Showing posts with label tea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ugh

Today I am 118 pounds.  I realize that the half pound increase from yesterday is just due to fluctuations in water weight, but when I saw the numbers on my scale it still motivated me to step it up.  I completely slacked off for over half of last week, but when I saw that I hadn't gained any weight I ended up taking it for granted.  I can't let that happen again, because next time I probably will gain weight.  So I'm taking today's results as a sign to refocus myself and make sure I stay on track.  I'm cutting my midday snack into 1/4 of what I usually eat (an entire piece of fruit to 1/4 a piece of fruit) and getting rid of my evening snack of popcorn...  I think I'll also switch my black coffee to iced green tea since it's getting hotter out (I haven't been drinking as much coffee as I'd like since I hate iced coffee, but I need the caffeine to burn more calories and to stay awake...).  Plus even though green tea has less caffeine, it is an appetite suppressant (I try to have at least one cup a day).  Hmm so 3-4 cups of coffee to 1 or less, and 1 cup of tea to 3-4...  I will keep this updated to keep track of how things are going..

 And I tried drinking some apple cider vinegar before I ate a couple of meals last week, but I ended up forgetting about it.  I left it at my boyfriend's house so I won't be able to try it again until next week, but I know I'll be able to test it more regularly when I do and I'll keep track of how that ends up going too (hopefully it does something besides taste bad!).

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dizzy

Today I am 122.5 pounds

In class we did professor evaluations.  I stood up to turn mine in and got really dizzy.  At first I had a mini-freak out, worried that I would pass out right there in front of the class.  Luckily, it passed just as quickly as it had appeared and I was able to relax/breathe.  I sat back down and had some of my unsweetened iced green tea, which has recently become one of my best friends.  Green tea helps to curb your appetite (not to mention that it is absolutely delicious--waaaayyy better than water but with the same 0 calories) and also fills you up just like plain water would.  Anyway, I couldn't drink very much of it because I had already had a lot of it, plus plain water earlier, and I didn't want to leave class to go to the bathroom.