Wednesday, 21 January 2009

No exercise, no restraint!

Today is not a good day. I got slightly more sleep than I usually manage (almost 8 hours! Hurrah! Because I had a day off the dreaded running) but I feel very tired anyway. And then I ate 2 slimfast bars and now about 20 Haribo. Why? Well these are all the reasons I can think of but they sound more like flimsy excuses to me:
  • I was starving and I'd forgotten my chicken and chicory
  • I'd had a painfully dull meeting
  • I'm feeling quite down
  • I'm due 'on'
  • I know I'm going to a work event this evening with "finger food"
  • I'd weighed myself and not lost anything since Friday - although I firmly told myself that I'm doing the right things so it will show up eventually

So my 'resistance muscle' in Beck parlance is atrophying.

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Mrs said...

Right, Miss P - time for some tough love (only joking)! You know it comes from a good place:

First - tiredness is the ENEMY to the person trying to lose weight or even maintain. So my thought is this - don't beat yourself up for decisions NOT made rationally - just do a note to yourself - MORE sleep needed.

And then I ate 2 slimfast bars and now about 20 Haribo. Why? Well these are all the reasons I can think of but they sound more like flimsy excuses to me:

I was starving and I'd forgotten my chicken and chicory
(Could you have nipped out to buy something similar?)

I'd had a painfully dull meeting

(Yes, sadly also the enemy of those with food on the brain, ditto smokers, ditto anyone who deals with boredom in a particular way. Note to (your) self - find a way of working around these meetings)

I'm feeling quite down

(Definitely understand that one - maybe a notebook/thought record - even 5 mins away from the work 'stuff')

I'm due 'on'

(We are, as my friend Porkchop says, hostages to hormones...)

I know I'm going to a work event this evening with "finger food"

(AND???)

I'd weighed myself and not lost anything since Friday - although I firmly told myself that I'm doing the right things so it will show up eventually

(Now this one I really understand at the moment - I haven't lost any weight since Saturday - it's frustrating but 'it is what it is' and we just have to ride it out)

So my 'resistance muscle' in Beck parlance is atrophying.

Forget beating yourself up about Beck - you haven't started yet!!!!!

Take what you have learnt (! - because there are always learnings!!!) and aim to turn around at least two on your list.

Easy for me to say, I know. Just DO NOT give yourself a hard time - just decide to move on with more information.

Big kiss.

Mrs Lxxxxx

21 January 2009 at 09:07

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