Some good news and some bad news.

Hello again. :)

I have good news and bad news. The good news is I am finally moving onto stage 2 of a healthier lifestyle. Instead of just cutting calories, I'm now trying to focus more on cutting calories and watching what is in the food I eat instead of just focusing on the calories it contains. So far I've switched from potato chips to Sunchips, regular hotdogs to turkey hotdogs, from Jif peanut butter to Jif natural peanut butter, Bunny white bread to Bunny whole grain white bread, and from regular Goldfish crackers to whole grain Goldfish crackers. These are just some small changes but I know they are very hepful changes.

 

The bad news. I made about 2 million different mistakes foodwise today. Good gracious I don't even know if I can put it into words. It just really makes me feel bad. At least I do feel bad which means that I will be more careful about food choices after today. I know a treat every now and then is okay, but today just got completely out of hand.

 

That's all for now. Bye!

An apple for lunch :)

Howdy all. I've been quiet lately BUT still keeping up with my heathy lifstyle changes. :D I've been in a pretty fantastic mood lately since my healthy eating habits have finally proven to me that they are, indeed, working. I have noticed that I've had a much easier time fitting into clothes lately. That's always an awesome feeling. :) It also helps that I've been in school for 2 weeks now and have been absolutely walking my rear end off.

I pretty much just wanted to stop by and say that things are changing, and I'm excited.

Off to class!

Not too bad.

Lately I think I have been doing pretty good with the eating healthier. I have had WAY more good days than bad and I've started trying to encorporate healthier foods instead of just counting the calories of the normal unhealthy food I eat and just eating less of it. I lost some weight by just cutting back on portion sizes but now I would like to add healthier portions too and I'm sure the weight will keep coming off. I haven't weighed myself in probably close to 3 weeks because we don't have a scale anymore. I kind of like it that way because that means I can't obsess over the number but at the same time, I would like to check every now and then to see if there is any improvements. I have noticed some of my regular pants have started fitting a little better which is always a good sign. :)

 

 

I have had a few bad days but some of them really couldn't be avoided. I helped move my friend Bobbi Jo and her daughter Taylor back to Illinois this past Friday and I had my best friend in tow. Well, when you are just about broke and in a different city...fast food is inevitably the easiest thing to grab so we did that. I don't even regret it because I can't even remember the last time I had anything from McDonalds. My other bad day was the Saturday of last weekend. My grandma came into town from Indiana like she does every month and we went to Logan's for lunch. But I ate less than I normally would have and I didn't really eat much else that day after such a big lunch besides a couple small snacks.

 

Not too bad in the long run but you know...if you have one bad day you just have to make the next day a good one!