I've reopened my account on a food diary-esque website, putting everything I eat into it (even what I'm not proud of eating), but every day for the last three days I've come in well below my daily allowance, as well as well below my calorie expenditure. And what do I get after three days of eating hummus when my friends are eating fries, salads instead of burgers, and not letting myself have any treats in between? A 1.5 pound gain. This puts me having gained about 5 pounds over the last six weeks.
This is incredibly frustrating and even slightly devastating. I had lost about fifteen pounds over the course of the last year before getting back to school, and now I've gained 1/3 of it back.
So, now even more changes must be made. Obviously, healthy eating in a college cafeteria is hard work in and of itself, and obviously though I'm recording what I'm eating the best I can, it's going over my allowance. So, now, here are my new rules:
1) Breakfast - have an omelette. I have to eat breakfast to be able to make it to my late lunch break, and the most calorically dense meal should be breakfast, anyway. However, only use vegetables in it, and no more cheese.
2) Unless they are serving some sort of grilled chicken, salads and maybe a few chips for lunch and dinner. Instead of putting the dressings on the salad, I'll do what I used to do - get a separate bowl and dip my fork. Hopefully, this will reduce calorie intake there (as I have a feeling that may be a main source, since the only dressings the salad bar has are caesar, ranch, bleu cheese, honey mustard, and some weird vinegar stuff that tastes nasty. I've been going with the honey mustard, but now I'm going to try this method to see what happens).
3) Exercise EVERY. DAY. I did exercise the last two days in a row (yippee!), pretty vigorously. I'm going to try to find a circuit workout online, though. My workouts mostly consist of me running for a while on the treadmill, doing a few machines, some lunges and crunches, then I'm done. Maybe finding a structured workout will help me better.
4) No excessive snacks. I've actually done really well with this the last few days. Usually, when I get bored in my room, I'll sit and just eat some pretzels, or heat up some left-over spaghetti, even though I'm not hungry. I'm really trying to cut that out anyway. I will only have a a snack if I am legitimately hungry.
Hopefully, this will garner me more success than I've had as of yet. I still think I'll be able to get to my goal, but it'll be some really tough work.
Wish me luck!
-iDaydream
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