Sooooooo, my steps have been abysmal. It's been rainy, cold, and gross here this week. (excuse!) I have also just been entirely unmotivated. (truth) I can't even pinpoint why I'm unmotivated. I guess I've just been so hard at it the past few weeks, I unconsciously decided to take a break from pushing myself to get all those steps. Also, I lost my accountability motivator. The program I mentioned a coupled of posts ago ended Tuesday so I haven't had to actually track anything for anyone but me to see. Pathetic. I'm going to take this weekend to really dig deep and find a new motivator. I really need that unbiased accountability so I'm just going to have to figure out how to make that happen.
My eating has been kind of all over the place. Monday I did well. Tuesday I went out to eat for lunch. Yesterday I acquiesced to my mom and ate fast food. Last night my aunt had cooked for the family after a funeral we all attended and she really believes in carbs, y'all. And I. Ate. Them. All. Mashed potatoes. Butter peas. Chocolate chip bunt cake. Chocolate pie. Taco casserole. Brown sugar ham. I passed on the roll, though! lol
I really didn't want to go out to eat Tuesday but I did so for WBF. And I didn't really want fast food yesterday but my mother and I left work early to attend a funeral 40 minutes away and she didn't want to take off earlier to eat at work first. It was easier to stop and get chicken tenders that we could eat on the road. I wasn't expecting my aunt to cook last night but I love her to death so I don't regret that. So, you know. Just rolling with the punches over here. Real life, yo.
OH! And also, chocolate! My teenage niece was selling chocolate bars for a fundraiser and I bought $7 worth. I ate three of the six bars this week. D'oh!
But again...real life.
Overall, though, in between those meals and chocolate and despite the terrible lack of walking this week I still had some wins. I ate avocado multigrain toast for breakfast 4 out of five days. I cooked turkey meatloaf and turkey tacos that served three suppers and two lunches. I've lifted weights three out of five days so far. I've done the best I can to keep up with water consumption. So, I mean, despite the real life I've lived this week I still feel okay.
AND...the scale showed another 1lb lost. Like, y'all, I'm 229lbs now! My body has not seen the 220's since I was in college. Actually, I don't really know what I weighed in college. I might have been heavier than 220. I didn't own a scale back then. But I was in a size 22 jeans. And actually, I haven't tried on jeans lately but I may be in an 18 now. The jeggings I've been wearing are 20's and they're a little looser than they were when I bought them. Guess I gotta try on some clothes even if I don't buy any right now.
I saw a cousin at the funeral yesterday who I had just seen in August and she was FLABBERGASTED when she saw me. I can't really tell all the changes but she was just beside herself. So...you know. Cool?
While I'm evaluating my motivation this weekend, I'm also going to really take a hard look at my meal/snack planning choices. With it being so cold and wet, the struggle to avoid coffee is real. And if I could drink it black, it wouldn't be a big deal but I need a hint of sugar and some half and half (calories!) to make it so that it brings me real joy. So I need to think where I can cut those calories elsewhere. I mean I guess I can go back to apples for breakfast. They have fewer calories than avacados. I do really enjoy avacados, though, so it makes me sad to cut them out. But maybe I could do avacados two days and apples three days. Do a couple of meatless meals, maybe? Like, meatless chili. Or veggie soup. Or, maybe I just need to say hell to the no when anyone asks me to go out to eat! Ding, ding, ding, ding! People of America, I think we HAVE a winner! haha
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