Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Feelin' good!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Weigh-in
Thursday, March 25, 2010
I'm still here!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Do SOMETHING!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Perfectionism
Perfectionism. It's the name of one of the little devils that helped me get to where I am now. Ironic, isn't it? Perfectionism, the force that drives me to be “perfect” has taken me to a place that is quite imperfect.
I consider myself to be quite a logical person when it comes to most things, but my eating one area that I am madly illogical.
I am an “all or nothing” person with my diet. If I can't do it right, then why try? So in the past, I either go to the gym AND eat perfectly, or I stuff my face with everything that I can find and sit on the couch. There just seems to be no middle ground. In my flawed way of thinking, if I eat a Snickers bar, I've screwed up the entire day. So I may as well finish off the day with 2 cheeseburgers, a bag of Funyuns, 2 bowls of Ben and Jerry's ice cream with extra fudge topping, and maybe even the rest of my son's bag of gummy bears (even though I know I'll hear about that from him tomorrow). By doing that, I turned a 300 calorie treat into a 3000 calorie disaster. When I step on the scale later that week and see that I gained a pound, what can I blame? Did that Snickers bar make me gain a pound? NO! It was my negative catastrophic attitude. My perfectionism helped me to fail.
I need to learn to let it go. Just move forward. And it's a great time to practice since I'm going into a new week. As far as dieting goes, I always count my weeks as starting on Monday.
I have grand plans for working out this week. Lofty goals. Perhaps I am going into my perfectionism phase and planning too big, but I'm hoping that if I hit it hard and see some results, I will be more motivated to keep going. Plus I just watched the Biggest Loser, and I feel inspired to push myself further than I usually think I can.
Here's my tentative workout plan for the week:
MONDAY
Spin class (1 hour) followed by yoga (1 hour). Yoga is optional and only if I feel good after spin, and if the kids are able to all go to preschool for long enough for me to do it!
TUESDAY
Zumba! (1 hour) Wow, soooo fun! I went to my first class on Saturday, I totally forgot to blog about it! But it was so fun that I actually went and found videos on youtube just so I could relive the fun-ness... Time passed so fast during that class that I didn't even realize I was exercising, and sweat was pouring down my face!
WEDNESDAY
Spin (1 hour) and yoga (1 hour)
THURSDAY
Zumba (1 hour)
FRIDAY
Spin (1 hour) and yoga (1 hour)
SATURDAY
Zumba (1 hour)
SUNDAY
Break day, go for a walk and take some Motrin.
Wish me luck. I'll be back to update on my progress throughout the week. My BodyBugg should be here this week sometime too! I'm so excited!!!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Whoops.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Consistent
"Consistent"
What does it mean?
Right off the bat, it brings to mind boring mundane normal-ness. Doing the same thing over and over. Being consistent seems so much less fun than being spontaneous. But being spontaneous when it comes to diet often leads to impulse eating. On that note, when's the last time you impulse ate a carrot or a salad? Why is it always the fattening, sugar or salt loaded things we impulse eat?!? Because it's mindless. If I PLANNED before I just jumped in and ate, I would not eat the crap I've been eating.
Being consistent means I know what to expect. It means I plan to succeed. “If I fail to plan, I plan to fail.” That is a quote taken straight from my dad, who no doubt got it from somebody else!
So for the rest of today and for tomorrow, I'm going to PLAN MY MEALS right now. I'm going to plan to succeed the rest of today, even though I did eat two chocolate croissants after I dropped off my kids at preschool. All is not lost.
In other news, Martin is working late tonight, and I'm using that as an excuse to not go to the gym. I should have gone this morning, but I did not. I did, however, clean my house. I'm also going to do laundry standing up. And I'm going to have a salad with vegetarian "turkey" for supper. :)