Weigh in Day!

Great news!

I'm down another 1 kg!

SOOOOOOOOO excited!

How did I do it this week?

It was about portion control and healthy eating. Healthy snack options like vita-wheats and weight watchers treats.

I have to be honest, I didn't do a lot of exercise this week, nor did I drink enough of he what that I should have. As a result I'm feeling more tired than I should be.

This coming week will be about getting that water consumption up and exercising!

It's a balancing act

Especially on a weekend, there is no way that you can avoid those indulgent calories.

As they teach you in programmes like Weight Watchers, it's essential to balance out your meals to allow for those special treats that you know you're going to want.

The key to watch out for will be quantities.

So tonight, I had the concept right. Healthy seafood dinner with salad, which then allowed me to have wine.

The only problem...well...I'm pretty sure I had too much seafood...and hmmm...how many wines did I have tonight???

Why is it so hard???

I have my monthly "friend" and I can think of nothing else but food.

During the day I was good, well except for the afternoon chocolates...bugger, I really couldn't help it...they were around my desk!

Dinner was great...steak and salad...

Did my exercise - quite impressed with myself on this front!

Then I had just a smidge of ice-cream...followed by some weight watchers jelly...and then some pistachios...

Oh dear!

Why is it so hard???

Room Service

Ok, so it's 1am in NZ and I've just got back from work.

Haven't had dinner, so I order room service. I KNOW I should have thought "well it's this late, just go to bed"...but there were a number of factors here:

1. The bill will be on my work. Answer: Order room service
2. I'm sure there would be something light, and therefore healthy. Answer: Order room service
3. I still have to work for an hour or two, so I WILL be awake (burning energy using my brain...don't laugh, apparently this is true!). Answer: Order room service
4. I'm hungry. Answer: JUST ORDER ROOM SERVICE ALREADY!

So, I pick a toasted sandwich and a chicken soup...pretty healthy right? I mean come on, this would be on weight watchers!

It arrives...

The chicken soup is CREAMY chicken soup...delicious...and I mean REALLY delicious which can only mean one thing...it is FATTY!

The toasted sandwich...well...it was covered with chips, and I mean covered! It was so covered I couldn't see my sandwich!!!

This is what I should have continued drinking...

This is what I did drink...

It's been a long tough day...resistance is futile.

Healthy Snacks

One thing you have to prepare for when starting any diet is the case of the munchies.



Know how your body functions and when your "I need something to eat" cravings will kick in.



For me it's essentially from 2pm-4pm every afternoon on a work day. Mornings is filled with breakfast, meetings and more meetings, then comes lunch and by 2pm I'm either ready for siesta or I'm searching for something to munch on.



Now, apparently this is a sign that your body does need something to eat, but the questions is WHAT and HOW MUCH. From what I've studied in terms of successful weight loss plans (i.e. Lite n Easy and Weight Watchers) it's about having smaller meals throughout the day to speed up your metabolism and avoid the peaks and falls in your metabolic rate (?)...or something to that effect. Ok, if you really do want more scientific and fact based answer, please do your own research.



The key I think is plan your meals and plan to have snacks. Just redefine what "snack" means.



For Christmas my parents bought me a bag of healthy snack foods, and Ajita's Vege chips was one of them.



It opened my eyes to a world of healthy snack items that can fill the space when you really need something a little more than a celery stick (and definitely more exciting!). The flavours are amazing and you can forget that they are 40% less fat than regular chips.