So in June when I went in for my physical I weighed in and was 350lbs. I almost cried. I needed to fix this NOW!!!
I decided to start with small changes. Ones that I knew I could manage and I would wait for a few weeks between each change, so that I could make sure it had become a habit.
First change was to pay attention when I was eating, eat slowly, stop when I am done. Sounds easy enough, but to someone who was used to eating quickly and was taught to clean the plate, it was alot harder than it sounds.
As a mother of 5, I was always rushing my meals so that I could deal with feeding the kids or getting them into the bath, or off to bed, school, etc,etc. I worked in a factory type job and I had a half hour in which to eat my lunch, change clothes, check-in with the sitter, etc, etc. Clearing the table and the kids left food on their plate and you eat those too, because you don't want to waste food, and it is only a bite.
It was hard and I had to be very intentional about it. I had to constantly remind myself to chew slowly, I used my left hand instead of my right for awhile(very awkward which = slow). I left at least one bite on my plate at every meal. After a couple weeks it became easier so I moved onto my next change.
Second change was to cut back on my sugar intake. I didn't eat a lot of junk food to begin with so I was looking for where the sugar might be hiding in my everyday meals, which meant reading a lot of labels.
We discovered that our regular tomato sauce had both sugar and salt added, so we switched to plain tomato paste. Bread, buns, wraps and pasta we switched to whole grain varieties. Not whole wheat but whole grain. We only bought granola type cereals but when we read those labels, we discovered more sugar, so we switched to oatmeal topped with fruit.
This change is going to be on going, I can't believe all the hiding places sugar has.
Last week I started working on adding more fruit and veggies. So far so good!!
Now to the weigh-in......................................
335lbs
I have lost 15lbs this summer!!!
I decided to start with small changes. Ones that I knew I could manage and I would wait for a few weeks between each change, so that I could make sure it had become a habit.
First change was to pay attention when I was eating, eat slowly, stop when I am done. Sounds easy enough, but to someone who was used to eating quickly and was taught to clean the plate, it was alot harder than it sounds.
As a mother of 5, I was always rushing my meals so that I could deal with feeding the kids or getting them into the bath, or off to bed, school, etc,etc. I worked in a factory type job and I had a half hour in which to eat my lunch, change clothes, check-in with the sitter, etc, etc. Clearing the table and the kids left food on their plate and you eat those too, because you don't want to waste food, and it is only a bite.
It was hard and I had to be very intentional about it. I had to constantly remind myself to chew slowly, I used my left hand instead of my right for awhile(very awkward which = slow). I left at least one bite on my plate at every meal. After a couple weeks it became easier so I moved onto my next change.
Second change was to cut back on my sugar intake. I didn't eat a lot of junk food to begin with so I was looking for where the sugar might be hiding in my everyday meals, which meant reading a lot of labels.
We discovered that our regular tomato sauce had both sugar and salt added, so we switched to plain tomato paste. Bread, buns, wraps and pasta we switched to whole grain varieties. Not whole wheat but whole grain. We only bought granola type cereals but when we read those labels, we discovered more sugar, so we switched to oatmeal topped with fruit.
This change is going to be on going, I can't believe all the hiding places sugar has.
Last week I started working on adding more fruit and veggies. So far so good!!
Now to the weigh-in......................................
335lbs
I have lost 15lbs this summer!!!
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