Vacations

Vacations.....fun for most, except the dieter. My husband and I spent a weekend in Atlantic City recently. We had a great time. We stayed right on the boardwalk in a great hotel that you really did not need to leave. The problem is that there was no place to get a relatively healthy meal. None of the restaurants offered any kinds of "healthy" or "low-fat" food. It was all slathered in butters or oils and then deep fried. While it all tasted amazing, it did nothing good for our bodies.

We very quickly through the "eating healthy" part out the window. We would have had to eat the same 3 things everyday to stick to our diet. We did make sure that we were very active to balance out all of the artery clogging food. Overall this tactic worked to keep the pounds away but now we are back to the beginning of trying to ween yourself away from craving the unhealthy food. I just keep telling myself that you only need to eat like that occasionally, not daily. There is nothing wrong with that.

Loss Goal : 25 lbs
Down : 14.6 lbs lbs
To go: 10.4 lbs

Exercise

I used to think that my co-worker who rode her bike to work every morning, went to the gym and did the elipical on the highest setting for and hour and then would jog home all in one day, was a very different creature than myself. She always talks about her love of exercising and looking for ways to get more out of it for herself. I would just go home and sit on the couch and complain that I was tired all of the time.
Then I decided to loss weight. That in itself is nothing new. I have done that in the past. Those times I mostly just eat well. This time I finally got off the couch and started exercising. It was hard at first. But I found 2 workouts that I enjoy. I suddenly started finding myself looking forward to those workouts and how good I felt afterwards. For the first time I could see what my co-worker sees in all that physical activity.



Loss Goal : 25
lbsDown : 13 lbs
lbsTo go: 12 lbs

Temptation

So work today was all about temptation. Everyone was being nice and brought in snacks for our team. My choices were doughnuts (bad), Muffins (very bad) or Pineapple cake with Cream Cheese frosting and coconut (very, very, very bad) Not one healthy thing. My compromise was a can Coke not bad at all compared. That way I felt like I indulged but did not slide down that slippery slope of bad choices. It felt good. I felt strong.