End of Day One

Eating

So far so good. Made it through the main part of the day with what I consider acceptable choices:

• Breakfast - Peanut Butter Toast and Coffee - probably 400 calories
• Lunch - Tuna Salad Stuffed Orange Pepper - also about 400 calories
• Snack - Cajun Peanuts - about 100 calories
• Dinner - Papa Murphy's DeLite Hawaiian Pizza and Cheesy Bread and Marinara sauce with root beer - around 600 calories

So if I can manage not to eat anything more before going to bed (the next big challenge), I consumed about 1500 calories, which is right on target for a healthy weight loss.

Exercise

My husband has lost consistently over the last four months doing a low-carb, no sugar diet and walking many miles everyday. He is far more disciplined than I am about the exercising. Even though he walked nearly 13 miles this morning, he is implementing a family walk after dinner now that the weather is better and it is lighter later. We walked 1.8 miles this evening. About 190 calories burned.

I usually do better with walking during the spring and summer and then totally bail in fall/winter and that is when I gain all my weight back. Typically in November and December (holidays don't help with that).

That means I either have to lose enough in the spring/summer to account for gaining half of it back or I have to figure out some other exercise I can do for the dark half of the year.

Nightime 

I often consume as many calories after everyone else has gone to bed as I do all day. That has got to stop. I know it's not really hunger but it will look like it. Sitting down in front of the TV is definitely a trigger. Must break that routine. Today is a good day to begin because I've hit all my other targets. It is always more tempting to blow it at night if I've already blown it during the day. But I could put today in the win column if I don't blow it so that's the goal.