Good morning!
It's been two days since my last weigh-in and I am up THREE KILOS!
No need to panic.
This is simply the after effect of a poor-choice weekend.
I think the stress got to me, too much to think about, too little sleep, too much to do, etc.
Most meals were pizza and candies, and I consumed something like 10,000 calories over the weekend.
It's all good, though. I have it all entered and considered in my system, and I'll be compensating for it over the next month. Shouldn't be a problem.
This is the true beauty of maintaining weight. I'm in no hurry. I just gotta keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn't get out of hand.
Today is teaching day. I teach my weight loss classes after work, and this means that I am a little more active than I am on other days. My calorie burn is usually reasonably high, and this will nudge me in the right direction.
At the same time, my two planned meals are very low in calories. Daughter made chicken and dumplings, and I'm having leftovers for both meals, sans the dumplings.
Those two meals together won't even reach 600 calories, so I can easily have them, check it off as a fast day, and move on. It will basically counter balance one of my bad weekend feast days. Easy pieces.
If I do NOT make it through a fast day today, I am allowed 2800 calories. I have zero issue staying within this. I can eat what ever I'd like, as long as I think before I eat.
Actually, that's a good line. "Think Before You Eat". I gotta remember that.
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I found this picture online. I thought it was very thought provoking, and so brilliant that I just had to post it on my
weight loss facebook page. We are so keen on doing things right, we are so keen on "clean" eating, and we study all nutritional info under a microscope before we make our food choices.
Well, some do. I really don't. I look at the macros, protein, fat and carbs, and that is pretty much all.
But some people are so scared of e-numbers and what have you, that they deny themselves so many goodies and so many things just because they see a lot of "chemicals" in the ingredients of foods.
So, check out the info for these three everyday foods:
(see the full picture
here)
When you break everything down, it's all chemistry, isn't it?
I found this to tickle my noggin a bit.
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I didn't get enough sleep again tonight. I sleep better with the medicine that I got from my doc, but it's still not all that good. I need sleep, badly.
I hate feeling like this.
When I am tired, I get lazy. I don't want to go walk. I don't want to move more than absolutely necessary. This is not good. I NEED to move. Because I also want to eat more.
I can't eat more if I don't move more. It's that simple.
I think I need to maybe buy a bag of fruit to bring to work. It might be a smart move to have fruits there for snacks for the next week. I will do this in the afternoon today.
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I have no gym today. I went yesterday morning, so today (and probably tomorrow) is recovery day.
Normally, I go on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But I promised to help a new employee open up the gym yesterday morning, so I figured that I might as well go do the workout since I was there already.
Yesterday was the first day of week two of my rehabilitation workout.
Full weights at every machine, but only two lifts this time.
It was a lot harder than the first week, where I only did one lift.
Most machines I had no trouble with at all, but there was one that I could only do ONE lift 2nd time around. I made it to "1½ lift" if there is such a thing on the 2nd round. It was HEAVY!
Still, most of the exercises were nothing. I'm looking forward to 3rd week next Monday, when I get to up my game more. I'm ready for it.
Things get better and better daily. I like that.
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Today, I'm thankful for:
- Sleep. Some is better than nothing.
- Wife! I like getting up in the morning with her. I can't sleep longer anyways.
- Coffee! I need it. And no, I never really drink coffee in the evenings, this is not what keeps me awake.
- My weight maintenance spreadsheet. It makes me NOT panic after a couple of Indulgence Days. :)
Happy Monday! Life is good!
