Re: Finding my Groove
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 11:58 pm
Today's food:
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
Yes.
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.
Yes
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
Yes
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
Yes
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
Yes
6. Eliminate any added oil.
Yes
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
Yes
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
Yes
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
Yes
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
No, didn't exercise today. I procrastinated in the morning, told myself I would do it in the evening, but by evening I was too tired.
Thoughts:
All caught up now. Just a week to go until Christmas! I'm pleased that I have made it through the holiday season so far without going off the rails. It has been a struggle at times. Today I was shopping online for a last-minute gift, and was looking at chocolates and cookies and other edible items, when I realized that it was a bad idea for me to look at that stuff, even as a gift for someone else, even when I was never going to touch it with my own hands because Amazon would send it. The only reason I was even browsing the edible gifts was that this person is hard to buy for, and when someone is hard to buy for, sweets and snacks are often the answer. But as I was shopping I realized that just spending time looking at those items was eroding my mental resolve to eat healthfully, so I stopped and will get the person a gift card.
I need to plan our holiday meal(s) and shop for the ingredients in the next few days. As with Thanksgiving, I will have two Christmas dinners with different family members. I'm going to try to keep the menu pretty simple. Lentil loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy should work.
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
Yes.
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.
Yes
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
Yes
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
Yes
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
Yes
6. Eliminate any added oil.
Yes
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
Yes
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
Yes
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
Yes
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
No, didn't exercise today. I procrastinated in the morning, told myself I would do it in the evening, but by evening I was too tired.
Thoughts:
All caught up now. Just a week to go until Christmas! I'm pleased that I have made it through the holiday season so far without going off the rails. It has been a struggle at times. Today I was shopping online for a last-minute gift, and was looking at chocolates and cookies and other edible items, when I realized that it was a bad idea for me to look at that stuff, even as a gift for someone else, even when I was never going to touch it with my own hands because Amazon would send it. The only reason I was even browsing the edible gifts was that this person is hard to buy for, and when someone is hard to buy for, sweets and snacks are often the answer. But as I was shopping I realized that just spending time looking at those items was eroding my mental resolve to eat healthfully, so I stopped and will get the person a gift card.
I need to plan our holiday meal(s) and shop for the ingredients in the next few days. As with Thanksgiving, I will have two Christmas dinners with different family members. I'm going to try to keep the menu pretty simple. Lentil loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy should work.