Week 2, Day 4, Diet with Dianna

Today was a great day. I woke up and waited half an hour before making breakfast. I cooked for myself and my beautiful daughter. The rest of my day was excellent, too. I had a lot of energy. I sat most of the day working on book edits with my son. I felt like the food wasn't digesting as fast because of sitting so much. I must remember to move more...

REVELATION KNOWLEDGE:
Exercise is an important factor. I know that most overweight dieters hate the thought of doing any type of physical exercise. If we can just get over the aspect of doing some sort of physical movement for at least 30 minutes a day, it would really magnify the results of diet. I know that cutting way back on sugar and carbs, adding protein and fiber are an excellent start, but it is vital to put forth the effort of doing some kind of exercise. You have to think outside of the box and find something that will make you happy.  I like to walk but I dislike walking in the hot humid weather. I am blessed to have an aunt and uncle with a swimming pool and they graciously offered their pool for me to swim laps. I agreed and now I can still get the heart rate up and at the same time get in a little resistance work on my muscles. I can still exercise and beat the heat!

Exercise:
Swam for one hour. Some laps and some treading water, constantly moving my arms and legs. Fun and refreshing!

Breakfast:

Malt-O-Meal - 1/2 serving (a whole serving is entirely too much) and I added a teaspoon of butter, teaspoon of Vermont's SF maple flavored syrup and topped it off with four blueberries, and whipped cream. I also ate a half slice of Oroweat whole wheat sandwich thin, two slices of bacon, coffee w/half & half sweetened with a half a package of Stevia in the Raw.

Breakfast S/C Total: 3/2

Mid-morning snack:

Five cashews and a big glass of water.

Snack S/C Total: 1/1

Lunch:

One all Beef Frank (no bun) and a teaspoon of plain yellow mustard, two cheddar cheese chips, ten corn tortillas, half cup of leftover sugar snap peas, and mixed salad with balsamic vinaigrette. This ended up being too much, my eyes were bigger than my stomach.

Lunch S/C Total: 3/2

Dinner:

Again, life steps in a throws me a curve. There was a water main break and the water was shut off on the entire street, one hour before dinner. We didn't know when they would have it back on so we went out to eat. My beautiful thawed beef for homemade hamburgers, salad, and baked fries was thwarted.

My family wanted to go to Schlotzsky's. I was bummed and didn't really want to eat just a salad. I opted for an Original but instead of them putting it on all that bread, I had them put it in a tortilla. When the thing came out it was HUGE! Oh My! I only ate half of a half and gave the rest to my husband for his lunch, tomorrow.

I also ate about 7 Jalapeno chips, one dill pickle plank and drank unsweetened iced tea with a wedge of lemon and sweetened with a packet of Truvia (That I just happened to have in my purse!).

I have looked online for nutritional info and there isn't anything like what I ate. So I am going to try to break it down and give you a reasonable and realistic number, I hope!

Dinner S/C Total: 2/3

Evening snack:

Sugar Free chocolate pudding cup. Yum-Yum :D

Evening Snack S/C Total: 0/0

Today's S/C Total:  9/8

Boo-Hoo on the carb servings. I went over by three! I know that I haven't sabotaged my diet by slightly going over, but I do think it will slow down my weight loss. I don't think it will stop the weight loss, I just won't lose as much this week as I could if I held the carbs down to 5 servings.

umph!