An Epic Weight Gain and Moving On…Over and Over Again…

As expected, I had a big gain this week. But even bigger than I thought I would have. I gained 6.5 lbs. this week, in addition to the weight I had gained over the past few weeks. So I am now up 12.1 lbs. from my lowest weight. Wow…A few weeks of craziness almost destroyed all of the work I did for the entire year. Isn’t that just insane? But I do know that this weight will come off very quickly as I start eating healthier and get back into my healthy living. It also doesn’t help that I apparently am going to have TOM more like TOE2W, every 2 weeks!? What the WHAT?! After not having it for years and now on this new pill I’m going to have it every 2 weeks? I won’t be staying on this pill for long if that’s the case!

This year, the scale is not the best indicator of my success over the past year. I know my clothing size has shrunk considerably, my fitness level has improved significantly, and overall, I have a healthier mindset.

While my eating choices weren’t all the best choices while spending so much time at the hospital and away from home lately, Hubby and I did take a moment to think about all of the things we did right. We ALWAYS took the stairs. The room is basically on the third level. We worked out at the hotel once. I walked back and forth from the hotel a few times. I tried to make healthy choices at the cafeteria and most of the time I did. I never ate fried food. It was the evenings that really screwed things up for me when everything just culminated and my stress levels got too high. So there were things that I did right.

I am looking at today as the first day. This is my starting point. Forget the weight regained. I can’t change what has been done but I can try to learn from it so it doesn’t happen again…although hopefully I don’t have many experiences like this one again. It’s moving on. Starting today.

For breakfast, I had 1/2 serving of oatmeal topped with milled flax, an egg, skim milk and a banana.

I got to try out my new bike today!

I absolutely LOVE it. It even reads my Polar HR monitor and brings that information up on the screen. It’s very comfortable. My old bike made my lower back hurt so bad but this one doesn’t at all. It’s actually not that old of a bike! My cousin has lost a TON of weight and he lost it on this bike. But now he’s a runner so he decided to get rid of it. It’s probably only a year old. I biked 7.9 miles in 30 minutes and burned 212 calories. Today was my cross train day for the Jeff Galloway 10K training plan.

While working, I sipped on coffee with FF vanilla creamer.

I was stomach rumbling hungry by my break. I ate FF popcorn.

Popcorn is one of the most satisfying snacks to me.

For lunch, I had a salad with lettuce, tomato, a boiled egg, FF ham, mushrooms, FF cheese, and FF French.

I thought I could control myself and eat 2 squares of Peppermint Bark with Dark chocolate for 3 points.

And then I had what I could probably classify as a chocolate binge. I ate probably 10 dark chocolate kisses. 6 points.

Yeh didn’t need to do that. I’m going to blame it on TOE2W.

Must. Stay. Away. From. Chocolate.

Old habits die hard I guess.

Counting it and moving on. It felt good just to count the points and I felt less guilty about it. I didn’t feel like, “well, I’ve already screwed up today…I might as well just keep eating whatever I want!” Instead, I just kept on going. It begins with the next choice.

On my last break, I ate an orange.

My co-worker switched some hours around with me so I could get off work early today so hubby and I could make the 2 hour trip up to the hospital a little earlier. Thank you!!

I am going to pack sandwiches for our supper. A nice, healthy supper so we don’t have to eat out and spend more money!

As of this afternoon, my MIL said that he was doing well, in a good mood and had started therapy. Good signs!!! Fingers crossed it continues! I’m not sure if I should start getting excited about the cruise or not!?

HOPEFUL!