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Monday, November 5, 2007
Before I get into my routines, I wanted to mention that I lost 6 lbs on my home WI on Friday. This is not as amazing as it sounds because the prior week I was up 5 lbs (due to water weight from TOM) but it felt really good to drop it all plus another pound. Yay me!
I do feel like I've done some great things in improving my daily routine, both in terms of weight loss and in the rest of my life. And honestly, if the rest of my life is in chaos, my weight loss routine will be too.
In terms of weight loss, I have started to have a pretty predictable breakfast & lunch routine. For breakfast, I pretty much eat 2 packets of instant oatmeal, a cup of tea with 1% milk and a wee bit of sugar (I am moving away from fake sweeteners), and sometimes a piece of fruit (like an orange). For lunch, I either bring some kind of leftovers (I try to double soup & stew batches so I can freeze the leftovers in individual servings) or make a sandwich on whole wheat bread (fat free bologna, turkey breast, pb&j, or a lightened up egg salad). Then I try & bring some veggies (either leftovers or a Steamfresh Single), and a piece of fruit. For an afternoon snack, either a yogurt & fruit, a mini-wrap (mini flat-out with a little turkey or something) & fruit, or half of a sandwich & fruit.
This has been working out well because there's more variety in what I eat for lunch (not for breakfast, but I love instant oatmeal...I will try to mix it up by rotating weeks of instant oatmeal with weeks of egg mock muffins or something), and it's "real" food, and it's stuff I like. I find that eating "real" whole wheat bread (1 point per slice) rather than "light" bread is a lot more satisfying and filling. And I don't know if the veggies help my satiety level, but they taste good and I feel good about getting in a lunchtime veggie serving.
In terms of my daily routines, I have been really good about keeping the kitchen clean, which makes it so much easier to make meals quickly. Every night before bed, I run the dishwasher if it's full enough, spray & wipe down the counters, and figure out what I'll be bringing for lunch. Having a clean kitchen makes it so much nicer to make dinner! Like, a million times easier & less stressful. And waking up to a clean kitchen sets a nice tone for the day. When I'm boiling water for my tea & oatmeal, I put away the clean dishes from the night before, and everything is all ready for when I get home from work.
Another routine I've gotten into is drinking tons of tea. I've replaced coffee for tea in the mornings, and have decaf teas to drink at night. Now when I just feel kinda agitated and antsy instead of soothing myself by raiding the fridge, I can sooth myself by making a nice warm cup of tea. It's less calories, obviously, plus tea is yummy and full of antioxidants & stuff. What I keep forgetting to do, though, is to brew a couple pitchers of (unsweetened) iced tea. Which is stupid because I even have an iced tea machine.
Oh, and I've been drinking seltzer at home a lot instead of regular/diet soda or juice. No sugar, no artificial sweeteners, and it's refreshing and bubbly and there are some really fun flavors available these days (pomegranate! blueberry! ruby red!).
So...building good routines has really helped me lately, I think. Now I just need to build better routines to get me into bed at a reasonable hour. Zzzzzz...Labels: journal
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