Danishes and more

My diet has gone to shit lately.  With all the lacrosse games I'm doing, I'm lucky to get home by 10 pm.  I leave straight from work and I have to eat snacks throughout the day to make sure I'm not hungry in the middle of the game.  And then once the game is over, I find myself stopping to get fast food and totally pigging out because I haven't had any real food since 11 am.
Anyway, this weekend was not good to my scale.  I ate way too much for the hubster's belated birthday dinner at Top and had too much to drink.  After that, I had margarita's and mexican food with my reffing buddies.  Same thing, was starving and overate.
To start things off this week, we had an all hands meeting this morning where they had some breakfast foods to snack on.  So I had half a blueberry muffin and a cheese danish in addition to the banana and the protein bar I ate for breakfast.  To make things worse, I now have this on my desk:


Yes, another cheese danish and an APPLE one too.  My games tonight were cancelled tonight too, so if I eat these, it'll be like double calories because I won't burn any tonight.  Hmmm, perhaps it's finally time to hit the gym that I haven't been to in a month.  Things have got to get better.

Training and Diet

I finally lost the weight I had gained from going to California for 2 days!  It only took 2 weeks.  I'm not surprised at how long it took to lose the weight, but how much I gained after two days.  I had even worked out when I was there.

I think the weight fluctuation is partially due to what I wrote in this post where I could not for the life of me satiate my hunger without wanting to vomit.  I don't think I can continue/re-start my half marathon training without making some changes in my work out.  I don't think it's wise to go on runs when on the verge of being hungry or only taking a few sips of water after each work out, then waiting an hour before eating dinner.  I know I should not be doing this, but I still do.  It's stupid that I have to this kind of wake up call to actually realize I should knock it off.

I'm going to start researching some good habits.  A few coworkers have suggested those energy gels to supplement my running.  I did buy what is essentially a fanny pack for a water bottle for when my runs go longer than an 75 minutes.  I hope that helps, but it's really going to be hard to eat something before running.  I've always had troubles with cramps when eating before doing any kind of exercise especially when I was younger.

Water

I've recently reverted back to my old green Nalgene bottle from college since my current blue aluminum bottle started growing some black stuff on the o-ring. I guess I could just replace the o-ring, but I think I'd like a change.  This bottle is much bigger than my blue one. It's also clear so I can see how much I'm drinking.







I'm definitely drinking a lot more water which means I'm filling up my pur filter a lot more which means more filters. I think in an unconscious effort to ration my filters I wait to fill my bottle at work. It's so stupid. One because I cannot be that cheap and two, I have like 6 new filters at home waiting to be used. I mean I already use the filters until I can start tasting tap water and probably longer than that.

Food and Diet

I've made some changes to my diet over the last year.  I've reduced my soda intake from 2 cans a day to  2-3 cans a month.  I've drastically reduced the amount of fast food and eating out done, and I've tried to cook more at home.  I've noticed that my grocery shopping habits are very cyclical.  One month I might only buy the cheapest brand of certain items and only buy things on sale, and then some months I'll decide that I shouldn't stop buying healthy foods because of the price.  For example, bagged salads.  In this household, I'm the only veggie eater so buying a whole head of lettuce for salad is wasteful, so I opt to buy bags of salad.  This is a "I'll pay regular price for salad" month.  I think it's because I had a meat overload from my Christmas trip.  I'm hoping to keep this mentality throughout the year.  I'd rather cook extra meals at dinner than grab a cheap lean cuisine/healthy choice for lunches.  It's better for me, but maybe not so good for my wallet.  It's a trade I'm hoping I am willing to make throughout the year and hopefully become a life change.

Success!

I finally got onto the scale this morning to see the damage done by the holidays, and to my surprise, I weighed less than when I left for PA.  Hurray for stomach viruses?

So half a resolution can be checked off.  It must be a record of some sort.

*sigh* The drawbacks of losing weight

Before I decided to lose weight, I would just eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.  That's probably how I ended having to decide to lose to weight.  Back in February, I signed up for the gym and gave up soda (I was at two a day).  I paid a lot of attention and consciously made choices to eat healthier and to cut back portions and slowly and surely, it just became second nature.


Now that the holidays are in full swing, potlucks and parties are around every corner.  It's getting harder and harder to make the right decisions.  Here at work, I just had a colleague give me a plate full of chex mex and a piece of real gingerbread (I had no idea gingerbread was actually a bread, I thought it was that hard gross stuff you make houses out of).  And I want to eat it and I am eating it, but my brain is yelling at me for every bite.  "Do you know how much you'll weigh tomorrow morning?"  "You'll gain back all that weight you lost from that one spoonful of whipped cream"  "Do you know how many miles you'll need to run to burn that off?"  And eventually, my chewing will drown it out.


I miss the old days, but not the extra 18 lbs I was carrying around.  *sigh*  Everything in moderation, I suppose.