Weeks 10-13

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.  ~English Proverb




My goals have been updated since my last post. My new goals are:
1200 calories/day
29-40g fat/day
250 minutes of moderate exercise/week

I'm not meeting the food goals yet, but I'm getting closer each week.  Over the last few weeks, I've been pre-making salads for lunch. By making them all at once, I can add things like broccoli and cauliflower. They take more time to chop up, but it's not bad if I'm making 5 salads at the same time. It's also nice to not have to worry about getting a salad together every morning. 


I'm a sandwich person... or at least I was... I've gotten tired of packing a sandwich with the salad. Now I just cut up the pita bread and lunch meat and throw it right in with the rest of the salad.  If you don't know Bolthouse dressings, you should check it out.  It's a low cal dressing with a lot of flavor. I rotate the dressings every day so I don't feel like I'm eating the same thing all the time (in addition to swapping out salad toppings).


I may not be averaging 1200 calories a day yet (more like 1300-1500 average), but I'm still losing 1-2 pounds a week.  Today's weigh-in marked 3 months since the start of the program. I've lost 30 pounds and none of my clothes fit anymore.  I'll be headed to the store for a new belt at the very least


One last thing... I rarely drink pop now.  I used to drink pop every day.  Now it's every few days. I originally switched to Diet pop, but didn't care for it. I started mixing half diet and half regular pop. Enter Pepsi Next. I believe I found my new pop.


Weigh-in Weight: 180.6