Day 15 – The Beck Diet Solution

Day 15 is about monitoring your food, which I assumed when I read Day 14, but it didn’t actually say to do that – I was just going to do it because that’s what I do anyway, so Day 15 is kind of a bonus day for me.
Beck says that once you have a food plan, you have to monitor it to see if you stuck to it and if you didn’t, why not? Can we change our plans and still stay ON PLAN or do we get sidelined and lose focus and overeat?
I can honestly say I’ve gone both ways many times!
I’m not a fanatic about sticking to my plan – life happens. In a normal week, I stick to it pretty closely about 90% of the time, the weekend is when I tend to veer more, not so much overeat or eat unhealthily but not eat what I planned and I’m ok with that, I don’t think this journey is about being so regimented that there is no room for spontaneity. My main goal is to stay within my WW points and if I succeed at that but ate differently, then I still consider the day a success.
So as promised, here is today’s food plan and how it actually turned out.  I have not yet planned tomorrow’s meals but I will before the night is through and post it separately – I think it will be easier  to manage if I keep the food journals separate from these posts after today.
Before that though, giving myself credit for:

1. Reading my response cards today.
2. Turning down Quality Street today.
3. Tracking everything I ate.

Planned food journal:

POINTS^® Tracker entries

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Morning
2/3 serving(s) 1% Milk	1.5
1  packet(s) Instant oatmeal weight control - cinnamon toast	3
Subtotal	3.0
Midday
1  serving(s) Arnolds Select Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins	1
1  small apple(s)	1
1  oz Light Cheddar Cheese - 75% Reduced Fat	1
9  nut(s) almonds	1.5
Subtotal	4.5
Evening
1  cup(s) cooked green beans 2 flour tortillas	4
1  fillet(s) cooked haddock fillet(s) 3 oz grilled chicken	3
1/2 cup(s) cooked white rice 1 oz cheese	2 2
Subtotal	11
Anytime
1  container Oikos Honey Yogurt	2
Mary's Crackers (13) - Quick-added food	3
2 tbsp salsa - Quick-added food 2 homemade coconut macaroons	0 3
Subtotal	8
Food POINTS values total used	26.5
Food POINTS values remaining	-0.5
Exercise
20 minute brisk walk	2
Activity POINTS values earned	2