What Else Is New?

Losing weight has not been an easy task for me.

We did buy a hitch for the back of my car and a bike rack (which should be here Thursday) so I can take my bike down to Assateaque Park or the boardwalk in Ocean City and some of the other parks in the area.  I like riding my bike and I like being out with nature, so maybe this will get me exercising and losing some weight.

I eat healthy but still have small binges.

I'm working on it!

On The Path

I'm getting in the groove of eating healthy.  It's easier every day.  I'm aware of everything that goes in my mouth.Today was a great day and for dinner I enjoyed a Chick-fil-A Chicken Strip Salad with Low Cal Italian Dressing.....out of this world! 

For desserts I only eat Weight Watchers 1 point bars or a McD cone (3 points).

All is good :)

Eating Healthy

Started off the day with a bowl of cheerios and 1% milk.  Lunch, I had 2 Taco Bell Chicken Fresno Soft Tacos for a total calories today of 540.  I'm aiming to stay under 1500 calories a day.  We'll see how it goes.
It's a beautiful day outside today, so I hope to get out and walk around the neighborhood or even better, take my bike for a ride.

Quote For the Day

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets. ~Author Unknown

Food For Thought

It's funny how food isn't as important to us when we aren't feeling well.  I've been fighting my asthma for the last two days and for some reason I haven't been thinking of food.  I haven't had any cravings....I didn't roam around the kitchen looking for food....it was the last thing on my mind.

Is this a physical or mental reaction?

One only knows.

Quote of the Day

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author Unknown

My Knees Are Killing Me

One big reason (or should I say two) that I really need to get this weight off are my knees.  With all of this weight I'm carrying around my knees have been getting worse and worse.  When I lost 40 lbs. a couple of years ago I could feel the difference, but since I put that weight back on again, I've been in pain everyday.

One of my problems with my eating is that I love sweets.  I would rather skip the meal and go directly to the dessert.  I've decided, with my daughters suggestion, to not eat any sweets except either a McD cone (Weight Watchers 3 points) or a Weight Watcher's 1 point chocolate pop.  I can live with that.  So that's what I've been doing.  I've also been eating more fruit as a dessert.

I need to give these knees a break!

Why Wait?

Why do we always say "I'll do that when I'm thinner"......"When I have more money I will do that"......"I can't do that because I'm too fat"......?  Stop it now!  Act now as though you are already thin, richer, healthier.  Stop worrying about "when", because "when is now".

I read these words above from the book "Women, Diets and God" and it really touched me and made me think how right this is.  I've been waiting and waiting to do things because I think I'm too fat....but no more.  I'm going to act today as if I were at my goal weight and go out and do all the things I want to do.  So what if I'm still "chubby" (hee! hee!)....I'm not dead....I have alot of life in me....I can do it if I want to.   And I do want to.

So today I did that.  It felt good.  No more waiting.

Becoming Aware

I've been trying not to think of 'being on a diet' or the foods that I can't eat, but rather just trying to eat healthy.  One of my biggest temptations is sweets, which for some reason, I think I need to have after every meal.  Tonight I had a craving for either a Rita's gelati or a Blizzard from Dairy Queen, but instead I chose to have a large bowl of berries.  They were quite satisfying but the thought in my head of still having something that was really sweet never went away, so I popped a Werther's Original Hard Candy in my mouth....and that did the trick. 

So all is well :)