I'm Back

Unfortunately I have stepped away from the program for a time.  Not entirely, but from the blog and from my daily log of meals.  I have still been eating properly, just not recording it or discussing it.  The results still have not changed.  This started last week when I lost ZERO and this last week, while I was thrilled to finally see a change on the scale, although it was just 1 pound.  But I am still nowhere near where I thought I would be by now.

But I am determined to continue.  I am listening to the success stories and reading others stories and I am going to try to maintain a positive attitude about myself and this program.  I do afterall feel better and am down a pant size from when I started and have lost and kept off 14 lbs in 7 weeks.

In evaluating myself, I have found a few open issues:
1. I still eat emotionally.  And this often occurs at night.  I used to count the number of crackers or chocolates to make sure I stick to the serving size, but over time I figured I know what 55 goldfish look like, or 1 serving of chocolates.  Realization: I need to go back to counting and putting them in a cup.

2. I need to go back to keeping a physical log of my diet.  How many carb servings and how many sugars. It will be easy because I do have a good idea of what is in what.  But I did this week 1 and lost big time.  Do it again.

3. Another damper I found is when I would find a new product and think it is great, only to learn later that it actually has HFCS or sucralose or any -lose.  What a bummer.  To be honest I would tell myself it's still better than eating the real sugars.  But I need to realize its not.  And it may be worse so avoid them both.  For example I found bread that I thought was the best only to learn it has sucralose - Ugh!  Throw it away and find something else.

4. As bad as the above issues seem, my biggest issue I think might be this: I'm not drinking enough water.  Ever since someone told me not to guzzle so much water in the morning and instead to sip it thru-out the day, I have been off track.  I'm not a sipper.  I don't like to sip.  I'm not a huge fan of drinking so much water.  I have always struggled with that and found guzzling it was my success to getting it down. I'm going to go back to this.  Rest assured, I am not OD'ing on water.  A 16-oz bottle when I wake, another bottle with breakfast.  Another before lunch.  Sobe during lunch.  And another before or during dinner.  That's 64-oz a day.  If drinking 16-oz at a time is going to be a health issue, kindly let me know, but for now that's what I'm going back to.  Otherwise I have probably only been having 16-24 oz a day of straight bottled water.  I do drink Sobe Lifewater and zevia soda also.  But these are the only things that make up my liquid intake.

By the way... I recently found that Sobe has at least 2 new flavors.  And Zevia Soda now comes in Black Cherry and it is yummy.

Well these are my open issues and I will start making some changes.  Starting with drinking a bottle of water right now.