What's For Lunch?

When I have tried really hard to lose weight, I weigh every day.  I want to see those results as soon as I can.  It makes me more motivated.  However, I only chart the one on Monday morning.  If my weight fluctuates during the week, I don't count that.  I weigh in before I have eaten anything, naked, and with my hair dry.  You can never be too careful.  ;-)  I have been tracking my weight six years, and I can see on the graph where I started to gain, and I can remember why.  The end of the year always seems to be a really bad time for me.  The middle of the year is always the best.  Who wants to be caught looking fat in a tropical paradise?

My daughter and I love to go to Cancun for a week each year.  We get up in the morning and walk for an hour (the sand is too loose to run, but we could run on the sidewalks).  Then we slather up with sunscreen and have breakfast, which always includes guacamole.  They serve us freshly-squeezed juices, even kiwi juice.  We average having guacamole three times a day while we are there.  I know it's supposed to be eaten in moderation, but how often do you have a chance to eat really fresh guacamole?  Then, we sun and read, eat, sun and read, eat.  We get in some swimming, but it's a really leisurely vacation.  When we come back, it's back on plan.

With the long weekend, I feel good that I have lost another pound today.  My goal now is to lose thirteen more pounds. 

One way that I make sure that I stay on track is that I bring my lunch to work.  It's almost always a salad with turkey cubes.  I am trying to concentrate on eating tuna a couple of times a week.  I really like tuna, and it has omega-3.  I have found a new dressing that I like, Bolthouse Farms blue cheese yogurt dressing.  It has none of the heavy mayonnaise that most blue cheese has.  There are other flavors, if you don't like blue cheese.  Just to change it up, I also love Maple Grove Farms fat-free poppyseed, or if I'm making a tex-mex salad, salsa for a dressing, and black beans instead of meat.

I also bring all my gym clothes for the week on Monday, so I won't be caught without anything to exercise in at lunch.  We have great group fitness classes here at Eastman.  If you don't have a facility where you work, you probably would have to work out before or after work.  At lunch time, I get pretty sweaty, but I just bring baby wipes and deodorant.  It's worth it, because it forces me to bring my lunch.