Laying down the law
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annathepiperIn which Anna rants, mostly to solidify this for her own benefit, about Certain Resolutions she must make about her weight.
Okay, so I'm closing in on June, and so far have not been able to lose any weight at all ever since stabilizing my Synthroid dosage. I've picked up ten pounds or so since my thyroid surgery round two, and despite regular exercise (upwards of three and a half and often four to four and a half miles a day during the week, plus walking and sometimes biking on the weekends), I have not been able to drop away from where I was as of January, when I went on my current dosage.
This is exceedingly vexing to me. My endoc has already told me to back off the snackies and have more fruit for lunch, advice which I have been erratic about implementing up till now, but now my vexation has gotten to the point that I have to deal with this. So I've got to lay down the law.
To wit,
* Do what my endoc has actually been telling me. This means back off the goddamned snacks, no matter how tempting a frappucino might be. I am hoping that perhaps I can motivate myself by hardcore Good Snack Avoidance Behavior during the week and allowing myself a treat of some sort on the weekends. So far I have allowed myself the exception of some rice crackers when I get home from work.
* Eat more fruit. As of last week I've started trying to break the habit of "sandwich and chips" or "sandwich and cookie" for lunch and make it be "sandwich and fruit" instead. This is fairly easy to do at work, though as I am about to be between contracts again, some extra effort will be required on days I'm eating lunch at home.
* Enforce the soda quota. This means one soda in the morning, one just after lunch during work days and no soda in the evenings. A similar quota must be enforced on weekends, and again, on days when I'm between contracts at home.
* Maintain the exercise. If I get a contract at Borg, pick one day a week to be Biking Day and see if I can start off at that level of biking frequency. Build up as necessary. Otherwise, if I wind up between contracts for a while, resume the treadmill and throw in outside walking as well to see if I can continue to keep up a daily mileage similar to what I've been doing on this contract's commute.
* Drink water. Especially during the long stretches of afternoon where I start getting peckish (or have the last couple of days, at any rate), and temptation to raid the vending machine is exceedingly high.
I've been trying to keep up the Good Snack Avoidance Behavior as well as the consumption of fruit with lunch for about a week now, with the exception of allowing myself snacks at the Street Fair on the grounds that I was biking that day and could damn well stand a snack. So far nothing interesting has happened to my weight, but I am getting hungrier at the right times, so that's a start.
(It occurs to me that this probably means I should eschew the tasty free popcorn and soda at the movie tomorrow, especially given that I will be eating sushi immediately after. Guh!)
Okay, so I'm closing in on June, and so far have not been able to lose any weight at all ever since stabilizing my Synthroid dosage. I've picked up ten pounds or so since my thyroid surgery round two, and despite regular exercise (upwards of three and a half and often four to four and a half miles a day during the week, plus walking and sometimes biking on the weekends), I have not been able to drop away from where I was as of January, when I went on my current dosage.
This is exceedingly vexing to me. My endoc has already told me to back off the snackies and have more fruit for lunch, advice which I have been erratic about implementing up till now, but now my vexation has gotten to the point that I have to deal with this. So I've got to lay down the law.
To wit,
* Do what my endoc has actually been telling me. This means back off the goddamned snacks, no matter how tempting a frappucino might be. I am hoping that perhaps I can motivate myself by hardcore Good Snack Avoidance Behavior during the week and allowing myself a treat of some sort on the weekends. So far I have allowed myself the exception of some rice crackers when I get home from work.
* Eat more fruit. As of last week I've started trying to break the habit of "sandwich and chips" or "sandwich and cookie" for lunch and make it be "sandwich and fruit" instead. This is fairly easy to do at work, though as I am about to be between contracts again, some extra effort will be required on days I'm eating lunch at home.
* Enforce the soda quota. This means one soda in the morning, one just after lunch during work days and no soda in the evenings. A similar quota must be enforced on weekends, and again, on days when I'm between contracts at home.
* Maintain the exercise. If I get a contract at Borg, pick one day a week to be Biking Day and see if I can start off at that level of biking frequency. Build up as necessary. Otherwise, if I wind up between contracts for a while, resume the treadmill and throw in outside walking as well to see if I can continue to keep up a daily mileage similar to what I've been doing on this contract's commute.
* Drink water. Especially during the long stretches of afternoon where I start getting peckish (or have the last couple of days, at any rate), and temptation to raid the vending machine is exceedingly high.
I've been trying to keep up the Good Snack Avoidance Behavior as well as the consumption of fruit with lunch for about a week now, with the exception of allowing myself snacks at the Street Fair on the grounds that I was biking that day and could damn well stand a snack. So far nothing interesting has happened to my weight, but I am getting hungrier at the right times, so that's a start.
(It occurs to me that this probably means I should eschew the tasty free popcorn and soda at the movie tomorrow, especially given that I will be eating sushi immediately after. Guh!)
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Date: 2006-05-24 05:24 am (UTC)