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I've been pretty slack with the journalling lately. I just got to a point where I was weary of the path I am on. I would eat 1200 calories a day for 3 or 4 days, then overeat. I have been doing this continously for a couple of months now. I have gained back about 6 pounds. I weighed the same last week at the doctor as I did 3 months ago. My A1C is 5.2 again, the same. My health is not bad, my diabetes is being held nicely in check, it's just the constant yo yoing - I guess I am a dieter's version of "rapid cycling". I have decided that I am going to stick with the RDI of 1500 calories a day and try to stick with it and see where it goes. I just don't think I can do 1200 calories right now. I feel deprived, hungry, cranky, self pitying, and can only keep it up for a few days and then I want to binge. I have to do something to break the cycle. I want to lose again, and I have not been slacking off with my exercise - I am routinely running 4 miles at the gym and I am set to do my 2nd 5K race in about a week and a half. So my running has been going well, and my diabetic eating has been going well, even with a few binges. I was actually shocked that it was 5.2 again, because of my periodic overeating. I am going to do my best to try to get out of this pattern and into more healthy and more losing behavior. Obsessive thought, compulsive behavior. One thing I have been trying, and I haven't been trying for very long, is to have snacks for dinner. I don't sit down and eat one big meal with protein, starch and vegetables. I like spreading it out over a couple of hours and just eating two, three, four healthy snacks - air popped popcorn, sugar free pudding, reduced fat string cheese, hummus and carrots - a selection of these things has become my dinner. I feel really good about it, too. I feel like staggering these snacks leaves me feeling less hungry, and less likely to binge. I also got a Keurig coffee maker and am loving it but feel slightly guilty about the k cups. I know they can't be good for the environment so I am trying to find online a refillable k cup. I have wasted GALLONS of coffee in my life because I am usually having to make a whole pot for myself, and I can't drink it all. I tried one of those 4 cup coffee makers but I was wasting that, too. I don't know what's worse for the enviroment - a plastic k cup, or pounds and pounds and pounds of coffee and water wasted over years. Good question!
Diet Calendar Entry for 03 April 2013:
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1410 kcal
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Fat: 49.28g | Prot: 55.17g | Carb: 205.72g.
Breakfast: Great Value Frozen Whole Strawberries, Milk (1% Lowfat with Added Vitamin A), Jell-O Fat Free Sugar Free Instant Banana Cream Pudding. Lunch: Red Delicious Apples, Kraft Light Mayonnaise, Sara Lee Delightful 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Oscar Mayer turkey bacon, romaine lettuce, tomato. Dinner: Red Delicious Apples, Air Popped Popcorn, Hunt's Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding Snack Pack. Snacks/Other: Fat Free Half and Half Cream, Baby Carrots, Sabra Classic Hummus, Sargento Reduced Fat String Cheese, Honeydew Melons. more...
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