Think and Eat!

Last week I was a rock star!  I was on plan!  I was drinking water!  I was going out for walks!  You could have called me the poster child for TSFL!  But there was one exception.

My weight was not moving.  It was the same all week long.  Each morning, I would get up, get on the scale, and my weight would be the same as it was the morning before.  I really could not think what was going wrong.  I knew I was on plan.  I was doing the right things.  Since I am the queen of excuses, I thought that maybe I was losing inches and my weight hadn't caught up yet.  My clothes were feeling better.

Then yesterday happened.  I started on plan, but blew it at lunch.  Didn't bring enough meals with me, and I ended up eating pizza and cookies.   I almost went off plan for the whole day...but there was something that was nagging me.

No, it was not my health coach, although she must have some kind of telepathy because I received a text from her asking about my weekend right as I was deciding if I was going to eat what I was making my kids, or if I was going to have a MF smoothie.

What was nagging me was a quote I have seen floating around Pinterest and Facebook.  It talked something about going off plan for an entire day because of one bad choice, is like slashing all of your car tires because one was flat.  One bad meal does not mean that I destroyed the entire day.  I should not let go of my plan because of one bad choice.  I ended up going with the smoothie and eating the rest of my 5 MF meals, and did not have what the kids were eating.

It felt good to be in control!

I am proud that I was able to make better choices, but in that, I learned something else I was doing wrong.  The week before, I was a rock star (see above).  I know I was on plan.  I was doing everything I needed to be doing, but the scale was not moving.

After my fallout yesterday, when I was cooking dinner for my kids and debating if I should just forget the day and just eat whatever, I realized that I was standing in the kitchen with a spoon full of peanut butter in my mouth.

Hello!  Peanut butter????

I really had no idea.  It was something that I always do, and I didn't even recognize I was doing it.  I began to think back to last week.  Yup.  I am sure I had a spoonful or two each day of peanut butter.  I didn't count it, didn't even realize I was doing it!

I love peanut butter.  I know peanut butter is a problem for me, yet, I still had it in the house.  Right in the pantry so I could see it as soon as I opened the pantry door.

It's the little things.  Those "little" spoonfuls, which I am sure were not little, added up and were making my weight loss stop.  When I realized that I was eating peanut butter, a light bulb went off.  I know I have a problem with peanut butter.  So, why do I need to have it in the house???

Last night the peanut butter went on vacation.  It is gone.  I am not going to buy it again.  But then I got to thinking.....I didn't realize I was eating that peanut butter....what else am I eating and not thinking about?  I am going to log my food on MyFittnessPal this week.  I am going to log every bite I take.  One of the reasons I love TSFL, is because you don't have to spend hours a week planning what you are going to eat every second.  There is still some planning with the lean and green, but being able to grab a bar or something and go is a life saver for me.  But that doesn't mean I don't have to think.

My goal is to obtain optimal health.  In order to get there, I have to be thoughtful about what I am eating.  I can't let a few bites of something cause me to stray from my journey.  If I am going to eat something off plan, I need to make a conscious decision to do so.  Every time I go to eat, I need to Stop, before I eat something. Challenge myself (is eating this going to help me reach my goals).  And Choose if I want to eat it or not.

Logging my food and reflecting on my choices is going to be my goal this week.  Are you thinking while you are eating????




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