September 28, 2009 Diet Blog

Happy Monday everyone! It was a good day today. For breakfast I had a banana, for 10am snack 6 rice cakes, for lunch a Smart Ones and a plumb, no 3pm snack, 4oz of steak with green beans and kernel corn for dinner and a lite n fit blueberry yogurt after I got home from body conditioning class. I stuck to my diet like glue. I guess my biggest battle plan problems seem to occur on weekends. I love going out with my friends so I'm not going to give that up. It will never work. It curbs empty nest syndrome for me; alleviates boredom and I like to smile, laugh and be with people. The idea here is to fit the diet into our lifestyle so that it will work right? Not the other way around. I just have to figure out a way around the being able to get the right food and the correct way to have only a little wine- issues. I'm still a work in progress as you can see.
You may remember my coworker with the grueling schedule that forced her into eating fast food for dinner every night? She is doing really well. The weekend was a total success for her and she seemed very happy about that. She ate well today too, even though leftover goodies from last weeks numerous parties at work were laid out for the taking. It made things easier for me too; to diet as a team, I have to admit. So we both did a great job.
Our other coworker had the baby. It was a little girl at 7lbs, 3oz. Mother and daughter are healthy and doing great. I spoke to her today. She sounds elated. I remember feeling that when my children were born. The memory is nice. It's very nostalgic.
I remember telling you before the weekend that I had the name of a book that I wanted to share with you. I do. I'm sorry that I didn't get to it sooner. "The no-diet weight loss solution: EAT THIS NOT THAT" book was written by David Zinczenenko, who is the editor in chief of Men's Health Magazine with Matt Goulding. It seems like it would really be geared toward men , but we women got a lot out of it too. It has all kinds of interesting information in it. Things like: What to eat when you want to feel younger; when you want the most from a workout; when you want to get in 'the mood;' when you want a baby; when you are stressed; when you are sad; when your feeling fat; when your low on energy; when you need a brain boost; when you want to increase metabolism; when you are hung over; when you're under the weather; and comparisons on many foods bought at the grocery store and fast food stores. We really enjoyed browsing through it. I even copied some of the pages so I could read them at home uninterrupted. If you have any books that you would like to share I'd love to check them out. Post them on comments please.
My workout went well. My husband is not feeling well and so I asked the teacher if I could take the earlier class. She allowed it. Also I'm happy to report that I got an 'A' on that pop quiz we had, which honestly shocked me. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill, and 10 minutes on the bicycle just to see if I could add more time. I used 220 calories according to the machines combined. I'm feeling satisfied with myself. I'm going to work on coming up with that battle plan for weekends. It seems to be that the times I have the most trouble are when I need to incorporate the 'rules' into the fun parts of my lifestyle. I'll figure it out. In the meantime I'm going to try to work through it all without getting totally frustrated and miserable with myself. It accomplishes nothing to do that. My head knows it...it's my heart that hasn't quite got the idea.
On that note I'll sign off saying, you look as good as you can for today. Tomorrow you will be that much better. Do not let your perception of your body stand in the way of you having fun. Stay positive! I'll see you tomorrow. ;-)