It's spring time and it's time to do things and get things done. Why is spring the time many people go on diets or make changes in their lives? Spring is the beginning of life in nature, there is new growth all over. We as people want to grow too, we want to break out of the shell of winter.
How do we do this? Why do we want to do this and how did we get so buried in our habits?
I will first say it may not be your fault but the outcome will be. You have the ability to make change. First I want you to grab a notebook and write down everything you have tried and then go back and check off if it worked or was a waste of time. I will be doing this with you. Believing the product advertisers, no doesn't work. tracking everything I ate, worked. Setting goals high, EX: working out 6 days a week, worked for a week or two. Walking with dear husband and dog after dinner, worked well. Telling myself that it is OK to eat sugar for food because my calories are low for the day, worked for a day. All hell broke out after that.
Asking 2 questions, What did I eat yesterday and what am I going to eat tomorrow? The question is not what do I plan to eat tomorrow but what am I. What is the difference? All of us plan and plan well but then there is pie or cake or snacks or something that causes a bing of some sort.
If you go out to your favorite restaurant and have always had desert because it is your favorite why do you think it will be different this time? This brings us to today.
I have to tell you that I went to a all day seminar that included lunch and I feel great today. I had some oats and fruit in the morning with a big glass of water and a cup of coffee. I was off to learn about gardening. I was so excited. I learned about lawn care and was ready to move on to the next class when someone said something about a snack. I had to really think of why I would need a snack. I had a good breakfast I wasn't really hungry and lunch was after the next class. I came to the conclusion that you may need a snack but I don't. Time for next class. Learned about composting.
Really good class and now time for lunch. What were they going to have? There were a few choices and as I was talking to someone in line about weight watchers and her return to it, I stated to her that it's how you think as much as what you eat. I said that we could look at the other people that had already gone through the line and we would know what our choices would be before we get to the point of having to make the choices.
So I noticed there was a form of salad and soup and pie and a roll. I soon found out it was 7 layer salad and and pasta salad, it was serve yourself. I was so excited to see there were many people in front of me that took all the good stuff off the top of the 7 layer salad and left the lettuce, peas and small amount of dressing and topping was mixed in. I grabbed it up. It was like a pot of gold. I took lots of that unwanted lettuce. Next was soup. That was a no brainier, veggie or cream of something. I was talking to the WW person in line and stated to her that when it comes to things like pie you have to ask "how will it make me feel tomorrow?" I did a pass on the pie. I had so much salad and soup that I had enough to eat and finished at the same time as the pie people I was sitting with. As for that roll, I asked how will that make me feel and do I really want it? No I didn't really want it. Remember I am in the 120s and why is that important to know? If I was in the 160's and trying to lose, the amount of food I ate might have been to little and 1/2 a roll could of gave me the extra calories to keep me full for a little longer. Remember that a 160 pound person burns more calories than a 120 pound person just breathing. If this would of been a hands on workshop where we were moving around a lot I would of needed more calories but we were sitting in chairs. 3:00 came rolling around and it was off to learn about Gus's garden. Was I hungry? no, not really. Could I eat something? Oh ya I can always eat. I was still feeling good from lunch and didn't need anything. I don't know what it is about the eye stomach thing. The eyes think the stomach always needs to eat.
So the last class was really good and we were ready to go home.
Now when you ask me how was my day? I am going to tell you how much I learned, how I am going to use all this new information to improve our garden. How things have changed. At one time what we had for lunch would of been the main review of the day and what we learned second.
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