excess baggage

week 11 weigh-in report

Well, I've posted in the good weeks, I might as well post in the bad, as well!

I'm up 2.6 lbs. this week.

I attribute it to a couple of different things: I was really sick from new meds (and, alas, was not able to eat for at least a day) last weigh in, and had a rather obscene amount of loss (3.6 lbs.). The not-eating, I think, was really harmful to my metabolism. Plus, my TOM is due any day now, so I'm really feeling the PMS-bloat. Also, with my back being so out of it, I haven't been able to exercise at all, save for a few stretching exercises.

I felt really, really bad right after the weigh-in. My mind was going 100 miles per second with all sorts of junky thoughts. During the entire WW meeting, I was trying to suppress the urge to get a burrito right after the meeting - funny, I always have the urge to pick up a certain burrito from a certain restaurant during meetings, as the old haunt is literally right around the corner from the meeting - but last night the urge was profoundly more severe. I sat through the entire meeting, in a lot of pain, feeling badly about my results, and also feeling pretty much powerless over anything.

But when I got in my car, I somehow resisted the urges I had and forced myself to drive home. Once home, I did some mild stretches to alleviate the discomfort and heated me up a Healthy Choice meal. I fell asleep, exhausted, in the middle of Queer Eye For the Straight Guy - blasphemy!

I feel better this morning. Last night was the first week I didn't record a loss, and it was the first week I actually recorded a gain. Through the meeting, I was setting myself up for a habit of going off-program whenever I showed a gain - but I fought it, knowing that behavior wouldn't help my loss in the long run.

Perpective is a bitch, but it can be one of the most important tools to utilize sometimes.

Posted by weezgrrl at April 21, 2004 12:21 PM