The better me and the snag.

Lately I have been trying to work through some of the snags of life. I have slowly been changing my eating habits and are now much healthier than I was half a year ago. I eat breakfast every day, and after an extensive check at the doctors I know that I am as healthy as a horse on the inside. Go figure, since the outside looks like I have been living on the couch with a bag of chips for the last couple of years.

In my quest for lightness I have been forced to push my "thin woman" goal back a year since I seem to have hit the wall. For 2 months now I have not been able to loose any more weight! I have lost 5 kg (11 lbs 0.37 ounces) but now I can't get under 135 kg! I try not to sit still in my office too long but I have not been to the gym since Easter since my workout buddy has quit on me for the spring and summer. The gusto I need to get to the gym alone is too much and the excuses are many and varied.

Today I drew the line. I am getting up and at 'em, so to speak. I am working on collecting some tips to hang in there and change the day to day schedule to the better.
The first thing I am doing is inviting my husband to go walking with me. Saturday we walked in the spring sun for about 1 km (0.6 miles). Not a long walk, but enough for my foot to start hurting and a blister to form on my heal from the little-used shoes.

The second is that I am using the Noom app on my phone to keep track of what I eat and what I do as exercise every day. It is super easy to use and gives me challenges and tasks to do every day. It also shows how much I have eaten and how much calories I have burned the last 7 days on the home screen on my phone so I never forget to keep track (except on week ends when I rarely look at my phone except when I log the housework on Noom).

Third I am picking up tips from magazines like Weight Watchers and Shape. These are the tips I have found so far:

Menu planning

I have just started with weekly menu planning. It takes more work than what I thought it would. I have been planning a baking day for a while so I thought I would try to make a lot of food that I need. I also think that I will bake some cakes that I can store in bins and take out when we have guests or for dessert.

Here is the first week dinner menu I have planned:
Monday:  Chicken salad with green beans.
Tuesday: French blue mussel stew (with self picked blue mussel) and bread
Wednesday: Cabbage rolls
Thursday: Curry soup and cocktail medallions
Friday: The norwegian dinner course "raspeball" with salted pork and saussages
Saturday: Turkey cabaret with fruits and bread
Sunday: seafood table: Filled crab shells, crab toast, shrimps, white bread and whine, salmond paté.
and for dessert: either "American apple cake", "spice cake", fruit pie or macron hats.

For my baking day I will do
"the 3 hour bake"
"macron hats"
filled pies and baguettes
"ham hatts"
Fish pie
meat pie
filled horns
hotdog and hamburger breads
fruit pie
orange cake
spice cake
American apple cake
apple muffins

It's a lot of things so I might split it into more than one bake day, but I will make everything ready anyhow.

til next time
Mrs. K.