6 Week - Day 7

My Food:

Breakfast: Breakfast salad, green tea

Lunch: head of romaine with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, raisins, sliced almonds, and topped with spicy mustard (leftover from yesterday's packed lunch), 1/4 pb&j

Dinner: Taco salad (head of romaine topped with leftover chili lentils from last night, I added corn to stretch the lentils), half a piece of cantaloupe

Dessert: frozen cherries dusted with cocoa powder, a few handfuls of popcorn

My Thoughts:

WAHOO!!!!!  Not only did I complete the first week strong, but I broke into a new decade today!! I've been trying to move into this decade FOREVER. In fact, I figured out that it was back in February that I was talking about having gotten into this decade. Yep. It's been a long year of nothing happening with the scale.

BUT, I'm on my way. This was a fantastic week. I'm motivated and finding it not difficult to enjoy my meals and stick to the plan. I'm seeing all the ways I've sabotaged myself this past year. I see how the life stressors and my coping skills have really done me in.  There are these moments where I'm just shocked at how my brain works. When dealing with a heated confrontation I suddenly have these flash-cravings for a soda or chips or some kind of junk food. What?? I'm sitting there in high stress mode and all I can think of is downing a Dr. Pepper. What kind of crazy is that?? Clearly, I have the need for dealing with these wrong behaviors and learning to rightly deal with the hard things that come in life.

I'm really excited about the scale moving. I don't know how much I lost this past week since I didn't weigh in when I started. But, I have been thinking my jeans were feeling looser this week and then laughed at myself for imagining it. I'm glad to know that even though I probably am imagining it, I am getting closer to loose fitting clothes. Yay!

I also did some shopping today and bought myself rewards for a week well done. I have a brand new giant baking sheet. I'll be using that for all those yummy roasted veggies that I want to experiment with this week.  I also bought a couple new flippers to use with the non-stick skillet. I want to try some new recipes that use non-stick surfaces to see if I'll like using it for more than pancakes. I'm looking forward to hashbrowns, veggies, and some new bean burgers.

Looking Ahead:

I'm eager to start a new week!  Tomorrow is the first day of week 2.  I'll hopefully get some food done in the kitchen. I got my groceries tonight. I'm planning to make a vegan clam chowder for David, as he loves chowder.  I know that staying away from the grains is really helping me. I need to keep that up as the week progresses. I'm so hopeful that the scale will keep moving so I can be firmly planted into this decade and start moving into the next.  

I'm going back to this visual to remind myself what I'm aiming for each day. I already see that I have been enjoying dried fruit when that should be limited on the 6 week plan. Bummer. ;)