Beyond Willpower

I've decided after much reflection, to go back to tracking calories. I know that it works if I stick to it, I just can't stop when I get to where I want to be. I have to track then, for maintenance. I'm honestly pretty frustrated by this, and I can't even go back to my dieting 'home', sparkpeople, because I feel they are being influenced by....well, by money. They posted this whole blog thing about how diet drinks REALLY aren't bad for you and we've all been duped! All of this based on some study that seemed to be research conducted by the american beverage institute or something with a big banner across the top for this institute (aka lobby?) and I just feel like they've sold out in a big way. It used to make me mad how they would put banner ads for pizza hut across the top of the page, but this? It's too much. Also, I know it's been a bit since I posted. I've thought about it often, about what I could say, but we've not really m...

I'm tracking in my head anyhow, ha, and I kind of miss the certainty. I'm currently not weighing because I got my real rag (as opposed to a pill 'phantom period') finally and it's bloat city. ha. But I HAVE To weigh tomorrow regardless because I'm doing a challenge , hopefully the bloat will have calmed down by then.   The one thing that I did learn from this experiment is that it seems I now require less protein, I was eating less protein (tvp, tofu, shakes) and more veggies and doing just fine, so I think I'll add volume to my meals with fruits and veggies and cut some of the protein that was sucking up valuable cals for other more healthy options.   I'm readjusting all my values today. We shall see in a few weeks where this gets me. I'll weigh tomorrow and then again next sunday. TRYING to watch the salt. ha.

So, for the next 2-4 weeks I'll be trying to post daily pics of what meals I can for you guys, for anyone who is interested in how to go about eating a mostly whole foods no oil/added sugar diet.   I had another successful day I think. For breakfast I had: Scrambled mexican tofu with spinach, oven baked potato slices and raisins. Yes, I like pepper! For lunch I had some gluten free pasta with homemade sauce:   For a snack I did have a protein shake with flax meal and a gf chewy bar thing, low cal but not the best option. I only had two left, I figure when they are gone I just won't buy more. I also had celery with a smidge of peanut butter. I plan to grind my own next time I'm at whole foods but using up the last of what we had. Need to get some avocados too, without oil I'll still need healthy fats for the fat soluble vitamins. Then for dinner I had an awesome chickpea, walnut, flax burger that I invented, on homemade whole grain gluten free bread with mexican ...