Not my feet, not my scale, not my weight
Despite my nut eating adventure earlier in the week, I still managed to lose 2.2 lbs, for a total loss of 112.6. I actually lost more, but wore a sweatshirt to my weigh in, hoping to keep the loss at 2 lbs so the e-tools on Weight Watcher’s wouldn’t scold me.
So why the sudden success? My idea of allowing more weight loss to be provisional is helping the most. I’ve made so many changes, and have been reluctant to make more that may be too difficult to sustain. I’m trying out new things, but if they’re too hard to sustain I’ll be ok with stopping them and returning to where I’m at now.
Which is a damn fine place.
The new changes I’ve made that apparently are making a difference are:
- Adding a daily walk to the mix. As a manager, I always have a lot to do and not enough time to do it in. But let’s face facts; working through my lunch won’t add up to that much extra work done. I’m not getting any mystical wonder worker brownie points (not a good metaphor… tofu points? carrot points?) for denying myself a 30 minute walk in the middle of the day. So long as I don’t walk to Berkeley Bowl and buy nuts, it will improve my health and my mood. As I wrote in a previous post, recess isn’t only for kids.
- Asking for help. DH has substituted all of the old snacks in the house with portion-controlled 100 calorie snacks, a definite improvement. But instead of having just one for dessert, I’d been having one of each. I don’t like making choices for dessert; give me all of them! I asked him to put them away so I don’t have to see them, and have made a promise (to myself!) to not look for them. I also wrote about how asking for help isn’t easy, but people genuinely want to help if you give them a chance.
- Substituting new foods. I’ve started eating apples with low-cal caramel dipping sauce. I’ve NEVER eaten apples before, but find they are ok if dripping with caramel (really, isn’t everything?). It makes for a very satisfying snack. I’ve also started making the Hungry Girl pumpkin pudding. She makes it from the premade jello pudding, but I make it from “scratch”: one can pumpkin, one carton jello instant vanilla pudding, 2 cups milk, one teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, one carton lite cool whip. Mix together the pumpkin, pudding, milk, and spice, and chill. Add cool whip and eat. It’s dessert AND a vegetable.
Speaking of pumpkin, it’s off to the kitchen! I’ve got a nice big kabocha that I’m going to turn into Morroccan lentil stew and other yummy things. I think I’m going to turn orange again with all the orange veggies I’ll be eating!
