Journaling About Food

Good morning, good morning! I woke up at 6:15 am. It’s already 45 degrees out and going to get up to 50 once again. It’s almost 7:15 am. I can’t believe how long it takes me to read and comment. I suppose it takes longer when I comment right when I wake up. Haha…

Okay onto yesterday! Breakfast was the same as usual, cereal and almond milk. No juice and I’m seriously starting to crave certain foods. I made bruschetta to roll into a spinach wrap for lunch, but I kept eating up until that point. I think I had 3 caramels and toast. I felt so hungry all day. I think my mini workouts in the AM hours have increased my metabolism. I’m just ravenous. Well, we don’t have much in the house either so I’m not getting the nutrients my body needs. Dinner was pancakes, spam, and eggs. Dessert was apple juice.

I just realized that we won’t be able to go grocery shopping until the Friday after Thanksgiving. I need to do some more meal planning. We have canned goods and beef in the deep freezer. I could go casserole crazy, but we need cheese. I might be able to pick some up this weekend, if boss2 pays me. We haven’t been to this point financially in a very long time. King Edward has needed things for hunting, so we’re sacrificing food. LOL.

We ran to the grocery store late last night to pick up some food for his trip, and I threw a bag of Jalapeno cheese puffcorn, 3 cans of frozen juiec (my dessert apple juice) and a bag of cabbage. I plan on making Runzas again on Sunday to throw in the freezer, for times like now. Hahaha…

Okay, I should get going on with my day. I like my routine of biking on the stationary bike in the AM. It seems to be low psychological pressure. :D I will continue. Fifteen minutes a day is better than nothing. ReadyMe signing off.

November New Phase

I guess we’re going to have another day at 50 degrees. It was nice enough yesterday, I guess another 50 degree day would be fine with me.

Maybe I should just get into yesterday. My thought-life. I’ve been thinking a lot about food and exercise the past couple days. I journal to prevent gaining weight and to stay conscious of my history. And it’s working, but is there more for me? I mean, is there more reason to journal? I went through my pages and decided to change some stuff, maybe revisit my goals. I initially wanted to lose 19 pounds. I did that, but gained a few back. I’m “okay” with that, but as I was reading through my goals, I remembered I had other goals that I wanted to achieve, for example, building strength. That goal sort of went by the wayside. I feel weak. I have felt weak for quite some time. When I feel weak, I don’t feel like weight training. I guess it all comes down to “how bad do I want it”. If I want it badly enough, I will work toward it. I’ve always achieved anything I put my mind to. I know my Sweetie likes when I train, but it really has to be ME that wants it.

Last night at 10 pm, I got online to journal some of these thoughts. I decided to just go to bed and see how I felt about the topic this morning, when my mind is fresh. I think and feel the same. Oh, and besides the entire “building strength” goal, there’s the “cardio” goal of 30 minutes a day. Sigh. That’s not for fat; that one is for keeping heart healthy. I even added a little widget to remind myself about that, but don’t use it. I think I need a new layout so I can see all things immediately. (I’m staying at 3FC, however. My back-up blog is for days that I can’t get on here.) I think I’m entering a new phase—or way of thinking—of weight management and maintenance. It will be interesting to see it all unfold and then come together. For now, I will post my food intake (in order) from yesterday:

• 3 cups of coffee w/ sugar free hazelnut creamer
• Cheerios w/ almond milk
• Diet A&W
• Toast w/ butter and low sugar jelly
• Diet A&W
• Bagel w/ 1/3 fat cream cheese
• Diet A&W
• 1 caramel
• 3 cookies
• 1 tall coffee
• 1 small apple w/ sugar because it was too tart
• 1 meat ball
• ¼ c spicy Hormel canned chili
• 1 ½ biscuit
• 1 egg

Okay, not one vegetable. Very little protein, but since I am not building muscle, I require much less. My body requires that I eat carbs. The digestive system breaks down carbs into sugar forms that the brain uses for energy. Carbs are THE top brain food and I’ve been thinking a lot, therefore I need them (LOL). I can get them from eating vegetables also; I need to put more energy into preparing foods that nourish all body and organ functions. Carbs are not vitamin packed and I need more balanced vitamins for obvious reasons.

I do know that I want a healthy body. I just need to decide how strong I want to be. I’m at the perfect age for building muscle to keep strong bones later in life. What am I doing? Can’t I incorporate all goals from each area of my life into one balanced pie shape? Does “eliminating insanity” need to be my motivator? I think I need a motivator page. I had one at one point, but took it off. I need a new page. This is my safe spot to explore myself and make changes, as my conscious dictates. I’m blessed to have this opportunity. Why not run with it?

Okay, I’ve said a lot that I need to work through and consider for a new 3FC blog design. I may go back to my original design, if it fits this phases needs. :D I’m going to sign off because I have a few ideas that I want to jot down in more detail. NewPhaseMe signing off.

Bad 3FC

Well, I guess I post here at http://3fctic.blogspot.com/ today since 3FC is behaving poorly. (this is where I will go for back-up days now.) This has become a way of life necessary to lose and maintain a healthy weight and I really don’t want 3FC to interfere. I do have to mention again that my monitor to my desktop fried, so I’m on my laptop. So here I am writing on a different computer, using different programs, and not posting to 3FC, but to blogspot. With that…

It’s 23 degrees this morning and going to get up to nearly 50 degrees. TOM has hit hard and I refuse to let it get me down. I plan on doing activities today before work, but light activity. I’d like to photograph my “tool candies” that I made for my Sweetie, play a little with my polymer clay—possibly make some rose earrings to go with a dress that I wear with leggings and tall boots, and of course domestic duties, such as, dishes. Okay, only dishes today. When the rough part of TOM is over, I will continue on with the house.

Our trip yesterday to the gun-show was so much fun. Sweetie picked up a piece for his hunting rifle and I shopped for a knife. I’d like to purchase a pocket knife. Right now, I use little ones that only cost .99 so they are pretty cheap. They are handy for opening new packages from the store, tearing yarn if I don’t have a snip close by, and turning very small screws. :O). At any rate, I did not see a knife that I wanted badly enough to purchase it. I enjoyed window shopping.

Diet has been okay. I haven’t been counting calories, and I don’t think that I want to get back into that, but perhaps a jolt in awareness is called for. I eat sugar each day and more than my body needs to consume. I have been drinking Senna leaf tea to alleviate my digestive system. I just got onto 3FC so I’m going to stop typing and post. I hate the feeling of pressure, but I don’t want to miss my chance to post and connect with others. TIC09 signing off.

Motivation Occurs...

1. When I get on the scale and see a drop.

2. When a thought or feeling of satisfaction comes over me as I reflect on the choices I've made in my life.

3. When my husband tells me that I have nice legs after the beginning stages of getting back into a bike routine.