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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, and I don’t even know why!

Posted grneyedmustang on June 24th, 2008 | Filed under General, South Beach Diet, dieting, exercise, headaches, weight loss

Do you remember the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day from when you were a kid? Well, I think that sums up my day yesterday, and usually, I can pinpoint why I had such a bad day. Nope, not yesterday!

The day started out okay, but this past week, I’ve been having these awful headaches which are short in duration and seem to occur when I’m stressed. Well, I must have been super stressed yesterday, because I had at least 3 of them. So I’m sitting at work, feeling like sh**, and I get ready to leave. I decided that I wasn’t going to the gym and went straight home. So I get home, and eat waaaaaay too much peanut butter (the plan specifies 2 TBSP peanut butter allowed per day, I’m sure I had at least 4) because I’m starving when I walk in the door. After that, I feel “out of sorts”. I cook dinner (I ended up cooking grilled bison burgers instead of the shrimp stir fry because bison burgers are my new comfort food) - and while I’m cooking dinner, I made my new SB mojitos (non alcoholic, of course) — and that seemed to cheer me up and make me feel better. So I’m listening to house music, dancing, drinking, and cooking, and seem to be in a good mood. I sit down to eat dinner and begin watching a movie called “Wedding Wars” and then I get extremely sad. I don’t know why, the movie wasn’t particularly sad! So I’m sitting there, thinking to myself, “What the he** is wrong with me? Why am I so moody? Why am I happy one minute and sad the next?” I decide to go to sleep (courtesy of Wal-Mart allergy pills), take today off, go to the doctor and see about these headaches.

Theories on what was wrong yesterday (aside from the headaches):

• I’m just plain crazy and bipolar or manic depressive
• Body changes (my body is going through carb withdrawal, but I thought that would have been last week?)
• Hormonal changes (since I’m losing fat, my body has to readjust its estrogen levels - and maybe that’s why I was like an emotional rollercoaster yesterday)?
• Wedding wars touched a nerve (but I’m not gay????)

So today, I go to the doctor and find out my BP is normal (that was my first suspicion, that maybe my BP was out of whack) — and the doctor (who I didn’t care for too much, but whatever) tells me that these are “just” tension headaches and that I need to RELAX. Ummmm, yeah. Tell me something I don’t know. So I leave the doctor and come home and gear up my IPOD with new workout jams. I get up, go to the gym, and feel much better. In fact, I felt much better today on a whole. I still had two of those stupid headaches but I haven’t had one since I’ve been to the gym. I ate on plan and drank plenty of water. This morning, I was down to an even 259, so I’m hoping by Saturday I can be down to my mini goal weight of 20 pounds lost, which is 257.

Tomorrow’s going to be a good day. I’m going to eat on plan, work out, and leave that dayum peanut butter alone. I’m claming it TONIGHT.