releasing the healthy me

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michellem

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Ok - well I know I can do it because I have in the past - now I have to do it again and keep it off!

3 years ago I weighed 140kg, I got down to 96kg in Jan this year but in Feb I had major abdo surgery and since the operation I have gained 10kg. As the surgery was such a major operation - my surgeon said I need to be careful with the recovery and it can even take up to two years to be totally recovered! In the past I have suffered from depression and after the operation I did suffer some mild depression and, as in the past, I ate and ate.

Now is the time to kick my own butt and get back my focus. I need to remember that this isn't a selfish thing, wanting to lose weight, but that in doing so I will be healther and a better example for my 3 young kids. It will also give me more energy to play and run around with them.

So - today's food.....hmmm well I started out well with toast for breakfast (I have to be strict with myself as I often skip breakfast) but yesterday was my birthday so there was the office shout at work this morning......

My hardest time of day is in the evening once the kids are in bed. I can go all day without eating but more than make up for it in the evenings so this is where my main focus will be - regular, healthy eating during the day so I am not wanting to snack so much at night.
 
Today is a bad day - I am feeling very very down and struggling a lot. Not a lot else I can say really - just ready to cry and to be honest, umlike normal when I have a bad day - today the thought of food makes me feel sick. Normally if I am having a bad day I just want to eat all day but then, this isn't really a 'normal' bad day.

I know I have made no sense at all so I will sign off and hope for a better day tomorrow - or even just a better afternoon today!
 
I have very low blood pressure and every now and then it suddenly drops even lower - Dr's not sure why. Anyway, last night was a bad night with it and I fainted 3 times! Not a fun evening!!!

So hubby has taken the kids to school and I am resting up today.
 
Well I haven't done so well with my food the last couple of days. We have had friends over for dinner last night and lunch today. I do private catering and so when people fcome for dinner I like to go all out - then pay the price at next weigh in!

I need to look at the food I am making and revise my menus I think! That is this weeks goal.

Right - need to get an early night - hubby snored all night last night so I didn't get much sleep at all!!!!
 
well exercise is going really well but sadly I am not doing so well with food. I am hoping that I am doing enough exercise as I am really trying with that - feels great - still being a bit careful after my hysterectomy earlier this year as I still feel a little sore if I do too much but it is great to be up and doing things. Went for a big walk with the kids yesterday and played at the park with them. Today I cleaned my 7 year old daughters room - now that may not sound like much but trust me - it took me a couple of hours alone and then another hour with her after school - I am pretty stuffed now!!

I have also just bought a big HEAVY vacuum cleaner - it is wonderful and does a great job and also as a bonus is a real effort to push around as it has such a strong suck. I have to vacuum between 1 - 3 times a day as I have 3 young kids who live to make a mess!! Gotta be good for me I reckon!!
 
Wow, what an awesome day. First up, after dropping the kids off at school, I went to be totally pampered by my friend who is a hairdresser. She put some foils through for me - which was a birthday present :) then I went to the shop our church has just opened and bought a lovely top to wear out for our wedding anniversary in a couple of weeks.

Tomorrow morning I am going to teach my son's class some sign language so am looking forward to that! Actually I better get some sleep - I have no doubt that the kids will try and find the hardest words for me to put into sign!!
 
Well what a crazy busy weekend!! Saturday I decided at 10am I wanted to sort my bedroom out so I took EVERYTHING out including all furniture!! Well, 8 hours later I sat down finally finished!! Oh dear - a little more drastic than I had planned but love it now! The only thing is, we turned the bed around so it is against the other wall and neither hubby nor I could sleep at all that night!! It was crazy - we were totally shattered but wide awake all and I mean ALL night!!

Then Sunday a friend of mine was baptised so I had a supper at my place afterwards for her so I spent all day cooking - had about 30 people here in the end. Was a great night until I got up this morning and discovered someone had spilt fanta on the carpet and then moved the coffee table over it to hide it!! arrrrr have spent all morning trying to get it out! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
 
Well I really need to sort myself out - I have been doing really really badly with food. I think the biggest thing for me is that I have just been so busy that I have been eating on the run. Also have been doing a bit of baking for things at church and I try so hard not to eat it but ......

I need more self control - I can do it, I can do it, I can do it
 
Planning out your food in advance will really help. When I first started getting serious about making sure I was eating healthy foods and getting the right number of calories and balanced nutrients, I sat down once a week and planned out EVERY meal and EVERY snack. I wrote it all down and made sure that I had everything on hand so that I didn't find myself in a situation where I was eating on the run.

I looked at my weekly schedle and if there was a day where I knew I'd be out and about for a long time, I planned what I would buy and where to make sure it was healthy and then I stuck to that. I looked up fast food places online and wrote down the healthiest items and the calories from them, so I knew what I could order and what I couldn't.

After a while I didn't have to be quite so anal about it - after a while I learned what I could and couldn't eat and was able to make healthier choices on the fly. But while I was learning, I *needed* that plan to keep me from throwing away my progress. It's way too easy, otherwise, to justify eating poorly because you're busy or you were out or you were starving and had to have something. :)

Plan in advance. It really really really does make a difference.
 
I do try to plan what I am eating but the biggest thing is I have three young kids and one is not very well - the Dr's think he might have a tumor and he has a lot of pain so we spend a lot of time at the dr's and hospital going back and forth and never really knowing when I will be out or where we will be. I try to carry rice crackers with me for snacks.

But thanks for your reply - always good to hear what works for others:)
 
Is there any way you can pack something more substantial than rice crackers? The thing about rice crackers is that they may be (somewhat) low cal, but they have no substance or nutritional value. They're not going to keep you full for very long - or satisfied. So what tends to happen is that you'll eat the rice crackers and still not feel sated, so you'll get something else junky on top of that.

If you can prepare some sliced veggies or sliced fruit, maybe some peanut butter or almond butter in a small container, add some string cheese, get some of those tubes of yogurt and freeze them (then when you're ready to eat them, they'll be cold and soft). Or even make turkey sandwiches on a slice of whole grain bread - just leave off the mayo. Anything with protein and fiber will help you feel satisfied and full for longer and will help eliminate the need to give in to buying unhealthy foods.
 
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