Diet Progress: Start of Week 2

I’m now into week 2 of my diet. While I have made some changes last week, I find that it is very tempting to fall back into old habits. I’m definitely monitoring what and when I eat, and still trying to keep everything in moderation… but it is more difficult than I remember it being!!

Sunday

Brunch: Coffee w/ half-and-half, homemade potato pancakes w/ sour cream
Snack: Handful of butter toffee cashews, diet pepsi
Dinner: Cheese stuffed baby peppers w/ sour cream sauce; potato pancakes; iced tea cocktail (1.5oz Makers Mark in iced black tea sweetened with cane sugar and lemon)
Dessert: Homemade rice pudding made with 1% milk and half-and-half
Miscellaneous: 1 bottle of diet green tea

Monday

Breakfast: Coffee w/ half-and-half, yogurt
Snack: 24 pretzels (120 calories)
Lunch: Veggie “chicken” patty w/ ketchup (no bread), green salad w/ oil and vinegar, roasted veggies
Snack: 100 calorie pack of shortbread cookies, iced tea
Dinner: Homemade rice and beans, bottle of water
Dessert: Pear cobbler with frozen vanilla-almond yogurt

As you can see… this past weekend there were some bumps in the road, but today I have been trying to get back on track with my diet and exercise. I went on the treadmill for a half-hour this morning and walked/jogged 1.5 miles (6 laps) at a rate of 2.6-3.5mph with an incline of 3-4. My goal for the week is still 6.5 miles and I am going to try to work out tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, and maybe Saturday morning to fulfill it. I was also asked if I wanted to go to a couple of workout classes this week, so we’ll see how that goes; if I do go to them, I will probably still walk, but at a slower pace than I have been.

Nothing lasts forever

Real Simple has a great article about commercial beauty product expiration dates that is great for everyone – not just women! – to read. It will make you think, and possibly go into your cabinets to throw out all of the junk that’s been in there from the Bath and Body Works Semi-Annual sale from two or three years ago. Trust me. That’s what I just did and that was before I read this article; I just used my better judgment, but was still shocked to see what short lives some products have and will probably have to clean out my makeup bag next.

Think about how long some of those products sit on the shelves before you buy them and take them home. Then you use them, at which point they are still alright, but you might get sick of the fragrance so they get stashed and sit… and sit… and sit… Then you might decide to use them again a few months later and let them sit again. Time adds up and even though a lot of the stuff has chemicals in it which probably act as preservatives to some degree, why risk it? Would you take rotten butter and smear it all over your body? Uh, no. Then why do it with old lotions, body washes, fragrances, etc.? Exactly.