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Excuses, Excuses!

 Yesterday, I briefly got off track, but as of the moment, it only lasted a day.  Yeah for me!

I can come up with all sorts of creative reasons to cheat.  This time, it was because I had a batch of bananas getting too ripe and thought I needed to use them.:/  So I immediately lost my head and made a batch of banana/oatmeal muffins.  It wouldn't be so bad, but I had 5 (they were rather large) muffins last night and 5 more this afternoon after I got up.  

Later, I was thinking about making sure I didn't extend this little vacation into 2, 3 or more days.  I'm very proud that I fetched the last two muffins and put them in the trash.:)  Then I put the recipe into my FitBit app to see what sort of damage I did.  I was surprised to see that the five muffins only added to 844 calories, so I didn't do as much damage as I thought.  Since I had only had those 844 calories so far today, I had enough room to stay within my calorie limit.  I've been watching it carefully the rest of the day.  

I was also thinking about the difference between counting WW points or just counting calories.  I have to admit that when I count calories only, I make very unwise choices a lot of the time.  Sure, I'm keeping my calories down, but I'm eating mostly simple carbs and very little veggies or even fruit.  On Weight Watchers, I always get much more because the fruits and veggies are free.  I either need to consciously eat better or maybe go back to counting points.  Still though, limiting my calories is number 1.  Tonight, I did better in that regard.  I had a veggie sandwich and a banana (haha) this evening.  Anyway, eat more veggies and fruit!

I took three days off from jogging and walking 10,000 steps to try to loosen up my hamstring.  Walking might have helped--I don't know.  I did jog 20 minutes today and it felt pretty good.  This is only the second time in my life I have ever jogged at least 20 minutes!  The last time, which was about three years ago, I worked up to about 33 minutes--then something happened, and I quit.  What happened that time?  I went to the track and worked out with Diane and her husband.  I jogged for the first time on the cushy high school track.  But for some reason, my knee gave me fits.  I don't know if it was the new surface or what.  I sort of hobbled home; and from what I remember, that was the end to my jogging.  

It's amazing the things that can convince me to quit and get off track.  Maybe it's sort of like the reasons an alcoholic make to take that next drink.  No more excuses!  

My mom kept a lot of journals, and it was a delight to have those after she died.  My brother told me, though, that he tried to read them and he was shocked at how much she wrote about losing weight.  It bothered him so much that he would not read them anymore.  I was a bit surprised by that, though not upset or anything.  But I think people without weight problems don't understand what a huge lifestyle change it is for us.  It is so huge; and it involves changing almost every aspect of our lives.  I suspect that mostly only those trying to lose weight spend time on weight loss blogs!  

I did get in 10,000 steps today.  

Here's to a day on track for tomorrow.  I'm meeting A. for dinner for our weekly meeting at IHOP, so I need to plan for that.  

Good night!

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