What An Eye Opener

The last few weeks I have been going up and down a few lbs which is very frustrating and not what I want... I know why... I am eating too much and not exercising but I decided to do a bit of investigating and find out exactly where I am going wrong and if it is possible to actually stick to my points...

 

Do you know what I found.. every day I went over my daily points and so then using my weekly points... I could have easily avoided going over by making such small changes...one day I used 8 points by eating chocolates that were being offered around the office... guess how many points I was over for that day... 8! Another day I had a snack of cheese.. I didn't want it.. I didn't need it but I ate it and it carried me over my daily allowance... EVERY DAY is like this. It is really surprising and also really opens my eyes into my own eating habits. Most of the time the things that carry my over are things that I don't need, are snacks or are things I am eating because they are there. I thought I had got my emotional eating under control.. and I do when it comes to actual emotions like when I am happy or sad but I obviously don't have the boredom side of emotional eating under control. Don't get me wrong.. I really enjoy my job but I think it is from sitting at a desk...I really need to a) stop nibbling on things and b) find something else to do when I want a break instead of getting up and going into the kitchen to eat! However I have identified it now and am going to jump on it straight away as this is something that can have a massive impact on my weight loss! I plan to look at my Food Diary every day and write down what I could have avoided and so hopefully be really aware of it which will stop me in advance.



 

 



 

On the up side of things I went to the gym last night which in itself is good but what is even better is that I totally wrestled the little fat devil in me and won. I phoned Biggy last night to ask what we were having for dinner and he had finished early and was already at home.... he suggested that I come straight home and we go to the gym together instead in the morning.. I said yes that it sounds like and excellent plan and can't wait to see him... but then I was thinking I know that we won't go to the gym in the morning and if I go to the gym now it will only take 1 hour of my time... I will still be home in time for dinner and as much as I love spending time with Biggy I really want to get healthy, fit and sexy so when we are together and cuddle up on the couch while watching a film I am not having to hold in my stomach for half the film, or when we cuddle I don't feel like the man because I am so much bigger than him... so I phoned him back and said "Baby...I hope you understand but I really need to go to the gym" and do you know what he said "No problems...by the way I got us a Weight Watchers dessert"

 

 

Going to the Gym tonight again which means I will have got in my 3 workouts...to be honest I don't expect a loss this week but I am still celebrating staying positive as I have thought hard about what I am doing wrong and have gone back to working out... as we all know we have to celebrate the non-scale victories when we can! After thinking things through I have decided that my aim is to hit bang on 14 stone/196lbs (or less) by the 1st of January... which would mean that by the new year I would have said good bye to a total of 27lbs, I can start the new year on the right track and at a good weight to easily monitor any losses for the rest of the year.