Facing the music: I completely bombed it Sunday and Food Network was the culprit
This weekend I was on such a great roll. I had my journal. I used it to jot down all my food and exercise. It kept me mindful of my food intake and I was feeling like I was getting somewhere.
Looking back I ate well on Friday and Saturady. Then Sunday morning I was watching Paula cook on FN. She’s making Asian food including eggrolls. We started talking about how I’m the queen of eggrolls. After a few yes and no’s I gave in and we went to get the ingredient. I was telling my sister how I really need to stick to what I’ve been doing and not overdo it with the eggrolls.
I made 25 eggrolls; and ate about 6 or 8 by myself. I couldn’t get myself to log in into my food journal this morning. I am so mad at myself for giving into temptation.
Haaaaa, so here I am this morning wondering if I can undo yesterday. I wasn’t going to blog because I am really upset with my lack of will power. But I want to have this in writing so in a few months I can look back at my mental state when I started day 1.
Today is my Day 1. I am recommitting to myself to get on with it with my food issues. No more BS’ing. Sticking to a few simple rules - Eat better, especially after work and on the weekend, move around more during office hours and continue to add new exercise to my routine.
Eat breakfast - protein, complex carb and drink48 oz of h20 by 10am
Snack - complex carb, 2nd 24oz of h20
Lunch - lean protein, with veggies and complex carb, 3rd 24o of h20
Snack - complex carb and dairy - no water, can’t make it through my class without a bathroom break
Dinner - protein and simple carb (my white rice) and vegetable, 4th 24oz of water
Exercise - ’bout 1 liter of water
August 25th
Breakfast - 1 whole wheat toast with jam and whipped cream, 1 hard boiled egg, water and cup of coffee with 1/2 and 1/2
Lunch - grilled chicken breast with romaine and honey mustard dressing on 1 whole wheat tortilla shell -toasted, water
Snack - 1 cup of blueberry and blackberry with 1/2 cup of non-fat yogurt, water
Dinner - leftover homemade stir-fry chicken and vegetables with 1 cup rice, water
Exercise - kickboxing and yoga
Thanks ladies!
In the past I would hide from myself when I take 2 or 3 steps back. But right now I’m ok with making mistakes. I just have to do it right today. I had a great weekend and the eggrolls were delicious. Today I’ll push harder in my class.
One more thing, I almost broke my own goal and got on the scale today. I won’t get on. I’m ok with not getting on.
I always remind myself, even if you don’t lose weight, you are healthier then you were last year and ultimately, that’s all that matters.
Dang that Food Network, anyway!
Good job not beating yourself up over it and moving on. It’s the only way to go, one day at a time.
Hey girl…slipped up a bit…that ok..just mark it down to learning experience..especially since you decided to go ahead and write it down…and can look back on it later…good! I may have to hide from hubby when he’s on a snack attack…you may have to change channels and hide from the food network lol.
Good job getting back on track..thats the way to win this battle!!
Love Debbie
Thank you Linda. I thank God for giving me today as an opportunity to do it again.
Catrina and Debbie, thank you ladies for your support. My boyfriend makes fun of me because he can’t understand why I love watching food channels when I’m a food addict. LOL
I had the same problem with the Food Network yesterday too! I started watching an Ice Cream Challenge, and then I said “What the heck am I doing to myself????!!!” and changed the channel, LOL. Switched to a James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan…still fun to watch but safe calorie-wise ; ) Debbie
You are too hard on yourself. Just begin fresh today and let go of the detour to eggroll land
Even though you overdid it you blogged about it and that is what is important becuase if you blog something then everyone can see it and you know you don’t want people to think you failed so it won’t happen as easily. Unlike me who hasn’t learned to blog these mistakes yet and just doesn’t say anything to anyone but myself and then it doesn’t get me anywhere becuase no one knows but me so it’s easy to pretend it never happened. I’m so glad I read this blog it did help me realize that I need to blog even if I make a mistake because that way I won’t let it happen again becuase I won’t want anyone to see my mistake. And what your doing is great with the eating plan. We all make mistakes and they can be fixed. Congrats and good luck
Better to blog it out, good job! Now no time wasted beating yourself up, you can get right back on!
Done and over with. I have to ask, were they good? I love eggrolls.