From the time I started this journey up until around 2 weeks ago Megan and I went grocery shopping on a regular basis. 2 weeks ago we kept putting it off. Neither of us really wanted to go and I made the excuse that we could just keep eating the random stuff that we had in the cupboard. It helps that Megan is a creative cook and we still ate good food, but it wasn’t the right foods.
As such, my weight bottomed out and even went up a few pounds. Since I’m tracking daily I generally pay a lot of attention to what and how much I’m eating and I’m starting to notice trends.
The problem is that the food in the cupboards were from before I started this. The foods were mostly devoid of any nutritional goodness. We had some hamburger helper, some brownies, and a bunch of other stuff that we ended up eating. An effect that I noticed almost immediately that I was still hungry after eating my now normal smaller portions. The portions that I had initially forced myself to limit were no longer enough because the food I was ingesting wasn’t doing anything.
We went grocery shopping on Sunday. We planned meals for the evenings and bought lunch stuff in case we didn’t have left overs. I bought my breakfast “foods” (low-sodium V8 and grapefruit juice). I was excited for Monday morning to get back on schedule.
The Result:
I have had more energy in the past three days due to getting back on my regular eating schedule. I’ve added a hard-boiled egg to my breakfast as well now to stave off lunchtime hunger just a little bit longer.
Since I’ve been back on an “eating healthy” food plan I’ve not only lost some of the weight I put on, but I’m back on track again. 24.5 lbs gone total now.
You can check out my progress on my published Google Spreadsheet: Dez’s Weight Tracker
