Day 8: Monday
Up to 1x0.8. I think that's where I started- so far this hasn't been a success for weight loss.
So this whole experiment has been an eye-opener as far as what I'm eating. I'm glad to be doing it for that alone. It's becoming apparent that I need to eat a lot more fruits and vegetables. I also eat a lot of food that I don't really love and I don't like that. I think eating should be a pleasure. I have bad habits of eating standing up or while doing other things, and eating too quickly as well.
I had a look at our schedule over the weekend. I am so torn about eating dinner so early because it's so outside of social norms. But with the schedule we have- activities daily from 445-615pm, and the kids going to bed by 8 and me by 9, it's really not that crazy. The kids eat breakfast at 7, lunch at 11, and at 3 they are starved. Rather than let them eat cookies and granola bars and chips until dinnertime, why not serve us all dinner and sit down as a family around 330. If I eat on the same morning schedule, I'll be hungry then too. Then, we can have a snack at 630, which I'll let myself take part in if I'm hungry. And I'm gonna aim to make it nutritious and delicious. We'll be able to sit down with their dad then too for more family time but I can still have the bulk of the kitchen work out of the way already.
I strongly dislike cooking. I think it comes from a couple of things. One, my mom never seemed to enjoy it, it was a chore for her I am sure, and I wasn't taught how to eat well and enjoy food with any structure. I was fed a lot of the typical American things, with a lot of fast and processed food, and my dad was always cutting out one food or another for health reasons, and his stress around food seems to have been passed on to me. When I was a pre-teen, I became a bit chubby and he told me that I needed to be careful about what I ate because I was getting fat. This led me to fear food, and since then I've retained a stress around food, like it isn't something I should enjoy. So of course, I look at cooking as another chore and a bore.
I think it is time for that to change. If I'm going to be eating more veggies and fruits, then I want them to look and taste good. I want my food to be presented beautifully. I love eating good food and I love eating at nice restaurants because the food is fresh and delicious and beautiful. That's actually how food should be, I think, not just some slop thrown on a plate and inhaled without really tasting or enjoying.
So I have a new goal, which is to learn to like preparing and presenting nice food at home. I see that my kids are getting the same habits and attitudes around food that I grew up with and I want something better for them too. I guess I'm going to start caring about cooking more as I look to improve our nutrition.
Also, I reread French Women Don't Get Fat. So much of it makes sense to me- making small, incremental, common sense changes. It got me thinking about what I can do to make those kinds of changes myself. I'm going to continue with this project for one, so I can get a good idea of how I really eat, then see how I change change in tasty and easy ways. I did this with WW years ago, so I know that small things really do add up.
And also, I'd like to start walking the kids to and from school. That would be an easy 40 minutes of extra activity in my day, good for me and good for them.
We all spend too much time sitting. I'm going to set stricter limits on screentime for them, and maybe force them to go play outside after school. I've already set screentime limits on my phone this weekend, after discovering that I spend nearly 4 hours a day on my phone (are you serious!!). That was pretty shocking and awful to me. I'm also going to make a big effort to break up my seated periods and make the most of my computer time, because sitting is not good and with my work I sit way too much. I also waste time at my computer, let's be real.
So, that's a lot of things I want to change, but I am going to just work on them as I can and not expect perfection and over time I think things will get better and better.
Today's food:
Breakfast: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with sprinkle of walnuts and small handful of blueberries. Just a half cup of coffee with half and half, I think it doesn't work well with the WB. Apple cinnamon oatmeal packet with 1T of chia seeds. Citron presse with meyer lemon.
Up to 1x0.8. I think that's where I started- so far this hasn't been a success for weight loss.
So this whole experiment has been an eye-opener as far as what I'm eating. I'm glad to be doing it for that alone. It's becoming apparent that I need to eat a lot more fruits and vegetables. I also eat a lot of food that I don't really love and I don't like that. I think eating should be a pleasure. I have bad habits of eating standing up or while doing other things, and eating too quickly as well.
I had a look at our schedule over the weekend. I am so torn about eating dinner so early because it's so outside of social norms. But with the schedule we have- activities daily from 445-615pm, and the kids going to bed by 8 and me by 9, it's really not that crazy. The kids eat breakfast at 7, lunch at 11, and at 3 they are starved. Rather than let them eat cookies and granola bars and chips until dinnertime, why not serve us all dinner and sit down as a family around 330. If I eat on the same morning schedule, I'll be hungry then too. Then, we can have a snack at 630, which I'll let myself take part in if I'm hungry. And I'm gonna aim to make it nutritious and delicious. We'll be able to sit down with their dad then too for more family time but I can still have the bulk of the kitchen work out of the way already.
I strongly dislike cooking. I think it comes from a couple of things. One, my mom never seemed to enjoy it, it was a chore for her I am sure, and I wasn't taught how to eat well and enjoy food with any structure. I was fed a lot of the typical American things, with a lot of fast and processed food, and my dad was always cutting out one food or another for health reasons, and his stress around food seems to have been passed on to me. When I was a pre-teen, I became a bit chubby and he told me that I needed to be careful about what I ate because I was getting fat. This led me to fear food, and since then I've retained a stress around food, like it isn't something I should enjoy. So of course, I look at cooking as another chore and a bore.
I think it is time for that to change. If I'm going to be eating more veggies and fruits, then I want them to look and taste good. I want my food to be presented beautifully. I love eating good food and I love eating at nice restaurants because the food is fresh and delicious and beautiful. That's actually how food should be, I think, not just some slop thrown on a plate and inhaled without really tasting or enjoying.
So I have a new goal, which is to learn to like preparing and presenting nice food at home. I see that my kids are getting the same habits and attitudes around food that I grew up with and I want something better for them too. I guess I'm going to start caring about cooking more as I look to improve our nutrition.
Also, I reread French Women Don't Get Fat. So much of it makes sense to me- making small, incremental, common sense changes. It got me thinking about what I can do to make those kinds of changes myself. I'm going to continue with this project for one, so I can get a good idea of how I really eat, then see how I change change in tasty and easy ways. I did this with WW years ago, so I know that small things really do add up.
And also, I'd like to start walking the kids to and from school. That would be an easy 40 minutes of extra activity in my day, good for me and good for them.
We all spend too much time sitting. I'm going to set stricter limits on screentime for them, and maybe force them to go play outside after school. I've already set screentime limits on my phone this weekend, after discovering that I spend nearly 4 hours a day on my phone (are you serious!!). That was pretty shocking and awful to me. I'm also going to make a big effort to break up my seated periods and make the most of my computer time, because sitting is not good and with my work I sit way too much. I also waste time at my computer, let's be real.
So, that's a lot of things I want to change, but I am going to just work on them as I can and not expect perfection and over time I think things will get better and better.
Today's food:
Breakfast: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with sprinkle of walnuts and small handful of blueberries. Just a half cup of coffee with half and half, I think it doesn't work well with the WB. Apple cinnamon oatmeal packet with 1T of chia seeds. Citron presse with meyer lemon.
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