As I typed in the title of this entry, I’m really quite amazed that we’re rapidly approaching the 4th year of Health Group. Wow. Every Saturday for nearly 3 complete years. That’s really something.
How long have you been following Health Group? I know some of you have been here for a long time.
I’ve been bad. I’ve been really bad. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, or why I’m having such a hard time, because I LOVE the program I’m on with CalorieKing, and it’s the first time I’ve really believed that I had the knowledge I needed to lose weight.
So what’s the freaking problem?
I don’t know, but dear Hayden gave me a sound, verbal butt kicking on Wednesday night, and it was great. I needed it. I needed more than justification, sympathy, and a buy-in to my excuses. She was having none of it, and it was refreshing.
I still ate bad Thursday and Friday, but yesterday as the day was ending, and I’d gone over my calorie target each day, and my fat limits were through the roof, and I hadn’t exercised, I said “ENOUGH!” and went for an hour long walk. And I went the direction that took me up what we call the “monster hill” in our family.
It was my first time walking up that huge hill, and it wasn’t even hard! That’s so cool. Similar to what Stephanie experienced when she saw John Mayer at the Gorge. I’m right with ya’. (BTW, Steph, I can’t believe how similar we seem to be. You’re making soaps, embroidering, and sewing. Three things I’m desperately wanting to do. Not to mention dieting, seeing John Mayer concerts, raising babies… We totally need to get together).
Anyway, despite my bad behavior, I only gained .8 pounds this week. I’m stoked. And I’m still down a smidge in my measurements. 1/4 inch in my thigh and 1/2 inch in my chest.
Whoot!
So, good week and bad week, depending on how you look at it. But I’m feeling very motivated right now. I have 90 minutes of exercise to squeeze in between today and tomorrow to fulfill my minimum for Calorie King, and I intend to do it. And I’m going to push myself.
Plus, I’m going to drink a ton of water to flush all the sugar and crap out of my body. It always seems to help.
How are you doing?
June 9th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Congrats on the good stuff this week. I think we (I speak for myself, though) have to get over the denial that the stuff we eat doesn’t matter. At least for me, on some subconscious lever, I deceive myself with that kind of thinking. I’ve struggled for years with eating to live instead of living to eat. Keep at it, Laura!
June 9th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
who me? I’m plodding along, lost .75 pounds last week. Normally I’d be thrilled but I’ve dipped into this “Poor ME!” abyss. My son graduated from high school on Thursday and the entire family went to dinner at a very diabetic friendly restaurant. Was it the fact that my kids are growing up before I am ready, or was it that I’m sick of healthy food. I felt soooo deprived.
Maybe I need Hayden to come and give me a swift kick too?
Good luck next week!
June 9th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I hear ya sista. I was so thrilled about that hike up that hill I can’t even begin to tell you. I thought for sure I would be dying. I was so happy….yet this week I’ve eaten badly. I’ve had a bad last week weeks actually. I don’t know what the heck is wrong with me. I didn’t stray for months MONTHS!!!!!!!!! And now when Friday rolls around I call my hubby and ask him to bring home pizza because I’m sick and tired of cooking everything we eat. I just want a break and I want to eat. Ugh. Well…maybe we can motivate eachother. I have been on the elliptical this week but not nearly enough. I’m still excited that I’m doing some of it though…some is better than none right? Yeah…I’m delusional. Oh well. Call me! We SO need to get together!!!!!
June 10th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I had a very bad week as well. It was candy bars, brownies, chips- the whole works. I worked out only 4 times and didn’t really push myself. But it was a very conscience decision. My weight loss stalled, but I’m down a pound today. I’m ok with that, because each chip, candy bar or brownie was eaten with intention, not “Oh my gosh, what have I just done.” An occasional break from our new lifestyle is ok, but the breaks should be every 6 weeks or so, not every week.
One of the things that I learned from my goup in 20/20 is that there is a steady amount of denial in overweight people (this includes ME!) Some members of my group bemoan the non-ability to eat at celebatory events (“Oh I can’t have brithday cake, the cheese platter etc…”) but the thought that dawned on me; the reason we are ALL here is because we have OVERindulged at those events in the past. It isn’t that we’ll never have them again. The mere fact we all have a BMI of 30+ is because we had a consistant pattern of overeating.
In order to get the lives we want, the health we want, the weight we want, we have to stop, for now. Not forever, just for now. We can do this. As I said to my dietician last week, a bad week does’t need to turn into 2 bad weeks or a month. It’s just a bad week.
Good luck this next week. I’m going to Chicago for 5 days we’ll see how I do. As always, Laura- I’m rooting for you!
June 11th, 2007 at 8:32 am
That’s funny about Hayden. I too needed a verbal kick in the butt. I kind of gave myself one.
So last week….. Hummm. Well Sunday – Wednesday went well as far as food goes. Not too many cookies and staying pretty close to my allotted points. Thursday was disaster. I had big non food related break down and used food to comfort me. I went way overboard and lost my momentum. I didn’t go overboard the remaining few days of the week but I didn’t write down my food either.
On Saturday night I reassessed my goals and am ready to go this week. I have a hard time getting in my fruits and veggies so I decided to work on getting 5 in a day. Maybe they could even replace a sweet treat as well.
As far as exercise goes. I was pretty good. I got in 5 days of weight bearing exercise. And I think that is why I lost a bit in inches this week. So I plan to continue that as well.
Well good luck this next week.