Well for me it "whoo this will drive me to Popeyes!"
Now don't eat me wrong. I like healthy food. I really do. However it has NOTHING ON POPEYES, Pizza Hut, lasagna, homemade Mac and cheese...
LOL I'm with you all the way. One of these days I'm going to bake a Mac & Cheese with Maple Bacon and and caramelized onions (sauteed in Kerrygold unsalted Irish Butter!). Mmmm that is going to be so fricken tasty.
I finally decided to relax about my eating and went and ate what I wanted to. Turns out my body was just storing weight cuz it thought there was a famine, once I ate whatever, it was able to let go of some pounds. For the last 3 days I was either 196 or 195 so I'm definitely done with the "OMG I'm going to hit 200 again!" scare. Now I just have to get back into the counting calories mode. Bleh...
About once every two weeks I reward myself with a regular meal. I really look forward to it and I must say it is awesome! Hey, I feel I deserve it.... I am exercising every single day usually at least 45 min, sometimes an hour. EVERY DAY. So I am going to revel in my reward! Lol. Oh! I forgot to tell you guys that my boyfriend is doing this with me. It is soooo awesome to have someone there beside you! It WAS really funny yesterday though... See, he works and I don't, so I usually work out in the morning and he works out after work so yesterday he decides that he wants to try wii Zumba. LOL!!! Mind you, on the weekends we work out together (usually brisk walking for 1hr or 1hr 30min per day), so I ask him, "Are you sure? Because Zumba is pretty strenuous..." He tells me that it can't be THAT bad. So I agree and pop it into the Wii. Let me tell you ladies that after one 20min Wii Zumba class my dear boyfriend was super sweaty, shaking, and breathless. I told him, "See? It's not so bad!" He just glared at me. I had a good interior giggle over that, let me tell you. I then proceeded to tell him, "Just think... That was REALLY only 15 minutes of workout. The last 5 minutes was the cool down." At any rate he is very satisfied with the sweat production from this program, so it looks as if I have a new Zumba partner! Yay!
Sounds like you guys are doing pretty good. Keep up the good work, I have always heard that the weekends are the toughest for people in watching what they eat.
Learning to live-when I tell you that Mac and cheese you just described sounds so decadent and delicious I don't know what to do with myself! I should report you for putting that on this weight loss board! Lol!
Lacy- rewarding yourself with a "regular meal every two weeks sounds like a good ideabbnnbbxmnn. I think I might try it. I think that is so cool that your boyfriend played Zumba with you. I would never be able to get my husband to do it. He doesn't dance period. I want to get a wii! It seems like so much fun. Do you think it is worth it to get it if I was only going to use it for fun work outs and not as a ake console?
A new body- I am so nervous about this weekend. The weekends are my downfall. Through the week I am good the weekends however. I eat everything insite
This use to be me as well. That's why I purposely set my weigh in days on Mondays. For some odd reason when I would do the weigh ins on Friday, I would do great Monday through Thursday have a good weigh in for Friday, then blow it on Saturday and Sunday just to start anew that Monday working off my weekend binge...smh What a viscous cycle I use to put my body through.
I suppose live and learn. But better now My birthday is middle of next month and just would love to be completely out of the 190s (maybe 180s?) Before I turn 40..
Ross & anewbody2013 - I have a suggestion. It helped me a lot. Plan, plan plan your meals. I know I'm kinda crazy and can plan for the whole week, but try planning for just the weekend. Doesn't matter how you do it - before I started doing my own meal prep, I had gotten some Healthy Choice breakfasts, lunches and dinners solely for my weekends. Once I got used to having 3 pre-portioned meals and 2-3 snacks, I was able to move on and portion out my meals for the weekend. You don't have to do it forever; it took me about a month or two to get used to appropriate portion sizes. And, if you do it during the week, you shouldn't feel yourself being very hungry on the weekend.
However, if it's the mindset of "It's my weekend, I'm not distracted by work, I can finally pig out" then, I would suggest some mental conditioning as well as some weekend meal prepping. As neurotic as I am, once I had the prepped meals in the fridge, I didn't want to deviate from them so my trips to the fridge would indicate that it's either time for an allotted meal or a prepped snack. In my mind, I saw this as "oh, cool, less work for me" when I went food hunting in the fridge. Again, it's the same amount of food you're getting during the week, and it's important that our mind listens to our stomach when it's telling us we're not hungry.
Ross & anewbody2013 - I have a suggestion. It helped me a lot. Plan, plan plan your meals. I know I'm kinda crazy and can plan for the whole week, but try planning for just the weekend. Doesn't matter how you do it - before I started doing my own meal prep, I had gotten some Healthy Choice breakfasts, lunches and dinners solely for my weekends. Once I got used to having 3 pre-portioned meals and 2-3 snacks, I was able to move on and portion out my meals for the weekend. You don't have to do it forever; it took me about a month or two to get used to appropriate portion sizes. And, if you do it during the week, you shouldn't feel yourself being very hungry on the weekend.
However, if it's the mindset of "It's my weekend, I'm not distracted by work, I can finally pig out" then, I would suggest some mental conditioning as well as some weekend meal prepping. As neurotic as I am, once I had the prepped meals in the fridge, I didn't want to deviate from them so my trips to the fridge would indicate that it's either time for an allotted meal or a prepped snack. In my mind, I saw this as "oh, cool, less work for me" when I went food hunting in the fridge. Again, it's the same amount of food you're getting during the week, and it's important that our mind listens to our stomach when it's telling us we're not hungry.
Good luck You got this!
Very good advice and thank you. I have been making premade meals as well (which is helping alot) and keep most in a deep freezer which I can just pop in the microwave. So far so good:-) Just happy to be back on track after so many "starts". I have to keep in mind the big picture and avoid many diseases which ails many of my family members...even two younger sisters struggling with diabetes....
Wonderful idea!! I think the frozen meals for each meal will definitely give me some structure and take out the guess work of my weekend meals! Thanks!!!
Ross-it's definitely worth it to me but the only thing I have found is that with Wii fit you do a body test every day.....so it shows a graph of gains and loss daily...but I am very glad I got mine! And I use it for Netflix, hehe
Just chiming in that weigh ins on Mondays are a great way to reduce splurges on the weekend.
My thoughts exactly
Had a close call last night though, one of my favorite foods anytime of the day is french fries which I baked for my children last night. I cooked them and left the kitchen for them to eat KNOWING there would be left overs.......BUT best part is, I purposely left for long period of time and cold fries are yucky to me.....eww. So I ended tossing them into the trash. *pats self on the back* So far been a good weekend LOL now up to cook sausage, eggs and pancakes for my girls...ohhhh boy!
But I think with the weigh in pressing in tomorrow, I won't be tempted to cheat: D
for each 5# gone!
My birthday is middle of next month and just would love to be completely out of the 190s (maybe 180s?) Before I turn 40..
