I debated joining Weightwatchers. I debated joining Lindora.
I quit smoking 8 years ago cold turkey but somehow I have no control over what goes into my mouth.
I eat when I am bored, tired, anxious. I have a real sweet tooth and I am a carb freak.
The past month has been tricky for me with the gluten free diet. I laugh now but I stupidly assumed that gluten was bad and the carbs were ok so I was eating gluten free bread, gluten free muffins etc. I weighed my self and gave myself a moon slap.
Now don't get me wrong, I know I am not ginormous at all but I know I have put on weight. It is not something that I obsess about but I want to get back to what I was last year so there is no time like the present.
After asking other people and researching online I decided that the best thing for me to do was to use a food journal. It's not that I want to count calories exactly but I want to make myself aware of what I am putting in my mouth.
I went to a moms blog event last week at the YMCA and Tami Lindhal was speaking. I love her. She is just a naturally nice and enthusiastic person. Anyhow she was talking about foods and how to loose weight and things and the one thing that she said was to do a little thing every day and that little thing will add up to being a big thing. I am one of those impatient people that wants results NOW, actually yesterday would be preferable, so it is hard for me to slow down and take it a step at a time. So I have done what she said and changed a small thing every day. I bought a Brita pitcher and drink a heap more water. I try to spend time outside instead of being inside. I started paying attention to what I am eating. I somehow had a sinus infection (Cristen! Teagan! Did you jinx me?) so I was feeling awful this week. I decided to actually go to the doctor. I got sleep instead of staying up late. The biggest thing is that I am weighing myself once a week now. Jay got me back into the bad habit of weighing myself every day and that was bad!
So now I am noting what I am eating and noting how I am feeling. I am paying attention to the calories just to see how many I am eating. It is interesting. Like I said I get bored quickly so I'll probably stick with it for a week - LOL. Instead of paying a lot of money I just searched online and printed out a free one from WebMD. It's easy to use. I have an app on my iPhone but for some reason I don't seem to pay as much attention when I am not physically writing it. If you want to print it out here is the
link.
Yeah I wish I weighed that much generic scale photo!
