Going on vacation

I am going on Vacation for one week. I am very nervous about how my weight will be after the week. It will be hard mainly because we'll be eating out every meal. We didn't get any hotels with kitchens, so we won't be able to monitor our eating habits.

This year

This year has not been a great year for weight loss. Unfortunately I lose about 15 lbs but then during August/September put it back on when family visited and I got stressed. So I decided to turn to weight watchers.

Yep I decided el-cheap that I am to pay for help. I need to be held accountable. Which is funny because I find being $ accountable easy. I have no trouble accounting for every penny invested or spent.

But food? Well that's a different story. So in mid-October I signed up for weight watchers and have thus lost 12.8 lbs. My goal is to lose 10% of my body weight by 1/8/08. I think it's possible. I'm almost there.

I made it a stretch goal because holidays are a tough time to lose weight. But this path I've taken is different and new. It's no longer a diet. I don't diet, I am changing my lifestyle. I may have to live forever on this flex plan constantly counting, measuring, and evaluating what I eat.

Picky Eating

Okay so yesterday I read a website and article about picky eating. I think I fit somewhat into that category of picky eating. I have a few quirks, but I always thought they were just that. Quirks. Here's the list of things I don't do with food.

1. No ice in drinks, also I prefer to always drink with a straw
2. No food touching
3. No pickles, don't like relish very much either
4. No tomatoes
5. Will only eat steak mostly cooked
6. Like bacon but only crispy and burnt, won't eat it under cooked
7. Will not eat apples,pears a lot of fruits with the skin on
8. Do no eat oranges nor other citrus fruit
9. I don't like mixing food types (Indian with chineses, japanese, etc)
10. I don't like spicy foods
11. No crust on bread
12. Do not eat olives
13. Do not like to eat corn on the cob
14. If I don't like what I see on a plate I will slide it off onto DH's plate or not eat it


I guess I'm picky, to be honest I don't think it's completely out of the norm. Are you a picky eater? In a canadian health article they say this is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. Wonder if it's true?

2/23 update

I haven't worked out in 2 days. I am feeling terribly sick, actually I stayed at home today because of it. I'm hoping to kick the cold over the weekend.

2/21 update

I didn't work out yesterday because I was feeling sick. Actually I'm sitll feeling sick today but I worked out for 20 minutes just to reach my goal of 3x a week. This is hard because I have a terrible cough. Anyway though I'm tired and I hope to keep up the minute weight loss.

2/19 Update

So I did not work out on 2/15, I was just tired. However I did work out Friday, Sat, Sunday, and Today for at least 30 minutes each day. That made me feel great. However I had a super indulgent eating weekend.

For our valentine's day dinner we ate fondue at home. Also I drank two glasses of wine, which definitely adds to the calories. I didn't lose any weight this week, but I feel pretty good that the working out is continuing and I limited my eating out to twice this weekend. We ate out papa john's pizza on Friday and today we had dim sum.

Overall a pretty good week in lifestyle changes and definitely I'm on the road to becoming healthier. I think a new goal this week is to try and track all the calories I'm eating everyday.

2/14 Update...Happy V-Day

Today is V-day and I started off the day by working out for 30 minutes. I weighed myself this morning and found that I had "gained" all the weight I had lost last week. It was very disappointing. However I am in this for the long haul. I am not dieting, but I am changing my lifestyle by exercising and eating healthier. I know this is a better thing for me.