Thurs, Fri, Sat……Uh-Oooohhh
So the past few days I have had a diet melt-down. I don’t know what happened other than I succumbed to emotional eating. Thursday I hung out with my co-workers and my daughter to celebrate her first day cheerleading. We had Mexican for dinner and then went out for frozen yogurt that I piled high with all my favorite toppings (including Reese’s P’nut Butter Cups). Earlier in the day, I had already eaten a bad lunch because I had to attend a seminar where lunch was provided so that we would not leave to go get our own lunch ( and I had left my food bag in another location); so I was forced to eat what they provided. Naturally, it was all simple carbs and fat. Friday I was away from home longer than I anticipated, and was caught without any of my own food on hand. So I ended up getting food in the cafeteria at work, which is always bad. They even put butter on the steamed veggies (which I have repeatedly told them was inappropriate; to which they reply, "that’s the way people like them"). I was on-call Friday night, and eating is the only thing that keeps my up through the night. I was much better than what I have been in the recent past, but in order to keep from indulging in simple carbs (ie, chips and chocolate), I purchased a bag of roasted almonds and ate more than the 1 serving (28 almonds) that I intended. So right now I am holding about 10 gallons of water from the carbs and the salt on the almonds. I can’t see any part of any muscle definition. My waistline is non-existent, and I’m totally upset with myself. To make matters worse, I have to do weight, stats and pictures today for my trainer. I know he is going to be like, "WTH?!?" EVERYTHING is increased from my measurements 2 weeks ago. Oh well, gotta pay the piper.
OK, now that I am done getting all that out, time to turn to something positive. My training has not suffered. I actually ended up doing 1 1/2 hours of cardio on Friday to make up for Thusdays dietary infractions. I did make it to the gym yesterday when I got off. I didn’t heve enough energy to do legs as planned, so I decided to do a general uppere body routine and did some pull-ups, then did shoulders, triceps, and biceps, followed by 30 minutes on the elliptical. So today (which should be for rest), I am going to do legs and probably will try to get in a run tonight.
Unfortunately, I have 2 social activities to attend today. One of my co-workers is having an open house. I would have passed on attending, but she eagerly informed me that she made special food for me to accomodate my diet; so now I feel obligated to attend. I am also supposed to go see Tyler Perry’s new movie tonight with all my friends. The movies usually aren’t a source of dietary complications, so that won’t be a big problem.
Updat pics taken this AM, so I will post them later this evening.
