I survived day one and, so far, have made it through day 2 of not having any sugar. Actually doing better than I thought I would, so that's a plus.
Probably my Clean Eating, SANE eating, and Paleo phases I have gone through have put me in the right mindset to do this challenge. I'm sure if I had attempted this 3 or even 2 years ago, I wouldn't have made it through the morning of Day One. I just wasn't ready to give up my favorite treats... or the sweetener in my morning tea.
Tonight may be a challenge for me. My husband goes out with friends to watch Monday Night Football, leaving me alone to do whatever. And "whatever" usually involves a lot of what I call "closet binging." Which means I eat a bunch of junk that I would not normally eat, then hide the evidence that I ate the junk. I used to think I was only one who did this, but I mentioned my transgressions to a friend and she said she did the same thing. Then I blogged about it on the Weight Watcher site and was amazed by how many people also did the "closet binging." Some Monday nights I would stick to program, but some Mondays I would drive to the store to stock up on the no-no foods. And good golly, look out if my husband went away for a few days!
So, tonight I will be very aware of what I'm eating and how much. And I need to keep reminding myself that I can have all the veggies I want if I feel the need to snack. I am so used to the sugary, salty, processed snacks that I actually forget I can have veggies. Probably because I'm too busy wallowing about what I can't have, I don't think about what I can have.
Along with trying to avoid sugar, I'm trying to get back into my walking routine. I usually walk 5 to 7 miles a days (and I have to work to get those miles in!), but in the last week or so my walking has all but stopped. I have been averaging about 6,000 steps instead of hitting my goal of 14, 286 steps (weird daily goal, right? multiply that by 7 and it gets me 100,000 steps a week). So yesterday, along with avoiding sugar, I made sure to make my step goal. And I'm working on getting that again today. If I walk on all three of my breaks at work, I can usually get very close to the goal and then the incidental walking I do after work gets me the rest of the steps. I calculate my steps with my Fitbit, which I love. I also love my Fitbit friends that check in with me (or nag me) when they see that I haven't been walking. That definitely gives me motivation to get back to it.
My blogs seem to take a meandering route... probably because I haven't exactly figured out what I want to say, so tend to type whatever comes into mind. But it is helping me, which is why I started it. I wanted some place to write down my struggles, frustrations, triumphs and joys of my weight loss journey. And if it helps, inspires or motivates someone along the way, then that's icing on the cake! (Cake that I won't be eating... at least, not for another 19 1/2 days....)
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