DAY 80 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 28.2 LBS

Worst GREEN/RED day since starting this system. I'm exhausted. Hoping to get some sleep since kids are not going to school tomorrow. Despite all the reds, I don't think my eating was as bad as it could have been. I'm in survival mode right now. Going to sleep.

DAY 79 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 27.6 LBS

The fact that I'm posting after 1:00 a.m. is a good indicator of how my evening (after 9 pm) has ended. There are some stressful situations occurring right now and I am definitely wanting to deal with the stress by EATING! UGH!

I'm going to look at these situations with a "glass half full" attitude. I can sum that attitude up pretty easily:

If tonight's stress would have happened 80 days ago (Pre- Green/Red), I would have had a major "sweets" binge. I would have eaten untold amounts of sweets, containing zero nutritional value with LOTS of calories. I wouldn't have logged ANY of my food. I would have been "off" the dieting wagon for no telling how long. I would be eating myself into oblivion every day and then I would have kept telling myself, "I'll start again tomorrow." But " tomorrow" would be so long in coming, all of the lost weight would be regained.

Today, 79 days into this Green/Red journey, I still found myself WANTING to eat the stress away, but NOT CRAVING the junk food. I gave into the stress to some extent. I'm over in calories and sugar grams. However, I ate watermelon and beef jerkey for my stress eating instead of candy bars and cookies.

THAT'S PROGRESS! I have faith that I will eventually be completely free of the bondage of emotional eating. I have come a long way already and I feel and see a huge difference in my mentality toward food and eating.

DAY 78 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 28 LBS

Today was a great day. I had a good loss which I expected since I didn't eat anything after 2:00 and because my calories were so low yesterday.

Bootcamp started back up today and it was a HARD workout. I'm thankful that I enjoy working out and look forward to going every day.

My sleep was RED last night and is obviously going to be RED again tonight. I will do my best to be 100% GREEN tomorrow.

DAY 77 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 26.4 LBS

Today was better than yesterday.

I started off with an 11 mile bike ride early this morning. It was great being back on my bike after many years of not riding any significant distance. I hope to make bike riding a regular part of my activities. It also helped to get up early and get my exercise completed first thing. I just feel SO MUCH BETTER when I exercise!

After the bike ride, we went to see a championship Little League game and were unsure of what our plans for the day were going to include. So, before we left the house, I packed healthy snacks for all of us. These came in handy and probably helped with today being "GREEN".

My calories are very low today. This was not intentional. After leaving the game and eating lunch with friends, we came home. I was exhausted and decided to lay down for a little while. I read my Bible and then rolled over and took a two hour nap. I rarely nap but it was exactly what I needed today. I woke up about 7:15 p.m. but I wasn't hungry and decided not to eat just because my calories were low. I figure my calories from yesterday and today balance out pretty well.

Bootcamp has been off for a week and we start back up tomorrow morning. I'm happy about this because I enjoy the varied workouts, the camaraderie between campers, and the fact that by 6:30 a.m., I have worked my tail off!

Heading to bed now so I can get my 6 hours of sleep!

DAY 76 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 27.6 LBS

Today was a hard/weird day. I didn't feel good when I woke up and I just felt out of sync all day.

I didn't read my Bible or finish drinking my water until almost midnight! We were at church today, but we were serving with young kids so we didn't hear the sermon or go to Sunday school which makes being at church a good, but different than normal, experience.

This afternoon I felt hungry/dissatisfied with what I was eating. I didn't eat anything "unhealthy" but nothing seemed to satisfy my hunger. In reality, I wasn't hungry physically, I was uptight emotionally. I don't know why, we have had a pretty relaxing weekend, but regardless, I felt uptight today and I could have made healthier choices.

WHERE I WENT WRONG (RED):

Recognized I was uptight and wanting to eat for emotional reasons, and KEPT EATING ANYWAY!

Didn't log food as I was eating. I knew I was going over my allotted calories and ate anyway.

Ate fruit when I knew my sugar grams were already used up. I ended the day eating 123 grams when I was only allowed 34!

Didn't exercise when I was feeling uptight, which probably would have helped the day end a lot better. I didn't exercise at all today.

By 11:00 tonight, I had only consumed 40 oz of water. Probably contributed to not feeling satisfied. I know I do best when I drink my water early in the day.

WHERE I WENT RIGHT (GREEN):

Got all my water in before bed.

Read my Bible and prayed.

Got 6 hours of sleep last night.

Ate only healthy food.

Made a plan to exercise 1st thing in the morning. I do much better with all my goals if I exercise when I first wake up.

Logged all my food, even though it was ugly.

By doing the blog, I'm processing what I'm doing and why I'm doing it so I can figure out how to do things better next time.










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DAY 75 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 26.2 LBS

I'm all green today. My weight was up today and I don't know why. I'll be glad when Tuesday gets here and I can get back to bootcamp. I have been exercising at night which is throwing off my normal schedule.

I'm am super tired and heading to bed now.!

DAY 74 - TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 27.2

I am beginning to crave sweet food, not candy sweet, healthy sweet, like fruit. I was hungry this afternoon and wanted some fruit. I checked my food log and discovered I was close to going over my recommended amount of sugar. I chose fresh veggies instead of fruit.

This may be more challenging to stay within the recommended guidelines for sugar consumption than I thought it was going to be. I'm sure I can do it and I'm sure I need to do it so I can be as healthy as possible.

I cheated on reading my Bible tonight. I didn't actually read it, instead I watched the Bible movie that was on TV this spring. I watched the second part while I worked out. I'm counting that as my Bible time but it is certainly fudging it a bit.