First, let me say sorry to all of those waiting with baited breath for my next blog posting. I know you are out there and have been very excited to hear about my progress. Let me just say that this was the single worst week on the diet. It has been awful all week long. I did a terrible job planning, I had family come into town, I was very busy, and I just plain blew it. I ate at Chick-Fil-A three times last week (agh), I had fajitas as this great Tex-Mex place, I had a sub sandwich (not a good type of sub sandwich), two pieces of pizza, and a hamburger from Five Guys. Seriously, I can't believe it. It was just awful and I have felt guilty all week long.
The worst thing about this disaster is that it came at Week 11. I mean, for crying out loud, I am one week away and I decided to screw up now. Sadly, I now realize, 11 weeks in, that I may not have learned anything about living the lifestyle I need to be living. It really is disappointing.
I have found that the worst thing about having a weekend like this is that it is extremely difficult mentally. I have been racked with guilt over the whole thing. Every day since Thursday I have been fearing the scale. As you may remember, I was only 0.9 pounds away from my 24 pound goal. Seeing that dream slip between my fingers was really hard, so I decided to punish myself by running several extra times this week. Sunday ended up being a pretty good day and I started back on the path to make Week 12 my best week yet.
I woke up this morning and measured myself. No noticable change in inches. I then stepped onto the scale. To my amazement, I lost 1.2 pounds. This, my friends, is a wonderful Christmas present! I realized that I can make some (pretty big) mistakes, but stay on the lifestyle. Of course, I don't plan on making mistakes a regular occurance, but hey, I made it 11 weeks without having a binge weekend, and I still lost a pound.
So, my friends, everything from this point on is gravy (this is a bad analogy, as I can't eat gravy). I have one week to lose as much weight as I possibly can. So, over the next week, I will be giving you several ideas on how I intend to lose those last few pounds--beyond just the normal diet and exercise routine. These ideas are time tested and mother approved (okay, maybe not mother approved). They will work for everyone! So stay tuned all week for some great ideas.
3 comments:
I enjoyed visiting your house this week Jeff and having Mia gleefully tell me all the ways in which you fell down.
My only hope now is that she will find the need to repeat all of them from the pulpit when she bears her next testimony.
I look forward to your suggestions as this has been a particularly bad week for me...and I am sure that the only way I will be making it to church to hear said testimony is by having someone roll me there (picture violet the blueberry from charlie and the chocolate factory).
I found this post to be awesome. Awesome that you totally screwed up and awesome that you felt super over-guilty about it. And most awesome of all: you still lost weight. Way to go.
I thought the 12 weeks would be the hardest thing I've ever done but it turns out, it's AFTER that's so hard! I lost 27 pounds in 12 weeks, wasn't so bad. Keeping it off? SO hard. I've gained almost 15 back! So depressing. It really has to be a lifestyle change, not just a diet. I guess I haven't committed myself to that change yet. Good luck on week 12, and good luck after!!!
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