I had a meeting with Dr. Scott a couple of weeks ago and we talked about what is going on in my life and leaving out all the boring details he told me not to beat myself up but to start again with the first of the year. HE wants me back around the middle of February and he wants me to be down about 15-20 lbs by then. My goal is to exceed that number by at least 5 to 10 lbs at the minimum. As I mentioned in an early post Dr. Scott told me I was doing well and could follow the 90/10 rule which is be good 90% of the time and go off the grid only 10% of the time. I was excited but in going to the new program I went way off the grid and knew better. I quit keeping my food journal and was probably only on the grid less than 5% of time. Combine those two things and that was the recipe for my total implosion. Even when I knew I was failing and failing big time, I did not get back on track, but that is going to change starting Jan 2nd(tomorrow) morning.
I am going back to eating like I know I should and keeping my food journal. Since I have picked up a steady job in the schools I need to watch what I eat while I am working. The school I am in, a large portion of the food we serve is cooked from scratch not like the other district I was in where everything was heat and serve, I still need to watch what I eat. If I eat what we serve the students, their portions, I will have eaten about 750 calories for lunch but my goal is to eat more fruits and veggies than anything. I need to lay off the American cheese and fresh rolls. Those rolls are good when they come out of the oven and I have justified eating them because they are 51% wheat. Occasionally we make sweet treats and one of them was killer chocolate cupcakes with cranberry sauce in the mix. Sounds weird but boy are they moist and I ate more than I care to admit. The same with the cookies we bake. In the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas I bake several hundred cookies and ate more than I should have but those things are in the past. It is time to look ahead and move forward.
People have asked if I will be posting to this blog as often as before and will be including recipes and the answer is yes. I have picked up a lot of information in the things I have been reading about health and fitness and I have several recipes that people have asked me to share. And I have several recipes that don't fit on this blog and I have been asked if I will be adding to my regular recipe blog (ricksfavortiterecipes.blogspot.com). One of the recipes I will be posting on that blog is for the crock pot peanut clusters I made over Christmas. I made them three different times and some of the people I gave them to have asked for the recipe. And again I ate more of them than I should have. But that's another fall off the wagon. I got to the point I didn't even try to get back on the wagon.
I also have an appointment with my Pulmonologist, Dr. Hardman, in a couple of weeks and she is not going to be happy with me and I will hear about it. I need to be back on track and in a losing mode and I will be.
I am also going back to the gym. I have been making it about twice a month except for the month of Dec and I don't remember if I even made it once. I told my good wife I would go everyday after work because it will be on the way home and it would be easy. If I go then I will not have to try and work it in some other time. All of this start tomorrow and it is getting late so I better get some sleep because there are no more excuses for not doing what I know I need to do. I have two friends that are also going to lose weight following a couple of other ways, on is going to do Medi-Fast and the other is going to do nothing but drink juice for 90 days. So we are going to see where we are all at in 90 days and if we are all still following our diets. I should say change of life not diet because diet is a four letter word. I will check in tomorrow night.
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