Eating Habit Reform.. since Diet is a bad word

About a month ago (roughly a week before I had to start packing) I had an appointment for at a weight loss clinic. They are for healthy living and weight loss. It is my last ditch effort to try and loose the weight that I had gained after getting off of low carb (and if I am lucky), I will loose more and be able to keep it off.

So.. I am to change how I eat. I need to start eating six times a day. Six times!! I hardly have time for three! And they want me to eat fruit and snacks! Who ever heard of such things. Oh.. and I haven’t mentioned the kicker. I am to drink water, lots and lots of water. I don’t believe I have ever mentioned how much I loathe plan water (because oh no.. you can’t add mixins).

On top of all that I need to get blood work done and I am to exercise more than I am now. Not that I am exercising in the way they want right now (does lifting boxes count as lifting weights?).  And everything I eat needs to be under 1100 calories a day.

It has been one hell of a month, let me tell you. But I have tried to eat more meals a day and I have cut down on what I have been eating. Stress also helps me in weight gain. Because I am a strange eater, when I first start to get stressed I want to eat, but then when the real stress starts I just can’t eat.

I’m not sure what that means, but that is just the way it is. Anyways, I have tried to eat between four and five times a day. It is hard to remember that afternoon snack and the night snack I am suppose to have? I already took that off of the table, I just can’t eat a night snack.

My water intake has increased with the help of lemons. It, of course, is killing my work schedule because I have to take more potty breaks. But that might have evened itself out finally.

Total weight loss so far? Around 8 lbs on my scales.

I was doing really well before I took my week off to pack and now I am trying to get back into the swing of it. But my schedule and routine is very off because I don’t have all of my things and I have really been food shopping because I just don’t have that much room to do so.

I have been trying to keep my food intake okay. I know it hasn’t been great, but I still seem to be loosing weight. If I get a burger, I am only eating half of it and saving the other half for later. The same with sandwiches or subs.

Next I need to start exercising again. I no longer have the treadmill so I need to get my butt in gear and walk after work. One thing they did want me to do was sit on a ball for balance. This is suppose to help my core muscles. It doesn’t feel like I am doing much when I do it, but we will see.

I have two goals, one is to get down to 180 and the second is to get down to 150. I have gotten close to the 180 mark before (I was 185 for about a week.I swear lol). So that is what I am aiming for. Right now I only have 11 lbs to get there.

Wish me luck!

trying to get my groove back

The last time I wrote I was still in FL, I have been back for about two weeks now and the first week was very over whelming. When I first booked my vacation I did not know that it was going to turn into a month in FL so I didn’t think to take a day off after traveling back home.

I arrived back on Tuesday night to a cool house and two very happy boys. At first I didn’t mind because for the last month I had been sweating so being cool was not something I minded. But then I started to get settled and things started to just get piled up. Did you know that if you do not use your washer machine that the parts can dry up and it will leak on you until they are primed again? I didn’t either.

My car, had a swamp in it, because (I believe) my sunroof is leaking and I was trying to play catch up at work. It was just a lot to take in and I couldn’t seem to get my head straight.

One evening I even tried to work on the furnace myself. Me, playing with gas, fire and a furnace. The next day, after an emergency call to the heating company and one fixed thermal couple later I found myself in a warm house and time.

I knew the one thing that would help me get back into the home groove and that would be cooking a good meal in my kitchen. I was going to make risotto! I have been wanting to make it for a year now and I had been afraid of it. But I found an easy recipe on foodnetwork.com and I had picked up a lobster the day before because it was on sale for 5.99 a lb!

I spent the next two hours with my music, my boys and cooking something I have always wanted to try. It was just what I needed to feel back at home.