What a week...as I reflect back on all this past week brought it was incredibly busy but all in good ways...mostly! I realized though, busy means I don't always give myself enough time to think about ME and what I should be doing, when I should be doing it.
I can count more than a few times this week when I was a 'late thinker' when it came to the program and what I was doing, what I was accomplishing, or not! I mean, I essentially don't deviate from protein, 'healthy' carbs and water, with the occasional cocktail. Yes, to those of you who know me well that are reading this, everyone has a different definition of 'occasional'!
However, this week...as I reflected back, after weigh in, I realized there was more than one occasion that I thought "after the fact" about what I did. The first one was on Tuesday night when I had a work dinner at Ruth Chris Steakhouse. First of all, fabulous! Second of all, I also ate lunch out that day. Lunch I had salmon and steamed veggies, all good stuff, no problems, no issues...on target all the way. Dinner I had filet medallions with shrimp, no butter, asparagus and a Caesar salad (no dressing, no croutons, lemon wedge on the side). I also had a couple of cocktails. That dinner was amazing. However it wasn't until I started typing this blog that I thought back to that entire days and said, UM...duh! Out of the 16 servings of protein I can have in a day, only four of them come from "lean" proteins and the other 12 are considered "very lean". Not typically an issue, except when you eat steak and salmon for your only proteins of the day (other than breakfast) and there was more than four ounces! OOOPS! That's oops # 1.
Alas, we didn't stop there...the next day Todd cooked dinner for he, Elise & I and we had steak and veggies and salad and I stopped during our salad making and picked out my salad before I ever finished making theirs...way to go, me! Dinner was excellent and we then started coloring Easter eggs, while snacking on the fresh fruit Todd had cut up. I absolutely love fresh fruit this time of year. Strawberries just at the peak of freshness and pineapple, chilled and sweet...YUM! So we all went to town on our healthy dessert. I got home, and don't you know...pineapple is not on the list! Eight weeks on this program (the 2nd time around) and you'd think I could know that...but I never even thought about it, until it was too late.
So, you're thinking now, well, that's got to be it, what else could she have done?! Ahhh, along comes Friday night. We went out to see a friend who is starting to play with a new band, we had a cocktail or two and by the end of the night we were chatting with all the people left in the bar and all the band people. In case you didn't know, I talk to everyone! :)
We were hanging out with some people I knew from a year or two ago and they decided we should do a shot...with Red Bull...something I swore off, a long time ago. That is, until Friday night, apparently. When did it dawn on me, you ask? Oh, I believe it was Sunday, as I was downing a gallon of water and trying to think of how I had done this week, since my weigh in was Tuesday instead of Monday. That's when some of these things hit me in the head.
I really need to pay attention to what I'm doing a little closer. I have the food list, shoot, I know the food list. I just flat out didn't think. Of course, last night I was stressing out over it, but really, at that point my fate was pretty much sealed for weigh in today.
Let's chat about weigh-in today...If nothing else, this brought a smile to my face while I was there this morning.
When I signed in, there was a few new people in the front, and when the medical assistant came to bring me back, she was new too. She mentioned her name (and I feel awful that I forgot it) and that she was filling in from the Sarasota branch. She then proceeded to tell me that I looked very much like the "lady on the website" to her, and she wanted to know if that was me. I said yes, unwillingly, since that "lady on the website" is still 20 pounds away from goal, but...I said yes.
She was thrilled, she thought that it was awesome that I was there and that she got to meet me. She called me a celebrity and said she was excited she'd gotten to meet "a celebrity". I reminded her that while I thought that was sweet, I was so NOT a celebrity! She was very sweet and she made my visit a bit brighter for sure. I sometimes run into people who mention to me that they saw an ad with me on it. Dr. Garcia's office still has my video on their website (insert shamless plug hyperlink here: http://garciaweightloss.com/t-videos.aspx) :-)
As well, the office has used my photos for mailings and advertising around the Tampa Bay area. I remember once a guy I work with told me he saw me in his mailbox. That was before restart, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't fitting in his mailbox, but the Val-Pak ad was there. He thought that was pretty cool.
Anyway, all that being said, you'd think I had a horrible week, and now that you've been patiently reading, I'll let you know how it was.
This week I ended up with a loss of 0.8 pounds and 1.5% body fat. Nothing to shake a stick at after the week of late thinking that I had, for sure. For those of you keeping track, that brings the 8-week total to 28 pounds.
That's about equivalent to four newborn babies, 112 sticks of butter, 5.5 bags of sugar, the weight of a car tire and then some...I went back and looked at "Round 1-Week 8"...I wish I would stop doing that, because I was further along in my progress then, but...I wasn't anywhere near as comfortable with the belief that I can do the maintenance and will not have to do this for a "Round 3"...I need to stop looking though! It is ... what it is ... my lifestyle is much different now, I exercise better, I'm losing inches...maybe next week I'll post those, some of them are dramatic to me, yet I've not even told anyone! :)
This week I also decided to purchase some of the protein/carb supplements. Sometimes I have a hard time getting all of my servings in, so the shakes/puddings and the snack bars might help with that. I definitely need to pay attention there, though, and plan my days out. Those are equivalent to the "lean" protein, and we know what happens to me there!
For now, I keep chugging (water) along, on to the next week and those results. This week I'm hoping to hit at least 2 pounds of a loss. I have a 30-pound goal treat in mind and I can't wait for tomatoes to be added to the list!
Once again, to those of you who put up with me through the day to day, meal to meal aspect of this program and have yet to give up on me...thank you! I couldn't do it without the support of my friends, family and Garcia-Carrollwood office staff! You all are the best! Have a fabulous week, I know I will!
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