So in looking back at the previous posts I have made I notice a couple of things… first, I tend to post more when I my motivation is high.. and I avoid posting when I fail at a goal…
For example, the April 30 day challenge that I started and was all Gung-Ho on.. for 3 days.. then a night of heavy drinking (that didn’t fit into my food exchanges) ended that quickly… that was Friday, April 10th.. almost 2 weeks ago and I haven’t posted since… mainly because until a few days ago I wasn’t focused on the weight loss again… I didn’t go on a huge 10 day binge, but after the drinking I just didn’t get back on the program completely… This made me think of something I use to refer to when I ran a Deli for Albertson’s… I found that the best employees (the ones that got the work done) were the ones that could transition from what they were working on, wait on a customer and get right back to the task at hand.. if they got distracted or side tracked and delayed getting back to work they wouldn’t get the job done… this is what I did.. I transition from the task at hand (staying on the program and getting fit) to the distraction (a really fun night with 1 1/2 pitchers of Margaritas and 3 small pitchers of beer to myself) and back to the program quickly or smoothly… I am back now, but I know I have to focus on recovering from future indiscretions quickly, because no one is perfect and I will make bad choices at times.
The last thing I want to do when I am not ‘hitting the high note’ (see previous blog entry here) is to write about it, but at the same time that was the original reason to blog.. to share successes and failures in an effort to help others and keep us focused… originally I planned to update the current weight daily and post small posts at least a few times a week… that has gotten away from me and it is partially due to the stagnation that I have been experiencing.
With a new motivation I am saying again that I will post more frequently, good, bad or indifferent, so I can share the journey.
Over the last week and a half I have been going most mornings to Subway and getting a $5 foot-long.. The turkey breast was on that list but now isn’t so I get the Black Forest Ham.. and starting yesterday I have gone from having it with Lite Mayo and oil/vinegar to having vinegar and fat-free sweet onion dressing… which is great! I did this after looking at the nutritional facts and found that on a 6″ sub the mayo costs 1 fat and the oil costs 1 fat.. so on my ‘healthy’ sub sandwich I was using all of my fat exchanges for the day… (actually the ‘sandwich artist’ usually dumps a lot more than 1 tablespoon on each half so it is probably more than that) so I tried the sweet onion dressing and I am hooked. I eat 1/2 of the sandwich for breakfast and the other for lunch.. I could easily eat it all at once, but I have been focusing again on portion size and this seems to be working.
Also, I went through the Richard Simmons food exchanges from his website (www.richardsimmons.com) and created my own fast food cheat sheet… it lists my favorite fast food places and a few items that would be good/better choices than what I usually get, and I listed the exchanges with them so I can see what it ‘costs’…
My biggest issue right now is that I still haven’t exercised.. I still have no reason not too.