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Weekend Setback, but back on track

Posted renewme on October 9th, 2007 | Filed under General

Why do I do what i know I shouldnn’t?  After a great week of eating and exercise, we went out to dinner Sat. night at  a Mexican restaurant.  I ordered a chimichanga.  It was really good!  But, I should have stopped eating after having eaten just over half of it!  I did leave the beans and about 1/2 the rice on my plate.  Then Sunday we had BIL over to watch football game around noon.  We had a stuffed pizza from Papa John’s, a take and bake pizza place.  It also was really good, and 1 piece was plenty to fill me up.  But then I ate a slice cheesy bread sticks and a  slice of an apple desert pizza.  I really did not eat anything else the rest of the day except some fruit later in the evening though. 

I didn’t exercise on Saturday, but we did spend some time walking around a local festival.  Sunday evening I decided I’d better do something with all the stuff I’d eaten over the weekend, so about 8pm I did a WATP 2 mile.

“Official “weigh in yest. morn was not good.  I think it was 209. I didn’t even write it down.  I was so disappointed in myself.  I thought about changing weigh in to Friday cause that is typically my lowest weight day, and I go up a bit over the weekend, but come down again by the end of the week.  But I thought who am I kidding?  I don’t have a weigh in “day”.    I weigh myself everyday! Sometimes several times a day, depending on how many times I use the bathroom where the scale sits!  So, what I reall need to do is clamp down and not let things fall apart on the weekends.

Monday morning I did Walk and Kick DVD.  I stopped yesterday and got my fitness dvds from the library that were in.  I had 3 on hold, and they all came in at the same time.  2 taebo and Leslie Sansone Walk and Jog.  I previewed part of the taebo last night and did part of the warm up, but I don’t think I’ll be doing anymore.  I was fine until they started to speed things up.  Plus I didn’t realized they would be using some sort of punching bag type thing which I don’t have.  I think I’ll probably just return it the next time I’m by the library.  I did the Walk and Jog, this morning.  It was OK.  I didn’t reall care for the “jog” segments.  I felt more like I was bouncing than jogging.  And my chest was jiggling around too much.  I think if I do it again, I’ll just continue walking even during the jog segments or else jog on the mini trampoline instead.

Good thing this morning was that my weight was back down to 207!  So, hopefully  I can drop another 1 or 2 pounds this week.  I’m not reall sure I’m going to make my 10 lb loss goal by 10/20.  I though I was being really conservative by setting that 2 months or so ago, but things are going much slower than I’d hoped.  I’d have to lose 6 lbs in the next 12 days.  I guess it could be done.  Most of the changes taking place right now are not necessarily easily measured.  It’s more feeling better through out the day, not getting as tired.  I also feel like I’m getting stronger.  So I could be also gaining muscle.  I know I started with a lot more fat the muscle!!!  I do feel the my hips and waist have changed a little, but since I didn’t measure until last friday, I don’t have any numbers to compare.  I have at least gotten into the habit of regular exercise.  I think now I really have to look at my diet and work on that.  I’ve been watching my portions, and trying to make better choices, but haven’t kept track of everything.  I think I’m going to try to start that this week, writing down everything I eat and get a better picture of  exactly how much I’m eating and what.