[Mindful i Mouse] Just Another Day

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BG 83 this morning. I am out of cheese slices to put liverwurst on, so I used 2 thin wasa crackers. It's been awhile since I have had any grains, so it will be interesting if it affects me. I will be testing my BG again. Also interesting is that if i have flaxseed meal and peanut butter or two wasa and liverwurst, they are both 16g carbs. It is high, but the fiber is 9g for the flaxseed and 1g for the wasa. Clearly the wasa is a higher carb food and not going to be on my menu too often. Later: I tested at 123! Not horrible, but not necessary. We get to have a Walmart stop today, I will be sure to get more cheese instead. After looking at the calendar and talking to my daughter, it turns out that I will be out on the road only one more run. I should be off the truck mid March, probably leaving at the end of the month or the 1st of April for Hawaii. Gasp, it seemed so far away and now it is nearly here! We will be buying a ticket on home-time next week! Double gasp! I am both excited and nervous. Today is my usual weigh in day, but I am going to use yesterday's weight as the week's weight and then I will weigh on the last day for the month end. So far, and I don't expect any changes, it appears that I have not lost any weight this month! I have not even gotten back to my low December weight of 232 either. My calorie average so far for January is 1330 and my average carbs are 26g. It seems once again, as I discovered last year, that 1300 seems to no longer work for me, for weight loss. My body has adjusted to that amount. My average for the last 4 days are below 1000, so I am hoping to kick this loss back into gear somehow. We will only have 4 days at home, but I cannot wait to hit the pool everyday and plan on doing some walking too. I am doing that to feel good, it won't be enough to make a difference. I am nervous, as I always, about hometime, I really must stay under 1000 then too. Can I do it? I worked out this typical meal plan, allowing for the wine: The wine, I am not willing to give up. It does indeed cut back on food, but for 4 days, I want the wine more than the food. lol. It's just a guide, I will have to adjust it for the different meats that we will have for dinner, but basically we eat the same as this plan for dinners and breakfast, husband eats differently by adding bread and potatoes to his meals, his lunch is usually left over dinner from the night before. Yesterday's Meals: Carbs were too high for my target, but with the fiber from the flaxseed, the net is 22g. That's fine. Internally, I feel fine, I am not feeling as perky as I was a week ago, still having a bit of drag. I can feel the effects of lowering the calories, but all in all, it is surprisingly easy. I am hungry again before a meal but certainly not feeling like I am too hungry. Last night, at the truck stop, we each bought a bag of sugar free candies, which I really like to have one after dinner when I lay down to play computer games or watch a film. One or two is plenty for me, I never desire more. But my husband ate his entire bag after dinner. He doesn't usually do that. His eating is showing anxiety or boredom. His BG was 113 this morning, so he was reminded about the sugar free candy has to be considered as not much different than regular candy. ANY food that is reduced in a component does not mean eating MORE of it is okay. That was what was wrong with low fat and low carb premises, the idea that one can get away with eating more than one supposedly would if the missing component were there. I just can't hang with that anymore. I am tired of all this " eat more to lose weight " crap. I have never found it to be true for my body. I believe that in this day and age everyone simply eats too much! I read on diet forums those who eat excess of fiber to " feel full " or drink gallons of water to " flush " the body, or eat huge salads for a meal when that same amount would have fed a family of four in 1950. I don't understand the concept behind it. The less I eat, the better I feel overall. I certainly didn't start out by going from 3000 calories to 1000, I spent 70 weeks slowly reducing the calories. I am use to small amounts of food. I get comments on the diet forums that I am not eating enough and will go into starvation mode and never lose weight! I smile and shake my head, because I look at their stats, and they have not lost but few pounds and have such a long way to go to get where I am at. Perhaps they don't know yet, that to continue to lose weight, something has got to give. Perhaps, they just don't want to accept that they have to reduce the amount of food they now eat. Each to his own, I guess. Not that I think I have the answers, as I struggle to lose weight myself. --

Posted By i Mouse to Mindful i Mouse at 1/29/2011 07:20:00 AM