7:00 am Week 3 went ok. Last night I totaled up my "banked" points for the week and it was 21 so even though I went over 1 day by 2 pnts, I did ok for the week. I exercised twice, but have to let that be enough for now until my tummy is healed. It looks better already so I am hopeful it will only take a week and I can start exercising again in Week 5. It is irritating to me that my exercise efforts have already been de-railed, but now I will be more sensitive to taking care of my body to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Yesterday was a very strange food day for me. I had a small breakfast and 1 fruit cut at work. We had some appts to attend to so I left work early and picked up a coffee drink on the way home. That was all I ate (totalling about 11 pnts) until 4 when I realized I was STARVING and needed to eat right away. Since I hadn't eaten many points during the day, we went out to dinner. I was able to find point values for the food we ate at the restaurant so I didn't got overboard.
Week 4 goals:
- Stay within points
- Try to replace un-nutritional carbs with nutritional carbs
- Take it easy and let myself heal
The main goal this week is to challenge myself to try some new, more nutritional carbs. I went out yesterday to buy groceries and bought some very nice looking brown bread, brown rice, sweet potatoes (to make sweet potato fries instead of regular fries) and high fiber, high protein cereal. Hopefully 1 or 2 of these replacements will be permanent, but I am not going to force it. If we find that we can't stand the brown rice with our beans, we will go back to white. Though I recognize the importance of eating more nutrional food, we also need to eat food we enjoy to stay committed to this lifestyle change. That is one reason I didn't buy any whole wheat pasta. We really like the past we get now and I don't think we are willing to give it up.
Though I haven't made it a goal, we have continued to try new foods almost every week. This week we are trying a pad thai recipe from a weight watchers cook book. Pad thai is one of our favorite dishes to get out so when we looked at the recipe and saw it didn't include many veggies or tofu, we immediately decided to alter it. Mainly we are going to try the sauce they recommend with our own mix of stuff. We are also trying a new lunch - whole wheat pita with hummus and veggies and a side of lentil rice pilaf. I love hummus and we have found a low fat, low calories version pre-made in the health food store. The rice pilaf is another WW recipe, I haven't tried it yet either.
9:00 am
I tried my first healthy substitution this morning. I had Kashi's GoLean cereal instead of honey bunches. It was good, very much like big chunks of granola. It was better after I left it to soak in the milk for a while. It has 9 grams of protein and 8 of fiber (or vice versa). Since protein is something I am working on getting more of, it will definitely help. I won't have it every day, but it is something I could have on a regular basis.
# posted by amy @ 6:30 AM
