In sight, in mind

I've been thinking I wasn't following through with my plan very well because it was too complex, but I just looked back over my outcomes, and they're not as many of them as I was remembering. I think the big lesson here is that I should have been reviewing my goals and outcomes on a more regular basis than every two months. I think my next action plan will be to make a few copies of my outcomes and strategies list and post them around (my kitchen, bathroom, breakfast table, car, and purse). That away the stress and energy that goes into trying to remember what they are (and as I've seen, my mind doesn't do that great of a job of remembering what they were anyway).

I am going to simplify one of my strategies, though. I no longer going to use the food chart from Beck's The Beck Diet Solution to write each food down that I eat. I think I viewed that as too tedious and time consuming. For my project, it's more important for me to make sure that I'm getting plenty of fruits and vegetables in my diet than to know how many calories I'm taking in. Weight loss is only a secondary goal for me, while the increased fruit and vegetable goal is a main outcome. I also think that my rebellious side kicks in when I say I can't have this and can't have that, so I'm going to focus on what I NEED to eat, and I figure if I'm eating 7-9 servings of vegetables a day and drinking at least 64 oz. of water a day, I probably won't have as much room as I usually do for the "bad" stuff anyway. So my food and exercise diary is now just a tallying each day of fruit/vegetable and water intake. It's back to the basics. Move more than 30 minutes, eat vegetable, drink water.