Educating myself

Wow, so this week I did a ton of reading. I researched antioxidants, Dr. Oz's weightloss tips, unsaturated fats, and a few other things here and there. It felt so good to learn more, and find out that a lot of the choices I've been making food wise were really good for me. Oh and I love negative calorie foods, foods that are more difficult to digest so they burn more calories than they provide. They are fruits and vegetables. It's great, because those things you can really eat as much as you want of and not worry about it being bad or turning to fat.

So, I was...bad. I weighed this morning, I couldn't help myself. And so far I've got 0.8 pounds down this week. Not as much as I wanted, but considering I've been out of exercise with viscious cramps all week it's not so bad. But we'll see how Sunday turns out.

I've also been checking into Body wraps, apparently they help detoxify and process out fat cells. Sounds good to me but here's the catch, either really messy and slightly expensive, or easy and really expensive. That my friends, is a little depressing. But we'll see I just might go with the messy stuff and try it anyway.

See, I know by the scale that I am making progress, but I really don't feel like I look any different. That frustrates me to no end. But I'm sure that if I could see a picture of what I looked like a few weeks ago, or last summer when I was a whopping 222 pounds I would see a huge difference. But alas, it is difficult to take a full body picture of yourself. And Husband always forgets to take it for me, and I am tired of asking. I might just do the mirror, or wing it and get a bunch of bad pics until I get a decent one.

Some tips I did love though:
Visualise yourself at your goal, see yourself how you'll be and that you've already succeeded. Like pro athletes before a race.
Never eat dessert after dinner, eat it at lunch. Smaller meal means that all the calories won't be converted straight into fat. And enjoy a small amount of dark chocolate. Not too much sugar, and antioxidants! I am so doing that. About 1/4 the size of a regular chocolate bar as an afternoon snack.
Take progress pictures every week.
And eat as many brightly colored fruits and veggies as you want. (negative calorie foods mostly, and mostly antioxidants)
Oh and you can add sliced fruit to a pitcher of water in the fridge to make it more appetizing if the water thing is boring. I am trying it, starting with lemon and lime.

So I suppose I'm not all out of steam, even though it kind of feels like it right now. I think it's the holiday, missing my Mom on Mother's day weekend.