Week 4
I'm starting week four with more determination than I've had in a while. Last week, I got all my meals cooked on Sunday, so it was easy to try and eat for the week. I found a big stumbling block, though: friends! I had two instances where I went out two eat with friends, and only one was planned. I try to make sure that my two free-Ks are balanced between one night out with friends and Shabbos, since it's not fair to ask my boyfriend's (Adrian and I are dating again!) mom to make me a separate dinner. And because I like to go out with friends.
The plus side to Shabbos is that Nancy DOES cook mostly healthy. Last week, she made (for us vegetarians, anyways), brusselsprouts, roasted squash, zuchinni and red onion mixed with a tiny bit balsamic vinegar, and some potatoes, along with a fabulous vegetable dip that has tomato, red onion, corn, and lots of other goodies in it, to be eaten with cuccumbers and bell peppers. So she does try to make it healthy, but I know it's not balanced, because she also served Chicken, which means there was no dairy at the table, so not any protein.
Between being a vegetarian and being a kosher Jew, I find that sometimes trying to do this is almost outside of my range unless I eat alone forever.
(Nancy DID say she liked the vegetable mannicotti, though, but she doesn't like red peppers. I'm going to find a way to make that work).
Last week I was discouraged, and so I ended up not working out as much as I should. This week, however, I'm committed. I know that I won't see the results I want unless I do what I'm supposed to.
My second biggest problem is my sweet tooth. I definitely don't eat sweets like I used to, but I'm the kind of person who has a box of sugar-free fudgsicles in the freezer, so that I can have one every night before bed. I've found that allowing myself this makes me want it less. While I LOVE the simple pudding dessert I found, I'm having a hard time not being able to randomly grab one or two of the organic candies I have on my desk, or pop a hershey's kiss in my mouth. What worries me is that making a forbidden food will make me want to just binge, which is what's happened before.
I've ordered Kinetix bars, and I'm hoping that that will help for days when I'm out of the house (like if I spend the day running errands, or go to my parent's house). I'm still going to have to figure out what to do on days when I have to go straight from school to work and am gone from the house from 9am-11:30pm, but I'll worry about that when I've got the schedule for it (as in, when I'm schedule one of those days).
I'm also finding that I love the workouts. I missed a day of strength training last week and I was really sad =(. So this is something that will be good for me, in the long run.
Hopefully, I'll make this week work!
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