alright, so i’m pretty pissed at myself for ballooning back up to over 200 pounds. i had been holding fairly steady right at 200 but soemthing has happened in the past two weeks and i’m weighing in at 205 now. that does not make me happy.
i’ve been lazy. i’ve been over eating, eating out, eating fast food, drinking too much booze, too many soda pops. i lost my focus.
i dropped fifty pounds from november of 06 to the summer of 07. that’s pretty good considering i’m the laziest person i know. i looked in the mirror one day and realized i didn’t like what i saw. i became motivated and driven to lose weight. and i did.
but like all good things in my life, i lost focus. stopped doing all the things that helped me lose weight and started doing all the things that made me fat.
one thing that helped me lose weight and maintain a healthy diet was writing down everything that i ate. today starts again the diet log. so far today i’ve had one and half servings of whole wheat oatmeal with one whole banana and about five strawberries. mmm…strawberries. and for lunch i had one of those little plastic cups of mixed fruit and three big spoons of cottage cheese. i love cottage cheese. and also for lunch i had one can of creamy chicken noodle soup.
this will make it easier for me to have a healthy snack and healthy dinner. i’ve been to the Y and i’ve documented my food intake so far, it’ll be easy to do the same for dinner.
there are several studies and articles you can find about how keeping a log of what you eat helps you lose weight and keep it off. the most recent article i’ve seen on it was in Time Magazine. a study was down with obese people. those who kept a log of what they ate lost twice the weight as those that didn’t keep a log.
write it down. works for personal finance as well…
Tags: document what you eat, don't be fat, healthy diet, healty living, weight lose, work out, YMCA
