This is the first post in a new journal for me. My old journal, well, it's embarrassingly old and I've decided that 2012 deserves a fresh start!
I will be starting P1 this weekend for January 1st. It's a cheesy time of year to start, but hey, it happens to be that time and I'm at the point where I have found my way back to the beach, so why not make the most of it
Tomorrow morning, I will be cleaning out my cupboards of anything that is not beach-friendly. I already have found a home with a co-worker for the bag of potatoes that I have in my pantry
The last few years I've been pretending that I can eat anything I want as long as I cook healthy - but the reality for me, is that I need to *lose* weight and to do that I *don't* get to eat "just like everyone else" that I know. When I was on SB last time, I lost weight for the first time in my life, really - and I did it by sticking to the foods on the list - and that really means giving up potatoes, white bread, white rice, and pasta - c'est la vie.Since going off of SB, my blood sugar has gone back up and my dr has put me on all kinds of medications - she wants me to start monitoring my blood sugars and I'm resisting - if I don't check my blood sugar, I'm not a "real" diabetic, right? Rereading my old journal, my levels went from 7 to 5 in 4months on the beach - so here's to using diet to manage my blood sugars instead of drugs!
Things that worked for me last time, that I need to keep in mind:
1) posting here! when I stopped posting, I stopped eating right.
2) tracking what I eat, and weighing in daily - for me, these are key to staying on track
3) making sure i have easy to heat up food for dinner every day - too easy to say "oh well, I might as well hit the drive thru"
Things that got me into trouble last time -
1) my coworkers wanting me to go out for lunch every day - those coworkers actually don't work with me anymore
2) wanting to "leave" the office for lunch - if I take my lunch, where will I "go" to eat? My current plan is to "leave" the office to go for a short walk and eat at my desk or in the spare office - not sure yet.
3) drive thru. my nemesis. It's not feasible to just not have money on me - but I need to make sure that I have a plan for each meal and don't just take the easy way out.
Mostly though - I need to track my food and weigh in daily. And get back in the habit of eating properly for breakfasts, taking lunch to work and making dinners.
This weekend:
1) get rid of noncompliant foods!
2) grocery run - bagged salad and grape tomatoes are on sale 5/$5 at nob hill also beans and salsa. cucumbers are 69cents at savemart and roma tomatoes are 97cents a pound at savemart. I have 2 bottles of good salad dressing so I'm set there. need to get some sf fudgecicles and sf cool whip
I have eggs and cheese for breakfast.3) check freezer for cooked chicken - pull out some of the turkey for salads this week
4) make lazy cabbage rolls tomorrow - although I can't have them on rice during phase 1, they'll still be delicious!
5) see if spaghetti squash is on sale anywhere
I should also set up the tv and dvd player upstairs and dust off the WATP dvd
