Firstly - the scales were actually working - hurrah!!
Secondly - i lost 6lbs over the last two weeks - I'm so pleased!
Thirdly - that's a 19lb total and I've reached my 5% weight loss - YES!
Then Saturday came...
We had lunch out which consisted of a white baguette full of shredded pork, bbq sauce and apple sauce with curly fries to which I added some mayo and ketchup (I know, I know...)
The damage? Approximately: 27 points
On a side note, since when are side salads this small...
Really? This isn't a salad! This is two lettuce leaves, one cherry tomato chopped in half, on slither of red onion and all of it disguised by a bucketload of salad dressing (and I also asked for no dressing - as if that would absolve my food sins!)
Then the evening came.
Now, before I own up, I have to admit something here, between the ages of 12 and 18 (ish) I would be left on my own one evening a week(ish) a couple of months a year whilst the parents/sister did there thing. I would go to the co-op and spend my paper round/weekend job wages and rent a video (pre-DVD times!) and buy £10-20 worth of junk food, usually consisting of a 14" pizza, chips, a big bag of crisps (Kettle chips or a 6pack of Pombear for those interested), a four pack of dips, some chocolate biscuits (usual a packet of chocolate hobnobs), a pot of icecream and when I was older it would be washed down with a bottle of wine. I'd be able to eat all of this without struggling. At the start of this time I weighed approx 12 stone and progressed up to 17 stone. Obviously, reflecting back these evenings have clearly contributed to my weight gain as I would eat all of this after some kind of breakfast, a lunch and a home-cooked dinner. God, no wonder I felt so sad and alone.
So saturday evening then.
I bought a 14" ham and pineapple pizza - in my defence this was originally going to be shared between the two of us for lunch... but it didn't quite happen like that. I ate half, with ketchup and mayo.
I bought a packet of oreo cookies because they were half price and I fancied it. I ate the whole packet.
I bought a multi-pack of 6 Pom-bear crisps and a multi-pack of reduced fat dips. I ate all of the crisps and varying amounts of the dips.
I opened a bottle of cider, but only drank four mouthfuls.
I then opened two nestle mint crisp lollies and covered them in two tablespoons worth of thick double cream (to get the frozen cream effect which I find really yummy.)
And to top it all off I had one fudge bar.
The damage? Approximately: 102 points!!!
To total off the day, whilst I gained 9 activity points, I also ate a whopping total of 131 points for the day - between 9am and 1am the following day.
Ouch doesn't really begin cover it.
Goals for the next week
1. Reflect upon last Saturday - why did you let it happen? What were you thinking that led to this behaviour? How are we going to change things? What habits are you going to break? What were you feeling before, during and after? Also reflect upon the positive from Saturday evening - This will happen tomorrow morning.
2. Work out the activity points you are going to have to gain in order to at least break even, then work out if you can work this into your week. Be creative with these, variety is good.
3. Vegetables and water, fruit and water, and some more water just in case and a few less dailies. No weeklies. Plan this tomorrow evening.
4. Do not let this happen next Saturday.
5. Sit down and plan next week on Thursday evenings.
6. How are you going to accept whatever the scales throw you on Saturday morning?
2 comments:
Good work on the loss and the 5%!
And also, yes you consumed a lot of points on Saturday, but kudos for actually pointing it all and for being aware of what you did. I tend to bury my head in the sand when I overeat. Plus you have a plan. Good on ya xx
You have no idea how hard it was to be honest with myself and own up to actually eating this all and pointing it - thanks for the congrats on the loss and 5% tho! :)
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