My apologies for not posting yesterday, but unfortunately the litigate part of eatrunlitigate got the better of me and I worked a 15.5 hour day (I was actually at a mediation and we were there until 12:30 a.m.! I’m happy to report it settled!). I got home at 12:40 a.m. and had to be out of the house by 8 a.m. this morning (for another mediation that went much shorter, thankfully), clearly leaving zero time to blog.
The good news about yesterday is that I woke up at 6:30 a.m. just in case mediation went late leaving me with no time to run (wonder if I jinxed myself?). I ended up running 5 miles before the sun even rose. It was fabulous.
What was not so fabulous about yesterday was my eating . I am pretty sure that I have written this exact post before, but here I go again. I have no willpower when it comes to eating. Yesterday for lunch Jimmy John’s was ordered. I was good and ordered my sandwich without mayo. The sandwich had about 536 calories. Would have been completely happy with that.
But I didn’t stop there.
Nope. You see…when Jimmy John’s caters they give you chips and a cookie.
Now, obviously the smart, weight loss minded person would have just thrown away the cookie and chips.
But not me, nope. I ate them. Both of them. That’s an additional 560 calories. Yep, more than the sandwich. I ate over 1,000 calories in one meal.
I guess the only good news is that I didn’t eat much for dinner (someone picked up a salad for me but I only had time to eat a few bites). However, this is still not acceptable. I have no willpower. Thankfully I do have willpower when it comes to working out. I just need to spread that vibe to eating.I think, unfortunately, this might mean that I have to go back to calorie counting. I don’t like having to do it, but why do I have these feelings? Probably because counting calories means that when I eat too much I have to enter it into the calorie counter and see my failure.
Now, M and I are still doing well by not eating out for dinner and the meals we are cooking are pretty healthy, but if I want to get rid of this last 20 to 30 pounds, I have to have willpower.
I am not looking forward to weighing in tomorrow, but in the event that I gain weight, instead of being bummed out and trying to eat my way out of the mood, I will seize the day and not continue to have no control over what goes in my body.
Eat: 2 donuts (yeah, no willpower); grilled cheese and tomato; and Baked Rigatoni Zucchini. Okay day.
Run: Workout A of Stage 1. The pushups seemed extra hard today and I am terrible at the prone jack knife (different name, same exercise) but now completely understand why they start you on two sets of 8. I think I had beginners luck the first time I did the exercises so they weren’t quite as bad. I also watched a video about pushups earlier this week and was concentrating more on form today so I’m sure that’s why they were harder.
Loving how often you’re blogging. You’re doing great! Focus on the positives a little more and don’t be so hard on yourself.
By the way, want to go on a run next week when I’m there? We may not have much energy the morning after the concert, but I think it would be good for us (by us, I mean me). I have a horrible time getting off my routine when I travel.
I had one of those days today where I just ate too much. I just love food and there are those days when I have no self control. Some days really are better than others.
Those prone jackknives are hard! I fell off the ball the first time I did them. I am sure that was good for a laugh at the gym.
You just have to dust off and get back at it!
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