Happy Wednesday collegiettes™–
Sorry I was absent yesterday. Like I said, finals are just around the corner and things are starting to get stressful, but that does not mean my health gets put on the back burner and neither should yours!
So I lost 2lbs last week. A 2 pound loss is better than a 2 pound gain, but I know I can do better because I know there is something standing in my way from total success and that is grazing.
I was thinking about my last post and thinking about what I could do to better improve my weight loss diet. I thought about one thing- grazing. I am totally guilty of grazing in between meals. My meals are freakin’ healthy, but between meals is where I do my damage. I’ll munch on crackers, peanut butter, fruit etc. etc. in between meals, which I could definitely do without. Like the other night when I was making my chicken, one, no, two, no, THREE handfuls of corn flakes managed to get into my stomach because I was hungry and ready for dinner! So starting today, I am going to write down EVERYTHING I consume. I will live by the mantraYou bite it, you write it! This will help me see where my extra calories are sneaking in! I won’t count calories, I’ll just write what I eat. The reason I don’t like to count calories is because I get SUPER obsessive and overwhelmed and it ends up hurting me more than helping. I have a few meals in my head that I know the general number of calories, and then I just watch what I eat between the meals. I will try to take a picture of everything I eat and post it here to keep myself accountable.
I am just super inspired right now because I just watched Biggest Loser on hulu. Geez I LOVE this show. Give me a month, heck I will even take a week, training with Bob and Jillian and having a heart to heart with them and my life will be complete. Ha. Something that really struck me was when Jillian was yelling to one of the contestants to run faster on a treadmill and the contestant didn’t think she could do it, but in the end was able to run at a certain amount of time at a certain speed and Jillian said, “There, ya see? You could do it all along. How many other things in your life are you half-a$$ing when you can really just accomplish them?” Got me thinking back to the healthy eating- I really need to make the promise to COMMIT to my healthy diet and that starts right now.
I’m off now to study for yet ANOTHER mid term, plan my meals and check out the Jump Start diet page for some tips for healthy snacks to eat between meals that will keep my full and fueled.
Breakfast: 2 Whole Grain Waffles, 1 tbsp almond butter, berries
Lunch: Salad w/Chicken, Bell Pepper, Tomato, Feta Cheese, Garbanzo Beans, Carrots. Apple
Snack: Almonds, Hard Boiled Egg (sorry, no picture)
Dinner: Turkey Burger, Veggies, Grapefruit
Enjoy the rest of your week!
xx Jessica