I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day weekend! I know this holiday is bitter sweet for a lot of people, but I have to say even when single, I’ve always loved this time of year.
Last week was so quick for me, and still seems like a blur. We had so much wind last week that it pushed all of our snow back into the roads making it almost impossible to travel to work. Wednesday night I didn’t make it home at all. And today I’m contemplating a grocery trip before the next wave of snow comes in. It’s hard to buy produce in the winter because you can’t stock up without it going bad.
This is totally unrelated, but I’ve gotten a lot of emails about my GoWear Fit armband and I want to do a big Q and A post tomorrow for it. One of them involves expanding the armband which I did to mine and will show you how to do (it was very easy!). If you have any questions at all feel free to email them to me or leave a comment and I will get to each one of them!
Okay, the S diet… After my last post about the S diet a very easy plan the I accidentally found while reading Food Rules by Michael Pollan. The website explains everything in more detail, but basically the plan is this: no snacks, seconds or sweets except for days that begin with S or special occasions.
It seemed really easy as I never pegged myself as a “snacker” even though as the week progressed I realized that all of my in between eats are considered snacks. I never realized how much I eat outside of a meal. I found myself wanting to eat when things were stressful. When I didn’t want to deal with emotions. I didn’t worry so much about what I was eating as long as it could fit on a reasonable sized plate, wasn’t a sweet and I wasn’t eating seconds or between meals.
This is what I found:
1. I have strong desires to mindlessly eat when I’m stressed out or have anxiety.
2. I was able to curb cravings and quell my desire to overeat with the knowledge that I could pick whatever I want for my next meal. For some reason, knowing that I could eat whatever i wanted (as long as it fit on a plate, didn’t overeat, or go back for seconds) for my next meal helped me tremendously.
3. This plan prevented me from secret eating. It wasn’t an option to go to the store and buy sweets and eat them secretly, so I didn’t do it. Knowing that I was going to have special occasion treats on the weekend, ended all thoughts of overeating or finding a way to have something sweet.
4. I lost 2lbs. Which is showing back up on the scale this morning as a gain from my weekend treat eating, but I know that it is water, and it will balance out as losses over time. This isn’t unusual for me. I also know that:
5. I only exercised once this week, which on the s diet is recommended and required daily. I need to do this, no excuses.
6. No day was ruined. I remember on Tuesday morning specifically where my mind was going back to old habits. We had some leftover baguette (locally made) , organic pepperoni (yes, i know that organic does not give me license to eat it in excess) and mozzarella. That is what I wanted to eat and I thought “oh I can’t have that right now” and then I thought “well I can always start over tomorrow” . But guess what? that is how I always think! So I realized that I could have the baguette with two slices of pepperoni and the cheese for breakfast as a meal.
7. I ate real food, majority of the time except for Thursday morning. I’m looking at you Hardee’s morning biscuit run. That was gross. I hate fast food.
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