On Friday I wrote about my vicious cycle that I have been struggling with. I wrote about how my weeeknda were a huge struggle. We naturally tend to eat more junk food and with that junk food comes a tendency to have a sweet treat each night. And some nights a LOT of sweet treats. Seriously a few weeks ago I ate two crepe filled donuts as dessert and that was after a full dinner! Two! (They were delicious!). The weekends would make my weight pop up o the scales....and then I would need to play catch up. Through the work week I would be eating ‘perfectly in an effort to lose the weight I gained in a desperate attempt to not show a gain! Sometimes I was lucky and even showed a slight loss. But I wasn’t always lucky. I knew (know) that I can’t continue that cycle! So on Friday I made that vow to break the cycle!
I am not aiming for perfection. So I decided that I could resist a sweet treats...mostly. I would allow myself ONE sweet treat! Not one night of sweet treats (which would allow me to have two or three donuts. Or a half gallon of ice cream). One serving would be allowed over the whole weekend! That allowed me to have something I enjoy but in a severely limited and managed manner. A good balance between living my life happily but in a healthy manner. (In other words, a sustainable balance.)
All day long of Friday I stressed about this limitation. Should I get dessert on Friday night when we ordered our dinner? It would be tasty. I would enjoy it for sure. But what if we had a better option for desserts on Saturday...or Sunday? Then I would be faced with a monumental choice of trying to resist when something better came along. But what if I turned down dessert on Friday and then Saturday and Sunday rolled along and no delicious dessert came my way? Then I would have lost that delicious dessert and I would be high and dry with no sweet treat! (The tragedy!)
You may laugh, but I pondered this decision all day long on Friday!
Luckily the decision was made easier for me. We ordered form a place that didn’t usually tempt us with desserts and I was tired and felt no desire to make anything. On Saturday I resisted the Reece’s cups at the store while grocery shopping ...I was saving myself for something awesome. (And I was tempted with the Reece’s Cups thin!) Mid afternoon went to a farmers market and picked up donuts. I ordered ONE and I will be the first to admit that I savored that donut! It was delicious. When Sunday rolled around, surprisingly I wasn’t tempted to grab anything.
I did it! I limited my sweet treats and I did great. Now I will be clear and say that I did ‘indulge’ in a banana with a bit of chocolate syrup. But I’m not even going to count a banana and a bit of chocolate as a sweet treat! It’s a healthy snack!
So my weight. How do my daily weigh ins look? Grrrrrr!
I was so excited to step on the scale this morning. I wanted to see the number because there was no way that my weight popped up! It had stayed steady through Saturday morning and Sunday morning weigh ins...I just needed a good weigh in on Monday to carry myself through the weekend and break that cycle.
Three pounds UP! Exactly three pounds! Yes.. three pounds. You see...the monthly scourge (my female cycle) decided to visit...a week and a half early might I add. I have long known that my weight pops by 2-3 pounds with that. But seriously....why! I wanted to see the success!!!!
Water water water...that is the plan for today (not only the hormonal water weight...I know I didn’t drink enough water this weekend). If I stay the course this weight gain should disappear!!!!!!