Last night I lost all control. No, last night I let go of control, and ate for dinner:
cheese fries
greek salad
a quesidilla
sweet potato pie
Good lord. At least I put down the tuna hoagie, right?
Spring break is two weeks away. Must not slip again.
Showing posts with label set-backs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label set-backs. Show all posts
Saturday, March 1
Friday, February 29
When You Don't Journal Correctly
I log everything I eat into fitday. I do it very strictly...even my diet coke goes in. Every single morsel get logged, and I use it to make decisions about what to eat next. Do I need protein? Low fat? Do I need fat? Low sodium? Etc.
Except last night, I forgot to log some gummy worms that I ate at work, and I though I had more calories then I did. So I went over by 220 calories, which sucks. Long term it's not such a big deal. But it ruins my streak, and I wouldn't have eaten that extra slice of pizza. Ugh.
Except last night, I forgot to log some gummy worms that I ate at work, and I though I had more calories then I did. So I went over by 220 calories, which sucks. Long term it's not such a big deal. But it ruins my streak, and I wouldn't have eaten that extra slice of pizza. Ugh.
Thursday, February 21
Whack-A-Scale
My scale is starting to go a little wacko. In the span of a few minutes it can go up or down thirty pounds! It's on a flat, hard surface. I don't do anything crazy, like leap onto the scale or anything. I have no idea what's going on. I know some scales can be a little off, but this is ridiculous. I can't afford to upgrade for a couple of weeks. Until then, I guess I'll just weigh myself a few different times until I get to something within 5 lbs of my previous weight. Very, very frustrating.
It would be nice to believe that I'd dropped nine pounds since monday and the 268 lbs it told me this morning was the real weight. But holy mother, the next minute it read 318 lbs. If it reads over 300 lbs again, I'm throwing the damn thing out the window.
My biggest fear is that I'll get a fancy new scale (I'm thinking the Tanita), and find out I'm actually 10 or 20 lbs heavier than its been telling me.
So on Monday, I'm going to see if I can get an accurate reading, but if it says anything over 285 then all weigh-ins will be on hold until I can cough up 50 bucks.
It would be nice to believe that I'd dropped nine pounds since monday and the 268 lbs it told me this morning was the real weight. But holy mother, the next minute it read 318 lbs. If it reads over 300 lbs again, I'm throwing the damn thing out the window.
My biggest fear is that I'll get a fancy new scale (I'm thinking the Tanita), and find out I'm actually 10 or 20 lbs heavier than its been telling me.
So on Monday, I'm going to see if I can get an accurate reading, but if it says anything over 285 then all weigh-ins will be on hold until I can cough up 50 bucks.
Wednesday, January 23
Backsliding...Sort Of
So I ate 700 calories of Lorna Doone cookies. No, scratch that. I am eating 700 calories of Lorna Doone cookies. This is a diet dilemma. For the day I've had 1305 calories. So these cookies put me at 2005 (I already put them in fitday). Now I need to eat more calories today. My goal is 2000-2100 a day to lose about 1.5 lbs a week. So, the cookies are not a good snack food. Binging on cookies is terrible. But it doesn't feel bad because technically its withing my goal range and they are like my heroin. Trans fat, bad. No fiber, no protein, bad. But I'm at my goal for fiber and protein. So I know its stupid, but right now I just don't want to eat 500 calories of broccoli and yogurt. I don't even know where I'd put all that food. But 700 calories of cookies takes up no room at all. I wish I'd eaten more throughout the day, but I haven't and now all I want is cookies.
Plan: eat and enjoy the hell out of them. Don't buy them again (or at least buy the individual packs so they're not so avaliable).
Lesson? I cannot be trusted with shortbread.
Working out has been going in two different directions. Resistance training is awesome. I love it! I'm doing it every other day for twenty minutes. I have a exercise band pilates video which is really peaceful, and there's a workout on exercise tv on demand that's a little more cardio-ish. Actual cardio has been hit or miss. Last week walking on my treadmill was fun, but I can't hear my tv over it. I'm not complaining, I got it for free on craigslist. But I can't watch tv, so I just have my iPod. Walking around the neighborhood has been really fun, but I tend to walk really slow on my own. Jumping rope was my favorite, but two 10 minute sets ended up hurting my calf, so that's on the shelf til I'm in better shape and lose more weight. I'm going to use the recommendations from Laura of Starling Fitness and walk a half mile 5 days next week.
All of these tiny problems have one thing in common: the first two weeks seemed easy. Now that there's some dilemmas and road blocks, I feel like more of a warrior charging through. This is going to be hard. The more I overcome, the more natural it will be to continue to overcome. It's been two and a half weeks, and I haven't been through a drive-thru once. Baby steps, people. Baby steps.
Plan: eat and enjoy the hell out of them. Don't buy them again (or at least buy the individual packs so they're not so avaliable).
Lesson? I cannot be trusted with shortbread.
Working out has been going in two different directions. Resistance training is awesome. I love it! I'm doing it every other day for twenty minutes. I have a exercise band pilates video which is really peaceful, and there's a workout on exercise tv on demand that's a little more cardio-ish. Actual cardio has been hit or miss. Last week walking on my treadmill was fun, but I can't hear my tv over it. I'm not complaining, I got it for free on craigslist. But I can't watch tv, so I just have my iPod. Walking around the neighborhood has been really fun, but I tend to walk really slow on my own. Jumping rope was my favorite, but two 10 minute sets ended up hurting my calf, so that's on the shelf til I'm in better shape and lose more weight. I'm going to use the recommendations from Laura of Starling Fitness and walk a half mile 5 days next week.
All of these tiny problems have one thing in common: the first two weeks seemed easy. Now that there's some dilemmas and road blocks, I feel like more of a warrior charging through. This is going to be hard. The more I overcome, the more natural it will be to continue to overcome. It's been two and a half weeks, and I haven't been through a drive-thru once. Baby steps, people. Baby steps.
Thursday, January 10
Grocery Shopping
Had a big setback yesterday calorie-wise. I was good all day, then I went to dinner at a restaurant. I tried to order healthy, but I made the amatuer mistake of ordering a salad and not getting the dressing on the side. So I ended up at about 3000 calories. Yuck. I'm not beating myself up about it though...I can't change overnight. I will make mistakes. I just can't let them cause me to get depressed and make more on purpose.
Today I've been really good. I actually need to eat another 400 calories before bed to hit my target.
The major step today though was grocery shopping. I know a lot of people who go decide to eat healthy have to overcome all the junk they already own. I do not have this problem. I have been such a lazy person that I order out almost every day. The only food in my house before today was leftover take-out, a can of cranberries, and some pasta. I can easily avoid eating this without any guilt. The cranberries are from last year. I now have a fridge and pantry stocked with healthy stuff. Hopefully, the large stock will keep me going when I'm too lazy to want to eat right but too lazy to not eat what's avaliable. I bought a lot of stuff from recommendations on IateApie.com. I'm very excited.
Today I've been really good. I actually need to eat another 400 calories before bed to hit my target.
The major step today though was grocery shopping. I know a lot of people who go decide to eat healthy have to overcome all the junk they already own. I do not have this problem. I have been such a lazy person that I order out almost every day. The only food in my house before today was leftover take-out, a can of cranberries, and some pasta. I can easily avoid eating this without any guilt. The cranberries are from last year. I now have a fridge and pantry stocked with healthy stuff. Hopefully, the large stock will keep me going when I'm too lazy to want to eat right but too lazy to not eat what's avaliable. I bought a lot of stuff from recommendations on IateApie.com. I'm very excited.
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