Just 5 more to go

DAY 71

• Last weekend - 5 mile run 500 calories burned
• This week - daily walk with the dog / Gym twice this week - total hour and a half
• Eating - Not so good. I devoured a Pizza Hut pizza last night with bread sticks.

I haven't kept the blog up for a while I know. It's been more than 10 days and to be honest I have not been moving the needle. I've been stuck at 160+ . I'm officially plateauing I think. The body has become comfortable with the routine and the new eating habits. All that means is that my body is finding ways to become efficient. At this point my body has stopped burning energy and is now storing it. This made perfect sense back in the "hunter-gather" times but at this point it's really more of an evolutionary annoyance. I don't want to hang out here and to reach my weight goal I need to get to 155...only 5 more pounds.

I have been over-eating. Not crazy but I've been going over my allotted W.W. points by 5, sometimes 10, points. That said, I also have my extra points that I get for working out and I've been going over on those as well. A friend of mine sent me a website that picks out workouts of your choice and it helps you shake it up. I'm going to give it a shot this week and try to really focus on the eating this week.

http://www.wodshop.org/wods.html

 

 

The truth of the matter is that I've been making poor choices. Just this week I got a kick in the butt from a friend who busted me eating a brownie this week at a get together. What he saw was me eating one brownie. What he didn't know was that I had already eaten like 5 of them. I need to take control of things before they take control of me as they have the past. If that happens again I am destined to end up back near 170 and I DO NOT want that again.

 

So, here we go - 5 pounds here I come. I need some ideas for ways to shake it up, so please tell me yours in the comments section. I would love your thoughts or things you've found to be successful. I came across another blog today that had some interesting, creative ideas by a Mom who is committed to healthy living. A few of her ideas I liked and I might try:

• Drink a lot of water - I've been really busy at work. This is a trigger for me, meaning that I tend to drink a lot of coffee when I'm busy.
• Wear a bracelet or something around your wrist that I can assign super powers to. Basically it will remind me of my goal when I go to reach for snack food that I do not need to eat. I admit that this sounds a little corny but what the heck. I'll give it a shot. It's my personality as well to need little things like that to help me along (I am king of sticky notes) and hey the MC from the  Sons of Anarchy T.V. show wear cool stuff on their wrists. Why not me?
• Make a list of triggers: I've never really thought about this but I do tend to eat during certain times or when I'm feeling a certain way. I need to think through the major trigger times for my more emotional and distracted eating.
• Shake up the points by eating only my points and then eat less than that once or twice this week. The object is to wake my body up from its nice happy comfortable nap. She also had the idea to switch out a processed food for something natural.

Wellness without pity at http://diaryofareluctantathlete.blogspot.com/

 



 

 

Thought for the day: I usually think of Saturday as a day for "whatever". Today will be different though. Today I will be focused.

 

 

Another interesting site I came across...8-foods-we-eat-in-the-us-that-are-banned-in-other-countries