The past couple of days have been awful for me and my self-esteem (or lack thereof). I started a new nutrition program a couple weeks ago and lost 6 lbs so far, which was awesome! But the scale started creeping back up and despite all of my efforts I couldn't get it back down. Logically I knew it was water weight but no matter what I did, it just kept increasing. Well last night, my husband virtually hit me over the head with a frying pan during one our "let's figure this out" talks, and made me realize that I've been so hyper focused on food and my diet that I was beginning to put exercise as a secondary factor.
It was like I had a whole ceiling of light bulbs come on over my head. Sometimes my husband is WAY smarter than me!
I guess that's why I married him!! It was so nice to have that perspective shoved in my face though, because today I went for my run as scheduled, but pushed myself way harder and went farther than I had originally planned to go. It wasn't fast, I ended up taking a lot of walking breaks, but I pushed myself and I focused on my workout. I've turned my attention to exercise and not so much on my food, and it's helped out so much already! That one run took out all my water weight!! I weighed myself after and had sweated out the 3 lbs I had compiled the past few days. I can't wait until my official recorded weigh-in next week!!
P.S. - Husbands are super awesome support networks!
Changing my focus
