naia_zifu's Journal

It seems weird to me how many people on CC rail against putting any food that's not completely natural into their bodies.  Let's see. . . do these same people only wear clothes made from natural materials, or do they wear synthetics, too?  Driving in a car is unnatural, too, so do they never go anywhere unless they can make it by walking, or do they ride horses?  What about their homes and all the furniture, appliances, entertainment devices (yes, including cell phones and the computers they access CC on!)-- are all those things completely natural?  It just seems really hypocritical to me for people to be all high and mighty, like, "Oh no, I'd never eat anything that's not exactly as it was when it grew up out of the ground, and neither should you!" when they allow the artificial in so many other aspects of life.  I'm sure it would be ideal for us to only consume and surround ourselves with natural things, but that hasn't been the human way of life for centuries now.  I'm sure even the people preaching and whining about all the unnatural things on the shelves in the grocer's wouldn't advocate giving up their cushy modern lives and comforts to go back to a pre-industrial way of life.

I have completely sucked at weight loss for the last year.  I feel like such a failure!  It's hard to believe at one point I had lost almost all the weight I needed to, and now I'm back to having almost 30 lbs to lose again :-( .  Ah well, nothing I can do except kick myself in the ass and make myself do it over, right?  And no better time than the present to get started.

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Been trying to work on stuff for my site's anniversary, so I haven't been doing much but sitting at my computer :-( .  My body hurts from sitting too much.  I need to get up and do something!

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I haven't been coming to this site regularly in ages, and I need to fix that.  I think it helps me stay more on track if I come here and listen to more health-conscious people than if I let myself listen to my housies who could care less about diet or exercise!  They're the sort who think there's no point to living if you can't eat whatever you want and veg in front of the television as much as you want :-P .  I need people to help keep me on the straight and narrow!

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Both yesterday and today I was a little over on cals, but think I did enough exercise to make it up.  I'll probably continue to be a little over on cals until after my cycle is over, so I guess I'll just keep trying to do a little more exercise to make up for it.  I just hope my cycle is over soon, 'cause I hate feeling tired and bloated, and having decreased energy!

I've also been trying to eat more fruits and veggies again, 'cause I've noticed when I went so far off-track I'd stopped eating most of those.  Oh, and I'm trying to get more water rather than Diet Pepsi again, which is something else I had gotten off-track with.  I always forget how much I like water when I'm not drinking it. . .

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I went a little over on cals today, but I think I did enough exercise to make up for it.  My food grades aren't great 'cause of the muffin and part of a chocolate bar, but I'll try to do better tomorrow.

I'm proud of myself, at least, that the past couple of days I've been doing more crunches than I ever have before.  Hopefully extra crunches mean my tummy will look better, sooner, ne?

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Yeah, I went astray again.  I think it started last month when I went on my cycle.  I got a package of 6 dark chocolate candy bars 'cause they were on sale cheap.  (One day I'll learn to focus my "sale" radar on healthy things only. . .)  I wasn't so bad as to eat them all in one day, but yeah, they were all gone by the time I finished my cycle :-( .  I've tried multiple times to get back on track since then, but each time someone brings some "bad" food into the house, or I get busy and miss a few days of exercise, or whatever, and I'm back off-track again.  This seems to be a recurring cycle for me, and the reason I keep losing the same 5-10 lbs over and over again.  I keep feeling if I find a way to break that, I could be home free.  So how exactly do I go about it?

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Bleh, there were a couple of days there where I couldn't keep my cals under control :-( .  I think I'm getting back on track again now, so hopefully I'll be okay.  I think it was just that Jon was over for a couple of days, and I always end up eating too much crap when he's around.  Good thing he doesn't show up much, or I might be sunk :-P .

I'm not sure how my weight loss is doing right now, 'cause it's almost my time of month and I'm like all bloated and junk.  My scale was showing a lb or two down just before I started bloating, but I dunno how accurate that is, since my scale is a notorious liar :-P .  I guess we'll see what happens!

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I was looking through my food journal a couple of nights ago thinking what a pig I am and how seldom I actually make my cals.  I was pretty upset with myself.  Then I remembered this thing I saw on "Oprah" once, where people train themselves off being complainers by wearing rubber bracelets.  It's like, when they catch themselves complaining they change wrists for the bracelet. . . I think it's supposed to work like an outward sign to peole around them of how they're doing or something.  I don't have a rubber diet bracelet, but I do have a rubber band that fits my wrist, so that's what I'm using.  At the end of the day, if I'm over cals, it goes on my left wrist.  If I'm okay, it goes on my right.  Okay, so far it's still been on my left wrist more than my right -_-; , but those days I've been much less over than I had been going, and today it actually got on my right ^_^ .  Hopefully this will help get me back on track towards my goal.

And as food confessions go, I don't really have one for today, I'm happy to say.  I think that's also an improvement ^_^ .

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Just trying to hold myself more accountable by recording confessions of bad judgement in my journal.

Today's confession isn't all that bad, I guess.  I ate too much, but most of it was good for me, other than some chili cheese chips.  I think my only real prob today was not getting enough exercise.  The only thing I did was go for a walk, which was probably about 3 1/2 miles.  I know that wasn't enough to burnoff all the cals I ate, but I didn't get a chance to do any supplemental exercise to make up for that.

Ah well, I'll try to hold down on the cals and step up the exercise a bit tomorrow to help make up for my slack today.

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