It’s Friday! Time to take a break!

A sweet and Idaho Potato Snuggling

We’ll look at my daily weigh in to begin today. I’m at 227.0 lbs, down 0.4 lbs from yesterday, I lost 0.2 lbs fat, gained 0.1 lbs water and lost 0.3 other. For a total for five days of 6.4 lbs down, Woot! Just 11.6 more lbs to go to my mini-goal which I should reach within a month. I expect that this will be a typical ‘great’ day from now on with an average day losing 0.2 lbs. And tomorrow, I expect to gain 1-2 lbs. Why? Because everyone should take a break from controlling what they eat one day a week. Now, I’m not saying I should eat a gallon of ice cream or 20 snickers bars, I don’t want to over-eat to the point you can’t take it off next week. But if I’ve been craving something all week but couldn’t fit it into my calorie count, today’s the day. I will have probably have 2 pieces of bread tonight when I eat out at dinner and order whatever I feel like. Although I really am not having any ‘cravings’ at this time. If I get there and want pasta, I’ll have it (although I probably will not have the bread then, I really hate the way I feel all gunked up from processed foods). If I have energy I’ll probably get fajita’s (having to make your own food WHILE going out can be exhausting! LOL). So for the next few days, because I won’t have enough fiber today, I’ll be carrying some of that processed food around with me, PLUS some extra calorie fat gain.

Why do I break over weekly? For one, because if I’m absolutely craving something it’s rarely on a Saturday or Sunday because I just ate whatever I wanted on Friday so likely if I want something I only have to wait 3-4 days to have it. I can usually talk myself into waiting that long.

Another reason is your body doesn’t get the feeling it’s starving. “Look, it says, there IS still food in the world, we don’t have to go into hoarding mode. All is well. We can keep building muscle and bone and burning fat because there is more food left in the world.”

And finally because everyone should have one day eating out a week just for the social value and to not have to eat your own cooking. It’s great, you get reinforcement from friends on your weight loss, consolation from them if you had a bad week and you can do the same for them for whatever their goals are in life. It’s good for you. And it’s almost impossible to eat out and eat reasonably. Even if all you get is a salad what they put on the salad makes it a vehicle for way too many of the wrong fats and overall calories.

So pick a day and relax. Don’t go crazy but if your aunt Margaret sent over a piece of red velvet cake and it’s been taunting you all week, now’s the time!

I’ve decided to cut these posts down in size for many reasons. One, turns out I’m spending too much time talking about my life and not living it. I thought I’d be able to post faster than I am but it’s not the case. Secondly, I don’t want to run out of subjects too fast. I’m sure we’re going to have days where I have nothing to say and no time to say it. But not too soon, nor too fast! And lastly, when looking over the posts they were just too long, the paragraphs were too long, even I got bored trying to get through them. LOL OK Everyone do something fun today!

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