{"id":15,"date":"2009-01-30T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight_loss_diet_forum\/blogs\/guinea-piggy\/48-diet-boredom-leads-diet-failure.html"},"modified":"2009-02-09T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:13:08","slug":"diet-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/2009\/01\/diet-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet Boredom Leads to Diet Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I didn&#8217;t get a chance to post yesterday because I was busy with meetings from the wee hours in the morning. I haven&#8217;t given up&#8230;don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m still here plodding along towards a thinner me.<\/div>\n<p>Last evening as I relaxed and thought about my weight loss progress I had a breakthrough I must share. I was thinking about what to prepare for lunch the next day and I found myself dreading the mid-day salad, which is a staple in my diet. Now, usually I would force myself to keep eating those salads. I would eat them until I just can&#8217;t stomach salad anymore and then I would start cheating on my diet. The pattern was so obvious I can&#8217;t believe I never realized it before.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the pattern that diet boredom leads to diet failure is critical for me. It emphasises the importance of keeping your diet interesting so that you don&#8217;t lose interest in eating healthy. There are so many great low-calorie, low-carbohydrate meals out there that limiting yourself to just a few foods or meals is a recipe for disaster, at least it is for me.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling impressed that I could be so in tune with myself, I then explored the question &#8211; If I don&#8217;t eat a salad at lunch, what is the alternative. Here are a few healthy lunch options I came up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a broiled chicken breast with steamed vegetables (made the night before)<\/li>\n<li>a fruit salad instead of vegetables<\/li>\n<li>a Lean Cuisine frozen entree<\/li>\n<li>soup, either made at home or the &#8220;just add boiling water&#8221; variety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tell ya, I&#8217;m feeling much better about my diet plan now, knowing that I don&#8217;t have to torture myself with eating a huge salad at lunch every day. Next week I&#8217;ll plan to try some or all of these easy lunches. Here&#8217;s to beating the mundane and staying on track!!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I would love some new ideas for healthy lunches if anyone has some they would like to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a chance to post yesterday because I was busy with meetings from the wee hours in the morning. I haven&#8217;t given up&#8230;don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m still here plodding along towards a thinner me. <\/p>\n<p>Last evening as I relaxed and thought about my weight loss progress I had a breakthrough I must share. I was thinking about what to prepare for lunch the next day and I found myself dreading the mid-day salad, which is a staple in my diet. Now, usually I would force myself to keep eating those salads. I would eat them until I just can&#8217;t stomach salad anymore and then I would start cheating on my diet. The pattern was so obvious I can&#8217;t believe I never realized it before.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the pattern that diet boredom leads to diet failure is critical for me. It emphasises the importance of keeping your diet interesting so that you don&#8217;t lose interest in eating healthy. There are so many great low-calorie, low-carbohydrate meals out there that limiting yourself to just a few foods or meals is a recipe for disaster, at least it is for me.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling impressed that I could be so in tune with myself, I then explored the question &#8211; If I don&#8217;t eat a salad at lunch, what is the alternative. Here are a few healthy lunch options I came up with:<\/p>\n<p> a broiled chicken breast with steamed vegetables (made the night before) a fruit salad instead of vegetables a Lean Cuisine frozen entree soup, either made at home or the &#8220;just add boiling water&#8221; variety <\/p>\n<p>I tell ya, I&#8217;m feeling much better about my diet plan now, knowing that I don&#8217;t have to torture myself with eating a huge salad at lunch every day. Next week I&#8217;ll plan to try some or all <\/p>\n<p>Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/2009\/01\/diet-boredom\/\">Diet Boredom Leads to Diet Failure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26,8,27,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}