Another Wasted Month

Maybe August will be better.

(Though this past week I did drink 680 ounces of water. Or, 10.625 gallons of water.)

Now on to a new good habit.

Wednesday's Water Words

...I feel like I have drank enough water to float a boat. Or so it seems. I drank 120 ounces yesterday.

...Since I have been drinking so much water and told Hector, now he is determined to out-do me and drank over 150 ounces yesterday.

...I'm even drinking a lot of water at home.

...Not sure what I am going to do about water when I go on my trip with Janie next month.  I don't want to stop drinking water but on the other hand I don't want to stop every 5 miles to pee.

...When I got to work this morning I discovered I didn't have as much water left as I thought. I only have 16 ounces which I am not happy about. But I will buy some at lunch when I go to Starbucks with Jose.

...I actually think I even feel somewhat better since drinking all this water. My imagination or no?

...I sorta feel water-obsessed, which I suppose is better than food-obsessed. Is that a bad thing?

SO...Did All That Water Help?

After weighing myself this morning, and only having lost .8 pounds, I would say no. But, on the other hand, it wasn't like I truly truly made myself diet this past week so what would I expect.  And drinking water is good for you and I did do very well drinking what I was supposed to and then some. Even when I was at home over the weekend which is a biggie.


So this week let's see what happens. More water and less food hopefully.

Water, Water, Water

Well for a change I really stuck to drinking my 64 oz of water this weekend. Yay me!

So Much Food!

So I was thinking about this whole diet thing and how they say you should eat a variety of foods (healthy foods that is), but for me, as boring as it is, I would rather eat the same things that I know are healthy and low in calories or at least what I know what the calorie count is. 

When I look at different diets and food on Pinterest , I tend to just feel overwhelmed by it all and can't make up my mind to save my life. So it just seems easier to stick with what I know and like and be done with it instead of trying to venture out and discover new things.  It also means to make up menus and stick with them, which makes it easier to know what to eat and what calorie range I want to stay in.

Dieting is hard work; not just the not being able to eat whatever part, but the planning part too.  I know it may come easier to some than to others and I wish I had that ability, but I am a second-guesser at about everything. I'm like that in scrapbooking and writing, etc, and I'm like that here, because I'm like, but what if...

Oh well. The point is to just try and lose the weight in whatever best suits me. I just wish it wasn't so difficult.

(By the way, I have already drank 72 ounces of water and it is only 2:16pm. Yesterday I managed to drink a whopping (for me anyway) 88 ounces. It is getting easier...)

Whatever Wednesday

Dieting is hard. H-A-R-D! ! ! ! !

I hate dieting.

But I hate being like this.

I wish you could buy will power.

Yesterday I drank 72 ounces of water.

Today so far (at 3:10pm) I have drank 56 ounces...only 8 to go for the 64. But I will try for more.

Except the problem with all this water-drinking is I pee a lot. A LOT.

I weighed in this morning and lost a few ounces.

Gunny wants me to go to the gym at lunch tomorrow...I'm really going to try and remember to bring clothes for that. I can hardly wait. Not.

I miss being skinny.

If Only

So I was doing really well yesterday, drinking my 64+ ounces of water, eating healthy frittatas for lunch,, etc, and then I got home. To no electricity. Darn. And I was hungry. I had thought briefly about stopping by the commissary and picking up a roasted chicken and  having it with a salad, but it was raining and I decided to just go home.  To find no electricity.

With that, we decided to go eat out and we went to Not Your Average Joe's, which of course isn't diet-friendly...if you have no will-power like me.  Though, I didn't eat all that much...but I did have a couple of pieces of their bread. And a peach Sangria.  For dinner I had a side Caesar salad and their cheesesteak wontons, but I only ate two of those and not all 4.  When we got home we had power again and then I finished off a 1/2 pint of strawberry ice cream, which now leaves me with no sweets in the house.  That is a good thing as long as I can stay out of the freezer section of the store.

Anyway, the point of my title is, I weighed myself this morning and had lost about 4 ounces, but I was also wearing my nightgown. I decided to take it off and weigh again and all of a sudden I was down 3 lbs! If only!  But I know my nightie does not weigh anything near 3 lbs; more like 3 or 4 ounces. Ah well.

Today I'm still doing pretty good, I have all my water in already and still have hours to go to drink even more, and I am planning on getting chicken and having it with salad. I may buy Skinny Cow fudge bars because they are really good and one is a good size for only 100 or so calories I think. Better than my Ben-and-Jerry's ice cream diet for sure.

If only my B&Js only had 100 calories. ***sigh***

And....Again!

After weighing in this morning and really not liking the numbers that I saw, (well, I haven't liked them in a long time but even more so today for some reason), I decided I had really better get with the program and do something about it.   If I could do it when I was in California, I can do it here.


So here goes.

For The Life Of Me

I cannot understand why I am having such a hard time with even trying to lose weight.

I know I have talked about that on here before but it seriously perplexes me.  You would think that given health problems that can arise from being overweight, not liking the way I look, being able to buy cuter clothes, actually wanting to be in pictures, looking half-way decent in a bathing suit, all these just among others, would motivate me to do it. So then why doesn't it? 

And I know how to do it. I know how to make menus and grocery lists and eating healthy plans, and exercising schedules, etc, yet, I don't.  Really it isn't all that difficult.  But to actually sit down and do it, and then follow through with them, my head feels blocked and refuses to let it get through.

I look on Pinterest and see all these different ways to journal and plan and I pin them, hoping it will jar me into sensibility and getting on that bandwagon. Yet, I don't. 

For the life of me I just don't get it.

Maybe Not Dinner...

...but dessert...

Seriously??

Yeah...this half of the year so far isn't any better than the first half. What the heck is wrong with me that I can't make myself do this???!!!???

After All....

...you don't want to waste food, right?

Me To A Tee

The Year Is Half Over...

...let's see if I can do any better.