Add on top this the weather, and it makes a perfect stew for depression. I'm an avid walker, I love being outdoors and feeling a fresh breeze across my face. But now the sidewalks are covered in inches of snow and the weather is dipping below 20 degrees. I've tried walking inside the mall but it just isn't the same. I call it the early winter blues.
Now for my progress.
I've been eating fast food a lot. I don't eat a lot of fast food, so I'm going to blame this is on my new medication for my bipolar disorder. There's no other way around it. I've started eating a spinach salad with ham for lunch and cottage cheese and sausage for snacks. For breakfast I have sausage gravy and biscuits. I plan on mixing this up with bacon and eggs for breakfast. Every morning I get a large cup of coffee at Biggby with half and half cream.
For exercise, I swim for a half hour three days a week and lift weights two days. I take the weekends off to relax.
I've noticed that before I go to bed I have the strongest desire to snack. To curb this I'm going to start splitting my dinner into two meals. One that I eat at dinner time and one I eat closer to bed.
I've set a new goal for my next week, which is to cut out all pop from diet. As I mentioned before, I'm an avid diet pop drinker, and research says this is distorting my taste buds. According to this article over on Fooducate, one of the dangers of drinking diet pop is that it "infantilizes" our sense of sweetness. According to the article:
Artificial sweeteners are a hundredfold sweeter than sucrose (table sugar). By getting ourselves used to so much sweet, normal sweet flavors, of fruit for example, become bland and so do other healthful foods such as grains and vegetables, thus reducing our willingness to consume them and ultimately the quality of our diet.That's the goal then. Get rid of diet pop and replace it with tea and water. And the occasional hot cocoa.
Interesting article.
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