I have never kept it secret that I am addicted to the scale, and this addiction bit me in the ass this week. During the first week of my Go Green Get Lean diet I lost 7 pounds and then hit a wall. This was week two and I couldn’t lose an ounce. I noticed on Wednesday that no matter what I did this week, the scale wasn’t moving. The next day I started to sabotage my diet. I went out to lunch with some co-workers on Thursday, and it’s been downhill ever since. I even ordered a pizza tonight. Deep down inside I know it was because the scale wasn’t moving this week, so I thought what’s the point? I know that is totally wrong thinking and I need to get rid of my scale. It could have been that or it could have been that I have been sick since Monday night, and when I am sick I, as do most people, crave comfort food from my childhood. As I am looking back on the week, I went out to dinner with friends three nights this week plus I went to Subway on my own for lunch one day. During week one when I lost 7 pounds I didn’t eat out once. I think I need to limit myself to going out to eat only once a week, which means I am going to have to start telling people no, something that has never been easy for me.
On the positive note, I did keep up with my workouts this week. I exercised five days. Most days it was brutal because I could hardly breathe out of my nose (difficult when you are running), but today was actually really good. Today I ran 2 miles and increased my interval to 2/1. After talking to Diane (her husband is trained in Galloway Running) I have decided tomorrow to go back down to 1/1. He said instead of increasing my intervals, I should be increasing my distance, which makes sense to me.
With the Shamrock Shuffle six weeks away, there is no time to mope about this week’s failures. Instead I will pick myself up from the bootstraps and start again tomorrow.
Happy Running!
Sally
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