Square One

I am finding myself back at square one. Not literally waaaaay back to the beginning but....umm..I didn’t weigh in on Friday for a reason. I spent all of last week nursing an injury that kept me from working out. I was pissy and whiny because I got slowed down by said injury and well, that lovely poundage dump that I made two weeks ago....yeah um...I ate it back in my friend’s birthday cake and ice cream...and potato chips...and really, anything else that I could find because I was a depressed pile of yuck. Please note: I am not suffering from depression. I do eat when I am emotional though. 

I have gone through a few stages this past week. At first, I was in the pissed at the world stage. I mean, why did that bakery have to make such a delicious piece of birthday heaven anyway? Buttheads. Then, I went through the whole “pissed off at myself” stage. Where I cried and then ranted and raved like a lunatic, trying to reason with my dogs about why I just needed to be fat For. Ever. They weren’t interested in my sob story. I think they even rolled their eyes at me. That is when I hit the “OMG what have I done” stage. More tears. Countless trips to the scale. More tears. Then...ultimately the “I have to fix this” stage. Which is where I am now.

This stage is where we all need to wind up after a tip off the ole healthy wagon. This is the stage where we reset our goals and stop kicking ourselves in the fanny for the past 7 days of actions. At this stage, we realize that we haven’t done HUGE damage and that we are worth getting it all back together for. For me, this means sticky notes all over the house, cleaning out the fridge, and rewriting my goals. A million times. So here I am. Back on track.

What do you all do when you fall off the wagon? I mean, how do you fix yourself and get back on track. Lately, the getting back on track thing seems to be getting much more difficult. Anyone else notice that?

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One thing I’ve done is stop trying to “make up” lost days.  For example, if I don’t exercise for a couple days, I don’t do 2 workouts or even an extra-serious workout to make up for it.  I just jump back in where I am.  If that means today was scheduled to be a rest day, then I rest.  I never beat myself up and try to make up those lost days. 

Food is the same way.  I don’t “over-diet” the day after I overindulge.  I just go back to normal healthy eating.  Leave the past in the past.  It doesn’t matter how many days I was off the wagon.  Today is the only day I control and heroic efforts are not necessary.  Just jump back in and do better the next meal or snack.

Best wishes for getting back on track!

It is hard. Sometimes, when I’ve been way off track, I reach an “ok, this is it” point where I’m just ready. I wake up one morning, and that’s it, I’m back on track.

This last time (after my weekend away at the end of June), I just couldn’t seem to get it together. Then I realized that I was aiming too high. As Doreen mentioned, I was trying to make up for it by going from out-of-control back to perfect. Then I would do something to “blow it” and it would all go downhill again.

I know better than this.

So, I decided to ease back into it. Take baby steps. That seemed to work better.

I have another weekend trip coming up, so let’s hope I don’t go too crazy this time.

I am right there with you . For me it was chips ahoy cookies and cupcakes and then the huge pasta dinner… Bad bad week and my scale says I gained 9 freaking pounds!  I am hoping some of that is from retain water.

I have to clean my frig and freezer out today, last part of my huge kitchen clean and reorganization project.

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