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Thanks to encouraging words from my buddies, yesterday I walked past the bag of breakfast burritos that so often graces the food kitchen at work. Our vendors are very generous and spoil us with food all the time. Tuesday is doughnut/muffin day and Wednesday, Thursday, and now apparently Friday, is breakfast burrito day. It would be easy if the food was from some restaurant I didn't like, but that is not the case. It is delicious and so I need to constnatly reason through the calories and costs to my personal weight loss goals.
I fought off a second temptation yesterday at work as they brought in chips and salsa and 4 sheet cakes to celebrate our team in the playoffs. They also ordered fruit and vegetable trays and so I was able to join in the celebration a bit. My job is a big contributor to the weight gain I had over the past three years as every meeting, every event is accompanied by food.
This all goes back to the paradigm shift I need to make. Food as a reward. It will be a challenge as I am constantly exposed to food, but I will need to make that shift. I will need to celebrate a bigger reward. Why is it then, when I am here, that I can concentrate on what is important - my health; whereas I struggle to see health as a reward in my everyday life?
Because I need to focus on it. I need to make it a priority. I need to make it look like the best I can achieve. And it is. Just like when I stopped smoking 19 years ago. I wanted to see my oldest graduate high school. Now I want to see my youngest graduate high school, and get married, and have babies. That is what I truly want.
Affirmations. I need to get some. Those sayings that I can use to help me on my path to health. Ones that I can bring to the forefront of my mind, as I say, "No, thank you" to the hundreds of eating opportunities that present themselves at my job. The internent is an excellent tool. I think I will go find some affirmations that will work for me and then write some of my own.
Good luck today FS members! I hope your path to weight loss (or gain) is as eye opening as mine has been thus far. The further I get down the path of weight loss, the more I realize how many things play into what I weigh, what I eat, and how I behave.
Diet Calendar Entries for 12 January 2013:
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1319 kcal
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Fat: 26.34g | Prot: 49.46g | Carb: 220.10g.
Breakfast: Flavors French Vanilla Ground Coffee, stevia, kroger home style hash browns, Milk (Nonfat). Lunch: nonfat milk, rice krispies. Dinner: baked tostitos, tostitos cheese, green chile with chicken, mexican blend cheese sargento 2%, rosarita zesty salsa refried beans. Snacks/Other: Enteric Coated Fish Oil 1200 mg, healthy choice greek frozen yogurt, chex mix. more...
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2921 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Housework - 2 hours, Shopping - 1 hour, Driving - 1 hour, Gilad - 45 minutes, Resting - 11 hours and 15 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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