Volunteer Work Leads to Healthy Eating
Between volunteering at the hospital, delivering meals on wheels attending the Shape Up Tennessee Class, and doing my exercises, I haven’t been able to find my way to the computer to make a post.
One benefit we have as a hospital volunteer is a free meal each day we work. They always have healthy well-balanced food choices as well as some not so healthy (french fries and cheese sauce).
I was proud of myself, as I chose healthy food each day I worked. I took my dessert home to my mom every day. It was hard to resist the lemon cake but I got it home in one piece. I made a point of drinking 3 bottles of water while I was working as well.
Although I haven’t set in records in weight loss…..I have lost 2 more pounds. I know I put this weight on faster than I’m taking it off. I’d rather be more like the hare than the tortoise when it comes to losing weight. I know slow is the way to go….but I’m tired of these ups and downs.
If I don’t drink enough water, my weight can go up by 3 pounds in one day. I can tell I’m retaining water when I don’t. My fingers feel funny when I try to bend them and the skin on thecalves of my legs feel like it’s going to tear open. You’d think feeling like that, I’d drink enough water everyday..but I don’t.
I went and grabbed a bottle of water while I was typing this blog. Since I’ve only got to work one day at the hospital next week, I’m going to blog everyday. I need to be accountable to myself.
I’m off to the kitchen to make a broccoli and green apple salad. I had it for lunch at the hospital last week and loved it. It will be my first time making it. I’ll post a picture tomorrow (if it doesn’t look too bad).
Grabbing my water and off to the kitchen. I’ll be eating shrimp cocktail while my husband eats hot wings during the Super Bowl. It’s the first time I’ve made hot wings and the sauce from scratch. I going to eat one to see if they turned out ok. If they aren’t good…it will be the first and last time I make them. Gosh….that was a lot of work!!!!!!
February 1st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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February 2nd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Hey Chris, drinking enough water is SO important. You’re absolutely right.
I just found your blog through a weight loss blog search in google. I thought I would comment and say thanks!
Ryan
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Good for you for losing the 2 pounds. Losing the weight gives you the motivation to lose more. You are so correct about hospitals not always having the most nutritional meals. Seems like someone is just using a chart to create meals. Although I have eaten quite a few meals when my husband was ill and in the hospital some were really good.
Being overweight, especially here in the USA, is becoming quite an epidemic. Today 65-68% of Americans are considered overweight and when you think about the population that’s a lot of people and a lot of excess weight. Losing weight can be such a “high.” You just start feeling so much better about yourself, you put on a happy face. If everyone could lose 2 pounds a week, that would be 104 pounds in a year, think about how many pounds that would be in the USA! Just think how motivated everyone would be to stay on track. It would cut the risks of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer, all linked to being overweight.
Good luck and stay on track and lose another 2 pounds for the week.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 am
wouldn’t have figured that volunteer could get good food. very cool. usually it’s just catch as catch can.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
It’s a funny thing. I wouldn’t think that volunteer work would do that, but rather the opposite.
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February 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Congrats on losing those pounds. Maybe volunteering and helping others also takes your mind off food? Anyway, good job!
February 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
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