Commit to a Diet Plan:
As during the summer, I will be using a Daily Wellness Journal (by Andrew Lessman from HSN). This allows me to track quantity, quality, feeling, and time when I eat 3 meals & 3 snacks. It also lets me track supplements, exercise, and several other health goals I’ve set for myself. It’s a great tracking tool. To this, I will add tracking what I eat on FitDay. I appreciate the graphs and nutritional information available on this site, and find it efficient to use. I have sporadically used this site since 2002, so I have some interesting comparison information on it.
The actual diet will be a 3+3, protein heavy, limited sugar diet. When I was dieting before I listed the choices I liked for meals, snacks, fruits & veggies. I have revised this list and copied it to my Welness Journal. These will be the backbone of my diet. But the key for me is to keep my protein intake up. To this end, at least one of my snacks each day is a protein drink. I mix protein powder in milk in a Magic Bullet with DaVinci sugar-free syrups & ice, and it is just like having a treat once or twice a day.
There are some other ‘diet guidelines’ I am setting for myself:
- limit alcohol (I must plan it the night before)
- limit diet cola drinks (drink 1 bottle of water for each cola drink)
- increase whole grain foods
- increase veggies and fruit
I am starting a ‘new’ Wellness Journal, and am over half finished setting it up with the additional health goals I have set for myself.
One change I am making from “Becking” this summer is that I am going to use the To-Do List each day. I have a personalized list that I created from later lessons that I have put in my Wellness Journal, but I will be checking off each task in the workbook as I do them.
Day 3: Sit Down to Eat
This is not a problem for me, as long as I don’t have to sit at a table. It is not the idea of sitting, but being distracted while sitting and eating that I am working on. I sit at the computer and eat; I watch TV and eat; I drive and eat. Each of these activities take my attention away from eating. So, my challenge is to reduce distractions while eating.
I am not sure how long it will take me to get to the point where I am working on the lessons individually, so… more later…
