Trigger Foods

I realized today that I've been binging on a trigger food I didn't even realize I had: potato chips. Specifically, Cheetos. I could eat the whole bag (or multiple bags when we get the boxes of individual bags). It's really messing with my diet.

Time to throw them out. Or at least hide them. I feel like I've made a really decision.

Day 3: Still Working

Ok.

Saturday, great on the exercise, not so much on the food.

I went thrift shopping with a friend yesterday, and while we were out (and before we left) I was doing great. I even turned down a cookie! Lunch was great; I had the sweet onion chicken teriyaki with Baked Lays for lunch, with a diet coke: 10 WW points. That was awesome.

Then I got home. I went a little crazy. The tomatoes weren't so bad: they're 0 points! But did I really need bread and butter? I must have been craving it something awful, because that was an awfully strange choice, even for me!

A mid-week weigh-in shows me up a little less than a pound, but I'm hoping to turn that around the next three days. I got my step aerobics in today; I didn't finish the workout again, but I got further than I did Wednesday before I was wiped!

Today's challenge: grocery shopping! I'll have to scrounge up a reasonable lunch before I go, but we're out of food so I guess that's a second challenge!

Day 1: Confessions

Ok, so this blog is partly for me and partly for you (whoever you are).

I suck at diets, and losing weight, and lifestyle changes, and all that stuff. So I'm going public. Well, sort of. I'm not putting my real name out here. At least, not yet. Internet privacy and all that.

So I'm writing this in the hopes that I will stop sucking. I desperately need to stop sucking. I have PCOS, insulin resistance, bad knees, horrible heartburn, and I snore to wake the dead. Not to mention a family history of diabetes and heart disease. All of which are exacerbated by obesity.

This week, I had to buy a new scale because the old one errored out because I weighed too much. Ouch.

So: my plan.

I'm using Weight Watchers Online to track my eating habits and weight loss, and I'm using www.workoutsondemand.com as my exercise program. I'm mostly doing the step aerobics. I love step aerobics.

So far, I've only done one workout video, and I couldn't even finish that. I'm still sore from that. I was supposed to do another one today, but my calves were so tight I could barely walk. If they improve today, I'll work out later in the afternoon.

My goals are to stick to the Weight Watchers program, and exercise on Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and possibly Sunday once I've gotten back in the habit of exercising (and when things don't hurt so much!).

My hurdles are, well, my friends. I'm a member of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) and we like to eat together. After Tuesday meetings, we go to IHOP. After fighter practice, we go to a pizza place. Wednesdays, several of us have a potluck.

My plan for handling this is 1) we can't afford to eat out every week, so I will only have diet sodas when we go out and 2) use all my weekly points for Wednesday night potlucks!

We'll see how this goes. One of these days, I'm going to figure this whole healthy living thing out.

My journal: Yesterday sucked. Breakfast this morning was the last of a bag of Baked Doritos. I think that's the last of the junk food; things should get better. Tonight's dinner: Southwest Chicken and Pasta. Pretty healthy, even including the cheese.