So if you've read my stuff for any length of time, you know that I'm overweight, disorganized, messy... oh, the list goes on and on.
I've put a lot of time and effort into changing those things about myself that I don't like, and you know what? It looks like I'm making some progress.
Weightwatchers is the best thing that I've ever done for myself. It's not a diet, it's all about lifestyle change, and it's been a good way to do it for me. I've lost 26 pounds over the last six months. Doesn't sound like much? Most of the people in my group don't have that much to lose for their entire goal, and I'm still almost 100 pounds overweight. That's thing #1. Thing #2 - it's been proven that slow and steady weight loss is the only kind that lasts. I fell and hurt my knee and couldn't walk any appreciable distance for several months, and yet I didn't gain a pound back. That tells me that I've accomplished a permanent change. I know how to keep the weight off for the rest of my life. Knowing that, I don't care if it takes me three years to lose the remaining 100 lbs. All I have to know is that I can lose the next ten, and just keep doing that until I'm down to where I want to be. Yay me!
Along with that comes my gripe with my eating habits. When I don't plan meals, we eat out pretty much every single night. In the last few weeks, I've been trying to plan a week's worth of dinners. It's hard to do - I don't need to tell those of you who work how hard it is - you get home and that's it, you have no desire to get up off the couch. I've been using pre-made menus and shopping lists from Saving Dinner. The idea is to shop once a week, bring home the stuff, do all the chopping and preparing then, and just have everything ready to go so that when you come home, you can make a healthy, yummy dinner without too much work.
Last week I made dinner every night, and I ate till I was stuffed, but because I made dinners that had almost no fat in them, I actually lost weight, and had leftovers to take to work the next day.
Example - Salmon with pineapple salsa and brown rice. Now, the original recipe called for a thick spread of mayonnaise over the salmon, then a layer of ketchup, then bacon strips. That just blew my mind - who the hell takes a yummy fish like salmon and drowns it in fat?? So I took some chunky fresh salsa, added a can of crushed pineapple, some teriyaki sauce, and marinated overnight. Yum-ola! I made brown rice to go with it, and it was to die for... And all I had to do was come home, put the salmon into packets, get the rice going, bake the salmon, and it was done.
I'm planning next week's menu now. In case you're interested, here's a week's sample menu.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
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