Today felt so good to sleep in!!! I was sick for the majority of the week last week, so even though I had been going to bed pretty early throughout the week, my body was still exhausted and needed to rev itself back up. The majority of my cold is gone and I just have a bit of a stuffy nose here and there. But my stomach has been upset pretty much everyday since Tuesday and that's definitely getting annoying now. A lot of people at work have been complaining of the same type of stuff, so it must just be the first wave of "crud" that goes through the halls of a school for the year.

It's a long weekend though....so I plan on catching up on sleep, scoring some testing, doing some laundry, and cleaning. Enough stuff to keep me busy without wearing out my relaxing weekend.

Today was a rough day for me. Didn't feel like eating....had half an egg 4 miniature fancy potatoes and a couple of triscuits. I am totally PMSing too so that doesn't help. Just glad that I have tomorrow off...AND I went grocery shopping so there is actually SOME food in the house. Oh yeah and I didn't work out today either.

Arrrrghh. I just had a bit of a binge. Damn you, alcohol, for completely obliterating my sense of good judgment and making me eat handfuls of pretzels and a few cookies and brownies! I know it was the alcohol, too, because when I went out for dinner tonight (BEFORE I went to the party where I had a few drinks...) I actually made pretty smart choices. I'm not going to beat myself up too badly over it, since I'm always really good over the week and weekends are the only time where I allow myself to cut loose and indulge even in the slightest... But it bothers me that I went over my calories for something as stupid as some pretzels, which I don't even like that much, when during the week I won't even let myself have a tiny bite of something I'm really craving. It just seems like a waste! Plus I'm a little disappointed that I'll probably have gained a couple lbs when I weigh myself tomorrow... Today I was 114.4, which was awesome, but I'll probably be at least 115-116 tomorrow. Boooo.

At least I'll get back on track throughout the week. I can't WAIT to be in the 200s... It will be so unreal.

I'm trying to convince myself to go to the gym now. I'm kind of sitting in my bed still under the covers, so it's tough to get going! haha I plan on going in about 5 minutes though. I think I tweaked something in my back yesterday though when I was doing some weights. So it's just going to be cardio today.

I like the weekends for the mere fact that I don't have to be up and eating breakfast before 6am. Eating at 9am instead makes it easier to survive until lunch time! haha

^ Mmm, yogurt and fruit sounds good! Good luck with getting the scale to move.

So, I cheated. I was too scared to look at the scale to see how last night's alcohol-and-snacks party had affected my weight, so I worked out first and THEN weighed myself, hehe. So I'm sure it's not entirely accurate... But it said 213.6! Woo-hoo! My body is so effing weird. I gain weight when I think I'm doing well and lose/maintain when I think I'm going to gain. Jeez! But I guess I'm not complaining. I'm just glad to see that I (hopefully) won't have anything extra to lose before I can get back on track. Here's hoping that this will be a good week of losses!!

Weekends are so hard! Being at work and on a schedule makes it so much easier for me to watch what I eat. Sleeping in and skipping breakfast really throws me off for the rest of the day. Friday night we went out with friends, and I ate a healthy meal, but had 2 martinis. I guess that's not awful, I'm just really trying to cut back on alcohol b/c of all the calories. Then Saturday we went tailgating before our college football game and I had hotdogs and chips and beer. ugh. Maybe next weekend will be a better one.

Ok so this weekend has not been that good to me. I was super stressed out and didn't get much sleep. Also haven't eaten that much. Plus I didn't work out yesterday or today, I hurt my back picking up my son....so I hope that goes away by tomorrow...at least so I can work fine. Then on top of everything I started my TOM!!! LOL The scale is surely going to mess with me this week.
Star2Be-I totally know what you mean when you think you are doing awesome and then you gain a pound and when you slack off you lose. I guess the body needs a little change once in a while!

I decided to have a guilt free-no calorie counting weekend. I had a ton of friends in town for my birthday and I knew we'd go out to eat, I didn't want to be beating myself up the whole weekend about food when I was just trying to have fun. I subconsciously did keep track of my calories though, just didn't write them down, I'm so darn nosey! I ended up eating under 1000 on friday but I definitely drank the difference. Saturday I ate out but I had a spinach wrap and cottage cheese then we ate chinese for dinner and I got SOOO sick. I didn't even go out until almost 12 because I was throwing up! I'm pretty satisfied though with how I did, I didn't snack at all and I didn't eat any sweets. I'm back OP today and I'm starting to feel better. I cannot believe how sick eating greasy food made me- never again. I am at about 1100 calories today but I'm ok with that because I'm pretty sure I drank my calories into obvlivion this wknd!

Star2Be:
You remind me of America Ferreira (sp?) in your picture. I'm not sure why. I think it's the shape of your face. V. cute.
This is so strangely unrelated to your last post, but it made me think of it... the strangeness of the body. I read somewhere something that seems SO blatantly obvious, but for some reason stuck with me. It was this guy talking about weight loss, and someone asked him:
Why does it take so long to lose weight when you're eating healthily and exercising? Why can't we just lose weight overnight?
and he replied in the most laymen way I could imagine,
For the same reason that it takes a while to gain weight. Think about the times you've binged, eaten a ton of pizza or beer or cake... imagine if you gained the weight from that junk food overnight!
I have no idea why THAT of all things stuck with me, since it's a ridiculously obvious statement to make... but it's always made me think about the fact that one evening or weekend of crappy binge can be re-balanced by a few days of awesome healthy eating without immediate adverse effects, you know?
Screw your weekend of fun garbage food! Jump back on the healthy train now, and you'll be grand.

Mae:
Being at college/uni totally screws you waistline-wise, doesn't it? Yum, martinis. Hey, you're balancing the good with the bad, right? You didn't completely fall off the wagon, just took in a few extra calories here and there. Just say no to a few snackies during the week, and you'll be even.

Blcarter84:
I'm so sorry about your back! Man, it sounds like you've had a rough weekend! I hope it gets better soon!!

kelli32:
Oh man! That's too bad about that Chinese food! Ick! Well, at least you won't be as tempted in the future to go for the grease, eh?
It sounds like your weekend went pretty well eating-wise! Good job!!

Me:
Ladies, it's thanksgiving weekend in Canada... and I ate too much turkey and mashed potatoes. And drank an entire pitcher of beer to myself when I went out with high school friends who were all home for the weekend. It was not a good weekend eating-wise.

But feeling as icky gross and large as I did this weekend has brought me back to 3FC, where I intend to stay until I'm feeling and looking better!!!

Yesterday was a good day, got a good workout in the morning and ate decently for the rest of the day. Today, completely different story.
Had wings for lunch and pizza for dinner
Back on the wagon tomorrow and working extra hard.

Don't guilt yourself too much over little slip-ups. The way I see it... none of us are going to avoid ever eating pizza again for the rest of our lives, so it's not worth beating yourself up over. So we eat it once or twice here and there... just get back on the health track tomorrow, and no harm, no foul.

Forgot to add my feel good thing today:
After 8 months, I finally fit into my 'Van Halen' tour t-shirt today! WOOHOO. All about small goals, right