The last day of August is here, hard to believe. I am very much looking forward to cooler, fall weather.
This morning I had a late breakfast for me, fixing myself steel cut oats at church along with a hard boiled egg. Had with it some milk and a little sugar in the cereal.
Snack later in the morning was some trail mix as that is all I had here. I was a little hungry, but not too bad. Will be heading out a bit for lunch from Subway. Where my church is there are not many restaurant selections which is a good thing. The only fast food is Subway. There are two other restaurants, but they are sit down. If I can remember, I'm going to get a menu from each so I can see what they have for lunch offerings.
So, here is my lunch for today. Might not be the best choice, but I always figure Subway is better the McDonald's. Once Chris and I are in our new house, I plan to pack my lunch on Wednesdays when I come to the church to work.
I finished the day out with leftovers from yesterdays dinner. I did grab a Subway cookie when I bought my above sandwich and ate it later in the afternoon.
By evening dinner, I was a 9 on the hunger scale. Went for a walk about an hour after dinner. All in all...wasn't a bad day and I only ate mindlessly about two times.
I'm reading a book called The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. It's a very interesting, eye-opening book. The first section of the book is kind of boring with lots of studies, medical jargon. But, the second section is very interesting with the author studying how chain restaurant and manufacturers design their foods to make us want and eat more. Will be back later with more....
I said I would put a photo up and I do have a current one. I normally avoid cameras, but I have a pic take about 2 weeks ago. We are having a home built for us and Chris took a pick of me in it as it was going up. So, here is me at 230 pounds.
I took my mom to buy groceries this morning. Always, afterward she has to go thru McDonald's drive up to buy a Frappucino. I have gotten into a bad habit of getting one right along with her or sometimes a small shake. Today I opted for an iced coffee. While it still has calories from the sweetener, it is half the calories. She also wanted McD's for breakfast. I'm really not a fan of their food really. When I get breakfast there it's usually their oatmeal with no sugar and a poached egg and this is what I ate this morning.
For lunch, had a turkey sandwich on a nutty bread that I like with some mayo. I bought some broccoli salad at the deli so had a little bit of that. I was really hungry at lunchtime. I did not snack all morning after breakfast. Was not hungry so instead of mindlessly eating, I tried to follow my hunger ques and did not have any. But about 11:30 am I was pretty hungry.
I did do some mindless eating later. I grabbed a cookie without thinking and later had a Hostess cupcake with milk. I also grabbed about 6 chocolate covered peanuts. Whenever I do mindless eating it's usually something sweet and processed.
The remainder of the day was OK. It's always a tad stressful right now since I'm living with mom while my house is being built. For evening meal I had put a hamburger stew with potatoes, carrots, peas, onions, tomato soup. It was pretty good and I had a normal sized bowl with a small roll. I will probably have something for a snack later.
So, here I am....going to attempt to use this blog as a journal for what I eat and how my day is going. I've gained an unhealthy amount of weight and need to do something to get thing under control. I have dieted so much over the years, I just can't do it again. I keep searching for the miracle diet book/program that will magically help me to lose weight. There isn't one out there and I refuse to buy anymore diet books.
I'll throw it out there...I currently weigh 230 pounds. I have never, ever weighed this much. There are some factors in my life going on right now that have led to this, but mostly it's just me making poor food choices. Tomorrow I will post a current pic. I'm not going to do measurements, etc. That is a pain. It's just going to be the scale as my way of measuring and I'm going to work hard on only stepping on it once a week.
