It's been another good food day for me - a bowl of cheerios, small glass of milk and a whole grapefruit (YUM - it was delicious!) for breakfast, then a Stoffer's macaroni & cheese microwave meal for lunch/dinner (I know it sounds bad, but it's only 340 calories - of course, 140 of those are fat calories, but even so...), and now this evening I was HUNGRY, so I've had a punnet of raspberries, a banana and a non-fat raspberry yogurt for an evening snack. Oh, and 2 diet cokes to drink... All told, I don't think I've hit 1000 calories today.
Which brings me to the title of this particular blog. I am soooo eating far more healthily than I think I've EVER eaten in my life, but at the same time, I still don't think I'm eating very healthily. My fruit intake has easily tripled (but that's a simple fix - even one piece of fruit a day is better than the 1 - 2 pieces a week I was eating before!), and I am taking a multi-vitamin daily (primarily for the iron content, as I think my iron count was low even before I started this diet thing..), so in that regard I'm doing much better now than I was. Also, my calorie intake is down by at least 1500 - 2000 calories a day - no more cookies, potato chips, candy, icing (one of my big weaknesses...), french fries... in short, no more JUNK - and much, much less milk (I was drinking 2-3 tall glasses / day), all of which adds up very, very quickly - I think I'm averaging between 1000 - 1500 calories a day now. But it's not balanced, which it needs to be, and that I think needs to be addressed....
Still, I'll put that on the "for the next step" list!
Meanwhile, thanks to my sister & her husband, I now have a bicycle to try riding, and I even bought a lock for it this evening, so tomorrow morning I shall try it out and start biking to work this week - exercise, here I come! Someone warn the drivers on the road... !!! :-)
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Yup, diet alone is rarely enough to bring you into a healthy zone, but light _consistent_ exercise will just speed up the process and give you more overall benefits. Think of it this way, if you burn off 2000 calories in a session you are still able to drink your milk and reap the benefits ;)
ReplyDeleteStart slow though if you have not been exercising for a while. Don't do yourself an injury by getting too intense too quickly. Work yourself till you are breathless and then rest, then push yourself some more. Working properly 3 days in a week and in a month you should see a marked improvement.
Good luck :)