A Slow Start, but It's a Start

Week one of my "comeback" is over.  I did pretty good.  The goal was to drink more water, cut back on snacking, and to workout at least three times.  I found myself drinking more water, but that was because of the exercise.  I tried to have no snackage going on this week.  I did this for the most part, but had a few minor slip ups.  The best part of the week was that instead of getting in three workouts, I got in five!!!  Each one of these was a walk, the shortest being a mile and a half and the longest being three miles.  I did try to run one day, but only could do one minute because the pounding was too much for my back that is still not 100% healed.  I lost three pounds this week.

Most of this week was a success, but today has been rough.  This morning I went to Menard's and instead of eating breakfast at home before I left, I went to McDonald's and then at Menard's I bought a bag of Brach's candy (a Menard's tradition in my family).  Since part of me being able to lose weight and keep it off is mental I have to ask myself why after a good week am I messing up so bad today.  I really don't know for sure why I can't get my head to click today, but there are two reasons I can think of.  First of all it's been an emotional morning.  I said something that I shouldn't have yesterday, and I am feeling really bad about it today.  Maybe it has something to do with self-worth and I don't feel worth it today.  The other, less complicated reason, could be that I know that tomorrow I will be going to my favorite hot dog place in Chicago.  I have done this before where I think, "Well, screw it.  I'm already going to eat an unhealthy meal this weekend so I will just blow off the entire weekend."  Instead of thinking what I should be doing is, "OK you are going to this place this weekend and you know you are going to want to eat, so you need to be extra strict the rest of the weekend."  I need to get my mind there.

Anyway, my goals for week two are the same as week one except to be a little more strict with these rules.  I am going to try NO snacking between meals.  I had problems with this last week when I was at other people's houses.  I need to learn to tell people no thank you.  My goal is still to work out at least three times this week with the hopes of being able to run a little bit towards the end of the week if my back will let me.  As far as the more water, most of the water I drank this week was between meals, which I will continue to do, but I will also replace my beverage (which is usually lemon aide at home) with water for at least one meal a day.  See you next Saturday!

Happy Walking!
Sally