Weight
My weight was at right around 246.8 last week at this time. It popped up to 249 early this week but then settled back down to 246.0 around mid week. I was ok with this because it is within my three pound ‘maintain range’ that I spoke about a while back in this post . But then here on Friday morning I popped up to 246.6. I am ok with that although I was certainly hoping to see 245!
This little 0.6 pound uptake was unaccounted for for....well......maybe not.... there may have been a banana binge incident on Thursday night. And I DID wake up thirsty on Friday so that could have affected it too!
Food
I had an amazing victory early in the week in terms of my food intake. I was right on target for most of the days. Which is the first victory. But the biggest victory was on Monday morning.
Last weekend I decided to forego the Chick Fil A milkshake when Jason picked one up for himself. Instead I decided to make a half (or even quarter) batch of edible cookie. The smaller batch would give me just enough to have a sweet treat without blowing my caloric budget and it would be gone at the end of the weekend. Perfect! I laid out the butter on the counter to soften...the amount for the reduced batch size. However when I went to make the cookie dough, I was talking and not paying attention and just was following the recipe as it was written.....without reducing the size of the batch. Oooops! It was either throw it all away and start over or just go ahead and make the full batch. I made the full batch. (Of course I did!). I didn’t do too badly over the weekend but admit to indulging a bit more since there was so much extra cookie dough. On Monday morning is when I had my victory though! I got out small containers and packaged it up and threw them into the freezer. Out of sight out of mind! I did pull one out during the week but one is better then the whole tub!
And of course I had the great banana binge...which I will talk about in a bit!
Exercise
Well....does it count that I walked on my lunch break 2 out of the 5 days? (And I already know that I most likely won’t be able to walk today...Friday). Does it count that I am leading a training class for new hires and I’m on my feet all day??? (And that I spend my breaks and lunch prepping for the new hire training and/or reassigning my daily work to others...since I still have stuff being assigned to me to do?).
Ok, so I didn’t set the world on fire with exercise this past work week. As for the walking...2 days is better than none!!!
Banana Binge
So...here goes! Thursday night rolled around. My weight had been sitting steady at 246.0 for a few days and I really wanted to keep it there! But I wanted a treat sooo bad! So I decided to have a banana! A healthy snack right? Awesome choice! I discovered long ago that the attraction to a banana split was the banana and the toppings that mixed with the banana...so I actually enjoy a bowl of cut up bananas with some chocolate topping! So that is what I aimed to do on Thursday night! But, my bananas were on the cusp of being too soft. I knew that it I wouldn’t eat them if they ripened any further. So I cut up ALL of the bananas into my bowl. Ok, it was just two...but that is 210 calories! Still not too bad. But then we had to add the chocolate syup! And after that there were so many bananas that I figured some peanut butter would be good. A banana binge that cost me 550 calories! Oops! Healthier than a piece of cake...but still too many calories!
So there you have my week in a nutshell! The good, the bad and the ugly! I am not perfect. I don’t ever hope to be perfect. My main goal is to make steps each and every week toward a healthier lifestyle. Yes, I had some missteps this week but I think that I did make some healthy progress. Next week is another oppportunity to take another step forward! I will do this!!!