On a happy note, tomorrow is "sleep in" day and an extra hour of sleep sounds incredible. I'm making up the missed workout by substituting spinning classes on other nights. I can't wait for some zzzzzzzzzz!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
W35, Day 2: Weigh Day
Okay, weigh day was yesterday, but I'll go ahead and update it today: 201.4, which is +0.2 for the week. Obviously that's not the number I was hoping for, especially after I'd spent the week going to my gym and eating carefully, faithfully noting each and every calorie. But that's how it goes sometimes I suppose. Sometimes I feel like weight loss is a magical, undefinable process. You do all the required steps, but nothing happens. Perhaps I'm missing some mystical ingredient. In the meantime, I was disappointed to step on that scale, but I knew it was coming because I weigh daily and for whatever reason, the number just refused to budge. I can accept that and try again this week with a bit more patience (and just as much hope).
And well, it's going to take a lot of patience after today. I completely and utterly forgot that there was a potluck today at work. Without real time to mentally prepare AND after a week of a lot of effort and no results, well, things fell apart. I binged. I know, I know, that's awful, but it's just what happened. I ate a lot: lumpia, pulled pork, salad, chips, and desserts, desserts, desserts. I put desserts thrice because I had a lot of dessert. Cookies, cake, ambrosia. What happened? I've walked away from donuts and Friday treats for three weeks at work. I would stop and look and steel myself to walk again. But not today. I had literally thousands of calories. Oh well, all I can do is try to understand why I acted this way and move onward. But damn, that cake was so good it probably touched my soul.
On a happy note, tomorrow is "sleep in" day and an extra hour of sleep sounds incredible. I'm making up the missed workout by substituting spinning classes on other nights. I can't wait for some zzzzzzzzzz!
On a happy note, tomorrow is "sleep in" day and an extra hour of sleep sounds incredible. I'm making up the missed workout by substituting spinning classes on other nights. I can't wait for some zzzzzzzzzz!
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I always have a hard time eating well on days where my weight has gone up inexplicably. You can still do it!
ReplyDeleteI think this is an unfortunate symptom of a restricted calorie diet! You said in an earlier post you've been trying so hard to stay under your daily calorie goal, and once in a while your body is going to rebel about that if it doesn't feel satisfied. I would bet this was your body wanting the extras you've been depriving it. I tend to think periodic small indulgences, even if they put you over your daily goal, are better than extreme withholding that results in crazy binges when opportunities like this arise. I don't know what legitimacy that has, not being educated in dietary science, of course, but that is what happens to me in similar situations - if I've had a piece of chocolate after dinner a couple times a week, it is much easier to resist super rich stuff at parties.
ReplyDelete- chelsea