A different spin on things
So, yesterday, I felt lazy with a capital L. Well, more like I needed to rest, in all fairness to myself. So I decided not to rush to the Weight Watchers place to go get weighed. I also realized that I could go weigh in AND stay for the meeting tonight (Monday) and decided that it was the best course of action. I have to be honest here, it really was more that I didn't want to go yesterday. But whatever.
Yesterday, I put in the eTools what my food intake was while in Quebec. I had forgotten my handy dandy little WW notebook that came with the deluxe member kit so I had only a piece of paper from a regular notebook to note down my things. I would record food quickly and didn't bother much about calculating where I was with the allowance and exercise points b/c I would see the daily numbers and they quite frankly weren't bad. So, yeah, it really wasn't bad at all. Actually, all my excesses were absorbed by exercise. I didn't even touch my allowance points!
Still, I felt like maybe I had overeaten and was feeling guilty about it. Mind you, when I saw my reflection in the mirror while at the studio, it was quickly evident that, if I did gain weight, it was barely noticeable. What was noticeable, though, was that the tone is not as great as it was. Need to do pilates again! ;)
This morning, I was feeling a bit guilty still... well, more like wishing that I had done even better... and I started to curse all this traveling that I did and then it hit me: with all the traveling that I did, I still lost weight! I started the travel craze around mid-April and I have one more travel to do to Chicago but, in the meantime, as of the last weigh in, I had lost a total of like 4 lbs since mid-April. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude. "Normally" (or rather the old me). I would have GAINED at least that... and probably more like near 10 lbs b/c I would have eaten out so much. And I have eaten out quite a bit. But I was also very cognizant of my choices.
So now I don't feel so bad. Actually, I feel like this was a pretty splendid victory.
Yesterday, I put in the eTools what my food intake was while in Quebec. I had forgotten my handy dandy little WW notebook that came with the deluxe member kit so I had only a piece of paper from a regular notebook to note down my things. I would record food quickly and didn't bother much about calculating where I was with the allowance and exercise points b/c I would see the daily numbers and they quite frankly weren't bad. So, yeah, it really wasn't bad at all. Actually, all my excesses were absorbed by exercise. I didn't even touch my allowance points!
Still, I felt like maybe I had overeaten and was feeling guilty about it. Mind you, when I saw my reflection in the mirror while at the studio, it was quickly evident that, if I did gain weight, it was barely noticeable. What was noticeable, though, was that the tone is not as great as it was. Need to do pilates again! ;)
This morning, I was feeling a bit guilty still... well, more like wishing that I had done even better... and I started to curse all this traveling that I did and then it hit me: with all the traveling that I did, I still lost weight! I started the travel craze around mid-April and I have one more travel to do to Chicago but, in the meantime, as of the last weigh in, I had lost a total of like 4 lbs since mid-April. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude. "Normally" (or rather the old me). I would have GAINED at least that... and probably more like near 10 lbs b/c I would have eaten out so much. And I have eaten out quite a bit. But I was also very cognizant of my choices.
So now I don't feel so bad. Actually, I feel like this was a pretty splendid victory.