Friday, February 1, 2013

It's those gentle reminders we love so well.

Here I am eight months after the last post, and I had to re-learn what I had already learned there. I knew from the feel of my clothes and from having to buy a new pair of jeans that I was near or at my highest weight ever, which is the same weight as full term pregnancy but without a baby. I decided it was time to not do that anymore, and I started food journaling at Sparkpeople. It worked, it worked great. But my calories were low enough that I was, in effect, cutting out most breads and other carbs of that nature, and eating mostly veg and [vegetarian] protein—which is good, but two days ago after my morning shower I was so depleted of energy I couldn't even lift my arms to blow dry my hair. Really truly.

So again I remembered EET, and yesterday I ate a much more substantial and carb-heavy lunch, and the day went so much better. Sparkpeople is going to be an important tool in making sure that my intake is very balanced between fats and proteins and carbs, but I am going to incorporate the "treat meal" concept that belongs to Jon Pearlstone, along with many other things I learned back when I was actively EETing, especially delaying the first meal a few hours after waking and exercising. I [re-]learned that planning my meals is especially important these last couple of weeks: if I have a plan in place I don't really deviate from it, but if I don't have a plan I scramble all day long eating whatever I want and trying to make the calories (but not the nutrients or essentials) fit into the mold. Planning is important, and I'll keep doing it.

I've decided to weigh on the first day of each month. So I lost 4.4 pounds in the last two weeks of January. :) I'll take it!