WEIGHT UP/DOWN THIS WEEK: -1.3
POUNDS TO GO TO GOAL: 20.5
So it seems that working out and eating well pays off.
‘Cause you didn’t already know that, right?
But what is it about me and my Sundays? I was on a weight-loss-get-fit tear. I ate well. I worked out 3 times (not including Yoga). I was down nearly 3 pounds. I spent all day Sunday skiing. For lunch we had Campbell’s Healthy Request soup accompanied by Triscuits and a wee bit of cheese, and a lot of apple slices. We drank water. It was oh, so good!
And then we got into the van. And Hubby & I ate a whole bag of Baked Ruffles (Cheddar & Sour Cream Flavour). They didn’t even taste that good anymore towards the end. Oh, and somehow a Nanaimo bar ended up in the van. It too was consumed with gusto. We washed the whole mess down with an M&M Meat Shops Oriental Party Pack for dinner (on a tangent; shouldn’t they change that to Asian Party Pack? Didn’t the word oriental get coopted by Asian during the PC wave of the 90s?).
Kill me now. Save me from myself. Or rather…save me from my Sundays, ’cause they’re killing my weight loss goals.
Read more Kath at her personal blog, This Is Kat.
My sisters & I have always joked about that Sunday thing. For some reason we all seem to indulge a little too much on Sundays. For me I think it’s because I’m home all day doing chores & cooking on Sundays so I just pick at things all day long. I do well when I’m not home…
i pretty much suck every single weekend. i’m so good all week and eat perfectly. then the weekend comes and we eat at restaurants and there just always seems to be dessert everywhere. it’s a disaster for me…
The problem isn’t that you ‘fell off the wagon’ but that you feel that doing so has killed your weight loss goal.
That would be true if you junked out every day, but only once a week isn’t going to completely derail your progress. What most commonly happens is that you’ll think “I’ve already screwed up, now I might as well…” THAT thinking will derail you as you give yourself the excuse to binge! (been there, done that!)
Give yourself the OK to treat yourself… if it’s OK to have SOME chips or SOME ice cream, you’re less likely to binge. And when you DO have that treat, like the chips… take a SERVING amount (a kitchen scale comes in handy here, and reading the packaging) and put it in a bowl that you eat from, rather than grabbing from the bag. That way you have control over the situation and you aren’t eating them to the point that they “didn’t even taste that good anymore towards the end”
I’ve gone from 225lbs to 160lbs (size 20 to size 12) in the last 3 years thanks to kickboxing and eating right, NOT DIETING!!! If you change your lifestyle and eat right then you don’t struggle with the “weightloss woes” that come from the “diet” mindset.
You CAN treat yourself and cut back on that horrible guilt you’re experiencing every Monday as you realize that you haven’t “f’d it up in 1/2 a day” but are still living a healthy lifestyle!
I do this too and then I am so demotivated and so p.o.ed at myself. All that hard work and I f’d it up in 1/2 a day. The only thing you can really do is try and convince yourself of this before eating the junk. I managed to do that for the first time in a long time last night. My whole family had a bowl of ice cream for dessert after dinner. I was about to jump in too, even had the ice cream tub and scoop ready on the counter but I managed to stop myself and had a piece of sugar free gum instead. It felt so good! Doesn’t work every time but it’s the only way as far as I can tell.
Quit beating yourself up! Look at all the good you accomplished! You should be proud of your days and hours of good! I am proud of you!!!!