I started out this new year a little slow. Last night I went to a party, and after being in the car all day traveling back from Mississippi, I had eaten a ton of crap. I had decided that dinner would be a big bad meal so I could at least get it out of my system before I started eating better. So we had Burger King. Not really a great choice!
But going to the party, watching the ball drop in NYC meant staying up past midnight and walking home. I didn't get to bed till about 1 in the morning, but it was fun so no complaints here!
Today I woke up around 10:30 a.m., and because I didn't really know what to eat, I just waited until lunch to eat anything. I want to start eating more breakfast, I feel like it helps me fill up. But while I'm enjoying my time off school and waking up later, I'm probably not going to have much time for breakfast.
I had some Lil Smokies sausages (I don't like the beef ones, so we have the pork/chicken/turkey ones) and I made chicken broth with some bouillon powder we have. I really need to try to get the "no salt/less salt" one because I know it had to be a lot of sodium. That and I also want to try different soup recipes. Ones that rely more on whole foods than soup powders.
I was still a little hungry so I had a little bit of canned corn. I know, I know, it's an indigestible starch. But since I knew we were having green beans for dinner, I didn't want to eat them twice in a day. I'm going to try to stay away from that type of stuff. The other downside is that for as little corn as I ate, it still brought my carbs up to 36 g for today, so far.
We went to my Uncle's house for dinner tonight, and he's eating a paleo-type diet too, so I knew it'd be easy for me not to cheat. I baked a cake for my aunt, as it was her birthday today, but I didn't eat any of it.
He cooked pork and beef on the grill, and had salad and green beans with it. I prefer pork so I only ate that, and I ended up eating two big pieces. It must've been around 7-10 oz. I don't like dressing on my salad, so I just had a tiny bit of salad on the side. Looking back, I should've had more! It was probably only half a serving anyway.
I felt satiated after I ate, but once the cake came out, I was hungry again. I held off eating again until we got back home, and only just ate a teaspoon of peanut butter at about 10:30 p.m. I was thinking about making a whole can of green beans for myself, but my brother talked me out of it. Plus I didn't really feel like cooking so late at night.
In total, I had 1120 calories today, with 55 g carbs, 65 g fat, and 79 g protein.
I've been thinking of my new year's resolutions today and yesterday and I have a few goals that I want to achieve this year. One is eating better. I want to do primal for a whole year, rather than just a month at a time. I think the trick to achieving this is to think of it as changing my lifestyle rather than sticking to a strict paleo/primal routine for just a month. This means that if I do cheat (and I probably will) that I won't be thrown totally off. And also it's more of a long term thing. It's not that I can NEVER eat bread again, or make cookies for special occasions, but that I want to stay away from those things as much as possible, and realize that not eating them all the time makes me feel SO much better.
What are y'all's new year's resolutions? Any big plans for this year?
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