Monday weigh in brought me back one pound that I had already lost. This have been I think the third week of a gain, and I'm over it. I need to get back to seeing negative numbers. But at the same time I went to the gym to weight lift and run on Monday after my weigh in. While running I had a zen-ish moment where I was feeling bad about letting that one pound slip back on, but then I though to myself, at least I'm at the gym doing something about it. My dad has always reminded me since I started really working out this year, that even though I might think that my ultimate goal is to lose weight, that every time I go to the gym I am getting healthier period. Weight loss or not, every hour at the gym gets me closer to being healthy overall. So I'm not letting this weight gain really weigh on my mind (even though I want it gone next week).
I'm also thinking about changing my weigh in day to Wednesday because I feel like I'm setting myself up for failure weighing in on Monday if I slipped up a bit on the weekend. And think that Wednesday might be better. We'll see. I've been doing Monday weigh ins for 6 months now, I think I'll give Wednesday weigh-ins a go for a month or two.
This week I have been eating better and sticking to my calorie eating goals. I recently bought sunflower butter instead of almond butter. So far so good, it's a nice change. I've been making english muffins with sunflower butter with diced pan fried canadian bacon on them (no oil used to fry the bacon). It's really a yummy lil combo!
I am heading to San Rafael with my parents Thursday-Sunday, and I know eating healthy will be a challenge as it always is on vacation. But hopefully we walk around enough, or I use the hotel gym enough to break even or lose some weight.
And summer is definitely here in Sacramento. We are looking at our first triple digit day. I will have to get up early to beat the heat if I wanna do some runs outside anymore. I might have to switch to the AC gym treadmills! :) I also planted a little garden on my patio with some fresh herbs, radishes, green onions, and hot peppers. I will keep you updated on how they go! I wish I had more room and had thought to do this earlier so I could have some lettuce or some more items. But I'm happy to start out small.
Don't sweat a pound here or there....If you're always working you'll always lose, eventually. Plus, your dad is right, the ultimate goal is to get healthy! and one last thing, if you're lifting while trying to lose weight, it's going to be slow, and it may sometimes seem like you're gaining weight, when you could actually be gaining muscle.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, weekend slip ups :/ as long as you don't tell your diet you'll be fine :P Might be a good idea to change your weigh in to wednesday, you don't need the discouraging pound on monday making you feel like you haven't done anything because you have!