It's very easy to say, gee looks like I've put on some weight, think I'll go on a diet. Very hard to actually do it. I have to be ready. For me, that means weeks and months of saying, wow I really need to go back on a diet. Uh oh my clothes are getting tight. OMG I can't fit into my favorite jeans anymore. "Watching what I eat" has never worked for me, not for long, anyway. Maybe naturally slender folks can go through life watching what they eat; for me if I'm not "dieting" I'm overeating.
But it always takes just one event that pushes me into "diet mode." This time, it was the day after our Vero Beach vacation (a loooong weekend of non-stop eating, I might add) I saw my awesome daughter-in-law, my partner in eating for that whole wonderful vacation, posted on FB "Monday starts diet." That's what did it.
7am graham cracker (I always eat a graham cracker an hour before going to the gym, have to have something in my stomach)
10 am cold cereal with fresh blueberries and raspberries
1 pm leftover salad from Jacaranda CC on Thursday with leftover rotisserie chicken
4 pm Fiber One oats and chocolate bar (140 calories)
7 pm dinner at Red Lobster ( I practically chewed off my hand to prevent it from reaching for the biscuits) salad, tilapia with asparagus, artichoke and wild rice cooked in a bag. The fish was delicious! But when the platter came I immediately took half the rice (it was a tremendous portion) off the plate and put in on a dirty appetizer plate so I wouldn't eat it.
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