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I will come right out and say it: I cheated Thursday. No excuses, no blaming game, I cheated. :sadblinky The key to staying on Atkins, with me anyway, is to plan ahead and be very prepared. Unfortunately, in a rushed moment, I forgot my breakfast and lunch that morning, I was hungry all day and when I came home, I was so tired. I took a nap insted of eating and when I woke up, my husband was crying about something to eat. So I made him something fast so he could leave me alone: Sloppy Joes. Bad idea, turns out. I was over-the-moon with hunger by then and so I ate two. :anger Bad me.
As bad as I feel about cheating, I also put it in perspective. Like I wrote to someone else who cheated, in a earlier post some days ago, I remember that changing the way you eat is not 100% perfect. There are hills and valleys and sometimes you jump up to the peak, only to crash in the valley. Some people can do this and change their eating 100% with no varying and no mistakes but 98% of us are not like that and I know I am not. I will take my lumps with the cheating, knowing it was not smart and learning from it. And I got right back on the next meal :nod and have made sure that I will not be unprepared like that again (I cooked 10 lbs of chicken on my day off, I can't tell you how tiring that was!) and eat out of plan. I stepped up my exercise this week and added an extra day of WATP to at least reduce the damage. You know, I have been stuck a bit at 335 for the past week and then I went up to 340 a few days ago and almost had a fit! I even got nervous about the cheat and checked my weight yesterday and I was still at 340 but funny, this morning I dropped down to 330! I don't know how to explain it or if that will change when the cheat catches up with me but I will take it! :yes
I was ashamed to come here and tell everybody but that is part of being accountable with your eating and you take the bad with the good to learn from your mistakes. And I know that I will get support and friendship here versus chewing out and "I told you so's" like friends or family would have done.
ha
As bad as I feel about cheating, I also put it in perspective. Like I wrote to someone else who cheated, in a earlier post some days ago, I remember that changing the way you eat is not 100% perfect. There are hills and valleys and sometimes you jump up to the peak, only to crash in the valley. Some people can do this and change their eating 100% with no varying and no mistakes but 98% of us are not like that and I know I am not. I will take my lumps with the cheating, knowing it was not smart and learning from it. And I got right back on the next meal :nod and have made sure that I will not be unprepared like that again (I cooked 10 lbs of chicken on my day off, I can't tell you how tiring that was!) and eat out of plan. I stepped up my exercise this week and added an extra day of WATP to at least reduce the damage. You know, I have been stuck a bit at 335 for the past week and then I went up to 340 a few days ago and almost had a fit! I even got nervous about the cheat and checked my weight yesterday and I was still at 340 but funny, this morning I dropped down to 330! I don't know how to explain it or if that will change when the cheat catches up with me but I will take it! :yes
I was ashamed to come here and tell everybody but that is part of being accountable with your eating and you take the bad with the good to learn from your mistakes. And I know that I will get support and friendship here versus chewing out and "I told you so's" like friends or family would have done.
ha
I don't wanna to start no mess.
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