For the most part i did pretty well. I discovered quickly on how easy it is to drink up your calorie intake. I never realized just how much i was eating until i began writing it down. But by the end of the week i had a good sense of it.
I also found that there are not enough hours in the day. Finding the time to do everything i need to to do in my life, work, home and still find time for the gym was difficult some days. But i am working on a daily planner that will give me time to do everything i need to do during the day. I also find that sometimes i am just plan lazy (yes i admit it) so i am working on that to.
The biggest accomplishment i had during the 1st week was on Friday. Friday is my treat day. I get my allowance and allow myself to by my lunch out. Normally i would go to 7-11 buy a sandwhich, drink and donut. But this time i decided to be smart about it. I thought out of that i should get one of those treats. I choose an energy drink (for reasons ill explain below) and instead of going to 7-11 i went to Urban Fare up the road. There i bought a lean cuisine meal and a banana to go with my drink. The bonus of that do was i saved myself about $3 by doing that. I'll explain
Old lunch
Sandwich 657 cal - $5.99
Monster 175cal - $2.99
Donut God only knows - $1.39
Total alot - $10.37 plus tax
New lunch
Lean Cuisine 300 cal - $4.39
Monster 175cal - $2.99
Banana 125cal - $0.60
Total 600 - $7.98 plus tax
So not only did i save calories but saved money to. Double bonus.
Another good thing i found this past week was light (67 cal) beer. After all i am not kidding myself. Its summer and bbq season so i can't not have a beer. Besides depriving myself will only make it worse later on :) so i found 67 cal beer with lime. Actually it was quite good. The best thing about it is that people wont steel my beer for (a) i am the only one who has it so i know who stole it and (b) most guys i know wouldn't be seen dead with a light beer hahaha
Another issue i found over the last week is emotional eating. I had such a rough week at work and it doesn't help with the fact that my BF and i are having our problems to. (i wont go to much into detail here) and of course all i wanted to do is eat and eat bad food (comfort food i guess you can call it)
I managed to stop myself a couple of times but there were times i found myself with bad food in my hands and didn't even realize until it was in my hand. So i need to focus on that as well
So continuing on for this week and my focus again is just get as much exercise as possible (walking lots of walking) and keeping track of my food/drink intake. My boss is away on holidays as of next week so i will have some time to make a daily plan as well as a meal plan and possible exercise plan.
Sometimes i think its slow going. But i am slowly making progress and it didn't take me one night to get overweight so i am not expecting to loose it all in one week. Life does happen and although i say i will plan all these things and although some of them haven't been done yet, it will. That is my promise to myself.