OK, let's get down to the nitty gritty, the real reason I, in particular, am not losing weight...It's the food. Seriously it's just so stinkin' good! Now I know that it's just not an option to stop eating completely, but what are some things that I can change about my eating habits that will make a small difference?
One of my big habits is my morning eating. I wake up STARVING, it doesn't matter if it's 4am or 8am I think I'm going to die if I don't eat something right away. This is when the snacking and grazing starts for me. I find myself searching for a cookie, or candy, or a bit of leftover dessert to be my "pre-breakfast" snack...WHAT!? Who needs a pre-breakfast snack? So this week I'm going to break the cycle of the pre-breakfast snack and just deal until actual breakfast! This is bound to save me a couple hundred calories at least!
Another one of my big calorie culprits is S-O-D-A! I do not drink diet...WHAT? I average several sodas a day adding up to several hundred calories. I am going to cut down to 1 soda a day, and next week try to switch to diet...notice I said "try".
One last thing that I notice about my eating is my late night snacking. After the kids go to bed I hunt the kitchen for something wonderful to eat while I watch TV/surf the net/read a book. That means I am consuming lots of calories after 8pm. Not good. So I am going to give myself a rule of no food after 7pm.
So no food before 7am and no food after 7pm, and limiting my soda intake. That should make a bit of a difference.
What kinds of things in your day could you change, that would make a difference? I'm up to finding more ways to change my eating too!
Those are all really good things to do Syndy. I am using a website/app called myfitnesspal.com I enter in everything that goes into my mouth and it figures out the calories for all of my recipes etc. Friend me if anyone signs up then we can support each other there too.
ReplyDeleteI love that you are trying to change your ways Syndy - it's one of the obvious reasons that we're all doing this Biggest Loser thing in the first place. We're all wanting to make a change of some sort.
ReplyDeleteI commend you for considering diet soda. But remember, if you can't make the change due to taste or whatever, you can always stop drinking it. I stopped drinking all carbonation about two years ago and it's the best thing I did. It was hard, I'll warn you. The cravings at first were horrendous! But, I made it and you can too! Good luck!
Those are great goals!!! I'm trying to not eat sugar (for the umpteenth time) and I should also try the no eating after 7:00pm. But I do like eating something alone!
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