Grrrrr…..darn it! I gained 2 pounds this week. I’m trying to calm down and get over it, but its so hard!
The absolute most important thing for me to do now is to snap out of it. It would be so easy for me to feel sorry for myself and go get a gallon of ice cream and say ‘why me?’ However, that was the old Gina, I do things differently now.
I am not going to let a gain this week tear me down. It happens, its life and I must move on. Its a new day and a new week and I have the chance to start fresh with a clean slate.
So I’m going to evaluate some of the things I did last week that probably contributed to my weight gain.
1. I wrote everything that I ate down, but on most days I didn’t actually tally up how many calories I was eating. I used the excuse that I was too busy to push it off till the next day. Well the next day came and I was ‘too busy’ that day too.
So if I would have just taken an extra 5 minutes per day and tallied up all my calories I would have known that overall I did in fact eat too much during the week.
Lesson definitely learned.
2. I ate out…a lot! Now normally I do eat out at restaurants a lot during the course of a week. But usually I eat pretty healthy options. Not so this week. I did go a little overboard and since I wasn’t being diligent enough about tracking calories, that just made it worse.
3. I didn’t exercise at all. Usually I get in a few miles worth of walking per week. But this week I let myself be extra lazy. That’s a no no!
So today I went on a wonderful 2 mile walk with my fiance to get my butt back on track. It was so much fun and now I’m back in the groove and ready for my next walk.
This week I’m forcing myself to be much more strict and I am deliberately snapping myself out of my funk.
I will track everything I eat, count every calorie, walk, and eat healthy choices when I go to restaurants.
In the past when I’ve gained weight I chose to feel sorry for myself and give in.
This time I choose to succeed.
