As Always Plan Plan Plan

 Well, recently I had my head in the sand not wanting to track food. Thus, I gained weight. Then I was on a good roll, but after 5 days I did 2 maintenance days, then yesterday went way over. Not only that, but I didn't exercise. I got caught up in rearranging my complicated computer setup. I have a computer for home and one for Sheriff Investigations work, and a lot of wires and switches and a speaker systema and all sorts of stuff. It took me all day. I went a long time without eating, then drank coffee and ate some organic chocolate chips with coconut sugar. Well, it's still sugar! Not good. Then I could not sleep and got up and at some healthy things that took me way over on calories. I tossed and turned all night and felt like crap.

I got up. Sat and sipped my coffee, then packed some baked chicken breast in a hero tortilla to put in my pack because I was not hungry yet. I'd do an 8-mile walk and eat when hungry. 

On the way back a train was blocking my path so I had to take a different route and so I only went 7 miles.

Still, it's a nice calorie burn of about 600 calories which will help me make a deficit if I am careful.

Today I'm PLANNING my food. I'm not sure what I'll eat later but I got my protein in, right now I'm at 93 grams at 822 calories and 58 grams of carbs. I'll PLAN PLAN PLAN my food the rest of the day so that I get my protein in and keep my carbs down, and not go over on healthy fats!!!

PLAN PLAN PLAN calories. Get out the food scale. Ditch the chocolate chips.

It will work if I do it!

But I must DO IT!!!

Exercise isn't the hard part; food intake IS the hard part. If we don't plan, we are a leaf blowing in the wind!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of exercise, yes it does help besides calorie burn. It helps metabolism, helps reduce glucose spikes, as well as all sorts of things. I just got an email on this topic from the company where I got my macro tracking app, CGM, etc; Exercise and Metabolic Health. 

Onward!

And this is going in the Venus-Reloaded Forum.

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Later in the evening...

And I planned before I ate my last meal. I was going to have something else, but the carbs would have been too high. Instead, I had 3 oz of chicken breast, 1/2 cup of veggies, in a tasty bone broth. The veggies put me over 100 on my carbs but not bad, and the chicken helped my protein intake quite a bit.

IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO PLAN MEALS.

If we just eat and then log our macros, that is not good enough. We spend all our days saying, "Oh well, tomorrow is a new day!" Over and over, like a leaf blowing in the wind!