mid-week update
Sep. 14th, 2011 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravnsdaughterSo, I may not be dieting anymore, but my weight is going down!
At this point, my main focus is on improving 3 things in my life, with the intent of making them permanent changes:
1. Drastically cutting down on my eating away-from-home. My ideal is to eat breakfast at home, pack a lunch to work, and eat dinner at home, and not spend any money outside of grocery shopping on food. This is mostly for budgetary purposes rather than anything else. I'm doing pretty well - not perfect, but not bad either. I'm happy with it.
2. Increasing my veggie and fruit intake. I'm also doing well on this one - I'm consistently up to 3-4 servings of veggies and fruit per day, as compared to the 0-1 I usually had before.
3. No pop at home. Rather than cutting it out completely, I don't have it at home anymore. If I'm at a restaurant I can have it, but not at home.
This morning the scale said 355, and I was 366 on September 3rd. I'm not aiming specifically for weight loss, but I'll certainly take it! I may have given up dieting, but sure, I'd love to be a smaller size, simply because yes, it will make my life easier. But being healthy is a higher priority than weighing a certain weight, or wearing a certain size.
I finished the book![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
belowthe49th loaned me after I posted my "no more dieting" post - Health at Every Size: The Suprising Truth about your Weight - and it was totally awesome. I honestly wish ALL of my friends would read this book, no matter what their weight. I'm planning to try and get my parents to read it too. I want to do another read through though, to catch anything I may have missed.
I've also made another change this week that seems to be doing me a world of good in many ways. I've spent VERY little time on the computer since Sunday night. I'm sure my desire to play video games will come and go, but lately I've been far more interested in other things. Last night I think I made over 20 lampwork beads (a mix of the blue and white ones I need to have done for the third weekend of October, some in black/white/red for a gift swap, a a couple blue/white/black ones for my own swag, and five plain amber-coloured spacers for the necklace I'm making for Ian. I also spent quite a bit of time practicing my harp, because crazy me decided to go ahead with a full entry into Tir Righ's Bardic Championship. *facepalm* So now I have to find another piece to do. I'm crazy, I know.
At this point, my main focus is on improving 3 things in my life, with the intent of making them permanent changes:
1. Drastically cutting down on my eating away-from-home. My ideal is to eat breakfast at home, pack a lunch to work, and eat dinner at home, and not spend any money outside of grocery shopping on food. This is mostly for budgetary purposes rather than anything else. I'm doing pretty well - not perfect, but not bad either. I'm happy with it.
2. Increasing my veggie and fruit intake. I'm also doing well on this one - I'm consistently up to 3-4 servings of veggies and fruit per day, as compared to the 0-1 I usually had before.
3. No pop at home. Rather than cutting it out completely, I don't have it at home anymore. If I'm at a restaurant I can have it, but not at home.
This morning the scale said 355, and I was 366 on September 3rd. I'm not aiming specifically for weight loss, but I'll certainly take it! I may have given up dieting, but sure, I'd love to be a smaller size, simply because yes, it will make my life easier. But being healthy is a higher priority than weighing a certain weight, or wearing a certain size.
I finished the book
belowthe49th loaned me after I posted my "no more dieting" post - Health at Every Size: The Suprising Truth about your Weight - and it was totally awesome. I honestly wish ALL of my friends would read this book, no matter what their weight. I'm planning to try and get my parents to read it too. I want to do another read through though, to catch anything I may have missed.I've also made another change this week that seems to be doing me a world of good in many ways. I've spent VERY little time on the computer since Sunday night. I'm sure my desire to play video games will come and go, but lately I've been far more interested in other things. Last night I think I made over 20 lampwork beads (a mix of the blue and white ones I need to have done for the third weekend of October, some in black/white/red for a gift swap, a a couple blue/white/black ones for my own swag, and five plain amber-coloured spacers for the necklace I'm making for Ian. I also spent quite a bit of time practicing my harp, because crazy me decided to go ahead with a full entry into Tir Righ's Bardic Championship. *facepalm* So now I have to find another piece to do. I'm crazy, I know.