I’m having a tough time bringing myself to post honestly this morning. You see, I was doing okay this week, not perfect, but good enough and my weight was dropping. Then I got to Sunday and decided to give myself a “cheat day”, which turned out badly. I just went a little overboard all day and this morning I could see it on the scale. I am at 159.8, which is only .2 pounds lower than last week.
Crazy as it sounds, my first instinct was to wait a few hours without eating or drinking and weigh again, or just lie and use one of the lower weights I had seen earlier in the week. I don’t want to go down either of those roads; however, so I guess I’ll just be honest and post a weight I’m not very proud of. After all, this was the very reason I choose Monday as my weigh-in day, to keep me honest on weekends.
Despite a weekend that seems to have undone all my work during the week, I’m still thinking that I need to cheat sometimes and eat foods that I either can’t or don’t want to track. I know myself and I know that anything too restrictive isn’t going to work for me long-term, but I am going to have to find a balance that requires enough discipline allows weight loss.
This week is Thanksgiving and it’s going to be extremely challenging. Dinner is at our house and I’m making a lot of my favorite, calorie-laden foods. My goal is to record my food every day except Thursday and to have no more than five cheat meals or snacks. Maybe I will be more successful with cheat meals, rather than cheat days. I think that if I can just get through this holiday without gaining any weight, I will be satisfied.
I didn’t accomplish my goal last week, but I’m certain that I did better than I would have before I started this “public” progress log. I’m still committed and continue to believe that I will find some tweaked version of my original plan and will be successful.
