We are having a gorgeous, sunshine-filled warm weekend here in Virginia. Outside you can hear birds singing. Spring is definitely on its way. A quick recap on how things are going so far in my Lenten healthy eating project.
Saturday was a busy day full of errands. I started the day with my crave-able pumpkin pie shake and then ran my children to lessons and went grocery shopping.
We went to two grocery stores. The first was Costco. Our local Costco has extremely delicious pastries, cakes and cookies. Of course, we were not buying those. But we did need bread for the children to eat. I had to convince my 5-year old that potato bread was not something we should eat every day. She didn’t want wheat bread because it has too many “nuts” in it. (I love to eat the hearty breads.) I told her we would find a soft whole wheat bread and we did. It is a small change but it has fewer calories and sugars and more dietary fiber. So far, the children have not minded the switch.
I came back from grocery shopping ravenous. Fortunately, I had a lot of leftover meals to eat and was also repeating many meals I had made already which saves stress and time in the kitchen.
I finally was starting to feel a few hunger pangs on Saturday, even after eating. I was feeling a bit tired and in ordinary circumstances would be looking to eat some carbs, like cookies or bread, or some form of sugar and chocolate to keep me going. That wasn’t an option. I had to pep talk myself and also give myself some tough love. My internal dialogue went a bit like this. “You think it’s hard to cook and eat delicious, healthy food? Are you crazy? With all the problems in the world you are going to complain about this? Get a grip! It’s only for a short time. Find something to do.”
So, I went to my distraction technique, spring cleaning. My first target was crying out for cleaning!
For dinner, I had two new recipes to try.
Today is one of my 5-2 fasting days. I was looking forward to a day off from cooking but also a little nervous as I have never combined both healthy eating and fasting. I wasn’t sure if I would have enough energy for the day. I woke up a little tired from the Daylight Savings Time change.
It was time for me to weigh in. I was not surprised to see that I had lost a few pounds. While it is tempting to see how low I can go, I just need to lose 3 more pounds to get to my goal weight. I hope to get to that soon so that the rest of my time in Lent will be working on figuring out the right calorie intake to maintain that weight.
I wasn’t quite up to cleaning energy wise so I took on another necessary task for the afternoon . . . working on taxes and other paperwork.
Hope you had a marvelous weekend as well!
*I have no affiliation with Costco, Wegman’s, GOOP or any other product mentioned in this post.