Wednesday, November 19, 2008

This was more than I expected

Well I sure did not expect this. Last week, I put a challenge out to all the members at my TOPS group and everyone did it successfully excepts for me. Can you believe it? I put the challenge out there and I couldn't even follow through with my own challenge. I had decided that this week, I would not do any emotional eating. I had done well all week until Saturday evening.
By Saturday evening I had gotten in three 1 hour sessions at the gym for the week, I had drank all my water everyday and I had not gone over my weekly points at all. I also had not given into emotional eating all week. That all changed on Saturday evening. I had a really busy active day on Saturday and then that evening when my son got home from work, he was hungry and I decided to order subs for him, and I also ordered one for myself. Here is my thinking behind this. I was a little hungry, I still had quite a few calories left to eat and I still had like three fruits and veggies and 1 milk to get in. My best intentions were to just get in my quota of food and then be done, but NO I had a coupon where it was cheaper to buy three subs. (I think I saved like a dollar) , I ordered the sub and ate the whole thing. If I had stopped there then I would have been okay, but I ate a half of a big bag of Cheddar Chex Mix.
Sunday did not fair much better for me but the only difference is I stayed in my calorie range, but I still feel I made poor food choices.
I broke my one challenge for myself because I ate out of sheer boredom.
So, now I am once again up to Monday realizing I have to face the weigh in; I am not looking forward to it. I am sure that I have gained weight this week. How do I know this? Because that is one other thing that triggered off my bad eating on Saturday. I weighed myself on bath scales at home and had actually gained a pound.
Since I had been working out for two weeks now, and having only one bad day out of that previous time, keep in mind that this week, I had no bad food days yet, and I had only lost 3/4 of a pound the previous week, I could not understand why I wasn't losing this week.
Apparently, my bathroom scales are off because, (and here is the reason that this is more than I expected) I lost 10 1/4 pounds this week. I was so in shock that I had to recheck the figures twice. I am still being weighed using that special clamp. Well, the scales do not lie (unless you are using the cheap bathroom scales).

So, I guess what I am trying to figure out, is first I should not weigh myself between weekly weigh-ins no matter how tempting, and I should find a way to control my weekend food choices. Right now weekends are my weak point and I am not sure how to deal with it yet, but I will figure this out.

Also, I have lost a total of 22 3/4 pounds in five weeks, and I don't need to be weighed using the special clamp anymore. What a wonderful week this will be.

Until next time, I hope to lose nothing but weight and gain nothing but knowledge.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You must resist the temptation to weigh in at home. Throw the damn thing away! Home scales are no good! Wait until Monday night!

Anonymous said...

Boy do I ever agree with Kristen. Weighing at home is your worst enemy. I hope the success you had this week proves to you that at home weighing is not accurate. You are doing so well and I am so proud of you. You have such a different attitude about this time. I am totally expecting this to be "your" time. You may even beat me!LOL

Carol said...

Rhonda, you are doing so very great. I like the fact that you are still soooo excited about TOPS. I am always a phone call away when you need me. Keep up the inspiration and Gain nothing but knowledge and Lose nothing but pounds!