1 Comment

I simply cannot believe that it is December 1st.  The year seems to have flown by.  The other day, I was reflecting on the resolutions and goals that I set for 2011.  One of my goals was to lose a few pounds.  I am three pounds away from that goal and I am determined to hit it.

For the most part, I’ve been fairly leisurely with my weight loss goals this year and while in some ways that is good in others it has really prolonged the journey which isn’t all that great.  I think that, for me, the idea of hitting my goal was/is actually scaring me.  I can’t really remember a time when I haven’t been trying to lose a little bit of weight.  Once I get there – then what?

I am not going to let that stop me… and, once I hit that goal I can move past this and concentrate on other things.  It simply consumes too much of my life when I let it drag on for months and days and years.  I’ve learned a lot this year and I am determined to hit my goal by the end of December.  So, for the month of December I will be setting a #healthystep for each day to help make sure that I do hit this goal and finish the weight loss portion of my journey.

My healthy step for today was admitting that my fear has been holding me back from hitting my goal.  Has anything been holding you back from hitting your goals?

 

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