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Good morning!
Sorry, I'm late! LOL.
This morning was a crazy one. I've been up for about 4½ hours and I literally haven't sat down yet, unless you count sitting on the workout machines at the gym.
Everything kinda went off schedule this morning, so not only did I not get a break to mentally prepare for the day and write my journal, I also didn't get to weigh in, and almost missed out on breakfast. Breakfast was consumed standing and on the move, though I often do this. I like standing up in the kitchen, when we eat breakfast. Besides, it burns more calories than sitting down. lol.
I was waiting for Wife to finish in the rest room before I could weigh in, and she was taking forever. I wouldn't normally tell this, but it turned out that she simply fell asleep out there. :) I guess we're all tired this morning.
So, I was REALLY contemplating just skipping either gym or my walk this morning, to get an extra hour at home before work - to write my journal and generally feel like I was off to a good start.
I'm happy to say that I decided to just get moving, and I went walking at 5:45 am as I normally do before gym.
The walk put me in a much better mood, and it was great.
After the walk I hit the gym, but it was ROUGH. I only made it half way through - I could tell that today was just not the day. Or, at least this morning wasn't. I think I just had a too weird morning for it. I felt that I was low on energy.
I got a small protein bar from the owner, and just hung out for a little while.
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So, no weigh in. That sucks. I really wanted to know what I weigh today, though I am pretty certain that I gained weight. I had a lot of food yesterday (volume-wise), but it was all good choices (calorie-wise).
We made an excellent home made cold potato salad with grilled beef dogs. It was delish, and dinner was only 300 calories. Wow.
I consumed about 2200 of my 2700 allowed calories. I did fine. However, I can easily tell even without weighing in that I am heavier today, so I will adjust my intake just as if I had weighed in and gotten the "punishment" from my calorie counter website. If I had entered a heavier weight today, I would have been allowed 2100 calories, so that is what I will be aiming at today.
It will probably be another relatively heavy food day today. I have lunch made from yesterday's leftovers, so there is more potato salad and dogs. It's great food, very delish, but heavy.
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I think there is something I can learn from this way of maintaining my weight:
Portion control beyond calories!
I can already - after one day - see a pattern here.
If I go high on calories, I will gain weight and be forced to a lower calorie intake based on my weigh-ins.
However, if I eat HEAVY food - even if it is low calorie - I will ALSO gain weight (even if it is not fat gain) and still be forced into a lower calorie intake.
I think this is a great thing for me. This will simply teach me to consider the size of my meals no matter if they are healthy or not, high calorie or not.
It'll teach me how much food is enough, no matter if they are cheap on the calories. I need to learn more about that.
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I did have an ice cream yesterday, on a day where I am not supposed to have it. I am kinda bothered by the fact that I had it. I had decided to NOT have anything like that on a weekday, but I did. However, there was PLENTY of room in my RDI for it, and I know it wouldn't be doing any damage. But still, I shouldn't...
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Anyways, I am at work, and should be doing other stuff. It's hard to not journal, so I had to do a little bit. :)
Today, I'm thankful for:
- getting going when I really didn't want to.
- Wife!
- Focus on my calories today. The insight to see that should be honest and assume that I gained weight since yesterday, even if I didn't weigh in this morning. I am 100% certain I am heavier, and need to act according to that fact.
- My morning walk!
- Gym, even if I didn't do 100%.
Life is good!
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