Donuts don't come around all that often so when one (or two) is offered, and I find myself in the mood for a donut, Imma eat the donut. I mean, why shouldn't I?
Oh, right. Pre-diabetes.
Well, I feel like that's in check these days. I lead a fairly naturally low-carb lifestyle these days. I don't always INTEND to be low carb, but I find myself needing fewer carbs with my meals. Fewer simple carbs, anyway. I eat multigrain toast for breakfast with either avocado and egg or peanut butter and banana. I haven't eaten a white potato in about two months maybe? I eat sweet potato instead, but even those are few and far between.
For vegetables, I tend to stick to a handful...brussels's sprouts, asparagus, zucchini (all the hard to spell veggies!), varying colors of bell peppers, onions, mushrooms...less frequently I'll eat yellow squash, broccoli, spinach, kale, and green beans. And did you know that avocado is actually considered a fruit? It's green, though, so I count it as a veg. I don't eat a lot of tomato anymore because it flairs up my acid reflux. Oh! And beans. I do eat beans two to three days a week for fiber. Same reason I add chia seeds to my breakfast toasts. Chia seeds are crazy rich in fiber.
For protein I've been sticking almost exclusively with turkey burger and chicken breast. I used to have red meat one day a week but it's gotten to be so expensive I haven't bought any since around Christmas. And pork, well, I do eat bacon a couple of days a week. But other than that, I don't eat much pork.
So yeah, I'm eating a lot of really whole, healthy foods on the regular so that it feels more balanced to have a donut (or 2) on those rare occasions when a free set of donuts presents itself.
It's the everyday, habitual full of sugar/carbs food and beverages that were killing me. Lattes three times a week, a Coke nearly every afternoon. Sweet tea every time I went out to eat. Eating out three-four times a week. I'm currently down to eating out 2 days a week. I think I ate out 3 times last week but that was an anomaly. And I still only get Coke when I got to fast food or fast casual restaurants where the beverage is included with the meal. Otherwise, I get water. Or in the case of carry out, I take it home and drink water.
Obviously, if they started bringing in donuts every week or more I'd hafta start saying no because a) it'd become an unhealthy habit and b) it wouldn't be a treat anymore which, less face it, donuts are only really special when they're a treat and not a common event. At least, that's the way I look at it. In fact, I look at most things of that nature that way. If it's something I eat or drink more than once in a while, it's not really special and if I'm going to put that much sugar and/or fat in my body, it better be special.
In other news, the scale hasn't really done me any favors yet this week so I pulled out my tape measure to see if that could help me figure out how I'm doing. I'm down an inch and a half in my waist, an inch in my hips and an inch in my chest.
I've maintained my weight training exercises this week and only missed my ab exercises one day. Yesterday morning I just wasn't feeling it. I was groggy and achy and just didn't feel like it. I did do my arm and leg exercises yesterday evening, though, so there's that. And I got 10000 steps two days this week. It stormed yesterday so I didn't get my outdoor walk. I do plan on walking at break this afternoon, though, so maybe I'll get close.
Anyway, all that to say, I still feel good. I'm still on track. I haven't done anything insane, although I did pray that one of my biggest food policers wasn't in the lounge when I went to collect my donuts because Ugh. People don't understand that I am NOT on a diet. I am living my life as balanced and as healthy as I can and still stay sane, happy, and healthy. And people like to think that I'm failing because it makes them feel better about themselves. Which, bully for them but I don't need that negativity in my life. I struggle to keep my own demons of negativity at bay. I certainly don't want to deal with anyone else's.
And that's me for the week. Birthday is next weekend and there will be cake and possibly pizza so, you know, I'll hafta be a little more conscious of what I'm eating leading up to it. But that's the life, you know?
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