Everyday Systems

I woke up hungry. I have stopped drinking coffee in the AM (3 days now) My reasoning is that as much as I love the taste, my stomach rebels against it, I used to be able to have 5 or 6 cups a day with no deleterious effects and now... 1 cup gives me GI issues (indelicate talk I know). So I have been...

Good day all around. I wasn't thinking about food very much but I feel like I managed to eat healthy but filling stuff. It was sort of a relief to be back on N days. I had the one egg on ezekiel toast with a berry banana smoothie as planned. The chicken salad I made for lunch was with apples, red gr...

Saturday and Sunday were successful as that is the only way they can be. I wrote up a complete meal plan and grocery list for the week. I see Friday as being perhaps problematic, Long day ending with setting up for camping with 5 other families in another state. Someone else is in charge of dinner t...

Thursday and Friday were crazy-busy. Thursday was red, I had a small piece of chocolate in the afternoon at Target. Stress-eating.... Friday however was a green day, I had to shop, set up for, and feed about 150 people for an end of the year school cook out. My DH wanted to go out to dinner which me...

I have good eaters. By that, I mean, they are adventurous, they will try anything I put in front of them. They eat when they are hungry, they stop when they are full. I have worked hard to not allow meal times to be a place to wage rebellion or look for attention through contrary behavior. I want fo...

I know that I truly believed I would pass out and die from hunger if I didn't eat every 4 hours. I thought that I had low blood sugar and wouldn't be able to handle it. I was wrong. By the third day I had adjusted to larger portions at meal times and my body had adjusted to having hunger pangs occas...

I became a milk drinker while doing the weight watcher's plan. They suggest 2 servings of dairy a day and one was usually milk. Now, I tend to do a chai or coffee latte each afternoon and use about a cup of 1% milk. Milk is liquid food, carbs protein and fat, I just try to keep that in mind when I u...

It should be a good day. I have a list of things to do but the whole day to get them done. My food plan is toast with peanut butter and a sliced apple and some yogurt coffee with milk and splenda Lean cuisine grilled chicken and vegetables over pasta salad cornbread and beef skillet pie (made with Q...

So, things went off the rails a bit today. Let me write about it so that I may learn from it. Breakfast was fine - 1 egg, RF cheese, Canadian Bacon on a mutlti-grain English muffin with a banana and a glass of V8 then I had some coffee. Around 1:30 I had lunch, the first thing I did was eat a piece ...

I want to echo the body slowing down as you get closer to goal weight thing... it may take a few months to lose the last 5 pounds, at least that is what I have always heard. Also, plateaus respond to more calories, less exercise or a new type of exercise, you could try that for a week and see if sha...

The BMI is a guide most people will find a happy place in the range but it is by no means a RULE that the the range includes everyone. I am 5' 9", before babies I weighed 145 and I always felt healthy. I'm curvy and tall, I have small bones (but big feet). Now post babies I'm over 200. And the truth...

I have been thinking on and meditating on my own MIL's mental and physical illnesses and why it all makes me so angry that I can barely be civil to her. It is something I am ashamed of and very out of character as I generally consider myself a care-giver and a sympathetic person. She has Lupus, fibr...

No real issues on Monday - Never felt hungry, never felt obsessively snacky. Though, I was very stressed out all afternoon, had a late meeting (5-6) and had a bit of a headache. Still food was just not an option. I had a moment after dinner where I contemplated a glass of wine, which is OK, but deci...

Lunch is my wild card as well. As a partner, I am often (3 or 4 days a week) expected to participate in business lunches. I would say the lion's share of my calories are eaten at lunch, salad dressings etc, they add up quickly in restaurants. I keep a back up of "better" frozen meals, kashi, Amy's a...

Poor starving children in Africa made sure that I always cleaned my plate and we had frequent leftovers nights.

Now, as the chef in charge, if we don't like it, we don't eat it. Life is too short for bad food.

That is so inspiring, slow and steady, no craziness necessary.

I also love that you admit to some mistakes but are still reaping the rewards of continuing to try and not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Congratulations, you are my Shero!

Thanks for the welcome Blueskighs!

I had a pretty good weekend, enjoyed my sweets and snacks for sure.

Today
super pancake with mixed berries

veggie burger/ potato salad/ broccoli

pork chops/ barley risotto/ asparagus

2 cups coffee
1 fruit juice soda

Hi all!

I have been No-S-ing for almost a week. I had 2 failures and 5 successes. Next week will be a good one. I am still getting used to eating enough.