Seems a LOT of people are having a "hard week", so I thought I'd share - maybe you wont feel so bad after you see my weeks - 211 pts :O !!!!! (for those who don't know how Weight Watchers works, you are given daily pts and you can use your weekly points as well if you need to - well I used my daily's ALL my weeklys AND went in the negative by 211 pts :O !!!!)
Going into the long weekend I was planning on behaving, I even took my salad to the Lion Safari and didn't buy any treats THERE, BUT indulged twice on ice cream the other days - not any old ice cream - something big and tasty at DQ and at our local ice cream shop. I'm not gonna lie, this is the FIRST time in all my efforts to lose weight that I didn't feel one shred of guilt with these indulgences. I figured most people are enjoying a few bevies and not feeling guilt, so I will enjoy these and not care. This allowed me not to binge right after in the normal "guilt eating" downward spiral. BUT because of all these treats, I craved sugar. This time I wasn't eating for my emotions BUT I was eating for the "sugar craving". It's been a hard week trying to get back on track, and I've busted my butt off with yard work and exercise to try and combat the extra so I am hopefully not up this week (not looking forward to Saturday's weigh in :O !!).
One thing that has helped me in the last month of these indulgences is tracking EVERYTHING I eat (yes even mints - my family thinks I'm nuts!). If I am going to indulge, I want to know just how much it's costing me, which in turn makes me want to make wiser choices more often (usually the rest of the week I am good), AND gets me motivated to "work it off" - by the end of my workout I am frustrated as the treat really didn't taste that good in the first place usually! I find it's too easy to "stay off the eating healthy 80% of the time if I am always allowing myself to eat food without tracking, and than it gets out of hand and makes it that much harder to track which leads to putting all my weight PLUS more back on.
Just a tip that has helped me get over those "human choices" we all make :)
Going into the long weekend I was planning on behaving, I even took my salad to the Lion Safari and didn't buy any treats THERE, BUT indulged twice on ice cream the other days - not any old ice cream - something big and tasty at DQ and at our local ice cream shop. I'm not gonna lie, this is the FIRST time in all my efforts to lose weight that I didn't feel one shred of guilt with these indulgences. I figured most people are enjoying a few bevies and not feeling guilt, so I will enjoy these and not care. This allowed me not to binge right after in the normal "guilt eating" downward spiral. BUT because of all these treats, I craved sugar. This time I wasn't eating for my emotions BUT I was eating for the "sugar craving". It's been a hard week trying to get back on track, and I've busted my butt off with yard work and exercise to try and combat the extra so I am hopefully not up this week (not looking forward to Saturday's weigh in :O !!).
One thing that has helped me in the last month of these indulgences is tracking EVERYTHING I eat (yes even mints - my family thinks I'm nuts!). If I am going to indulge, I want to know just how much it's costing me, which in turn makes me want to make wiser choices more often (usually the rest of the week I am good), AND gets me motivated to "work it off" - by the end of my workout I am frustrated as the treat really didn't taste that good in the first place usually! I find it's too easy to "stay off the eating healthy 80% of the time if I am always allowing myself to eat food without tracking, and than it gets out of hand and makes it that much harder to track which leads to putting all my weight PLUS more back on.
Just a tip that has helped me get over those "human choices" we all make :)