Good Morning! Day 2! Here we are!
Confession is good for the soul: I cheated after hours yesterday...I ate a small handful of dry roasted peanuts right before bed...why? I don't know. I was hungry I thought! Old habits are hard to break, but that's what we are all about here! Breaking those old habits of eating willy-nilly! This late night eating is one of the really bad habits I must break!
My weight this morning is 198 where it was 197.8 yesterday. Weight gain and weight loss--I have read somewhere--is based on what we eat three days before. Today we are claiming that to be true because I feel that I followed my carbohydrate count fairly well on Day 1--except for the few peanuts. I am counting on the accountability of blogging my eating habits and my weight gain or loss keeping me honest and on track--thus my peanut confession!
Again, as is typical, the difficult time for me yesterday was in the late evening. Tonight, perhaps, I can eat a later dinner and thus a later evening snack. The evening snack is important because I am a Type 2 diabetic---in other words, this unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle I have adopted and practiced over the last twenty years have affected my health. I gave this ailment to myself, thus I have to take my life and health back!
The school district for which I teach operates on a balanced calendar which gives us a week long break about every six weeks. Typically, I travel to Mississippi to visit family--my older daughter and one year old granddaughter, my mother, and my sister and her family--during these breaks. However, for the winter break this year, February 18-22, as my weight nears 200 pounds, I have decided to make some lifestyle changes and to stay home to regroup.
Teaching high school English leaves little time for thinking and doing for oneself--am I making excuses here--perhaps, but realistically, I work 8.5 to 10 hour days every day in the school building and then try to spend time grading quizzes, tests, and essays in the evening. Exercising and watching my diet are not at the top of my list upon returning home. I walk in the door ready to eat. Sadly, often I get no further into the house than the dinning table and kitchen before parking myself for my hour plus long binge of eating! After this hour-long dinner, I frequent the kitchen probably twice more during the evenings. Sad, but entirely true!
As is the plight of most Type 2 diabetics, our eating patterns are cyclical; we tend to overeat which causes a blood sugar rise/spike and a spike in energy. As this higher blood sugar level drops,we lose energy, so we eat more to keep the energy level up. This cycle is repeated continuously throughout the day. Like most Type 2 diabetics, food is my drug of choice! This week on my February break, I am retooling my eating habits to break this cycle of addiction. If you can relate to this same deleterious cycle of eating and its results, please share your experiences, both your successes and challenges.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Here's to another day of good healthy eating and good living!
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