My healthy eating challenge

This will hopefully become a group effort, but I'll also chronicle here for more in-depth reporting. Although it will really work better in the group. I don't know that anyone else ever reads this, so it's hard to have that public pressure in this setting.

I came across a blog in which a journalist spent 6 weeks trying to work through the barriers to healthier eating, with one goal each week. I was jealous! Some of her foods look so good (she photoblogged) and she had variety! She detailed her progress and problems, and also discussed other fads and articles in the media.

I love experiments and challenges. I love to dangle a carrot out there and see if I can reach it. I love rules and numbers and reports and testing things. And I love fixing things. So, with all that in mind, let's lay it all out there to fix.

My eating habits have tanked in the last few weeks. It breaks down into a few simple issues:
1. I sometimes log my foods, but tend to skip that when eating hard-to-count foods. When I do log, I'm always surprised by how much I ate. I have a good balance of C to P to F, but I have either way to much or way too little overall each day.
2. I do good until 5pm, then I get in a zone of mindlessness. When that happens, I come home and feel like I could eat the house down. I can't think of anything but getting some food! Then I'm never satisfied, I feel like I could eat and eat and eat.... For a while I would just eat, thinking that's what I needed but then I would go to bed sick, feeling like I was going to vomit. I realized I was over-eating at dinner. But why?
3. I tend to grab whatever is available. I think I'm hungry, what's ready to eat? Usually peanut butter! So good and so easy, you just need a spoon. Next thing I know, I eaten 4-some spoonfuls of PB which probably amounts to 400-500 calories. A whole meal! Of peanut butter! WHY?!?

I'm not gaining or losing weight. And I'm not looking to lose weight. I'd have to say though that I miss the muscle of IMWI, so I'd like to get back to that again. To do that, I'd have to lose body fat again, so maybe I'd modify my statement to "I'd like to lose body fat" and not just weight overall.

Some things I'd like to work on, likely to blend in with the other goals in the group
1. Have water with every meal.
2. Have dinner away from the kitchen counter
3. Have a salad with or for dinner.
4. Eat less at dinner.
5. Vary the routine.
6. Log meals to keep track.
7. Have a serving then stop, no more grazing
8. Avoid processed foods, there's only a few that I eat
9. Stop and think about what I'm doing.
10. Start eating more fruits and veggies.