Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Let's try this again

Day 1 (again) of Challenge 2

The first time I did W30 I spent a week planning, shopping, cooking, laying everything out, cleaning my whole house to start fresh. This time I am coming off the week of fun I gave myself (Never again; I unwillingly sabotaged all the good I had done. Lesson learned.) and am in the middle of moving. I didn't do the planning. I came into it with a sense of well-I-did-it-once-twice-will-be-easy. And I sabotaged myself. So here I am again, on a new Day 1 (maybe day 0 since I didn't bring a lunch and the restaurant at the museum is calling me).

Things to do differently:

1) At night, put the phone where I have to get up and walk to it. I enjoy the extra 15 minutes of sleep where I was doing my meal prep for the day way too much.

2) DO MY DISHES! I know, this one is silly. But I have a bad habit of looking at the sink full of my big bowls and saying "Whoops, cant make a salad today. I would have to clean a bowl." And, no, I don't have a dishwasher.

3) Prep, prep, prep, and plan! Fill up the thaw box in the fridge with meat, get some salad dressings ready, and lets do this.

Really people, it is not hard. I am just being lazy this go around and can't pin-point exactly why.

A side note on 3 nalgenes of water. Do you know how much water 3 nalgenes is???? Its 96 oz. That's STUPID to think I can drink that much. Especially when I start the morning with six cups (48oz) of fluid already! New goal for this W30: two, yes two, nalgenes of water.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Day after Easter

T-minus five hours and counting, -30 (how, I don't know...)

So tomorrow is the official start of my next W30. I did fairly good this week. Quite a few snacks but no more than one non-W30 meal per day. Even with those successes- why did I let Jolene talk me into the day after Easter as the next official start day????

Luckily, a few pieces of candy today have me so sick the idea of eating anymore makes me nauseous. Unlucky, my 3yo still has a bucket full of candy (even after giving half of it to my sister) and has more coming in the mail.

I also noticed that the snacking and lack of impulse control may be stress eating disguised as the liberties I gave myself. We are making a huge move on what will be Day 18. Day 20 is when my body started screaming "GIVE ME BAD THINGS!" last time.

It's about to get real. I thought last time was a challenge...