Feeling good today! I got two restful nights in a row and I've been keeping on a regular schedule of three doses of Motrin a day so the joint pain is now a very dull roar. I had a good workout yesterday and I'm ready to get back to daily walks. I hesitate to say life is back to normal but two days in a row...I'll take it.
Yesterday was my first day of maintenance. I hit my allotted calories with 40% carbs. My preworkout "meal" was a cup of coffee with 2 T. of coconut milk which held me very well. The postworkout "meal" was a cup of skim milk with half a scoop of protein powder which I drank in the car on the way home. Breakfast at 8 held me until around 11 when I started obsessing on the next meal. Lunch at 12:30 held me until about 2:30. I was so hungry I had a bagel which held me until dinner at 5:30. It looks like small meals every 3 hours is going to be the norm no matter what.
I decided the first step to address my food addiction/obsession will be to stop all my surfing of food and cooking blogs and to stop watching any of the food porn cooking shows on TV. Although entertaining and informative, I think they do trigger lots of food obsession when even when I not dieting. Like yesterday I noticed when I got hungry in the afternoon I found myself hopping over to one of my food sites. It took a while to make the connection between my hunger, my wanting to hold off eating, and going to the food site to get a "fix" of food. I need to find other things to distract when hunger hits.
Now I'm off to hit the grocery stores for the week's food shopping. It will be interesting to see if I get any food triggers from being around all the food.
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