Diet report - week 3

weight: -6 lbs (-1 since last week)
upper arm: -1 inch (no change)
chest: -1.25 in. (-.5)
waist: -1.25 in. (+.5)
hip: -1.75 in. (-.25)
thigh: -2.5 in. (no change)

Yick. I wish I could blame it on the plateau phase that I understand pretty much all diets go through, but it's really all just being sloppy. I think I was getting complacent with how easy this diet is to follow (and how little it even really feels like a diet). One night neither of us felt like cooking, and Morgan was bugging us for macaroni and cheese, so we had that instead. And I think any good that might have been done by walking around Great America yesterday (my calves are killing me) and adrenaline getting my heart pumping was canceled out by the hot dog and pretzel I had for lunch and the Carl's Jr for dinner on the drive home (chicken sandwich instead of a burger, but still). *sigh* And speaking of instead-of-burger, I think I'm actually kind of going off beef. Like, my fast food cravings aren't bacon cheeseburgers anymore, now they're for KFC. Weird.

It would have been nice if I hadn't had to learn the hard way, but at least now I know exactly how much I can "splurge" and still be okay: one night of fast food/junk is okay, two or three is not. I'm glad I have two other weeks of very good results to kind of offset this week's mediocrity. The upside is that, since we didn't eat what we were supposed to, we still have that food in our refrigerator and thus the grocery bill for _this_ week will be much less. Which reminds me we need to go shopping today.

Diet report - week 3

weight: -6 lbs (-1 since last week)
upper arm: -1 inch (no change)
chest: -1.25 in. (-.5)
waist: -1.25 in. (+.5)
hip: -1.75 in. (-.25)
thigh: -2.5 in. (no change)

Yick. I wish I could blame it on the plateau phase that I understand pretty much all diets go through, but it's really all just being sloppy. I think I was getting complacent with how easy this diet is to follow (and how little it even really feels like a diet). One night neither of us felt like cooking, and Morgan was bugging us for macaroni and cheese, so we had that instead. And I think any good that might have been done by walking around Great America yesterday (my calves are killing me) and adrenaline getting my heart pumping was canceled out by the hot dog and pretzel I had for lunch and the Carl's Jr for dinner on the drive home (chicken sandwich instead of a burger, but still). *sigh* And speaking of instead-of-burger, I think I'm actually kind of going off beef. Like, my fast food cravings aren't bacon cheeseburgers anymore, now they're for KFC. Weird.

It would have been nice if I hadn't had to learn the hard way, but at least now I know exactly how much I can "splurge" and still be okay: one night of fast food/junk is okay, two or three is not. I'm glad I have two other weeks of very good results to kind of offset this week's mediocrity. The upside is that, since we didn't eat what we were supposed to, we still have that food in our refrigerator and thus the grocery bill for _this_ week will be much less. Which reminds me we need to go shopping today.