After the snow tubing injuries, I decided to take the week off of exercising. More like the pain made me take the week off, but lets not argue semantics. My legs are feeling much better now, and only really hurt if I press on the bruises directly. Coincidentally, I also took the week off of food tracking. Needless to say, I didn’t lose any weight. Oh well, today is a new day and it’s never to late to hop back on the wagon.
Tonight I begin my “workout for weightloss” routine for realsies. Today is a lifting day and I’m excited to bust out some deadlifts (along with other lifts of course). My upper back has been hurty the past week since I haven’t been exercising and my low back/sacrum injury has been hurting more as well. It also should be warm enough (i.e. in the teens) to get outside and run a warm-up mile before I lift.
I HAVE to make food tracking a priority; it just doesn’t seem to work if I don’t. My number one weakness is eating out. Occasionally, we will run out of food to make lunches with and we just go out to lunch. Then we go out the next day. Then we don’t end up getting to the store for sometimes a week and end up eating out for lengthy periods of time. It’s no good. Last week we ended up eating out for lunch twice – Chipotle and Green Mill. Not horrible choices, but they certainly aren’t light on the calories.
For a while, I was doing really well with meal planning and grocery shopping weekly. I need to get back to that so I’m not put in the situation where I run out of food and can’t/won’t get to the store in time. Generally, my breakfasts and lunches during the week are all the same.
Most of the time my lunches are a little lighter, actually, because I will generally eat a piece of fruit or some carrots alongside my sandwich instead of cookies (but of course, we are out of those things because we didn’t make it to the store this weekend). Dinners are more sporadic, but I generally do pretty well with them, keeping the calorie count between 600 and 800 calories depending on the dish. Most days I also have an afternoon snack of about 200 calories. This puts me within my calorie goals for the day. I just have to be consistent. I can’t go grab a burrito from Chipotle (hello, 900 calories and more sodium than I need in the entire day) or order pizza on a Friday and end up eating leftover pizza all weekend.
I feel like this post is kinda all over the board, but at least its on record! Time to get back on the wagon, to kick my own ass, and to be consistent!
This post really resonated with me. I have been eating like I may never see food again for the past 2 weeks or so. Unfortunately, it is time for me to rein it in also. This weekend we are going to see my in-laws, so that could derail my “good” eating once again. Good luck!
I blame it on the weather… at least partially. This winter is just wearing on me!
Glad the bruises aren’t too painful anymore. Hope they go away for good soon. Have fun lifting tonight!
Thanks! They still look gross, but are much better. At least its winter and I can wear pants and only show the carnage to people if I decide to 🙂