Thursday's Journal

Today I feel like I am floating away. I have been drinking, drinking, drinking. I was retaining some water from the nachos and chinese food yesterday, and have been trying to flush it out with extra water today. I am not sure that it is working though. I ate okay today, but not nutritiously. I am trying to do better, but it is really slow going. I am beginning if I will ever be able to afford to make the changes I want to. But I know that I just need to be thankful for what I do have and am able to improve.

I spent some time this afternoon improving my food journal. The one that I am currently using is good for one month and is a small pocket sized book. It's about 3-1/2" by 4-1/2". I figured that since I use it all day that I could add my to do list onto it and so I did. It has my short regular daily to do's listed with check boxes, and then it has lines with check boxes for me to write in extras. It also has a very small area for notes. I am excited because now I can keep myself focused and disciplined in two areas from my small book. I also took apart my bedraggled points finder and made master copies of it. Now I can just copy off and assemble extras or a new one when I need it. I thought that I had a pretty productive day today.

Here is my food journal:

3 1 pt. chocolate muffins: 3
cocoa: 1
peanut butter and jelly sandwich: 7
1 cup stew: 2
1 piece cornbread: 3
1 cup milk: 3
tortilla chips: 4
fudgcycle: 1

This totaled 24 points, somehow I miscounted and ate 2 more than I was supposed to. Oh well, I earned 2 activity points, so I guess I used them :)