First off, I made it through Halloween without eating any candy! I think that after a year of WW, my tastes have changed somewhat. I'm not saying I don't love chocolate, candy or ice cream. But I don't really ever crave it, or even think about it. There is ice cream in the freezer in the basement. I have a huge supply of WW ice creams, which I like a lot, in addition to regular ice cream. I would buy the WW stuff when it was on sale since it is so expensive. But it is stacked neatly in the basement freezer, forgotten.
For Halloween we had a bag of Starburst/Skittles (which I can pass up easily) and the 2nd bag is the assortment of Hershey's. Peanut butter cups, almond joys, 2 others that I can't even think of. It was a beautiful day/night, so we ended up staying outside with the neighbors. The one woman was eating a bunch of the Reese's pb cups. I made myself a popcorn since I came home from work hungry. I did end up having 1 light beer while we were outside. When we finally came in, I had an egg sandwich, (2 eggs, 1 piece of ff cheese on a low carb bagel)
As for the Dex C20, I think that has helped curb my appetite. Unfortunately, I haven't stopped eating. The eating is more of a habit.
Today I had breakfast, and then we went out to the mall. My daughter wanted to stop for lunch. I wasn't hungry AT ALL, and was looking at the menu to figure out what I could have that was small. I thought about just having a muffin and coffee. But they had a new sandwich, turkey, avocado and bacon melt. I ordered that and ate it all plus a half bag of potato chips! I easily could've skipped lunch all together.
So tonite, still not hungry, I ordered a pizza for the family. I ate one square, didn't really care for it. I sliced up the half a watermelon I had and ate some of that. When I did get hungry, I made a bowl of oatmeal. It is a core food, and i've been trying to stick with core. When I decided I was still hungry, I made ANOTHER bowl of oatmeal!!! Well, at 150 cals/bowl, that's 300 cals for dinner (plus a square of cheese pizza) I could've done worse. If I had gone crazy with the pizza it would've been way more than 300 calories.
The scale seemed a little lower this morning. I don't have a digital scale, and it's hard for me to read, so I'm never exact with my scale at home, I just look for the trend. Official weigh in is Tuesday afternoon.
Hopefully I have a good couple more days and can get back to pre-vacation weight.
The rivers turns crystal
1 month ago

you did great on Halloween!! I'm still nimbling on the leftover candy. Its hard to break old habits with eating what we used to, portion control, etc. I think trying to be conscious of it, like you are, is a good thing to do and a good place to start to continue to fine tune it to get to a plan that works that you can stick with
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