I write this installment feeling a bit ashamed for not having kept you updated on my progress as faithfully as I would have liked. Hopefully, you will forgive me and I will try to do better as the year moves on.
On the eating/diet front: I tried out the Nutri-System plan, but after a month have decided not to continue with it. I did fairly well on the plan but found there were certain obstacles for me with the system. The primary one is that all the lunches require you to use either a microwave or have access to boiling water, and my life just isn't like that. I never know where I'm going to be at lunch time, and ditto for dinner. I may be in my car, at my office, or out at a business location. So I need the option of meals that are basically carry and eat with no heating required. Secondly, I prefer to use the microwave as little as possible. Once you microwave food, you have essentially destroyed the nutrients in the food, even if it was very natural and healthy to start with. That brings me to the third obstacle. I didn't like eating all that packaged food. It just didn't feel healthy to me! Even though the food is low in fat and calories, it is far, far from it's natural state. And the fourth obstacle was the taste. The food was decent, but it was definitely not tasty enough that I wanted to eat it three times a day.
So I'm using up what I have intermittently, and trying to prepare meals to take with me for lunch made from whole, healthy foods. The best part of the plan was that it gave me a much more realistic view of portions and also brought into focus what was really important for me. Which is not just about losing weight, but about getting healthy. I don't want to compromise the big-picture goal for some short term success!
Next installment: what's happening on the exercise/activity front?
