It was in the mid 90’s today and humid. We cut 4 lawns today and finished up the hedges at another house. I drank lots of zero calorie flavored water and ice tea. One of our customers gave us home made oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies. My will power was zip and I dove right into them. That was the first bad thing I did. When I got home…I got into the mini banana nut muffins. My second bad food choice for the day. I’m guessing that was probably 1000 useless calories. I could kick myself.
I pushed the lawnmower for 18,400 steps today. It was so hot and I wanted to quit so bad. I kept thinking, this is helping my weight loss. I feel like it was in vain after I see the way I chose to eat today.
I got on the scale this evening…..and I weigh 4 pounds more than I did on the 7th. It sure gives me a defeated feeling. I’ll reweigh myself in a couple of days. I’m hoping this weight gain is from all the fluid I drank today.
I thought we were going to have tomorrow off from lawn cutting. Phone rang after we got back this afternoon, we have a new customer. We don’t need to advertise. People we service, tell others about us and our business has really grown this year. Good work and reasonable rates is what people are looking for.
I’m off to drink some more water and relax with a good book
It could be water retention or a real gain. Sometimes we don’t know until the week after. You can gain as much as 6 pounds of fake weight in a day. You did well by owning up to that muffin.
I make my own cupcake/muffins muffins can have more calories than doughnuts.
PS
Do you journal your food. I find it helpful.
I have ADHD and if I don’t write it down when or before I put the food in my mouth I end up with a fuzzy memory.
I have found in my weight loss quest that when I drink lots of flavored waters and teas even though they are zero calorie that have plenty of sugars and carbs and can increase my weight instead of decreasing it even if I do all of the right things. As a fan of flavored beverages I know how much easier it is to drink those than just palin water but there is really a reason we are suppose to drink just plain old water. Hope this helps!
I find it so hard to drink plain water. I bought a couple of lemons and limes. I’m going to see if I like the flavor they give regular water. I’m going to try tomorrow to drink one plain bottle of water to every flavored one I drink while I’m cutting grass.
I didn’t make them but bought the mini sized ones like you had suggested before. I have gotten away from doing a journal…I think subconsciously I don’t want to see in black in white what I’ve eaten. You are so right though…I NEED to get back on track with that. Thanks!!