My stuggles with weight loss after the birth of my son



Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Ups and downs

So, after that last post I realized that it actually WAS sunday when I weighed myself. I thought I was cheating by weighing myself on Saturday, a day early.
Mommy-brained... I don't work or go to school so I hardly know what day it is anymore!
Anyway. My friend brought her Wii Fit system over to my house but it told us both we were thirty pounds lighter than what we are! We blame the shag carpet. When we put the board on her hardwood floor in her bedroom I weighed in at 187.5.
By BMI is 26-point-something and I'm at risk for being overweight. I put down a goal of 15 pounds in two months which is pretty steep but I think I can do it.
That is, if I can start making better choices!
Monday night we went out to Red Lobster. I had a platter of fried seafood (which was delicious by the way) along with a small baked potato and a garden salad with balsamic vinegar dressing.
I came out FOUR calories under my allotment for the day, and I would have gone WAY over if I hadn't have gone to LA Fitness with my friend earlier that day. We walked about half a mile to get there, then I did fifteen minutes on the bicycle, a little over five minutes on the elliptical trainer, thirty minutes using weight machines and fifteen minutes in the sauna. I felt really good about myself afterward.
Today I walked just over a mile with my friend. (I'm going to call her Kay for future reference). I had to open and run my mother's belly dance studio. I fell victim to temptation and got a liter of Mountain Dew at the little store we passed. I was SO sweaty and parched.
(Note to self: bring a water bottle next time).

Anyway, I was a horrible dieter today and make chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies. I only made half of a batch but I logged all the ingredients (which includes sugar, cocoa powder, milk, BUTTER, and peanut butter and old-fashioned quick oats).
Oh god. They were amazingly good.
But I was not.

I ate FOUR of these cookies. At almost 200 calories each. BLAHBLAHBLAH. I went 750 calories OVER my allowance of 1675.
So bad. But it tasted SO good.

Oh well. What's done is done. I can't UNeat it. (I could if I was bulimic but I'd rather be fat than have an esophagus worn away by stomach acid and teeth that are rotting away). I'll just get back on track tomorrow and put this little oopsy-moment behind me.

(Besides, I was 1600 calories under last week. I think I have a tiny bit of leeway.) ((I know that's not a very good excuse. I'm just saying. I did really well last week.))

But hey, isn't that what always happens? The first week on a diet goes SO well but then you just fall off track. Motivation for me is an issue, I will have to look up ways to avoid failing.

Good night!

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