Day One.

Well, tonight's the night. Back to the gym.

I figure it's a good time to try to get my eating back under control, too. I need to dust off my food journal and start using it again. Since I'm starting over at the gym, I might as well start over at home too, right?

Today was not bad. I had an egg-white omelet and some multi-grain oatmeal for breakie. This is my usual breakfast. Once in a while I go crazy and have a multi-grain english muffin (toasted) with peanut butter and sliced banana. I did use real cream in my coffee. I use a lot of cream, and I drink a lot of coffee. This needs to change. Did you know that if you switch from cream to skim milk in your coffee, you'll lose something like five pounds in a year, without making any other changes? Too bad I hate the taste of coffee with skim...

I could give up coffee, I suppose. That would be better for me anyways. But baby steps, I say...

I was on the go all morning, and didn't have time for a snack (when I was eating right, I did three meals plus 2-3 snacks per day). At lunchtime I picked up the Js from their respective schools and we did some more running around. I ended up getting them Mcdonald's for lunch, but resisted the smell of those greasy fries and ordered nothing for me.

Our next stop (thanks to a wrong turn probably brought on by low blood sugar) ended up being Tim Horton's. I got a bagel with cream cheese and coffee with... milk! It wasn't anywhere near as satisfying as my regular "two creams, two sweeteners" from Timmy's is. Plus the bagel was plain (white, refined, blah) as they didn't have any multi-grain, and the amount of cream cheese slathered on it likely exceeds the serving size by, oh, about 500%. So the bagel made me feel guilty, and the coffee didn't satisfy me. All in all, not a good lunch. Still better than Mcdonald's, though.

I just gulped down a strawberry-flavoured yogurt "probiotic drink." Kind of like Yop for adults. I think I might have an apple. Then just before class (which isn't until 7:15, but I hate to work out on a full stomach) I'll have a v-8, cheese string and some crackers. I'll have dinner and a protein shake when I get home.

I hate how focused I become about food when I'm eating right. It seems like it never really became second nature to me, and I was always trying to figure out what to eat, what I had already eaten, calculating the serving size, writing it down in my journal, adding up my daily fat/calorie intake... too much work, I tell you. No wonder I got fed up with it all.

I hope this time is different.