Can’t li-i-i-i-ve..

..if living is without these:

Seriously, you have got to try Green Tree’s Apple Chips. I’ve got one word: heaven. The cinnamon flavored ones? Divine.

Emotional Calories

“If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution”

I must apologize for being such a lazy blogger lately. I guess I could blame many things. The emotional turmoil in my life this past week. My busy schedule. The weather. Anything and everything. Yet in all honesty I’ve just been too lazy to post. My weight loss project has found a nice balance. I’ve started to figure out my daily energy need on my own without that much help from various calorie counters. My weight keeps going down and I feel like I’m getting fit. In other words, everything is going to the direction I wish it to go – and on a nice and steady pace. That leaves me with nothing major to report.

But I’m still here. Continuously trying to figure out what the best lifestyle choices for me are. The diet profile questionnaire on Calorie Count gave me a little more insight into things. According to my profile I’m an emotional eater and as such use food to affect my mood.

“emotional eaters should plan their meals ahead, and always have a clear idea how much they want to consume”

I guess my food diary has saved me from numerous “emotional calories” during these past four weeks. I hope I can keep it up in the future as well!

Go ahead and find out your own diet profile. I’d love to know what kind of obstacles other people have on their path to healthier diet.

Day 25

71.5 kg

Willpower: Sitting next to an open bag of potato chips the entire evening and not eating even a single one of them.

Sounds Like My Day

“I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.”

Rita Rudner

I’ve Been Known To Do The Latter..

“One should eat to live, not live to eat”

Cicero

If You Don’t Want To Compromise On Taste..

Alpen Light Chocolate & Orange

It might sound hard to believe that something containing more fibre than sugar could taste good.. But it does! And all you have to pay is 60 calories.

More information>>>

Day 16

These past days certainly haven’t been that suitable for dieting. Weekend was what it was and not much changed on Monday. I usually tend to live like a hermit so on those rare occasions when social life is on offer I have a hard time saying no. So, yesterday, when a friend of mine asked me out for pizza I accepted her invitation. It was not too bad, though. We went to the local pizzeria quite early in the day so I had a chance to adjust my food plan accordingly. Still, eating a pizza surely isn’t the best choice for someone on a diet.

Today will have its challenges as well because I’ll be entertaining a friend later on. Luckily she knows about my new healthy lifestyle and will surely understand if the snacks I choose for us are from the healthier end of the scale.

I’ll do my best to stay on track!

Today’s weight:

74 kg

1000 Things To Eat Before You Die – Or While You Diet

Starting a new series featuring some of the snacks that add joy to my diet.

Kellogg's All-Bran Mini Breaks

Nutritional information>>>

Weekly Wrap-Up – Exercise, Exercise, Exercise!

It’s week number two and my weight has been going up and down, up and down. Fortunately a bit more down than up – as you can see in the above picture. It’s my weight log from Calorie Count – a service I found through Chronicles of the Battle of Bulge. The blue line is my actual weight; the green one my weight loss trend.

This week has been challenging in many ways and as a result my mood has been on the same roller coaster as my weight. I’ve had some rough days but towards the end of the week things in my personal life started to look more promising. But before jumping optimistically into the hopefully more steady going roller coaster of next week, I’m going to write down a thought or two.

Day 14

Yesterday was a weird day. During these past two weeks I have grown so accustomed to keeping my food diary that taking a break from the habit felt odd. I missed it. I missed knowing exactly how much I have eaten and how much I could still eat. I guess that goes to show that I lack the ability to approximate the amount of energy I get from my daily meals. That’s something I eventually need to work on.

Anyhow, yesterday was not recorded in my food diary because my friend and I went out for lunch. I’m a perfectionist and since I wouldn’t have been able to be entirely sure of the nutritional contents of the food, I decided not to write it down at all. So, we headed to one of the oh-so-many Chinese restaurants in town and filled ourselves with noodles, shrimp, bananas and ice cream. Fried noodles of course. And fried bananas. Heck, in that place they probably fry everything – including napkins.

All in all, yesterday wasn’t too bad. I woke up so late that I only had time for a very light breakfast before lunch and after the final spoonful of fried bananas I was full for the day and didn’t even resort to snacks during the evening. What I did do instead was drink water. The food at the Chinese place was MUCH saltier than the food I have gotten used to so my body was in desperate need of water. That is to say that I’ve probably managed to gather at least some amount of fluids into my body during the past day or so.

Anyhow, my final weigh in for this week:

74.2 kg