Groovybabe

I am having a tidal wave of motivation at the moment. One minute it flying high, the next it’s really low. Monday, I walked my son to school (30 min walk), then went to the gym (2 hours), then went to pick my son up to take him to the dentist (30 min walk) and barely ate all day. But in the evening I became ravenous and couldn’t stop eating! I put it down to so much exercise (I really went for it on the XT and jogged on the treadmill) so wasn’t too hard on myself. Then yesterday (Tuesday) I seemed to give in. I ate so much bread and lashings and lashings of French honey and I just didn’t seem to care. Well I cared but just not enough to stop it. I haven’t been weighing in daily, it’s been every two days, but Friday I was 15.10, Monday I weighed in at 15.12 and today - after yesterdays debacle I thought I’d be in the 16’s again - I weighed in at 15.11, so I am thinking maybe my body just needed it. I seemed to be craving something sweet last night without realising it because no matter how much I ate of the honey I wasn’t satisified but then I had a low calorie hot chocolate and it really hit the spot.

So today is a new day. Seeing that I lost a pound rather than putting on three helped me to refocus. Walking back from the school this morning I thought about how hard I am - still - when I over eat. I mean I did that for one and a half days and then naturally wanted to go back to eating normally. Everyone over eats sometimes, even slim people. I’ve taken 4 months to lose 3 stone and I cannot expect to lose a stone at every weigh in. I understand that now. So I am just going to take each day as it comes and tackle it as best I can. At the moment exercise is my main motivation so I am totally focusing on that and will just eat as well as I can. When I am managing food better than exercise I’ll work with that. It’s knowing your strengths on any particular day and playing to them. I am back to the mantra that if I got through yesterday, then I can get through today - which makes the prospect of tomorrow that much easier.

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