Well, the dinner seemed to turn out well. Everyone loved it and hardly noticed it was "lighter" at all! I will add a page with the recipe and calorie count info etc. Hubby's only comment that he noticed was that it didn't have the crispy crust that you get when you fry the steaks in oil, but he said the flavor was excellent! And it was all comfort food, so that's a plus!
I am having problems keeping my sodium content down. With blood pressure issues, that's a pretty important thing, so I'll have to work on that. Doesn't help that I ate Chinese food for lunch yesterday!
This cold-thing I have is worse today. But I still got up and rode the bike. My third daughter is too sick to go to school and if I get to the point where she is, I'm afraid I won't be able to ride the bike. And if I don't ride the bike, I'm afraid I'll get off my schedule, and if I get off my schedule, I'm afraid I won't get back on again. I've failed before due to illness and not being able to get back on track. So I've got to make sure I ride if at all possible, and if it's not, then to ride as soon thereafter as I can. I'm not supposed to judge myself, but I sure am lazy! So I've got to make sure I somehow motivate myself if I do happen to get too sick to exercise.
But let's fight that battle when/if it happens. For today, I've done my riding. I did the bowflex yesterday so I don't have to worry about doing that for now.
You know, as long as I'm worrying about possible future events, I think I should start planning for my first plateau. At some point, my body is going to get used to the work outs that I'm doing and I'm going to have to shake it up. I need to start looking for other exercises to add in. That way I'll be prepared when it does happen.
I need to keep in mind that I can't do things that won't work in the long run. That's why diets always fail - if you do something short term to lose weight, then even if it works, as soon as you stop doing it, you're going to gain it all back. That's why it's important to find things that I like doing - things I can keep on doing in the long run. If it's too hard, then even if I can motiviate myself to do it in the short term, if I can't keep it up, then I'll fall right back into my old habits.
So far I've found things I like to do and that I think I can do indefinitely. The bike riding is fun because I get to read (actually started a new series this morning!) and I have always loved weight lifting, so the bowflex is easy to talk myself into (or at least it doesnt' take much to motivate myself to do it). I'm a little concerned about finding other things, though. I do like the belly dancing idea. I used to really enjoy that (not that it's easy - it's one of the hardest things to do, but it's fun), so maybe that is something that will work for me.
Meanwhile, I'll start posting what recipes are working for me and maybe that will help.
I read something that said even if you don't feel like doing your exercise for a particular day, just try it anyway and you can always stop! So if you are sick and you start doing it, if you need to stop you can, and then you'll still feel good about trying since that's really all that matters! :) Hope you feel better soon though.
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