Been doing good so far complying with my new diet.
I'm surprised how much easier it was to eat less, if I were to just plan out my meals of the day the night before.
Things I've done for Week 1
- I'm eating breakfast (been eating low fat oats every morning)
- I'm bringing lunch to work on at least 2 out of 5 work days. (mostly boiled chicken breast and salmon salad sprinkled with cranberries, and sometimes with a boiled egg)
- For dinner, and occasions that I do not bring lunch (because it's not feasible to fit it into my work schedule), I've been eating a lot of fish soup, chicken soup, yong tau fu etc
- I've not snacked in between meals, but to help with my hunger pangs, I've been eating a lot of fruits (i.e., grapes, plums, mangosteens)
- Not having flavoured drinks, only water.
Initially for the first few days, I was starving in between meals, even though I was eating full meals for breakfast lunch and dinner. I was so tempted to just snack and not record it in my food diary, but thank goodness my conscience decided against it. While it got really tough saying no to junk food, to colleagues who offer me chocolates, to parents who offer me supper, at the end of my first week, with my little successes, I'm feeling slightly more confident that I can actually survive this.
I've gone off my diet plans slightly on 2 occasions this week. I had wanton mee with my family because the other restaurants in the mall had such long queues. I also had a small Japanese mochi for an afternoon snack because my bosses and colleagues got it for the office to celebrate their promotion, and it was difficult (almost rude) to say no :/ Boyfriend reminded me that it's all in the past, and I should just focus on what's ahead. Being on a diet does seem at first glance a spoiler to all social life, especially when you can't just go ahead and join your colleagues when they eat junk food, but I've come to realise I should just try to balance it by letting myself go and join them sometimes, but on other occasions, be firm about keeping my plans on track.
I joined this meetup group called "Weight Watchers", and a few of us met up last night to talk about our experiences. I've always told my boyfriend "You'll never understand how it's like to lose weight, because you've never been fat", so I was really looking forward to this outing because these are people who are struggling like me, or people who have struggled and succeeded. I was most struck by this guy who was talking about good food that night (quite against the whole objective of the meetup), but he was talking about food being in his lifestyle, and having no time at all to exercise. And I found myself shaking my head together with a few others, because I was there once. I was once full of excuses about how I cannot make a change because food was so important to me. So seeing him and hearing him talk made me that much more determined never to go down that path of denial again. Thank goodness there were other people who were more inspirational that night, for I learnt a lot of things! I like learning how losing weight doesn't mean cutting out all the food we love. i like how losing weight doesn't mean extreme dieting or going to the gym very often. I like learning how it just means small changes to daily habits. I shared of my craving for bubble tea, and saw a few acknowledging nods, but having so many people who succeeded tell me that it's bad because of all the sugar and artificial flavours, made me that much more determined to get it out of my life (or maybe just let it be an occasional treat :P). One big takeaway: " no amount of exercise can save a poor diet" :)
My left ankle hasn't recovered from my sprain yet, so I've got to be really firm with my diet yet since I'm not going to be exercising much.
Weigh in: 59.2kg
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