I'm ok. Are you?
Today is my day off and I feel like "nesting" as 10-8-ish so aptly referred to it in her own blog. I have a list of things to do, and a list of things to accomplish. One consists of many, many things to do and the other has two things listed--1. hang a curtain rod and 2. patch the holes in the bedroom walls before hubby paints this weekend. This weekend? Hell, its only Tuesday!
So I started my day by going to the local grocery store because I needed breakfast food. I also bought sugar free ice cream bars, a bag of Valentine Chocolate covered peanutbutter hearts that were 50% off and 3 magazines.
I can explain all of them except the Valentine sweets. It could be PMS or it could be the damn chocolate craving I have had for days which I find interesting because normally, I don't eat chocolate.
Its deprivation. I can't have it, so I want it. Like that boy in high school that all the girls wanted so you did too, but when you finally got him you couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about? Or giving something up for lent (if you are Catholic) and for 40 days you think about it--congratulating yourself for being "good" and telling everyone how great your doing but after lent and you are no longer deprived, you can't even remember what it was you gave up.
Each chocolate/bp heart is one serving. Each serving has only 45 calores and 8 grams of sugar. I can have a minimum amount of chocolate and peanutbutter on my diet and this is how I justified buying them and this is how I will justify it to hubby.
Justify it to hubby? There's that guilt thing as if eating candy is going to break his heart! There may be something Freudian about buying chocolate shaped like hearts!
I bought 3 magazines because all my books are either packed away or covered in plastic--we're painting, remember?
I bought Martha Stewart's Living because it was a special gardening issue and I love gardening. It has articles on hot pepers and cooking with fresh herbs and some really awesome recipes--especially meatless. I have never been much of a meat eater and I am tiring of all the meat I have been eating lately so I'm trying some veggie dishes. We'll see how hubby likes this turn of events. And she had a good article on wines that I will show hubby.
I also bought a Woman's World. I only bought this to find out Kirstie Alley's diet secret. No, it was not worth $1.49 to find out that she lives on Jenny Craig frozen dinners. I did find out that researchers @ the U of Kansas found that "folks who ate two frozen meals a day ended up just as thin as those given diet pills." Hum?
There were some other articles about trying the asian energy cure if you hate exercising (but it had something to do w/ mushrooms) and another about 3 secrets tricks your IPOD can do.
The third zine was FamilyCircle which boasted "Thin for good" and "Fast family meals" on it's cover. So have you heard about the new Sonoma Diet? You follow it for 10 days and you do it in "waves" as opposed to "phases" like the South Beach. It lets you eat bread and cereal and drink wine. It is inspired by "'one of the most flavorful crusines in the world...the foods of the Mediterranean...'"
I didn't finish reading the explaination, but there is an entire book about it.
What I really bought this particular magazine for was the article titled "beyond spaghetti" which was all about different oriental noodles--which I have tried in the past, but not as deliciously as the magazines suggests. Definitely some awesome recipes. I can have noodles?
What I have concluded in all of this zine reading this morning is 1. I'm ready for Spring; 2. I'm bored with my diet; 3. I don't want to be on a diet, I want to eat rice noodles; 4. I want to nest today and hang my curtain rod tomorrow.
Here's to being ok where you are at the moment!
So I started my day by going to the local grocery store because I needed breakfast food. I also bought sugar free ice cream bars, a bag of Valentine Chocolate covered peanutbutter hearts that were 50% off and 3 magazines.
I can explain all of them except the Valentine sweets. It could be PMS or it could be the damn chocolate craving I have had for days which I find interesting because normally, I don't eat chocolate.
Its deprivation. I can't have it, so I want it. Like that boy in high school that all the girls wanted so you did too, but when you finally got him you couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about? Or giving something up for lent (if you are Catholic) and for 40 days you think about it--congratulating yourself for being "good" and telling everyone how great your doing but after lent and you are no longer deprived, you can't even remember what it was you gave up.
Each chocolate/bp heart is one serving. Each serving has only 45 calores and 8 grams of sugar. I can have a minimum amount of chocolate and peanutbutter on my diet and this is how I justified buying them and this is how I will justify it to hubby.
Justify it to hubby? There's that guilt thing as if eating candy is going to break his heart! There may be something Freudian about buying chocolate shaped like hearts!
I bought 3 magazines because all my books are either packed away or covered in plastic--we're painting, remember?
I bought Martha Stewart's Living because it was a special gardening issue and I love gardening. It has articles on hot pepers and cooking with fresh herbs and some really awesome recipes--especially meatless. I have never been much of a meat eater and I am tiring of all the meat I have been eating lately so I'm trying some veggie dishes. We'll see how hubby likes this turn of events. And she had a good article on wines that I will show hubby.
I also bought a Woman's World. I only bought this to find out Kirstie Alley's diet secret. No, it was not worth $1.49 to find out that she lives on Jenny Craig frozen dinners. I did find out that researchers @ the U of Kansas found that "folks who ate two frozen meals a day ended up just as thin as those given diet pills." Hum?
There were some other articles about trying the asian energy cure if you hate exercising (but it had something to do w/ mushrooms) and another about 3 secrets tricks your IPOD can do.
The third zine was FamilyCircle which boasted "Thin for good" and "Fast family meals" on it's cover. So have you heard about the new Sonoma Diet? You follow it for 10 days and you do it in "waves" as opposed to "phases" like the South Beach. It lets you eat bread and cereal and drink wine. It is inspired by "'one of the most flavorful crusines in the world...the foods of the Mediterranean...'"
I didn't finish reading the explaination, but there is an entire book about it.
What I really bought this particular magazine for was the article titled "beyond spaghetti" which was all about different oriental noodles--which I have tried in the past, but not as deliciously as the magazines suggests. Definitely some awesome recipes. I can have noodles?
What I have concluded in all of this zine reading this morning is 1. I'm ready for Spring; 2. I'm bored with my diet; 3. I don't want to be on a diet, I want to eat rice noodles; 4. I want to nest today and hang my curtain rod tomorrow.
Here's to being ok where you are at the moment!
5 Comments:
At 1:54 PM,
10-8-ious said…
Enjoy the nest - you know I approve!
I am interested in the "waves" theory - is it a series of constant waves of different diets, or do you get to pause inbetween -- like diet hard for 10 days and get 2 days of "normal" (but not crazy) eating? I like THAT idea (but I don't know that it works) HOWEVER -- after my complete binge this weekend, I did not gain even 1 lb -- of course I didn't lose either (dahhh!)
so this reminded me -- Gloria Girl will read this and confrim the story -- she did the Atkins diet several years ago and she would be SOOOO good and she was losing, but then she would get to a plateau and she always swore that she needed to break the diet for maybe a day (not crazy, but not regimented)and then return to Atkins and that would kick-start her back into losing again.
Anything to this theory? or am I just hoping to justify more future binges?
At 3:14 PM,
shortstory said…
Actually, I think we could probably come up with our own "diet." We could all try it and monitor our exercise and wt loss and then market it and make a lot of money. Anyone game?
It could combine a two week on/week off menu plan; could include alcohol, an exercise or two...
What do you think? Do you think it is hard enough concentrating on someone elses diet? Would it be embarassing to fail our own diet?
Give me some feed back. I might have to blog about this.
At 8:24 PM,
shortstory said…
I have tried all of those things individually and in groups--motivation of $$/shopping/vacation, you name it and it never seems to work.
This seems to be the key, though...motivation runs high in the beginning while losing weight, but then it goes away b/c of no more lose or boredom or something. If we can find a way to keep people motivated even when they are bored and not losing--we have hit it!!
At 9:51 AM,
Ginger said…
The motivation thing is key - I got my new scale and it says that I weigh 12 lbs more than my old scale did...COMPLETELY demotivating!!
My diet wants me to eat every three hours or so, and although I understand the theory, I have a hard time stopping when I'm in the middle of a project just so I can eat half a thing of yogurt and some nuts...
I did spend two hours walking Home Depot on Tuesday - I think that counts as exercise. I was pricing stuff for future projects, so I excercised and accomplished something - I like that!
At 10:17 PM,
10-8-ious said…
NOTHING motivates me like losing! If it's working I will keep it up and be happy about it. I like the idea of two weeks on and a weekend (or a couple days during the week - whatever) off. A whole week off is too dangerous -- I can easily gain in one week what I lost in 2 (and then some!) But I think a weekend would be enough of a break to feel like I wasn't suffering/being denied/beng punished/etc.
I live alone and therefore don't have to have food on hand for anyone else (Oreo's food bowl never temps me) So basicaly if I don't buy it I don't eat it. A good habit for me is to keep some stuff on hand that I like to eat and can just have a little of. Or make up a batch of somehthing that tastes good and is good for me and keep it refrigerated in single servng containers for lunch.
Okay, so if I am permitted to "be bad" once in a while, I'm good with that. What I really need to work on now is exercise -- I work from home - I could walk any timeof the day, I could use my ski machine -- WHY DON'T I GET OFF MY BIG FAT ASS AND DO IT????? It's not that I'm lazy (honestly) It's some weird phobia -- I need to make it a habbit!!!
Okay that's my goal for March - to create and MAINTAIN an exercise routine. Do it until it is second nature.
Wish me luck.
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