What goes in is what you get out...

I have been giving it about 70% effort on my resolution to lose weight. I was trying to create a photo diary of my eating habits, I am so absentminded and for the most part forgot to take the photos, but here is what I did get, and basically this is how my diet has been going this week.

For breakfast I have been having smoothies I change up the ingredients a bit day to day, but these things are a constant. Vanilla yogurt, frozen blueberries, chia seeds, flax seeds, hemp hearts, pineapple juice. Sometimes with spinach leaves, banana, frozen mango.... I really like the smoothies, and find it easier to drink my breakfast than to eat it.

Lunch has been home made salad rolls, made with rice paper, Cole slaw mix, green onion, radishes, chopped roasted peanuts, imitation crab, and prawns, the sauce is hoisin sauce, sweet and sour sauce, honey, sesame oil, and a few of the chopped nuts. I love these, and have had them almost everyday for lunch...to the point where I need to take a wee break so I can loop around to loving them as much as I did the first day I made them!

For dinner, I eat what I make for everyone else, except I try to portion mine out differently, less starch more veg! I am trying to cut starchy carb foods out of my snacks, I can't live without them, but I can cut back, and only eat the ones I truly love. So a small portion of protein and veggies or fruit have been my snacks...most of the time ; ) I also ate pop corn, a few candies/chocolates, a bacon and egg bagel, had some wine, cheese and bacon mashed potatoes... I am sure there is more my mind is omitting, but I am trying to keep myself honest.

Now if I can say this is how I ate all week long religiously, I would most likely be reporting a weight loss for the week. But I am still hovering around 183 depending on the time of day. But I feel better, and have been fighting of most of my junk food cravings, I made a healthier pear crisp as a sweet snack for the times I am really dying of a sweet treat, but in all honesty it wasn't very good, and didn't satisfy my sweet tooth, but I did manage to use a tiny bit of inner strength to avoid eating something else to please it. I also realize that I'd be better off having a small portion of the not so good choices I love, than a larger portion of the things I wouldn't even feed to my dog...

Anyway that's where I am at. One decision at a time...Trying to ramp up to 80% effort this week....wish me luck!