NSVs + SV - Didn't order the pizza, resisted french fries, and saw a new number!
Oh hey, /r/loseit. I just wanted to end my night by stopping in and sharing some good feelings with you guys, since it's been a really rough week.
Sprained Ankle
I sprained my ankle last week, just days after joining a StepBet challenge. It's been REALLY hard to get all my steps, but I'm still in the game and my ankle is feeling much better. I work on my feet, and it's been a painful and slow, hobbly week. So excited for next week to bring long, less painful walks where I can go faster than a grandma!
The Power of Pizza
My husband and I ate really good all week, but something about yesterday and today made it difficult. We had a lot of free time where we watched Netflix and did the whole "what do you want to do today, well what do you want to eat today, well I'm bored" thing for a few hours. Usually when we have days with a lot of free time, we view food as our entertainment. Seriously, nothing sounds more fun than a pizza and wings while watching The Office. Again.
Food holds this weird power over us. We think of it as entertainment, and believe that it makes our days better and our time spent together...better. We got fat as a couple, so we have a lot of happy memories over pizza and similar foods. If one of us gets the idea of pizza, the other can tell just by the look on their face or body language. We are restricting ourselves from pizza (and just had it last week at a party, so it's definitely too soon for a treat day), but that just makes us sad. Now we can't have a good day or enjoy our time together, because we can't get pizza. Like, seriously? Why and how can food have such an emotional effect? I was seriously bummed the whole day because I was craving it.
Goodbye, 180's!
But, we didn't get it. And even though I was sad yesterday, I was happy this morning when I woke up and the scale dipped into the 170's - a number I haven't seen in a year. Sure, it was 179.8, the closest it could be to the 180's, and SURE, it was after a good 12 hour fast and a BM, but it was still there! Which means after a few days of keeping up my good habits, I'll be seeing 170's much more often, and say goodbye to the 180's forever!
Good Choice Eating Out
Today was an entirely free day, though, and I feared "the p word" would come out of our mouths. We got with family to see The Incredibles 2, and of course they wanted to go out to eat afterward. We expected this, and planned to share a meal to cut our calories in half. Unfortunately, Red Robin offers unlimited fries, and we looooove the campfire sauce. I opened the menu and was so tempted by all of the choices...it's been a while since I've been to Red Robin, and EVERYTHING sounded so good. I'm so thankful for the calories being posted in the menu, because it absolutely helped me make my choice. Ignorance is definitely bliss, and I would have gone with a 1200 calorie burger and unlimited fries. However, we were still counting calories today, and I chose the Wedgie burger - a bunless burger with bacon and avocado, with a side salad. I wasn't super "turned on" by the idea of lettuce with a side of lettuce, but the guac and bacon made up for it. DELICIOUS! I did have a few fries, but not an entire side!
Strawberries for Dessert
We all wanted dessert afterward, but we called it there. My husband and I went home, munched on some strawberries instead of stopped at Sonic for a Master Blast, and ended our days within our calorie goals.
Keep on chuggin'
I really hate my unhealthy relationship with food, but it's something that I'm working on. I hate the power that it can have over me - especially pizza, for some reason - but I have proven to myself time and time again that if I resist and rise above that I will see results, and often it's immediate results, like the Universe is trying to be like "SEE!? You LOSE WEIGHT when you don't eat pizza! Look at that number on the scale! Now, go make another good decision!" and I did! Because, honestly, if we had ordered pizza today, I definitely would have pigged the f out at Red Robin today, and we absolutely would have gone to Sonic after. "We'll start Monday," we would undoubtedly have said to each other, but Monday would just bring dread and...probably another pizza.
Thanks for reading my very long vent and stream of successes these past two days! I'm so so grateful for my discipline, even though I was a bummer to be around yesterday. Sorry, honey. We are going to do this together!
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