Damage Control
The last few days have been kind of a mess as far as tracking and eating habits. I feel I’ve reverted back to my old ways and it’s going to show on the scale this week.
I’ve tried my best to keep busy. Yesterday I even cleaned Aislyn’s room without any help from Aislyn (I usually request at least a minimal effort from the kids when I clean their rooms). But I still fell apart around 4:30.
If I eat more than every 3-4 hours, I’ll be eating too much. I don’t think it’s what I’m eating, either. My food choices on program are pretty solid.
4:30 is right in that hardest part of the day for me, the time before dinner, so maybe I should make that my main focus for the day. Maybe I should have a bigger meal as near that time as I can without spoiling dinner.
I doubt anything I do within reason will spoil dinner. I have a hearty appetite. Even as a little skinny brat, I could eat.
Eating a good size meal before dinner might help me control my portion size at dinner, too.
It’s hard to stay under budget when you get up at 3:00 in the morning. You should get some relief for exercise, but they don’t like that at the clinic. They tell you not to deduct the calories on the app for exercise. I don’t know why.
You have to start eating within an hour after you get up, too, so no wiggle room there.
So it typically goes:
3:00 breakfast
6:00 or 7:00 small snack
10:00 or 11:00 lunch
1:00-3:00 large snack
4:00-6:00 dinner
So that theoretically should work. Why doesn’t it, always? I think because of the huge variabilities in times. If I have my big snack at 1:00, no wonder I’m starving by 4:30.
I’m going to have to really push the fluids and see if I can’t hold off on the big snack until closer to 3:00.
The good news is I still have four days to play with. It’s not too late to turn this around. At least to break even or minimize the damage from my first three days of more loosely following the program.
I have to go upstairs, put on some pants and shovel off my car so I can go work out. No, don’t worry, I’m not sitting here in my skivvies, I’ve got gym shorts on. I just thought it would sound funny to say.
