I don’t even know if I am on No-S, but this is what I have been doing for a few weeks and what I usually do but got out of the habit around December (wedding, honeymoon, Christmas)… I am pretty health-conscious, but in no way am I a health-freak.
Exercise: I am in the habit of exercising and feel kind of sluggish if I don’t exercise. So I do about 30-45 minutes 5 days a week, right after work, with free weight exercises every other day. In the winter it’s ALWAYS stationary biking and in the nicer months, I like to mix the bike with walking, and walk/jogging outside.
My “dietâ€: I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with a snack. I live in an extended household where my father-in-law sometimes doesn’t get home until about 6:30. UGH. So I sometimes don’t eat until 8 o’clock!!! If I eat lunch at 12 and don’t eat again until the hours of 6:30-8 o’clock, that is just crazy. I feel starving, miserable, and angry. And I get biter that I have to wait that long. So I eat a snack. This is usually a healthy snack of 90 calorie yogurt, or a 90 calorie stick of string cheese. Sometimes I will pour myself just a little bit of cereal (w/o milk) to hold me over.
Calories: I do KIND OF calorie count. I have a pretty good idea of how many calories a day I eat, which is around 1700 right now. Because of this, I have been steadily losing about a pound a week. However, I don’t count every single morsel because I think that takes all the fun out of eating.
Here is a typical day for me:
BREAKFAST 8 pm - Bowl of cereal w/skim milk and maybe a banana
LUNCH: 12 pm – Sandwich with meat, NO CHEESE (too fattening), tomato, lettuce, and fat-free mayo. Sometimes it's a Lean Cuisine. Sometimes it's a bowl of soup. Whatever it is, it's just one helping/plate.
SNACK 3 pm – Yogurt or cheese… sometimes both!
DINNER whoknows what time – A plate full of what has been made for dinner.
DRINKS: I drink mostly water and sometimes I have Diet Coke or homemade iced tea with dinner as a treat. I have a morning coffee once in a while.
Weekends: I pretty much stick to this schedule with a (read: ONE) dessert after dinner. This dessert typically is something like frozen yogurt of low fat ice cream with whipped cream and colorful jimmies. And it’s only one helping. I find it discouraging to go crazy on the weekend and have my weight spike up on Monday mornings, so I don’t tend to change my eating habits on Saturday and Sunday. I find it counter-productive.
Soooo there you have it. I don’t know if it sounds excessive, but that is what I do.
