Thanks for stopping by gk! Yes, I imploded, sadly to say, but it's okay now.
It's been quite a week...weather in the mid-to-high 60's - certainly not January or February weather. That makes middle-schoolers crazy - they think school should be over and they should be out! I've had some real eye openers with regard to my eating.
After my overeating on Monday, I had a good rest-of-the-week. The Wellness Coordinator for our county's school board initiated a 10-month wellness incentive challenge that began on Wednesday, the first of the month. The gist of the challenge is that participants can earn points for keeping food logs, exercising, getting health screenings, and various other health related options. Anyway, individual calendars are turned in monthly, and, if at the end of the 10-month challenge you have over a certain number of points, you get a $75 Visa gift card. That's the top prize...smaller cards are given for fewer points.
My daughter and I decided to take part in the challenge. She has a trip to Hawaii coming up for her anniversary in July (we get to keep the kids while they're gone - can't wait!) and I just want to be accountable - especially over the summer, and continue to lose weight, and, not to forget - maintain my health.
The catch to keeping the daily food logs is that you also have to keep track of calories consumed each day. I didn't really like that part of it - being a calorie accountant once again, but I thought I could combine it with NoS just as many others have done on these boards. I have been using myfitnesspal.com which has turned out to be very informative for me in a number of ways. It's also very easy to use and makes keeping track very easy. I don't have a smart phone, but I use my iPad and laptop to access the site.
The real eye opener for me is that even though I haven't been eating sweets all week, I have been over in my sugars! Basically from fruits and yogurt. And it seemed to be on the days where I thought I had eaten reasonably healthy...go figure. I've also been over in my carb intake as well. So using this app will help me to adjust what I eat and how much of it. I haven't counted calories in so-o-o-o long that my portion eye has gotten out of whack! I eat more that I think I do...
After reading so many of oolala's posts where she mentions Judith Beck's book The Beck Diet Solution, I decided to get it and look into it since she has had so much success in changing her thinking. My thoughts are what mess me up in the end and cause my weight loss downfalls. It's a six-week program where you choose whatever eating plan you want (with a second back-up plan) and then work on a prescribed task each day. I'm up to day 4 and the book makes a great deal of sense and sounds very promising so far.
So that's my update for now!