Still tracking!
I’m now on my sixth day of tracking. Although the week hasn’t been a smooth one, keeping track is helping. It’s made me stop picking at food and conveniently forgetting what I’ve had. If I’ve eaten it, I’ve counted it! (hard at times when out to work out exactly, and a couple of times this week, I’ve done a tally the following morning!) I’ve made a real effort with drinking water and find hot water a lot easier to handle this time of the year. Looking at the summary of my week to date, it’s not looking great, but faced with the weekend we’ve had it could have been a lot worse. I know that next week will be an improvement on this one. The main thing is I’m doing this again!!
The party Saturday was a lot of fun, we had no idea at all where or what was happening, just told to dress up and wait. We were collected by a bus just after 4.30pm. It was a fun surprise night, ending up at our friend’s place, a great theme, drinks and nibbles, music and also The Hurricanes doing their thing on a big screen in the background. The night got to the point where we thought there was not going to be a meal but finger food all night. So into the finger food I went – then we ended up with a late meal! It was a buffet one though so I was thinking salad and veges and there were plenty, along with a little bit of meat. LOL I have to watch myself these days, I think it’s the decreasing body weight, wine goes to my head a lot sooner, so piles of water drunk during the night or else I would have been cot case!
Sunday night’s dinner was soup followed by a roast, followed by dessert! The soup was served, it was absolutely delicious and I suspected it had a lot of cream in it – it did! I enjoyed it. Not a lot I could do but I did well in saying I was too full for dessert (I was being truthful here). I had a cup of coffee instead of a Baileys so not good not bad.
I knew it was going to be a challenging weekend! It would have been great to have stayed closer to 20 points daily over the weekend. But I’m still learning (even after all his time)! This is life; it’s to enjoy special times. For me it’s having the balance of enjoying these times, with out either worrying and obsessing about food and what I should or shouldn’t be eating, or stuffing my face, but to go out, enjoy and make the best choices I can. It’s about learning that if I’ve going overboard, not to think the whole week is blown and continue on that downward spiral, but to get back up and back on track the next day. I’m feel I’m getting my head finally in the right place.
Our internet connection went down several times yesterday and looking back it was probably a good thing. Yesterday I was feeling very down and really upset after an upsetting day on Sunday. One of those situations that will blow over but I’ve had a couple of sleepless nights. MM has been really supportive which has been great for me. I was feeling quite bad yesterday and wrote what had happened, it made me feel a lot better, but then I wasn’t sure if I should post it or not. You are reading and there is no way I want to come on here being something I’m not, I feel I would be hiding something. If I’m having a bad time, I need to vent it. What happened really upset me, I didn’t handle it well. I know our feelings and emotions have a lot to do with how we cope. Then it gets to what do I need to share or what is better left unwritten. I’m sure you know where I’m coming from. Then the situation was taken out of my hands with the internet being down! So the entry wasn’t posted but on Sunday I felt shattered. Today things are a lot better.
Day Three:
Points: 26 – not good
Water: loads!!!
Steps: 8100
Exercise: Dancing??
Emotions: Happy
Day Four:
Points: 24 – not good
Water: 2-3 litres
Steps: 7500
Exercise: Nil (Sunday)
Emotions: Shattered, upset
Day Five:
Points: 19
Water: 2-3 litres
Steps: 5720
Exercise: Gym – and aqua aerobics
Emotions: Still not great
Summary so far this week after Day 5:
Points so far: 110.5
Points left: 29.5 (two days to go!)
Steps: 34730 – I need to improve on this!
Exercise: So far - 1 Aqua deep, 2 Aqua aerobics and 2 gym sessions
I weighed this morning!! The scales have been stuck on 71.4 for ages - this morning I saw the reading ended in 8! Blow I thought 71.8! BUT NO IT WAS 70.8!! Yay they moved. And I've also learnt this doesn't mean I'm losing so I can ease up a little.
Hoping you all have a great week.
4 comments:
Sounds like you had a great weekend and that you tackled it really well. You are right - it is all about getting the balance right.
I hope that you are feeling better after the upset on Sunday. Thinking of you !!!
Take care and be good !
Me
Great weekends you ahve it seems most weekends. Good that you can enjoy life and still maintain and this week probably lose. Don't be hard on yourself as you are doing so well. It is hard to cope with emotional upsets and I hope the worst is over with whatever happened.
Congratulations on the scales moving for you - in the right direction. You have coped admirably well with all the meals out this weekend and with your exercise.
I hope that whatever happened on Sunday has blown over and that you are feeling happier again today. It is great that you have a place to open up to when you need to get something off your chest. I often write posts and save them as drafts - never posting them publicly at all. Posts that are maybe a bit too personal or a bit too unhappy. Just writing them down is a very good way to start feeling better most of the time.
Thinking of you and hoping you have a great week :D
Woohoo - a downward move in the scales! That must have been great to see. You're doing so well with your new focus.
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