Day 5 of my "diet." Here's my food log, weight, exercise, and thoughts.
breakfast, 8 am : about 1/10th serving of housemate's smoothie, cooked veggies, baked sweet potato. my carrot allotment (3/4 lb).
lunch, (noon), after mountain biking: my favorite salad of late topped with homemade soy yogurt. The fruits du jour were strawberries and cantaloupe.
3:30 pm snack: sugar snap peas (0.6 lb), small bowl of peas and corn and d'angou pear vinegar.
Dinner, 8 pm: repeat salad topped with seed mixture and d'angou pear vinegar
Nutritional information:
Calories: 1460; protein 64 g; fiber 72 g.
Weight: 130.
Exercise: mountain biked 1.5 hours.
Thoughts/notes:
- Our family picnic trip was cancelled, so we decided to take the morning off anyway and go mountain biking.
- Today I loved both my lunch and dinner salad. Yesterday I said I was bored with them. What was the difference? Today, I was hungry after mountain biking, and I was sitting by a beautiful lake. Tonight I waited until I was hungry too. Yesterday I was eating at my desk at my office while working and wasn't hungry. hmmm.
- When I was eating my delicious lunch salad today, I thought to myself, if you just keep eating this delicious food, you will be able to continue mountain biking for a long time. sounds like a win-win solution.
- my breakfast carrots were eaten when I was quite full already--and they didn't taste as good as usual. I just wanted to eat them because they were there. I think that is called emotional eating.
- I worked from home this afternoon/evening and also had a desire to eat for no reason in the afternoon. Knowing I would post here put the brakes on. I guess that's what the diet experts mean about being accountable. Maybe that's the value in having a coach: knowing you will have to report in to them.
