The Jagged Path of Weight Loss
The novelty of weight loss is a great thing. That first whole week, you are determined as hell to make it. You eat right. Work out hard. And tell yourself, this is it, I’m going to finally do this. Then life happens. The novelty starts to where off. You find yourself saying oh, i’ll just eat this one thing than that’s it. Next thing you know you are sitting in front of an Ultimate Double Whopper at Burger King.
I have strayed. I was doing a great job, i lost 4.5-5 pounds in like five or six days. Then I totally strayed. I shot back up to 208, which i’m thinking is just potty weight because I hadn’t gone yet when I weighed myself….though you’d like to know that…anyway, due to the fact that I have a bumb knee right now and i can’t drive or even walk to the gym (to far to hobble) I won’t be able to hit the gym the way I want to until next friday when i go back to work. I work nights and the Gym on Ramstein Air Base is just around the block from where I work so I can just limp on over to there at my regular time. As for right now I’m really really going to try to restart eating clean. I ate an ultimate double whopper yesterday and the whole time I was eating it I was telling myself that I shouldn’t be eating it.
November 22, 2008 at 2:42 am
It’s only novelty for some people but once you have done it often enough and have stayed commited to your new lifestyle thats exactly what it will be your lifestyle !
then its easy then you do it without thinking you dont even want that whopper anymore !
November 22, 2008 at 2:42 am
It’s only novelty for some people but once you have done it often enough and have stayed commited to your new lifestyle thats exactly what it will be your lifestyle !
then its easy then you do it without thinking you dont even want that whopper anymore !
November 22, 2008 at 4:00 am
Don’t beat yourself up too bad. Count it as your cheat day. Been there done that. I learned that in order to lose weight i HAD TO CHEAT at least every other week. When I cheated I ate whatever I wanted on my cheat day (double cheeseburgers and fries) and still dropped 2-4 pounds each week.
I had messed up my knee also and concentrated on working upper body until my knee healed up. Give yourself another chance. The rewards outweigh everything else and it will become second nature.