Hi Everyone!
I feel like I'm really back on track the last week (even though I haven't been able to stop thinking about cake... I really want a piece of chocolate cake- interesting, well made with lots of frosting and fun stuff like hazel nuts or raspberries). I'm guessing I should just plan for it and get it because I haven't stopped thinking about it in a couple weeks. But I've been really good about making sure that I have all the basics around, like the turkey breast, crackers, avocados, etc. Having the right food around is crucial to me keeping on track. Whenever I don't have easy access to the right stuff, I always end up eating too much of the wrong stuff (yummy stuff, but not what I need to keep going in the right direction).
I've had a lump on my back for the last few years- the doctor told me it's an epidermoid cyst (so it's totally benign). As I'm loosing weight it's starting to hurt. Mike, my trainer, and I are guessing that as I'm loosing weight it has less cushioning around it and so it's starting to hit nerves and irritate the muscles. I'm going to have to see if there is anything that can be done about it. I'm hoping it won't have to be surgically removed. Or, if it does, I hope the surgery is very minor. I really don't want to be out of commission for a long time because of this lump.
I have been really mixing up my exercise. I'm swimming, riding a bike, doing weights with Mike, walking, and sometimes using cardio machines. So I'm hoping that I'm working as many muscle sets as I can. I'm hoping that I'm mixing it up enough
to keep the whole muscle confusion thing going (as I understand it, muscle confusion means making sure that the muscles aren't getting into too much of a routine and therefore not burning as much as they can burn). And I've been trying to spread my exercise throughout the day to help keep the metabolism going as long as possible. We'll see if it makes a difference.
So this week is just trucking along. Nothing big, nothing too terribly out of the ordinary. Just trying to keep on track. Amazing how much I've been thinking about having a few glasses of wine and a bunch of cake and a danish and whatever else would derail me. Once you eat sugar you crave sugar. I really have to stay determined.
I hope you're well! Talk to you again soon!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
wierd week
Hi everyone!
This has been a weird week in that I have not had around the foods I prefer to eat, the things that have made the eating plan easy- things like turkey breast or chicken breast. I just ran out and haven't made the time to get to the store (we buy turkey from Costco because we buy so much of it- that's a totally different shopping excursion) and I haven't made the time to cook the chicken breasts. Also, Rhonda and I went wine tasting (something we love to do, but it's a huge calorie punch). I didn't want to feel like I couldn't make the wine tasting work, so we went. We were going to be in the Lodi area to shoot some pictures of a friend's farm and how can you not go wine tasting when you're that close to amazing Zinfandel wineries? How, I ask you?
And on top of that I found some fairly deeply ingrained mental structures that run my choices. Rhonda and I went to the mission neighborhood to grab some quick dinner before her boxing class and my choir rehearsal. I was going to get tacos and she wanted a burrito. She ordered her burrito and then saw a sign for 2 for 1 on the burritos that day and she said I should order one so my dinner would be free. I noticed later that I felt very flustered, didn't want to hold up the line, and suddenly felt very poor. So I ordered a burrito- much more food than I had wanted to order and yet I felt the need to order it. And over the course of the rehearsal I ate the whole thing. I don't know if I actually felt hungry or if I thought I felt hungry because it was there.
And tonight is the Texas Party, a party some friends and I put on every so often. We're all from Texas and get homesick and want to just get together and celebrate the good parts of Texas. So we'll have a chili cook-off and spoonbread, cornbread, tacos, line dancing, a trivia game, and who knows what else. We have a good number of people coming this year and I'm excited for it. But clearly there will be a lot of good food that I will have to control myself around. Bad situation to be in the middle of this week after all the other high calorie situations.
Well, I increased my exercise a bit this week because of the extra calories eaten. I hope I haven't exercised too much. But I've been very conscious lately about trying to spread that exercise over the day to boost the metabolism all day long. I do some weights in the morning, and cardio all over the rest of the day by walking different places, biking places.
I guess in the end all I can do is get myself back on track and see what happens on the scales! I have to go get the foods I need to have around and be prepared like I had been before and just do the things I know work. It's really that simple. I'm not down on myself for this last week. I really wanted to go wine tasting and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Mentally I think that was worth it. So now I get to get back on track.
I hope you're well!
This has been a weird week in that I have not had around the foods I prefer to eat, the things that have made the eating plan easy- things like turkey breast or chicken breast. I just ran out and haven't made the time to get to the store (we buy turkey from Costco because we buy so much of it- that's a totally different shopping excursion) and I haven't made the time to cook the chicken breasts. Also, Rhonda and I went wine tasting (something we love to do, but it's a huge calorie punch). I didn't want to feel like I couldn't make the wine tasting work, so we went. We were going to be in the Lodi area to shoot some pictures of a friend's farm and how can you not go wine tasting when you're that close to amazing Zinfandel wineries? How, I ask you?
And on top of that I found some fairly deeply ingrained mental structures that run my choices. Rhonda and I went to the mission neighborhood to grab some quick dinner before her boxing class and my choir rehearsal. I was going to get tacos and she wanted a burrito. She ordered her burrito and then saw a sign for 2 for 1 on the burritos that day and she said I should order one so my dinner would be free. I noticed later that I felt very flustered, didn't want to hold up the line, and suddenly felt very poor. So I ordered a burrito- much more food than I had wanted to order and yet I felt the need to order it. And over the course of the rehearsal I ate the whole thing. I don't know if I actually felt hungry or if I thought I felt hungry because it was there.
And tonight is the Texas Party, a party some friends and I put on every so often. We're all from Texas and get homesick and want to just get together and celebrate the good parts of Texas. So we'll have a chili cook-off and spoonbread, cornbread, tacos, line dancing, a trivia game, and who knows what else. We have a good number of people coming this year and I'm excited for it. But clearly there will be a lot of good food that I will have to control myself around. Bad situation to be in the middle of this week after all the other high calorie situations.
Well, I increased my exercise a bit this week because of the extra calories eaten. I hope I haven't exercised too much. But I've been very conscious lately about trying to spread that exercise over the day to boost the metabolism all day long. I do some weights in the morning, and cardio all over the rest of the day by walking different places, biking places.
I guess in the end all I can do is get myself back on track and see what happens on the scales! I have to go get the foods I need to have around and be prepared like I had been before and just do the things I know work. It's really that simple. I'm not down on myself for this last week. I really wanted to go wine tasting and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Mentally I think that was worth it. So now I get to get back on track.
I hope you're well!
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