I go through this every year....the weather gets nice in February and even though I know from 42 years of living in the Chicago area that this is absolutely, positively NOT going to last, I continue to get depressed when the nice weather goes away and the crappy weather returns. So, sure enough, we had a couple of weeks of beautiful weather, I was able to run outside (which was incredible) and now it's snowing again and I just can't take it!
So, in true form I start eating....and eating....and eating. And yes, in the past 2 months I've managed to gain 4 lbs! Yikes! I had been avoiding the scale and telling myself that with all my recent increased mileage I would be fine even though I had gotten on the eating train and had missed all the stops. Delusional....I recognize this. When I stepped on the scale this morning I actually got back on after my shower thinking maybe it had been wrong the first time (Really? What did I think was going to happen?).
Time to get off the eating train, stop making excuses, and start eating healthy again. I guess this means giving up my nightly giant bowl of popcorn (oil-popped, with real butter added) that I recently started eating again, and my Ghirardelli dark chocolate caramel squares in my desk drawer that I have for "snacks." I will get back on track! I have to....my boot camp challenge starts in a week and a half and I don't want to start out having to lose the 4 lbs. I gained before I do anything else. The plan is to eat fruits and veggies (and some protein -- either in the form of greek yogurt or go-tein) for a few days and try to get the cravings back under control and then I can go from there. Ugh.....why can't this just be easy?
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| Fruits and veggies....good!! |
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| Chocolate....bad. :( |
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