This week was NOT a stellar week in terms of my health and the healthy lifestyle that I want to live. Let me recap!
Ok eating. My weekend was super high in calories. Higher than I’ve been in a while. I knew it was going to be that way going into the weekend. But it still left me feeling...well...guilty! Guilt is not something I want to feel should I chose to indulge for a single day...or a single weekend! I will be having to think and ponder on this a bit deeper in the future. Honestly, I didn’t realize what I was feeling about the weekend was guilt until just right now. Before I go on. Let me say...my weekend wasn’t horrible. I was right at 2000 calories. Both days. Theoretically that should still have me lose a half pound a week! But be that as I may. I came back and got myself under control...with my eating in terms of calories! (With the exception of Wednesday, the snow day! And even then I was only at the top top of my ‘acceptable’ range.)
Exercise....well I started out strong on the weekend with an outdoor run! I promised myself that I was running after work on Monday and Tuesday (as a starter and any further days would be decided based on the weather as they were forecasting a ‘significant snow storm’). I had great intentions. I got in my car after work and knew I was running....within a half hour I was waffling...back and forth. ‘I’m running...no I’m not running, I’ll start tomorrow...no I’m doing it’. Back and forth for the whole hour drive! I didn’t run on Monday. On Tuesday I was determined! I was running! Yeah...I had the same argument in my head on the way home on Tuesday also! My fat mini me won! (My mini me is that voice in my head that tells me I’m fat. It’s the voice that tells me to eat the cake and cookies...to not exercise and that when I am exercising that I can’t do it!!! Mini me had made many appearances in posts within this blog.) On Wednesday it was snowy and Jason and I were both home from work. We got out and walked for about an hour in the snow! Walking through 6 inches of unplowed snow is a workout!!!
So because of that the week wasn’t a total bust in terms of exercise. (Oh Thursday I gave up and didn’t even plan on running...shame on me!)
So I guess when out that way, the week hasn’t been a total waste. I did do something exercise (a run on Saturday, a short walk on Sunday and a long walk on Wednesday). And while I was over goal on calories for the weekend it wasn’t insane AND I went right back to normal eating when we got home. My weight is not budging....but I plan on tightening my belt and making that move! I’m tired of wasting time...not being focused and not seeing results. It will be hard today...I was halfway down the road when I realized that I had left my breakfast and lunch at home....and tonight is always order food for deliver for dinner which is typically my splurge meal for the week. So I have to be careful my options that I chose in the cafeteria today!!!!