Well, in case you haven't figured it out, I've been avoiding posting. I've been bigeing a lot and am gaining some serious weight because of it.
Oh wow - I don't feel so alone or so stupid! I've just caught up with the last days and discovered there are a few of us who are fighting the 6 week plateux blues - me too - suddenly it's too hard to exercise, to eat right, the weight is creeping up and where oh where did all that initial hopeful enthusiasm go??
I have admit - seeing that I normal and this is what happens has made it easier for me to accept that I have to go out and re-start pounding that pavement!
I am right there with all of you. I really hate to admit this, but even after that novel I posted yesterday...I still ended up going to Subway and getting that calorie bomb instead of going for a walk.
Yeah, it was really cold outside, especially after all the nice weather we've had lately, but come on - I walked in the middle of a snowstorm on 2 different occasions in January! *sigh* I know what I need to do, and I always feel like crap after making a bad choice, but I still keep making them. Argh!
I wanted to comment on all the plateaus/blues. These are the times that make or break a healthy lifestyle commitment. And it's all mental. (I think in some ways that's why people who have lost a bunch of weight and kept it off make good long distance runners--again, a lot of it is mental toughness.) This is not about being perfect, or loosing multiple pounds every week. It's about making adjustments and moving forward. It's about learning how to eat and exercise in your everyday life--and yes in my opinion this includes eating out and learning to include snacks and treats.
It's about keeping going even when you have had a bad day, bad week, bad month. And we all have them. For me, it was about learning to forgive myself and learning to congratulate myself. I really had to learn that I do NOT have to be perfect--it's just impossible--I just have to do the best I can.
Honestly, I'm kinda scared that maybe I don't have that mental toughness. I keep planning each night to be back on plan the next morning, but then the next day comes and I'm making bad choices again. One thing I know that keeps me trudging along is that I have a coaching week coming up -- I can't just disappear and leave you all hanging!
So I will probably be signing up for another week near the end of the challenge when those are opened up for volunteers.
I just logged my Body Bugg information for the day (yesterday, its after midnight) and I burned 2400 calories!!
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WOW! Way to go!
You are an inspiration!
To everyone who is struggling, today is a new day. Now is a new hour. The next bite is a new chance to do it right. Let's do it. Let's make the next decision we make about food or fitness one to be proud of.
Hear, hear!
And way to go with your difficult, but still on-plan day!
Awesome!
Bonus QOTD: Congrats! You've almost made it through two months of a healthy lifestyle! Name at least one positive thing that you have accomplished in the last two months. It can be a NSV or a change you have made.
Well, I have solidly gotten the habit down of getting my water in -- and as a result, I have pretty much given up soda. I have maybe 1 or 2 in a week instead of 3-4 a day.
I also take stairs whenever I can. Had to go to the doctor for more x-rays today, and took the stairs up to the 5th floor and back.
A small NSV that I have is that my cute silver Mickey watch (back when I could actually put it on before I took a hand out of commission!
) fits on two holes smaller than it did when I bought it. I used to never wear it because it would only fit on the furthest-out hole, and so the little slider tab that's used to keep the loose end from flopping about would always slide off. But now it fits great!
2-22-2011 - Tuesday - QOTD When was that Disney moment when you knew you were hooked?
Honestly, I think it was my discovery of the DIS.
We took our 1st trip in 2007, a family trip with my in-laws mostly for the benefit of our then-3-year-old nephew. None of us had ever been, but I kinda thought of it as mostly a kids' place - all right for a vacation but nothing I'd choose myself, you know?
We entered our first park - MK - right in the insane crush between the end of 9pm Spectro and the start of Wishes. I'd never seen so many people crammed in one place in my life...I'm not one for claustrophobia but it was freaking me out a little. We heard the announcement that they would be lowering the lights and not to move around, so we decided to stay put for the fireworks. As soon as it started, I realized how much I'd underestimated WDW as just a kiddie amusement park. Well, there was a lot of family drama that trip, but as the week went on, I was only more and more impressed (esp. after discovering the patisserie in WS France, and after watching Illuminations!). I knew before we left that I wanted to go back someday, but didn't know if DH shared that thought.
Eventually months later we got to talking and decided we needed to "do Disney right", meaning without MIL
, and decided to make the honeymoon we'd never gotten around to a WDW trip in 2009. I found the DIS somehow or another while trying to decide which resort to stay at, and very shortly knew that if DH was satisfied with having "done" Disney after our honeymoon and didn't want to go back, I'd be very sad!
Thankfully within 20 minutes of getting to MK the first night of our honeymoon, as we're both sitting there waiting for the fireworks with irrepressible ear-to-ear grins on our faces, DH leans over to me and says, "We SO have to come back again."
Okay, everybody! Tomorrow is a new day! Let's give it some of that Day 1 enthusiasm! Go Team Mickey!
