Enders_Shadow's Group - eating clean & getting lean - FULL (Page 7)

I HAVE to get creative or I'll never keep it up - I will get so bored I will just binge on pure crap.  Food is SO mental/emotional for me!  It helps me to have lots of meals prepared at home, then I just pick and choose/mix and match when I go to pack my lunch or make dinner.  I also keep a good amount of fruit, veggies, and lean meats at home so I can put something together at the last minute.

Planning for the next few days is rough - I have to drive to NC for work this afternoon and generally my meals are influenced by my coworkers.  I am going out to lunch for a friend's birthday, but the restaurant is a really authentic italian place and i know i can choose something simple like broiled salmon.  But there are lots of sandwiches and nights out coming ahead.  MUST RESIST!  I haven't drank all week to save up my "booze calories" for tonight - haha!  My coworkers are pretty easygoing for dinner - we can pick a restaurant that will have better options - but lunches are usually subs brought in to the plant.  Also - after a 12 hour workday yesterday - the last 6 hours were on my feet running an assembly line - I totally skipped my workout.  I'll do it tonight on the hotel treadmill.

In the past I've brought ALL of my own meals on work trips.  But I'm not so hardcore now.  Any tips for surviving road trips???

I'm still in Texas and spent the ENTIRE day with my parents shopping!  Wish I could log the walking we did!  I've tried to be good about eating and until yesterday I was doing ok.  We ate out for lunch and dinner UGH!  I need to go home and get back to my life.

STRESS EATING LIKE WHOA TODAY

i caved and ate a donut and it was delicious, but work is stressing me and that is my excuse.

i'm not at home so i don't have other options, i would usually just make some hot tea or something, but not so today.

I'd like to join so I can get encouragement to get my eating back on track.

NAME: Kim

STORY: I did my first triathlon in 2008, in the midst of a divorce.  I had developed some bad habits and something inside me clicked and made me take control of my life for the first time in a very long time.  I injured my knee (torn meniscus) at the end of 2008 and fell back into my lazy ways so no races until 2011.  During that one, I had a severe case of plantar fasciitis so it was a case of just getting it done.  After that, I had surgery to have a bunion removed.

In 2013, I had signed up for another sprint and was completely dedicated to my training during the first 3 weeks of January.  Then we got news that my mom had lung cancer.  I was traveling to and from Texas (I live in the Chicago burbs) and the stress just got to be too much so I decided to drop out.  Along with my mom's cancer diagnosis, we realized that she also has advanced dementia.  It was something that started while she was in the hospital and has progressed from there.  She went from being lucid (although the nurses told us that she is very good at covering it up) to sometimes not knowing who I am.  Also, last March, my youngest stepdaughter was killed in a car accident.  Needless to say, I'm hoping for a better year.

FAMILY STATUS: I'm 41, married for almost 4 years (anniversary in March) to a man I married after knowing for only 2 1/2 months.  I have a 29 year old stepdaughter and two grandchildren, ages 7 and 3.  We also have 3 fur babies: border collie/lab, golden retriever/corgi --or something to that effect, and an orange tabby cat.

CURRENT TRAINING: Getting back off the couch again this year.  Just moved to a new town and have a new gym membership to boot.  My goal is to get active again and keep the injuries at bay.

THIS YEAR'S RACES/EVENTS: Esprit de She - 6/8 but would like to find some more to keep me motivated

2013 RACES/EVENTS: 

BODY COMPOSITION: I lost about 25 lbs in 2012 and actually managed to keep it off in 2013 which is really the first time that's happened in a long time.  I am still quite fluffy and need to lose about 80 lbs.  My goal is to lose 6-8 lbs a month by training and following a keto diet.

My definition is fresh, minimally processed real food.  I have many problems with clean eating such as loving chips and soda.  However, my biggest issues is feeling like I'm cooking all of the time.  I spend most of the day on Sundays cooking lunches and dinners for the week so that when I come home after work, I'm not tempted to go get fast food because I'm too tired to cook.  But I've been having trouble gauging how much food to cook lately and we end up running out by Thursday.  Breakfasts are the hardest for me because I'm usually rushing to get out the door.  I tried to make a breakfast casserole to last the week, but I found the consistency of the eggs to be less than optimal.  I know that if I can just get into the habit of taking a couple of minutest to scramble a couple of eggs in the morning, I'll see that it's not really any different than taking a few minutes in the McDonald's drive thru.

Nope, but I should.  Again, it's all about getting into a habit and sticking with it.

Weighed myself yesterday - 142.  That is up a pound since joining the group.  My eating has been good but I haven't done any training for days.  The freezing weather just zaps my motivation to do anything. I need to get back on track with the workouts again.  I won't be able to do the HM I had planned for the end of Feb so I will look for a 5 or 10k to do in Feb or March instead. 

I finished my last night shift this morning so now have 5 days off.  No plans to go anywhere, will be home to cook good healthy food every day.