The Intuituve Eater

I haven't posted in a while. ALOT has happened. Basically at the day before my weigh-in 336 the next day I was 335. So I gained 2 lbs, but Aunt Flo had been to visit. That was on March 15th. Last night March 20th I was 335. And since I usually lose a pound over night I know I am back to 334. Eating has returned to normal. No weird cravings. Working out has been a whole other story. I think that is because my schedule has been wacky so I can't work out at my usual work out time and I am trying to force myself to do it at the end of the day when I REALLY don't want to. One thing that is motivating me is my 800 minute excercise goal. I missed it last month by less than 100 min. So this month even if I only do 20 min a day I am trying to stay on goal. I am half way there so I should be ok. Posted on 3fc Eating has returned to normal. Jumped on the scale just to see and doing ok. Not an official weigh-in but I think the gain was more TOM than anything else. I seem ...

So this week I only worked out once on Monday. I think I've figured out what the problem was. I was supposed to be doing prevention fitness personal training, the weight loss track and I didn't like it. I think my mind just said well I don't like it so I see no point in doing it. I also think I just needed a break from my routine. So I skipped the whole week. Saturday I did an old WATP 2 mile and today I did Yoga Booty Ballet all the way through. I plan my workout for the following week on Sunday so I am doing 30 min of the quick fit kick boxing (more on that later) and the toning from the PF:personal training (20 min). Funny that I am doing the quick fit DVD. I bought it because I liked the kick boxing in the WALK kick (WATP) and thought i would try it with someone else. I bought quick fit and after reviewing it I just couldn't do it. So now 3-4 months later it looks like it will be challenging but doable...Nice.. Food wise. I have been eating intuitively. S...

Well this week end been a little wacky. I didn't eat anything I planned to eat. I didn't over eat and I think I made good choices all week. I only exercised once this week which I'm not entirely happy with, but I'm ok with that too. Back at it tomorrow (Saturday). So anyway. I know I haven't had the big 3-4 weight loss I had been having so I jumped on the scale. I'm down a pound( to 333) . Its nice because I haven't gained, but I would like to be firmly in the 320s by the end of the month. I have managed to stick to my lent goals with the exception of the 2 beef meals I've had. I will admit Applebees has been calling and it was rough avoiding the scallops with bacon but I'm ok. Funny who I can ignore the Ben and Jerry's and not the scallops. I wonder if it will get easier. Happy that I am not forming any new attachments with food. I do have a craving for hooter, but I think their salads (if you can call it that, more like salad dressi...

Added later: I skimmed my blog looking for something else and realized I've had the whole tastless much epiphany before (is it an epiphany if you had it before and forgot?) anyway...hopefully I won't forget this time. I wonder if I'll ever get to the point with IE where i am not learning something. Well my body went sort of on strike the last few days and I gave in to its demands. I just couldn't make myself eat another tasteless whole wheat English muffin. So I bought Cinnamon raisin ones. Yes they have more calories and yes they probably have some evil chemical in them, but they taste better and I am tired of tasteless dreck. Also I didn't eat my usual lean cuisine/Healthy choice prepackages rubber chicken. I treated myself to Indian and loved it. I have no idea who many calories I had yesterday ....probably quite alot, but I can tell today I am back in the drivers seat. I also had a donut and milk for breakfast So what have we learned boys and girls ......

Whenever I see a meal listed with more than 500 calories...I think oh wow that must be alot of food. I'm here to tell you it isn't. I had 1000 (hamburger, french fries) and a drink and I just got cookies out of the vending machine. So I am at about 1500 for the day. I will probably do over 2000, but thats ok because I know this is just a one day thing. Actually lookign forward to my mega veggie omelet tomorrow morning and trying the chicken marinade I got from 3fc and a the indian recipe from yahoo foods.

Why I love Inuitive eating... So For lent I was giving up Beef along with other habit foods. So Last weekend I had a hamburger and a beef fajitas.....BY about Wednesday or Thursday I had been wanting a hamburger....so today I went ahead and had one...and I realized the beef thing may be because i typically have low iron and thats where I'm getting the boost from. I know there are others ways to get it, but i think that was the way my body was used to getting it. I am pretty sure I won't have any real craving for beef for another week. We'll see...

This was a post by someone else on 3fc and I think it points out how I feel...losing weight and getting complacent...wanting it to be over and I love at the end how she manages to be positive when the scale god isn't showing you some love. I posted this on my livejournal, instead of rewriting it, I'm going the lazy way and copying/pasting. I've had a rough few weeks with the whole weight loss thing, and I'll need to edit the language, but this is the gist of whats been going on in my heart. So, I've been watching what I eat. Working out, although, in the last 2 weeks, its almost everything I can do to get off my fat butt and make myself walk, nevermind anything else. A few weeks ago, even if I had to wait until 11 pm to work out, I STILL worked out. Now, "I'll do extra tomorrow", but like Scarlett, I never face my tomorrows. Guess what? I'm not losing weight! I've let myself slide the last 2 weeks on calories. I've basically, gotten complac...

Well I am munching on bacon as I type this. Bad Venus...bad...not because it is bacon, but because it was a completely random trip to the whole food supper market to pick up sushi and ended up being my realization that I cannot be trusted around a buffet....one of those things i have learned. I also have realized if I don't have good stuff to eat I won't eat it. I will never be one of those people who is trying to lose weight and eats tasteless mush. When I got to the buffet I just wanted to try everything, they only thing that stopped me from over doing it is I don't eat eggs and just about everything had egg in it, so I got bacon turkey and pork before of course I must taste both.... and some potatoes and baked cheesy grits....Yup the breakfast of champions. So no more wholefoods in the morning.... As for the food at home. I had one more light english muffin and I have come to realize I don't like light/low/no fat foods. Give me all the fat and I will eat it in...