Day 7

So I'm almost done one week of healthy eating. I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow morning and see if the scale is nice to me. I hope it is. I've been doing pretty well with working out. I went for a run on Thursday, took Friday off and did almost an hour of yoga today. My calorie intake has been pretty good too:

day 4 - 1199
day 5 - 1256
day 6 - 1120

Just 10 more days and I can eat things like rice and potatoes every other day. I'm excited. I've pretty much found the vegetables I like to eat - green beans, cucumbers, broccoli, sweet peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, celery. I just can't bring myself to love carrots no matter how hard I try even though I know they're good for you. And I still refuse to eat onions. I'm going to buy some brussel sprouts soon I think and make those because I love them. But for now I'm happy with these veggies.

I spent a couple hours looking up recipes the other night, because I get bored eating the same things over and over again. I found some pretty good recipes so I'm going to start making those. It's really just different ways to season chicken and how to cook veggies in different ways. I'm also thinking about starting to make my own condiments, like salsa, ketchup, salad dressing. I know I could definitely successfully make salsa and it'll be so much more healthier than store-bought stuff, and I do like eating salsa on my chicken. And I'm buying fat-free, low-cal salad dressing and limiting my intake but I think homemade dressing could be healthier. So far all of the condiments - and really everything - I buy are either low-cal, fat-free, salt-free, reduced salt, reduced sugar, sugar-free or a combination of those. We'll see if I'll be able to make my condiments healthier by making my own though. I'll probably start with salsa.

I'm really hoping I'll at least see another half pound gone tomorrow morning. If there's not, I'm going to be pretty discouraged. I've been kind of struggling the past couple days because I'm so impatient. I hate having to wait to see results and I spend so much time just staring at myself in the mirror wondering why I don't look different. Logically I know I won't see results yet, but I'm not logical about this and it gets hard. Hopefully I'll just power through though and keep going. I feel healthier so I guess I just have to wait to see that translate to my physical appearance.

Other than that, still drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day, and I've gone back to drinking one cup of green tea a day. We'll see if that helps me feel healthier. I'm still waiting for this healthy eating to ease my headaches and make sleeping easier, but that has yet to happen. I hope it does though. I'll try to update quickly tomorrow after I weigh myself. Until then...

-Monica