Everyday Systems

Friday... not so good. Saturday was exactly like an S day, unintentionally, so maybe that fixes it a little.

Sunday I was a bit unreasonable.

But Saturday a bunch of us went hiking for about 4 hours, and that is good.

This past week was most interesting. I passed on Wednesday and maybe Friday.

Other days I failed :/ Not horribly on all of them.

Bad news - I have high cholesterol.

So now I can't eat some of the things I like.

I'm going to switch to non-trans fat margarine (I love butter but don't use much), cut out the egg yolks, avoid cheddar like the plague, restrict to chicken and fish, and eat more avocados and beans (good for dipping I guess). And I'm going to have to go to the gym and do cardio (previously mentioned nasty air quality and noise of the street outside my apartment complex).

The worst bit is it is mostly genetic.

I'm quite sure No-S would work with this just fine, **_IF_** I had the self control to do both at once. I don't think I do. One stressful week at work (last week) and I nearly ate all day straight. (I did better than I thought I would though).

Since my BMI isn't out of whack, (I am aiming for 23 or so, I'm at like 24.2 and a bit)... I may have to put no-S on hold for the greater good.

So I bought some omega 3 fish oil pills and have resolved to go to the gym every day that doesn't begin with an S

The new No-S...

I did ok for no-s today, but being a little depressed about high numbers influenced me a bit.

I'm going to drop the cholesterol 60 points and by then I'll be in the habit of good foods for cholesterol that I can probably commit 100% to no-S as well.

My goal for now. I'll keep posting success and failure.

Today: Success except I couldn't eat breakfast before the glucose and other tests, and I had an extra apple.

4-5 wasabi soy nuts here and there, but overall pretty good the last couple days.

Dinner with a friend tonight so we'll see how that goes.

Chol watching - bought some oatmeal, haven't had turkey bacon, beef, or butter. Been eating my fish pills, chose the salmon over stuffed shells one day....

Could be worse!

It can always be worse! <wink>

I suppose it can always be worse...

Friday was pretty naughty - 4 meals more or less... there was a party...
Thursday had an extra tangelo and a little handful of soy nuts at dinnertime.

Night time is my weakest time.

Time for some oatmeal, methinks. Boring boring boring. I think fatty foods and i must've been having some secret affar. Maybe they have even less fatty turkey bacon somewhere....

Turkey bacon is NOT bacon!

True Dat.

Today it was someone's 8th anniversary at the company, and per tradition, he brought in 8 pounds of m&ms.

I had far less than I wanted, infinitely more than I should have (should have had 0). Bad scores on no-S and being good about cholesterol.

Have had lightly sweetened (sucralose) oatmeal, 1/2 cup cooked for the past week. Kind of boring but not too bad...

Not doing too badly lately.

90% success. That is, I don't tend to snack more than 3 days a week and i snack once each day that I snack. I also am trying to stick to fruit not chips for the snakcs.

But these are N days I'm hitting. Oatmeal is getting old fast, but that is not a good reason to be stuffing my face.

Saturday and Sunday were only a little bit worse than a standard N-day, so maybe I'm approaching my balance. The cholesterol thing - we shall see.

Too much seafood over the weekend.

But all F/S/Sn were no-s days, mostly because the meals were big and we were touring my grandparents around town.

Weekdays not so lucky. Keepin trying.

Haven't gained anything, still at "1 pound down" from my most recent serious attempts.

Not bad this week not great. Some days total failure....

*sigh*

Keep on trying!
I got a fortune cookie once that said, "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly"

You are trying... This was a bad week but you can start over again next Monday!
Have a nice weekend Jenn!
Peace and Love,
Deb

Today might just be a success.

Tuesday I missed lunch due to scheduling (my own fault) and had beer and cookies after dinner... not together though Almost counts!

I think even w/o working out the past couple weeks and having mostly IFFY days I'm down another pound.

If it's still down 2 more days of the next 4, I'm counting it as GONE!

Debs right - just keep trying. better to try and fail than not try at all. And we are our most harsh critics. Being human and having a hard time at this new lifestyle is beyond hard. Sometimes it is downright impossible. But I will bet you are noticing more when you are pushing it, you are being more conscientious about little things like parking farther away in the parking lot, you choose fish over stuffed shells , and so manylittle things every day. I will bet you didnt do that 2 years ago. Its like that 3 steps forward, 2 steps back thing... You are still moving forward, its just slowly and sometimes we back pedal. But its still forward motion and forward momentum gathers speed over time if we insist on continuing forward instead of just sitting down & giving up. AND YOU HAVENT!! You are still doing great if you ask me. Better than I feel most days about my progress.
Anyway - heres to another chance every day to "do over" if we mess up.

Where'd ya go? I miss ya!

Not so hot whilst Vista was shipping, I must admit.
I'll try again but holidays are up.

Power went out in Seattle for a few days, that was interesting and pretty much all N-days since we had to eat at places with power.

Ok So I read "Mindless Eating"...

Since I wasn't really losing weight even trying the S and no-S days, I would get tempted and indulge, just like the other diets. It kept starting as "just one of this " or that.

And then got worse.

At first it was carrots, then it was chips again.

I am not strict enough with myself!!

So... tomorrow I am going to start trying really hard. AGAIN.

Keep on truckin.