Good Grief...What have I been doing?

Good Morning! Well, if you read yesterday's post, you know that I had some changes to make. One of them was to start logging my protein, carbs, and calories again. It's been well over a month since I've last done this! That's not good and I needed my hand slapped a month ago!

So today is Saturday and the morning is kind of a slow one. Good thing because I had time to go dig out an old column pad book that you would normally use for recording some type of budget. I'll use this for a while because it has columns and lots of lines to record what I'm eating. 

Anyways, so far this is what I've recorded:

2 Calcium Citrate Chewables (Lemon)     0 protein/6 carbs/30 calories
8 oz. regular coffee                                    0 protein/0 carbs/0 calories
2 tsp. Coffee Mate Creamer                      0 protein/2 carbs/20 calories
1 tbsp. sugar                                               0 protein/12 carbs/48 calories

TOTAL                                                       0 PROTEIN   /   26 CARBS   /   128 CALORIES

Are you seeing what I'm seeing? Oh my goodness! Look at those carbs! I haven't even eaten breakfast yet and I will have almost consumed my days worth of carbs. Let's see, a days worth is 30-40 grams. Wow! Well, guess what, I'm not going to drink my coffee today! Whaaaaaaa! And it's setting right here sending it's wonderful aromas my way. Do you realize....or do I realize that I've been doing this terrible routine since I was last recording my food intake? I convinced myself that it was only 1 tbsp. of sugar...how bad could it be? See, not recording what you're eating...or plain not paying attention could get you into some serious default of diet. I'm so glad I didn't wait another 3 or 4 months to figure this out. Now, maybe my weight loss will speed up a bit. 

Well, the days not over with yet. I still have 3 meals to record. I may be back on here telling on myself again. lol Hopefully I don't get a massive case of the grumps. No wonder I enjoy my coffee so much! This has to stop now!

Time to Buckle Down!

Well, my friends, I have to say that I've not done all I could to make sure I'm on top of things. This has left me feeling totaling out of control of my weight loss and in the mist of total chaos! As far as food, I've still tried my best to stick with what I'm suppose to be eating. I eat mostly protein and drink lots of water! I take all of my vitamins and my acid reducer. I kind of count my protein and water in my head as I go...that being said...that's scary enough on it's own, counting on my brain to keep track of it all! Also, I've been doing my physical therapy for my hip joint and it's been working wonders but....yes, there's a but....I come home and don't always continue to do the exercises. What's wrong with me???? I wish I knew! Where's my motivation? 

I decided to take my "Weight Log" out that I haven't been using and try to record when I lost the weight and how much. Ugh! This was no easy task! I went back through my blog trying to find dates and amounts. I found most of them but it was confusing and would have been much easier if I'd just weighed and recorded once a week, not just sporadically. I even missed out on blogging my last 4 pounds lost. I blogged about the fact that I was down to 225 but completely missed the boat on noting that those 4 lbs. were gone and when in the world that I actually lost them. Slap my hand! Good grief!!! That just frustrates me more than anything.

So, how will I change all this chaos? For starters, since my surgery was on a Thursday, I will start making that my official weigh in day and for goodness sakes, I will record what the scale says. Then, I can come here and announce my losses or my stand stills. Either way, at least I can look back and see how far I've come.

Also, starting tomorrow, I will record my protein, carbs, and calories on paper. Then maybe, if it's not to cumbersome, I will record my intake on my blog. I don't know! That will be a lot of recording and I might get frustrated writing it down and then typing it all out. I've never been good at that and that was one thing in the past while dieting that I didn't like at all. It will be hard enough for me to record everything on paper but now, I see the need for it. And I think it will keep me on track as far as making positively sure that I'm getting all my protein and water....and staying on the low side of the carbs. Also, I want to make sure that my intake of calories is somewhere between 600-1000. I think I've been coming up on the short end and my body probably thinks I'm starving myself.

And....And...this is the hardest for me....to try to do the exercises my physical therapist has assigned me. AND to start using my treadmill or getting out sometime during the day to walk, ride my son's pedal car, or to go swimming in our neighborhood pool. This is a goal for me to shoot for! I've always hated exercising and to be honest, I just don't want to do it. But between the cortisone shot and the physical therapy, I know it's helping my hip. There's such a difference! I've been almost pain free for over a month now! That's a miracle in itself.

So, this is where I'm at! I will get up tomorrow morning and pep talk myself about all of this again. Hopefully I will stick to my guns! Since I'm blogging this, I feel like I have to do what I'm saying I will do. So maybe I'll have all kinds of things to blog about over the next couple of weeks.

Have a great weekend!