Day 23 - March 16 - TTT, pt 2

Tuesday Tips With a Trainer - Britanny Stiles, Bluewater Fitness:
Stop eating 2-3 hours before going to bed. The reason: When you're up and about, just being awake, will help burn calories. If, however, you eat as you're getting settled in (lounging, lying in bed etc) the body goes into storage mode. The body recognizes that it doesn't need the extra food/fuel/calories you're giving it so it says, "Oh. Let's store this and just use it tomorrow." --- and the bowl of ice cream automatically gets stored as fat.

I've tried to implement this much more regularly. I'll tell you, though, I LOVE to eat at night. Who doesn't love hanging out with people you love and a big honkin' sweet treat??! It helps, though, that now I'm trying to MOVE that I really do think twice about derailing my efforts. I have to be careful too because my sleeping time can be anywhere from 8pm-1/2am. There is a whole RANGE of time that I can eat food. Because of this, I'm really doing my best not to eat past 6 or 7pm, even earlier if I can. If I THINK I'm getting hungry as the night goes on, I'll try a glass of water first. (Many times we can mistaken thirst for hunger!) The water helps me quench any potential thirst and if I AM hungry, I've lessened the space that food can fit. Having a regular cap to my eating has been a way to tweak the BBE.

Meaningful Movement: 40 minutes of stepladder on treadmill, legs on machines

Foods that fit in a baby bowl, Day 22:
-Lenten fast: breakfast
-Honey Nut Cheerios and 1% milk
-spaghetti and meat sauce
- 20 almonds

Foods that would've fit in a baby bowl had I not BLOWN it:
-salad with bleu cheese dressing
-grilled shrimp and rice pilaf with lemon butter sauce
-fries
-strawberry Orange Julius

NOTE: I was REALLY upset with myself here! Here are all the things that went wrong:
-My husband has been working long hours with only one day off a week so we tried to reconnect through food.
-We had planned a restaurant meal for the time he was supposed to get off, 4pm, and forced it anyway when he DID get home at 7pm.
-We ate WAY too late which was around 8pm. I fell asleep by 10:30. BIG mistake!
-I got cocky that I could handle restaurant food since I'd been doing so well. If anyone needs some ego, apparently I have some to spare!
-I projected that I'd be fasting in the morning so I wanted to make sure I was good and full, even full to bursting. Apparently I needed a reminder about how gross this felt.
-I BLEW the day after having such a strong start with measuring my food and the great work I did at the gym. VERY VERY disappointing.
-I measured my food but ate everything back to back and didn't stick with my water rule. The drink alone would've satisfied me for the rest of the night. Imagine all that food ON TOP of it.
What a mess. Again, I'll be running toward my baby bowl tomorrow!