Week 2 begins a day late

11/30/09
8:30 AM
The good news first; I lost 4 pounds last week. Considering that I had three days of not eating on plan, and only managed to exercise 5 days, a pretty surprising result. So I weighed 232 pounds this morning. That is a total of 10 pounds less than when I started back in January. I should also always keep in mind that my all time high was probably somewhere 260 though I'm not sure exactly. The heaviest weight the doctor had on file for me was something like 263, but that would have been with clothes on and possibly even during the winter with boots. All that together could easily add up to 10 pounds. So we'll call it 252 just for round numbers and say that I'm 20 pounds less than my all time high.

The bad news is that yeterday I basically completely fell down. I didn't exercise because I didn't get up in time and then we had things to do. I started out with a healthy breakfast, but then we went Christmas shopping, I with Alia and Mindy with Camryn. We decided to meet at IHOP for lunch and I opted for the heart attack special of biscuits and gravy with two sausage patties, two eggs and hash browns. Probably a 1500 calorie feast. I thought I'd eat a light supper, maybe soup, but I ended up eating what everone else ate, which was a greasy fried chicken from the store and some steamed veg. That would have not been a particularly good day, but mentally, I wouldn't have completely let go. Except I did after putting Alia to bed when I went through 2/3 of a bag of club crackers topped off by a bowl of cereal. In other words, I just completely gave up. To top it off, I set my alarm to get up this morning for the treadmill, but then I ended up staying up late so reset it NOT to get up to run and so now have to try and get that done during the day or after bed time tonight. My record on that is not very good, I'm sorry to say. But I did have a healthy breakfast; I've been going on the philosphy that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so allowing myself a few more calories this time around than I did last spring. Pretty much every morning has been a cup of juice, a banana, oatmeal with 1/2 c milk and my coffee and half and half. The last couple mornings, I've been having the OJ and banana in the form of a slushie putting them into the blender with some crushed ice and a 1 tsp of half and half. I've always liked the orange/banana combo and it's very good. I think I'll try it without the half and half tomorrow and see if maybe I like it better without that little 'clingyness' you get with dairy.

10:05 PM
I did the treadmill today; the usual 45 minutes and 3.08 miles. I finished up with a sprint that felt good and really winded me. Since I didn't get enough sleep last night, I felt tired for most of the day, but after that, I had plenty of energy. I'm going to get right to bed so I'll feel like getting up at 6:00 tomorrow and start my day out with that energy instead of getting it mid-way through. It wasn't a great calorie day as we had pesto sauce over cheese tortellini and two pieces of bread with smart balance for dinner, but I didn't snack after dinner and still feel full now so mentally it was a pretty good day. I'm trying not to focus too much on the four pounds I lost the last week, but its hard because it feels good. The important thing to realize is that it was a one time thing that won't continue to happen weekly if I'm not more disciplined in my eating and exercising.