Going away, visiting family, friends, etc….and keeping your nutrition und
That is another aspect of my life I have yet to fully gain control off, and it is frustrating…even more so because the wife and I love to travel and go places.
This week I visited my parents and to deal with some family drama (not getting into it) and with the wife thinking she was pregnant, that was another added stress (found out she was not yesterday when we visited the doctor…thank god). Anyway, when I left home I was 276-278 lbs depend on the day…and by the time I got back saturday morning, I was 286.2 lbs easy…just from spending 4-5 days at my parents.
Same thing happeneded when we went away to Canada in December…and with us planning to go away for spring brake, Dominican Republic during the summer, and Haiti for a wedding on Debember 18….I feel I really need to get this thing under control.
It seems with my regular environment…school/work and home I can control my eating and make good choices. But the moment I take myself out of that environment, I just go crazy… And there is that mentality that I deserve the brake or I will get back on track when I get home. The best excuse I came up with this week was that my parents did not have a food scale, and the logic was I can’t really know what I was eating. But inside, I knew damn well I was going over my calories.
This is another wall I need to brake because this game of 1 step forward and 2 steps back is aggravating. Would like to hear others opinion on the subject! 
February 22, 2009 at 7:48 am
I wouldn’t worry about the weight gain, it’s pretty much impossible to put on 6 lbs of real weight in 4-5 days. Most likely its just water weight or something of that sort. Don’t sweat it, letting yourself get stressed out over it will just drag you down. Look to the future rather than dwelling on the past, roadblocks are a part of this thing, it’ll happen but you just have to plow through them. Keep at it, you’re doing fine!
April 15, 2009 at 11:31 am
hey carl bro life throw things like this all the time whether its food,illness , moments in time. Just to give us a wake up call or to make us aware that we need to change or do something about it. Just hang in there bro Ive had afew over the last few weeks like arguing with my dad especially and those times are hard because i felt like i wanted to give up bodybuilding because i didnt want this to destroy my relatioship with my father because i would come home tired and grumpy from training so hard and I didnt know what fun was. So i took all my frustration out on my dad that couldve put him in hospital because he has a heart condition. But there was a brighter day though my dad for the first time told me he was proud of me because people that i knew from the gym were telling my father that i was looking good. That made me dad filled with pride and made him 10ft tall and very happy inside. So you made have to ride this through because after every dark nite theres a brighter day so be proud of what you have achieved and stick your chest out and keep your head up aswell. After hearing my dad say that to me its driven me more and add more motivation so im not quiting the sport of BB its my new passion now. Well ill keep you in my prayers and have a great break away with you and your wife. God Bless and Takecare my friend Haere ra a Carl Kia Kaha