Day #111 - Exceeding the Limits

As I suspected, I got on the Wii scale and it said "You've exceeded the weight limit".  This means that I gained at least 1.5 pounds since last week,  Even though I knew it was coming it still hurt.  As I mentioned yesterday, I won't go weigh myself in the basement again.  If I do, then in my mind I've accepted that I'm not ready to take the next step toward getting under 300.  I am ready, I just hit a bump in the road.  So now I'm motivated to get "it" back this coming week.  By "it" I mean my Wii Scale, My commitment, and My Focus.

I'm always talking about taking it day by day.  Well at least for the next few days I'll actually be taking it meal by meal.  What's interesting about last week was that I ate healthy breakfast everyday of the week and my first snack was healthy too.  What killed me was lunch, I went out for lunch 4 of the 5 workdays.  After lunchtime failures it was that much easier to not do well in the evening because in my mind the day was blown. 

So is the world coming to an end for me?  Hardly! In 8 weeks I've still managed to lose 5% of my bodyweight.  I've also been smoke free for 111 days and have not had a drop of alcohol in over 40 days.  So when you put things in perspective, having 1 week where I gained a little weight pales in comparison to the whole focus on improving my health.

I'm keeping my head up because last week was only one small battle lost.  The war can still be won, but only if I choose to keep fighting.

Stay Strong!

 

[Photo: Flickr / David Boyle]

Day #27 - Productivity Feels Good

So let me start with reporting that I gained 3.8 pounds this week.  My weight is fluctuating up and down each week so I'm not getting too worked up over it.  This week was more about mental heatlh than it was about physical.

Today was a wild day.  I've moved on to painting daughter #2's room; the process started today.  Now it would have been easy to put off the plan until tomorrow because we had so many commitments to make today.  I had 2 basketball games and 2 team picture events (at different times and at different locations from their games).  I had an hour here and there to work on the room until 4PM when everything was finally done.  If I wanted to get her room completely painted I needed to get the trim painted today so that I can paint the walls tomorrow. 

I'm happy to report that I managed to get the trim painted.  It took me and Mrs. Fogdog until 7:30PM, but it's done.  I'm thrilled that I didn't let all those commitments derail my plans and I worked hard to meet the goals I set out for the day. 

The other nice part about staying so productive is that I tend to eat less.  I didn't stick to my normal eating plan, but I also only ate 3 meals today.  I could have done better with water but I also coud have done worse.

Anyway, this was not my best week from a weight loss perspective, but I really do feel like I made a lot of headway with my mental state.  Day #27 is in the books; on to day #28.

Stay Strong!