October 31
Weight is creeping up so it's back to the food logging for me. Fortunately, my computer is working again, so it shouldn't be too onerous to post daily. I got one of those fake malware viruses. I bought norton antivirus and also downloaded some freeware called antimalwarebytes, both of which I now run regularly. Because my internet connection was still slow, i defragmented the hard drive and things seem to be working better -- for now, at least.
Yesterday I had lunch with a very thin friend. This is a man who has never struggled with his weight. We split an order of sweet potato fries, a dish he is particularly fond of, and it was interesting to observe our different approaches to the fries. Even though this was a favorite dish of my friend, he had only 15 or 20 fries. He left several on the plate and did not gobble them, but ate them a couple at a time throughout the meal. I, on the other hand, am not even particularly fond of them, but I could not stop eating until the very last one was gone. I even stopped the waiter from taking the plate when there were just a few cold greasy fries left. If I could figure out why I behave like this, I think I would cease to struggle so much with weight loss. I don't understand my motivation but certain foods are very hard for me to stop eating.
Menu
Breakfast: Oatmeal with butternut squash topped with raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, blackstrap molasses, soymilk; half grapefruit
Snack: Decaf coffee with soymilk
Lunch: Mustard greens with tofu (onion, garlic, ginger root, wakame seaweed, hoisin sauce, tamari, cooking spray); salad (reduced fat dressing (TJ brand, cilantro flavor), lettuce, half avocado, lemon juice, black pepper); apple
Snack: Air popped popcorn (nutritional yeast, cooking spray, salt)
Dinner: Tuna salad over lettuce (celery, onion, peas, great northern beas, miracle whip, lemon juice, black pepper)
Snack: Blueberries with honey; raisins and walnuts
Exercise
Walked 15,000 steps; 10 push-ups
Weight is creeping up so it's back to the food logging for me. Fortunately, my computer is working again, so it shouldn't be too onerous to post daily. I got one of those fake malware viruses. I bought norton antivirus and also downloaded some freeware called antimalwarebytes, both of which I now run regularly. Because my internet connection was still slow, i defragmented the hard drive and things seem to be working better -- for now, at least.
Yesterday I had lunch with a very thin friend. This is a man who has never struggled with his weight. We split an order of sweet potato fries, a dish he is particularly fond of, and it was interesting to observe our different approaches to the fries. Even though this was a favorite dish of my friend, he had only 15 or 20 fries. He left several on the plate and did not gobble them, but ate them a couple at a time throughout the meal. I, on the other hand, am not even particularly fond of them, but I could not stop eating until the very last one was gone. I even stopped the waiter from taking the plate when there were just a few cold greasy fries left. If I could figure out why I behave like this, I think I would cease to struggle so much with weight loss. I don't understand my motivation but certain foods are very hard for me to stop eating.
Menu
Breakfast: Oatmeal with butternut squash topped with raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, blackstrap molasses, soymilk; half grapefruit
Snack: Decaf coffee with soymilk
Lunch: Mustard greens with tofu (onion, garlic, ginger root, wakame seaweed, hoisin sauce, tamari, cooking spray); salad (reduced fat dressing (TJ brand, cilantro flavor), lettuce, half avocado, lemon juice, black pepper); apple
Snack: Air popped popcorn (nutritional yeast, cooking spray, salt)
Dinner: Tuna salad over lettuce (celery, onion, peas, great northern beas, miracle whip, lemon juice, black pepper)
Snack: Blueberries with honey; raisins and walnuts
Exercise
Walked 15,000 steps; 10 push-ups
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