Today was my first day of Phase Two.
For breakfast, I had sf, lf yogurt (despite the fact that some one brought in a dozen hot donuts this morning... )
-snack: 1 med. apple
-lunch: tuna fish and artichokes
-dinner: lean meatloaf, squash, and broccoli
but then.... dh brought cookies home from work, and that was too much temptation... three full fat, full sugar cookies :hide:

Oh, and we went on a twenty min. walk, which would hardly count as exercise, but you have to start somewhere!
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Good intentions don't seem to go that far some days. Sometimes I feel overcome with the enormity of always having to make healthy choices. It seems so easy for my husband, who grew up in a home of healthy eaters, to effortlessly make good food choices. I don't want to pass this struggle on to my children some day, so I am trying to break the cycle that's been in my family for generations, but it's so difficult. It seems like wanting to have children and wanting to be a better wife would be more than enough motivation to make the right choices, but it's just not sometimes, and then I wonder what is wrong with me. Today has not been the best day.

:Hug2: hk, there's nothing wrong with you. We all have our ups and downs, but they all work out. I know what you mean about wanting to be a good wife and mother. I grew up with mounds of mashed potatoes and gravy, and real butter. But I know why now. Its so much cheaper and stretches farther. I know, because I'm going through the stretching the money bit right now.
But when I buy bread or noodles, I buy whole wheat and its just about the same price. Baby steps for the family for now.
As for you though, your chosing to eat right. We can only take one day at a time and go from there.
Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.:cloud: :sun:

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Try not to be so hard on yourself, hon.

Tomorrow is another day with another chance to stay the course. It's hard to break old habits, but hopefully we have more good days than bad ones.

Think positive!

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Thanks, today was much better! Bonnie- I know what you mean, I am really stretching my grocery budget to buy sb foods rather than lots of potatoes and bread.
Anyhow, here's today:
b-sf/ff yogurt
s-apple
l-left over meatloaf and cucumbers
s-1/2 a low-carb roll up and hummus
d- 1 stuffed chicken breast (from moggy's recipe), zucchini, and black beans
d- banana dipped in non-sweetened chocolate

Hope everyone else out there is having a good day!

I realized that ff/sf yogurt was making me hungry, so today I had ww bread with sf jelly for breakfast and that was much better. (Isn't it funny how things that have less calories can make you feel fuller longer? I love that!!)
Lunch: Apple, 2c. broccoli w/ a small handful of almond slivers and 1T sf ranch dressing
Snack: 1/2 serving of turkey pepperoni and a cheese stick
Dinner: Mahi Mahi, 1 portobello mushroom cap topped with spinach, artichokes, and a bit of ricotta cheese, and 1/2 cup of white kidney beans
Dessert: Banana dipped in unsweetened baker's chocolate

Wow, counting the calories, that desert is pretty high. I am SOOOO sick of those ricotta deserts, and the puddings and sf ice cream bars make me hungry, are there any lower cal deserts that anyone likes?
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So, I am going to visit my family for the next few days and my mother has already informed me of all the non-sb foods that will be waiting for me. ARGH! So, I am planning my mode of attack. I think for most meals, I will just make a salad, but I am kind of concerned with having to answer questions, etc about my new WOE. We'll see how this goes.....
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hk, you could always just bring your own food, but that would be kind of akward....your mom should have SB stuff to eat, it might just be the way she cooks it that makes it non SB....hmmm I can't really think of anything to help you, sorry. I hope you come up with a good defense!

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Well, that trip did not go well by SB standards, but it went much better (food-wise) than it normally does.
Here is today:
B: Toast w/sf jelly and light margarine, coffee
S: Light Cottage Cheese
L: Cantaloupe and Kashi Bar
S: Laughing cow light w/ cucumber slices
D: Stuffed Chicken, beans, and eggplant

Life is good. :sun:

B: Kashi Bar & Coffee
S: LF Cheese stick
L: 1 slice of WW Bread w/sun dried tomato pesto and lf provolone & cantaloupe
S: 1 serving of turkey
D & D: Salmon with mustard sauce, mixed greens w/ light Italian, beans; chocolate covered banana

I've lost 7 lbs. so far and my blood pressure is down, which is really good. I feel like I've really gotten used to this way of eating. I used to think that I could not live without a diet of mostly refined carbs, and it's nice to be doing something I once thought would be impossible for me!
I've also been walking/(very little) jogging for 30 minutes a morning. I would really like to be able to run someday. It's one of those things, like eating healthy, that I believed (believe?) I can't do, and it would be such a personal victory to accomplish. As for my first week of real exercise, I can run one out of every five minutes (for 30). The couch potato website said to begin with 60 sec running/90 sec walking, but I can't do that right now. Right now I'm walking on a track at a neighborhood park, but I'm wondering if joining a gym and using the treadmill would be better. I'm also wondering how this will transition to the school-year. Right now, I can get up at 6 and be where I need to be by 8. When the school year starts, I'll need to leave my house at 6:45, and I don't know if I'm willing to get up that early (5:15 :Morning: ). I'm almost afraid that if I don't do it first thing in the morning, it won't get done. But, perhaps the rest of this summer would get me well enough into the habit that I would be able to exercise later in the day and stick with it.
Anyhow, those are my thoughts for today.

B: Kashi Bar
L: Some non-SB stuff that I budgeted for caloricly, but still should not have eaten :Hiding:
S: WW toast & laughing cow light wedge
D: lf 3-bean chili
D: 1 peach + some cinnamon, ww flour (.25 cup) and smart balance to make a cobbler sort of thing

Wow, this was sort of an atrocious day, south-beach wise. I really need to up the veggies tomorrow and lay off the grains.
On the up-side, only 1.5 weeks of summer school left!! (grad school summer school has not been fun!) Almost time to be back in school with students, how exciting!

B: Kashi Bar
L: Leftover chili
S: 15 almonds
D; Salad (w/ Ken's Northern Italian Light, which is so good!), mahi mahi, and steamed veggies (snow peas, carrots, broccoli, and water chestnuts mixed together)
Who knows what I'll have for desert....

Yay, tomorrow is Friday :Clap:

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