Getting a little burnout

I am starting to feel a little bit of burnout this week. This morning I was just too tired to get out of bed and get to the gym by 7:00. I just slept in an extra hour; but I did get into the gym around lunch time. I decided this week I would go the whole week without drinking even a Cherry Coke Zero. I have been 4 days without any caffeine at all. I quite the heavy soda drinking, but I was still having a Cherry Coke Zero 20oz every other day. Last week it turned into every day while I was traveling for work all last week. I am going to see if I can do this whole week without. Getting rid of the caffeine will help me sleep better.
I was really craving a brownie from Great Harvest, so I gave in and had one. I decided that it wasn't going to kill me to have one this week. Life still goes on.
For some reason I have been more hungry the last few days, so the things that we have been learning about listening to my body and understanding the reason why I am feeling hungry, or if I really am hungry. That has helped me a lot to be aware of my hunger

Not all salads are created equal

Today has been kind of a hard day. I have been traveling for work the last couple of days and I spent the day today in Fillmore. For some reason I have just felt hungry and it didn't help that the clinic had a lot of good food setting out today. Normally I would have just sat and ate all day. I just had a little to satisfy my cravings. I am staying in Richfield tonight and I just realized my favorite salad from Wingers has 1110 calories, 49 Grams of fat and 127 Carbs. I should have checked that before I ordered it. I really love the sticky fingers. Life goes on. I will get up in the morning and get a good workout and go on with the lifestyle change. I am not going to call it a diet again.

It has been an up and down week

I was excited to find after a hard week of exercise and turning down my favorite foods; I lost three pounds. I have lost 16 pounds so far in since I started the challenge.
I really learned a lot from the nutrition class last week. I found that Mindy explained my rollercoaster life of weight loss and weight gain. This time I want to make the change permanant and that is going to require a change from the inside instead of just changing the outside. I have never worked on the underlying problem with my weight. The intuitive eating information, I believe, will be very helpful in making this change. I plan on getting the book.
I liked the document that Mindy gave us about those that are concerned about their weight and those that are compulsive. I find that I am at the compulsive end for the most part. I am going to try this week to stop getting on the scale several times a day and just relax and check my weight at the end of the week.
One thing that can be very challenging, is going out to eat with the family. On friday, I went out with the family to grab a bite to eat, and I think I spent 20 minutes looking at the nutrition information for the resteraunt. I have an iPhone app that has most reseraunts and there nutrion. Nothing, at most of the places, is healthy. I just had to grab the better of all of the evils.
I think my kids think there is something wrong with Dad. He has never eaten like this before.
It is great and I want this to pass on to my children, so we can all be healthier.

Plateau week

After losing 10 pounds in a two week period; I have hit a plateau and only lost 2 pounds last week. Even though I didn't lose as much weight; I am feeling much better. The workouts are great an my trainer is great. I have a tendency to go all or nothing into one direction and I deprive myself of sweets until I end up binging. I decided on Friday that I would go ahead and have one of my favorite brownies. This put my mind at ease and I was able to only have the one that day. It feels good to be able to have on and just move on and continue a new way of life.I understand, from some research that I have done, that it helps to get over the plateau to relax a little on my eating. I think a lot of it is in my mind.

I thought I was doing pretty well

I thought I was feeling pretty good; and then I decided to go on a bike ride Saturday up Santaquin Canyon. That really kicked my but. I am amazed at how bad of shape I have let myself get into over the last 5 years. I was proud of myself on Saturday, instead of eating the whole bag of Double Stuff Oreo's; I only had six total. I also noticed something else that was interesting to me. When I wasn't pigging out on the cookies; my kids didn't hardly touch them either. It feels really good to have some control over my eating.

Another week has gone by.

I am really excited about this challenge. I am really enjoying my workouts and the work outs are giving me the motivation not to eat so much. One of my favorite things to get was a giant brownie with chocolate chips in it, from great harvest. I have been really stressed out and anxious all week and the cravings for a giant brownie have been calling me. I have made it without that or my favorite daily chocolate cake donut.
I have had a rude awakening the last few months and this heart challenge is giving me a stronger motivation to change my family tree.