Imagine that this picture is my bed. I have long known that my husband is a bed hog....but add in the cats. Could this be the reason that I have a pulled muscle near my shoulder blade? (I can't remember specifically hurting it). I have three cats that like to sleep right up against me....not to mention my husband too. I truly am an acrobat whilst asleep! hmmmm I worry that Desi willl decide to join the fray of cats!
Well, I'm no where closer to stopping the screaming voices in my head. I talked to Todd quite a bit last night about what I am feeling. It made me actually put to words some of what I'm feeling
1. I'm tired of being somewhat obsessed with what I eat.
2. I'm really just honestly bummed out that I had one week of not watching closely to what I was eating ...not even pigging out. And I gained so much weight.
3. Stark realization of exactly how close I'm going to have to watch for the rest of my life if I continue to 'care'.
4. Would it be better to give up and be happy with not having to constantly worry.
Todd actually said the same words that JC said in a comment. He said yeah, you'll be happy for a bit. But when you have diabetes or a heart attack, then you will be more worried about those things. He said, "In essence you have a choice to make you constantly stay on your toes to keep the weight off....or down the line you constantly stay on your toes to keep your body artificially regulated with medications to control cholesteral, diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure, etc.
I know that his comments (and JC's comments) are correct. And I honestly don't want to go back to the 315 pound MaryFran. But I guess I want the 'easy' way out. Maintain my weight at a decent level but not have to work for it. But lets be honest....God didn't give me a body that would do that.
That said, even in the midst of all of this inner turmoil, I've been eating as healthy as possible. When I planned out our meals for next week, they are healthy meals. So at least something has stuck with me!
Oh, Todd had a theory about why I've packed on so much weight (about 10 pounds) in such a short period of time (2 weeks) without eating all that terribly (yeah, not as good as I normally eat, but not 100% off target, for the first week and really not bad at all during the second week). His theory. My body has been stuck in a rut for the last year at this 180 mark. It doesn't want to drop any further...it's fighting it for all it's worth. So during those two weeks, even though I wasn't eating terrible (just not the greatest) my body saw the extras as a way to get itself further away from that 180 mark....and it stored every bit of fat that it could. Interesting theory!
I think Todd may be right in the sense that your body was tired of "starving" so when you went off your vigil it said, "Yippeeeeee, we have some extra food to store." And store it, it did. I'll bet if you get back on your regular healthy track the pounds will come off quickly, at least at first.
ReplyDeleteThat's sort of the way I've been kick starting myself into losses recently. When the body gets bogged down and won't shed anything for a few weeks. I just eat. Not bad stuff but I don't count and just eat what will keep be full and happy. Then when I go back on it the pounds start to drop again.
I know that you are talking about being tired of all this stuff and I know exactly how you feel. I'm sick to death of it. Oh, how I wish I could just stop and know I won't go back up but I also know for sure that I just don't want to be huge again. It is really a tough life style to stick with.
I agree with Deborah and Todd about the weight coming on so quickly. Did you consume a lot more sodium than usual? I did yesterday (canned veggies) and was up 5 lbs overnight. I'm hoping it will be gone by tomorrow weigh in.
ReplyDeleteI so hope my comments didn't offend because that surely wasn't the intent. The realization that I'm going to have to work at this the rest of my days made me want to puke. I hate everything about planning and counting and figuring out the best thing to eat at a restaurant. I especially hate exercise. UGH!! However, the thought of being disabled because of something preventable make the planning and counting and figuring out and exercise not so bad.