Week 1 - Mini Challenge Update and QUESTION!
I've been avoiding up update because I didn't want to see it splattered before me. But to be true, I'll chalk this week up to a setback. I am at 140lbs, 5 pounds up from last week, and my bf has gone from 17.7 to 18.2. Tracker says that it's a gain of 3.4lbs of muscle and 1.6lbs of fat. I don't believe that to be true. All of my meausurements are up, so I don't believe very much, if any is muscle. I had another unauthorized meal last night, so decided to take free day a day early. I moved my cardio from last night to tonight as well.Through all of this, I have noticed a pattern with me. I was doing great, feeling great, eating clean, having great workouts, but then I weighed on Friday morning, and my weight was up by 2 pounds. This was 2 days before I should have had my official weigh in. Then it was Friday afternoon that I had that binge. Of course, having that binge made me feel even more horrible, and the rest of the weekend was just a joke. I ate good most of the day Saturday, but turned it into a free day. Today (Sunday) I've eaten really clean, but I am still carrying around a lot of negative emotions about this whole deal. Some have mentioned self-sabatoge before, and I really couldn't relate (or so I thought) until I broke everything down and analyzed my behavior. Am I over thinking this? Probably. But wouldn't you too if you'd gained a total of 11 pounds in five weeks? Now that I'm thinking about it, I've realized that my pattern has been: doing really good-weigh in-cheat, doing really good-weigh in-cheat, all the while gaining a few more pounds as an end result every week. This tells me how much my weigh-in's are affecting my overall progress. Yes, I'm mental (hehe)..but I know how I think and try to rationalize things in my own mind. This tells me how important it really is to stay away from the scale in between weigh ins. Don't worry....I haven't given up! I'm still in this!
It also got me to wonder something else, and maybe this ties in with Suzanne's sugar theory. I experience that same dip in energy level that Suzanne described soon after lunch. When I break down, I go for the sweets: cookies, ice cream, candy, you name it. I wonder what would happen if one were to have one small piece of dark chocolate every day, calculated into to their daily menu of course. Would this enable a sugar addict to stay on track and keep them from having a major binge? And would their progress continue because it's calucated in, and they are not having binges any longer? I'm curious to any of your thoughts on this!
posted by Wolfie @ 6:29 PM
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