Day 13

I'm almost at the 2-week mark! And while I wish I've been more active with exercise I'm extremely proud of the way I've been eating and generally taking care of my body. I've managed to not only eat less but to also eat healthier more natural and nutritious foods. I'm choosing home-made foods instead of packaged and processed meals, and I'm actually cooking myself for once. I do need to do some more food shopping at the end of this week when I get paid as I'm running low in ingredients with substance (meat), especially after the bleeding chicken incident from yesterday! I can't say that I feel BETTER really as I think most physiological benefits would come from exercise rather than diet, but I do notice I'm not bloated, never feel that gross "full" feeling and my complexion looks a lot better. I don't notice a difference in energy level but like I said that will come from working out. I did my cardio workout today (most of it, anyway) and i HATE IT. I don't know why, I don't even fully understand it myself, but I absolutely despise it. I'm miserable during it, and I don't even feel good or energized afterward. There has to be a better alternative to this! Maybe I do need to join a gym where I can go to classes and enjoy myself in a group atmosphere. I'm going to start looking into it. Later tonight I exercised with a friend: by playing video games. Dancing games and some other kinect games, we worked up a sweat and snacked (healthily)

Here is my food diary for today:

Breakfast:

-Whole wheat french toast (made with skim milk & egg whites & a tsp of pumpkin nondairy creamer for flavor) with nutmeg & cloves and 1/8c lite syrup

Dinner:

-Half-size grilled chicken caesar salad at applebee's (400 cal)

-Unsweetened iced tea

Snack:

-1/2 bag of 100 calorie popcorn

-1 cup assorted fruit

-(2) weight watchers ice cream bars

Water Consumption:

4 large glasses

Breakfast sounds like a lot, but if you actually break it down I know it wasn't bad at all. The whole grain bread was a good choice, I used 1 egg white with skim milk and nondairy creamer for the liquid and most of it was left in the bowl after I dunked the bread, and I only used a small amount of syrup. Also you'll notice that I didn't eat lunch, but this was because I woke up at 12:30 and ate "breakfast" at about 1pm. I then went straight to dinner at 5pm, and the snacks were at 6 & 7. The only reason I allowed myself to eat a little more at snacktime is because I didn't have a lunch. I already packed my food for tomorrow so it won't be "winging it" as much. I work all day tomorrow so my only obstacle would be potentially being bored sitting around, but I'm going to try to prevent that as much as possible.