Lifestyle Changes

I recently read something about how some of us treat the week end as a Holiday!!  Which is to say, we over indulge overselves with  food.  I AM FIRMLY ON THIS LIST!!    I usually have the  lowest weight of the week on Sunday morning -- I have Sunday's and Monday's off.  Tuesday morning is a scale nightmare which I have learned to avoid by not weighing until Friday or Saturday.....when I am closer to Sunday's weight.  This is becomming a bad cycle that I am having trouble breaking.

Today is Monday.

For my snacking monster I counted out one serving of  flat pretzels  (11 for 110 calories.  I am dragging it out.  I ate about half of them with salsa 2 hours ago, after which I put the rest in a container with a 4 sided lid and put them on the kitchen counter (being mindful helped with this),......then got busy with other things.  This is a new and positive behavior for me.  Something I need to encourage-which is why I am writing about it.

What did I do most of the time??  I would put the whole package of pretzels beside me and mindlessly eat the whole bag.

So a while ago my snacking monster was taunting me, distracting me, and making me think about food (I am NOT hungry) so I steamed some broccoli and cauliflower and took a  long time to eat it.  This whole large looking amount of broccoli and cauliflower was about 125 calories!!  Think volume!! This is a new and positive behavior for me. Something I need to encourage-which is why I am writing about it.

What did I do most of the time?  I would decide it was too much work to steam the veggies and grab something prepackaged.  (Even if 100 calorie packs, I am capable of eating all 6 packages in the box).

It is obvious to me that I have the bottom line decision as to what I do....I am making the healthy choice more and more often.  I need to encourage that behavior in myself as much as I would to anyone else making the effort.

I can, I will!!