Since I last weighed myself that is! I've lost 3 lbs! I'm hoping I can keep this up! I didn't want to risk what my emotions would do to me if I weighed myself every day and wasn't seeing "enough" loss.
Now, as far as how... I keep changing my mind on how to go about this... I've found that eating half a canteloupe for dinner is a VERY bad idea. It made my blood sugar skyrocket, then plummet back down really fast and hard. It took a couple hours before I felt somewhat human again. I've also found my stomach can't handle more than one salad a day, which is a huge change since the last time I lost weight that's all I ate for weeks, every single time I got hungry! I've also changed my coffee drastically. I found Splenda Coffee Flavors in the Mocha flavor is pretty good! Yesterday I did have a cup of coffee my old way and went "WOW! wayyyyy too sweet!" Which is good I think that, because I really didn't think I'd be able to give it up so easily!
I've been having fruit for breakfast most of the time, a couple mornings I had Honey Bunches of Oats cereal. Then I have a morning snack, either a snack bar with 90-100 calories or more fruit. Typically a salad for lunch, or if I have Honey Bunches of Oats for breakfast I'd have half a canteloupe for lunch instead - but now I'm out of canteloupe! An afternoon snack: fruit, popcorn, veggies or snack bar. And now I've been portioning out my dinners so I can eat what I make for the family, just less of it! I'm fine with that because I know I have another snack coming later on! I have an evening snack, typically something I haven't had yet for the day (even if it means a bowl of cereal).
I still occasionally have problems with blood sugar, but I've always had that.... since I had my first child anyways. Some days I don't space the meals and snacks quite right and I do have to have a little extra of something (that time my blood sugar plummeted so hard and fast I had a snack bar, milk, and a banana just trying to get it back up).
Thanks to a great friend I found a website where I can track all my food AND my calories burned so I see what I'm taking in and what is getting burned during the day. Its a real eye opener, and sometimes I think I'm too obsessive about it. But this early on, I think I have to be... or I'll never stay on track!
OH! And I bought 100 calorie bags of microwave popcorn, and then compared the label with a label of our popcorn we had at home already... as far as calories go - a whole bag (2.5 servings) has barely more calories then the smaller bag (1 serving) does... anyone else ever notice this????
