Starting again

Well after a good 8 month hiatus, I'm back on the plan. Even off the diet, I felt great for a long time, but then I started getting bad again, over summer, drinking all the time at an all-inclusive this summer didn't help I'm sure. My yeast infections have come back and are really bad, am starting to sweat again and all the skin problems that come with that, I feel like I have wax in my ears, my joints hurt, I have ridiculously bad gas, low energy, depression, out of control eating, craving sweets, etc. I think this diet is something I'll probably do at least once a year, even when I go off it, it takes quite a while before I start being really bad again, I'm actually able to be moderate for awhile. Another thing that didn't help was that between May and Cuba, my dad came, my mom came and my brother came all at different times and there is always lots of eating and drinking when people visit, especially in the summer.

So today I'm starting at 161.5 lbs. I plan to do the diet for at least 4 weeks, then start reintegrating, I don't want to be doing this over the Christmas holidays, I may take a break and start up again in January depending on how I feel.

I plan to be a little more relaxed about it this time. I will eat all fish, small amounts of cottage cheese and goat cheese, small amounts of oats, cooked carrots and an apple, raspberry or strawberry might find it's way into my food every once in awhile. I will use store-bought chicken broth and canned tomatoes. I know Crazy!

I would like to try to get back to exercising and lifting some weights so that when I do lose weight, it actually looks good. I ran all summer, and ran the 10 k in the Montreal marathon, but after the race I pretty much stopped so I need to get back into it. I feel way better when I'm exercising and I have clear exercise goals.

Today I didn't feel so hot, this weekend, I kind of binged, knowing that it was the end, last supper kind of thing.

Today I ate:
Breakfast: 2 hard-boiled eggs, 2 celery sticks, about 3 bites of cottage cheese
Snack: almonds, 1 celery stick
Lunch: leftover tuna salad on a celery stick, and on a rice cake
Supper: Yogurt curry chicken, Indian fried rice with bean sprouts, pumpkin seeds, etc.
Snack: almonds, pumpkin seeds



Exercise: 40 minutes fast walking

I will start my candigone tomorrow morning. I made vegetable soup for tomorrow and grated carrots for salads. On the weekend, I made buckwheat biscuits. I'm starving!