Day 14: X Stretch

05Apr08

The day didn’t start out very well. I ate my usual breakfast, one egg, egg whites, turkey bacon, a little cheddar and some frozen spinach. But my stomach had other plans and breakfast came right back up right after I had finished eating. I really have no idea why. It’s happened once before when I had cottage cheese for breakfast and realized that my body would prefer cottage cheese mixed with something as opposed to it just by itself.

I was afraid to eat today after that surprising incident, but once my stomach got better, I guess I made up for lost time and filled up with cashews, sunflower seeds, my glop and then horror of all horrors… cookies. Lost of them. UGH.

Yeah yeah, I know. I don’t even wanna think about it. Honestly though, I said I planned on giving myself a cheat day so I guess that’s what this was, although I certainly didn’t intend for it to be. It’s a little bit of a setback, definitely, but of course I shall press on and begin my third week looking FORWARD, not backward. Always a work in progress. Besides, I just spent $50 + on groceries for the next few weeks so I’m not playing around here, this is serious business. Eating well is EXPENSIVE, it’s really a wallet drainer.  But this is just something I have to budget in, what I have to do to get to my goal so it is what it is.

Just finished X Stretch. This is the only workout that I don’t mind doing at night. I actually prefer it because it just is a nice way to end the day. Now granted that means that I’m actually HOME on a Saturday night to DO this which also means I have no life… but that’s another story for another time.

This is actually a good thing for me too, with the PT and all. Tony does tons of hamstring sretches which are good for my knee since all of those muscles lead to the knee joints. So it’s a win-win for me.

I was just telling someone that the reason I keep pressing on is because when I lost 50 pounds I really felt as though my goal weight was within reach.  I kept pressing on with Weight Watchers even though I wasn’t losing anymore because I didn’t want to fall short of this goal I had set for myself, it just seemed SO close, so attainable.  I didn’t want to admit failure, even though there were many MANY times I wanted to give up.  That’s where the frustration and binges came in.

The reason I keep pressing play and doing my absolute best to eat the right things every day is because I’ve seen changes in my body in the past two weeks, so I know that I’m back on the right track to my goal.  I just want to make it there and THEN see what happens.  I just want to get there.  Then I’ll figure the rest out.

Tomorrow: Chest and Back. I hope I can crank out a few more reps on push-ups.

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