Eating Goal Failing

I'm going to be 100% honest: I'm failing with my eating goal.

Back on New Year's Day, I said that my goal was to eat healthier.  To that end, I was planning on eating only green light foods as stated in Rick Gallop's The GI Diet.  I have been trying to eat this way as much as possible, but I AM FAILING.  First, I had to keep putting off starting to eat 100% green light.  Life kept getting in the way.  Then when I did start, I also had non-green light foods I needed to get rid of in my house, so I was eating a lot of that stuff off.  But then I'm going out with friends here and there (I've been trying to cut down on going out, but I still feel like I'm going out too much), I ended up on a work trip rather unexpectedly, which meant a week of eating out (and eating too much).  Or when I'm not going out to a restaurant for dinner, I end up at a family dinner or a friend's place and I'm not eating GI friendly food there.  I've been tired lately, which has resulted in me eating more.  I've been rather angry and stressed surrounding work (except for that work trip, which was fantastic).  Basically I went from a guaranteed part-time position to being casual, and it's rather nerve-wracking when I find myself with no shifts for a given week.  And whenever I see something bad for me, even knowing damn well I won't enjoy it I find myself having to eat it.  (Although realistically, this is partially a fault of being stressed and tired, which is sapping any will power I may have - but I know full well I have issues with wanting to eat things that I see). 

So what's the solution?  I think my number one priority is going to be sleep.  Being tired is definitely not going to help me eat healthier.  I cannot control a lot of the stress going on right now with my work situation, but I can try to not let it bother me as much.  In fact, I should use that free time to be a bit more active, especially now that the snow is melting.  (Actually, I'm excited for the snow to melt, as that will mean I can start doing the spring yard work, which kept me pretty active last year for a while).  As much as Rick Gallop advocated eating healthier as your primary method of losing weight, I think it's going to be more important to me to be more active; building muscles is always a great thing, as they use more fuel anyway, and help you do more awesome things - like swimming or skiing. I don't want to abandon trying to eat green-light, but clearly I'm not going to be able to as much as I originally thought.  One particular difficulty has been trying to find green-light starches to add to meals since I have not been cooking the recipes.  I found stone-ground bread (which honestly, as much as I like breads, stone-ground is not my favourite), and whole wheat pitas (which are okay, but I'm once again happier with other things like whole wheat naan bread, which I don't think is green-light).  So it may be in my best interest to find some healthy yellow light ones anyway and so be it if it takes me longer to lose weight.

I should mention: I am in definite need of losing some weight.  Not only is my BMI still too high, but I don't feel great.  Who knows, along with feeling better and more powerful for activities, maybe losing some weight will help with sleep, too?

So plan of attack for the near future:

1. Sleep!
2. More exercise - let's keep shooting for 30 minutes 5 days a week, since that was my initial exercise goal (which I'm not hitting) and that seems to be the standard I continually am coming across in magazines and stuff).
3. Eat as healthily as possible but do not beat yourself up for not eating green light.  Let's be real here: Easter is coming, and that's going to mean non-green light anyway.