Epic Fail. I blame Dairy Queen.
I should have braved the grey weather and taken the dog for a 30 minute walk. But it might rain. And I thought I would wait for the kid and go to the gym with him. (He works at DQ). However, the rush was so significant that he didn't get home until after ten... and really, who wants to go to the gym after ten at night? So 30 min. activity FAIL for Day 2. Should have gone earlier in the day.
And as for the intake of food... relatively good job... I had the kid bring me home a half cup of soft serve with strawberries... so yummy! I don't think I can give up that bedtime snack, usually consisting of ice cream... and softserve plus strawberries is a good substitute for the calorie-laden blizzard (500 calories vs. 340 calories). I need to cut down to a small sundae, or start picking up those mini Ben and Jerry ice creams that are 200 calories...
Boring post, I know. But it keeps me accountable.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Day 1
Thirty minutes of exercise was achieved today: instead of purchasing a golf cart, I purchased a push cart and drug my bag around the course (the pesky back issues prevent me from using my back-pack straps).
However, a text message from a friend calling me to DQ counteracted any calories burned: I only intended to eat half the small chocolate-covered-strawberry blizzard... but you know what happened.
BUT, I refuse to feel bad about eating a blizzard. Enjoying a DQ blizzard every once in a while is something I refuse to change about my life! Being healthy but denying oneself soft-serve mixed with candy and fruit is hardly an enjoyable life to look forward to.
So, I must accept that blizzards a non-negotiable part of my life. Ideas to try in the future to balance blizzardy goodness with my new, healthy lifestyle: order a blizzard but ask them to use half the ice cream (now I'm the weird order-er), order full blizzard and share, order a full blizzard and eat half and put the other half in the freezer (I've done this perhaps once in my life), order a full blizzard and immediately dump half of it out (but think of all the starving Ethiopians!), I only get a blizzard once per month and the rest of the time I eat small sundaes or cones...
Not sure what the best idea is. Open to suggestions.
As for eating only when I am hungry, and stopping when I am full... it is hard to break myself of the habits of 1) serving large portions of food that I historically have eaten, and 2) feeling I must eat everything I take. I should have had one fajita... but when I served myself, the small portion left in the tupperware looked so lonely, so sad... so I scooped the rest onto my plate and had two fajitas. And after the first fajita, I was content. And halfway through the second, I thought, I am full and I should stop eating. But I didn't.
I am realizing I have a clean-plate obsession. Is that something one can unlearn?
However, a text message from a friend calling me to DQ counteracted any calories burned: I only intended to eat half the small chocolate-covered-strawberry blizzard... but you know what happened.
BUT, I refuse to feel bad about eating a blizzard. Enjoying a DQ blizzard every once in a while is something I refuse to change about my life! Being healthy but denying oneself soft-serve mixed with candy and fruit is hardly an enjoyable life to look forward to.
So, I must accept that blizzards a non-negotiable part of my life. Ideas to try in the future to balance blizzardy goodness with my new, healthy lifestyle: order a blizzard but ask them to use half the ice cream (now I'm the weird order-er), order full blizzard and share, order a full blizzard and eat half and put the other half in the freezer (I've done this perhaps once in my life), order a full blizzard and immediately dump half of it out (but think of all the starving Ethiopians!), I only get a blizzard once per month and the rest of the time I eat small sundaes or cones...
Not sure what the best idea is. Open to suggestions.
As for eating only when I am hungry, and stopping when I am full... it is hard to break myself of the habits of 1) serving large portions of food that I historically have eaten, and 2) feeling I must eat everything I take. I should have had one fajita... but when I served myself, the small portion left in the tupperware looked so lonely, so sad... so I scooped the rest onto my plate and had two fajitas. And after the first fajita, I was content. And halfway through the second, I thought, I am full and I should stop eating. But I didn't.
I am realizing I have a clean-plate obsession. Is that something one can unlearn?
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