supersized's Journal
Weekly Check In - Week 24Aug 10 2008 15:49
Weekly Check-In
This week has been my weakest week since I started measuring my life balance goals. I did poorly in every category with a weekly overall average of only 11%. I still find it an interesting phenomena that when I feel in control of my eating and my fitness being in control of the other aspects of my life seems to fall into place. About midway though this week I surrendered to a maintenance level week after completing phase I of my plan. I also ended up letting many other aspects of my life slide. My bookkeeping and career search suffered the most, my kitchen is a mess and I haven't even gotten the next two books for my bookclubs.
The good news is that with the olympics stared and a week of being idle I am really ready to get back to this. I delayed going back into it by a day for two reasons. One to round out one week of being idle and two to give myself that heightened sense of anticipation of going back into trying to achieve a goal and shoot for that success again.
One very positive thing that came out of the week off is that I had some of the foods that I normally cannot fit into my calories without sacrificing entire meals, and they tasted nowhere near as good as I remember. In fact they were pretty bad. Overly greasy, too sweet.... and I didn't even eat fat food, these were just a few high-cal stir-fry's that I made at home! I am desperately craving fresh tomatoes, corn, berries and greens.
Here we go, time for phase II to really begin!
Well, if the last week was a disaster and you are on target again from today, there is no where to go but up. If your eating and exercising are in order, everything else seems to fall in place - as you said. That happens to me too. The last week, I have had so many challenges in my life, but I was staying on target with eating and exercising, so I got through the challenges pretty well. My husband's birthday was on the 9th, and he wanted steak. I bought it and was preparing to make a nice steak dinner for the both of us. Before I got to that point, I looked up how many calories that 150 gram steak was going to be, and I was shocked. It was almost 700 calories! So, I debated and debated, and I finally decided I couldn't eat that much in one sitting. I couldn't eat healthily if I used up all my calories at one meal with the things that go with steak. I feel like I have made real progress with my eating habits, too. |
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