Slack Bum

I have been a major slack bum with blogging lately- for good reason- I have been hiding! I didn’t lose my gain from the previous week: I in fact gained another 0.5 kg! My week spent with my sister proved to be a week of extremes- either really good choices or very poor choices. Most lunches I had cake, as I was comfort eating. I felt isolated working in the company that I was trialling at. And I also had to contend with socialising choices. I went out quite a few times with my sister for tea, so I am actually surprised I only gained 0.5kg!

There were some activities that I did that I worked up a sweat with while I was away. My sister took me to her gym on the Thursday, and on the Sunday we went to Nelson Bay for a walk (up a very big hill!) and a swim. No to mention the steps I would have clocked up on the trial. The tile manufacturer that I was working at was in a building that was probably a km in length!

This week has been pretty good so far. I have been back to my normal good eating- there have been some unforeseen bad food moments (work lunch, farewell morning tea, free bag of candy from the newsagent!) but I cut back on other stuff to compensate, and have been trying to be consistent with my weights and cardio this week, so I certainly feel skinnier than I was when I come back from my sister’s.

I have made a decision to move my weigh-ins back to Friday. I find Monday weigh-ins soul destroying! I had moved it to Mondays in the hope it would motivate me on the weekend to make very good choices. Alas, it’s not worked that way for me! I am going to be tempted on the weekend, and I am going to indulge half the time. I find the good thing about a Friday weigh-in is that it motivates me after a weekend blowout to jump back on the bandwagon straight away as I have four days to redeem myself.

I am travelling up to Scone this weekend to go to a country village ball with my family, so really looking forward to that. I have a plan: I am going to drink the new diet-friendly fizzy wine (Jewel Yellow) and snack on chopped up vegies, rice crackers and light dips as its BYO. I’ll have my dinner before the ball as well, so I should be pretty full before I go. And I have planned an equipment-free cardio and resistance workout for Saturday morning as well, so I reckon next week will be an even better result!

My new Xmas Challenge goal- not to have any more gains… at least not until a couple of weeks before Xmas when it starts getting silly with Xmas parties!!!!