24 Jan Monday

Food is Fuel!  It is not entertainment, it is not my friend, it is not my "thing to do" when watching TV after dinner! 

Eat to live, not live to eat.


Exercise:  None

Breakfast 7am

Bagel thin, 1 tbsp cream cheese on one side, smear of butter on the other side

Cup steel cut oats

One cup coffee (down from two; trying to cut down in anticipation with upcoming appointment at the New England Center for Headache next month)

Midmorning 10am

Herbal tea

Lunch 11:45

3 slices deli turkey on low carb wrap

Tablespoon real mayonnaise

Cup soup:  beef & vegetable

Snack  3:30

4oz. lowfat cottage cheese

One brown/wild rice cake

2 cups green tea (getting headache from lesser caffeine amts)

Dinner  6:15
1.5 cups chili
8 oz. nonfat greek yogurt


Snack 9pm
hot chocolate
2 small corn muffins, licked the bowl

Other Notes:  Frigid Cold, headache (weather or reduction in caffeine)

Emotions:  Good all day until the TV snack, corn muffins.  John wanted to make them so we did.  Mad that I let his craving derail me.

Diagnosis

...and so it goes again.  Another January, another resolution to finally loose the weight.  Lost 30# on Weight Watchers a few years ago, but as soon as I got too confident and stopped counting those Points(c) I was back at my starting weight, plus some!

The magic number has always been 200.  Once I saw that number on the scale, "that's IT" I tell myself.  I haven't ran since the 2010 Hartford Marathon and really packed it on over the holidays.  Oh, I also turned 35 years old.  Fat and old.  Nice.

Thinking I'd try some kind of medical weight loss program, I did some Internet research.   I also needed to the program to be covered by insurance.  Dr. Lessack http://drlessack.com/ seemed like a good bet; can't hurt to make an appointment with him right here in Hartford. 

I had to complete copious amounts of paperwork before our appointment.  This in of itself was eye-opening.  My eating habits ARE poor.

Diagnosis: Compulsive Overeater
Other Issues:  (1) nutrition, (2) lack of CONSISTENT exercise, and (3) sluggish metabolism.

Plan:  Dr. Lessack will make me a customized eating plan and exercise plan.  We need to get to the root of the problems and not just muster willpower for a short amount of time only to see if wean after a few months (Weight Watchers).