Now .4 isn't much, not even 1/2 a pound. But it's what the scale said this morning and I must go with it. If my weigh day was Saturday, I would be reporting a 4.6 lb loss. Now, given the fact that I would have had to consume 14,700 additional calories on Saturday and Sunday to have gained the weight back for real, we all know that much of it is just water. Water from the off plan foods I ate and some fluid retention from my period that will start this week. None the less, .4 is not exactly what I was hoping for after I worked so hard all week. Where did I go wrong?
Saturday morning, everything was good, Oatmeal for breakfast, string cheese for a snack. Because we were going out for dinner, lunch should have been very modest, but it was a slice of greasy pizza. Still, I should have counted it, wrote it down and moved on. Instead at that point, I decided that I wasn't going to worry about counting calories that day. I justified it with it being "my anniversary" - translation - EXCUSE!!! So I enjoyed popcorn at the movies, bread & butter with dinner, which was chicken fettuccini alfredo (I didn't even eat half) then ice cream for dessert. I kept telling myself tomorrow I would be back on 100%. But when I woke up on Sunday morning, I didn't feel like being on plan. I didn't care. Now thinking back last Sunday (after being off plan Saturday night) was really tough too. So the worst part of being off plan is not any weight that I might have put back on, the worst part is that even with the best of intentions, when I go off plan, I have a really hard time getting back on plan. I think some of it is mental, the whole being free thing. But I also thing a lot of it is chemical. The high sugar, high carb food leaves you wanting more, it leaves you hungry and moody. I never did manage to get back on plan on Sunday. I faked it for a while, but it wasn't happening. So it's Monday morning and I will be on plan today. I WILL BE ON PLAN TODAY!!
It seems that I have real problems on the weekends. I don't like this at all. This Saturday is my class reunion, next Saturday is a birthday party and then a shower on Sunday and the Saturday after that is Jacob's birthday party. There are no easy weekends ahead, so I need to get this "trend" under control. It's easy to plan - tough to execute.
The good news in that I got in 3 hours of exercise last week! That's awesome. My knee and heel spur don't seem to like the machines (treadmill and elliptical) very much, but I am just pushing through.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Weigh In - Down .4
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Argh, damn water retention and TOM! All right, all right, your hard work will make itself known soon enough. 3 hours of exercise, woohoo! Now that's what I'm talking 'bout!
Oh boy, do I ever know about not caring some days! Truth is, it's just so much easier to not be OP and to give in to our weaknesses. I mean, if it weren’t hard then we obviously wouldn't struggle with it, right? I hate it when one bad day turns into one bad weekend, which turns into one bad week, and so on. Seems so counterproductive, doesn't it? And I agree about the chemical aspect of it. When I stayed OP I almost never craved sweets and carbs, now I seem to fight it every day.
The truth is hon, the weekends are never gonna be "easy", nor will holidays or get togethers, etc. They're just a part of life, and we must learn to adjust and adapt if we hope to get a handle on this stuff. So try not to let the idea of it overwhelm you, you CAN do this no matter what comes your way, I'm certain of it.
Bev
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