"Tipful Tuesday" :) Plan Ahead!

Thank you all for your awesome comments to my last post!!! It was deff. hard to come back with a gain like that and feel like I have let a lot of people down, including myself. It's a hard pill to swallow for sure but it's one of those things that it just is what it is. I think what my weeks recently finally so successful was just getting back up, NOT looking to the past and the woulda,coulda shoulda's but yet realizing this is where I am, this is what I have to do and it's time to just look forward NOT back, because back gets you no where. All in all that being said weight this week 180 meaning 10lbs down and 10lbs closer to my goal since starting back!!! Deff. SO excited to see the scale going back down and ready to get back to into the 170's now too!!

My tip for the week is deff. plan ahead and do it even when it doesn't seem nessacary. The quote my grandmother and I am sure many other's use is "When you fail to plan, you plan to fail". I have to realization now that obviously food tempation is NEVER going to not be an issue with me. Doesn't matter what size or weight I am at, how much work I have done or what goal I want to hit, food will ALWAYS be my comfort mechanism, it's now just about how will I use my disipline and knowledge to let it overtake me. I know that no matter how long I have gone without carbs or chocolate or crap in general it's gonna look good, especially when you through in stress to the mix haha ;). Anyways I had a good test of my dedication already this wkend. Sunday night was my "small group" meeting from my church, basically a Bible study where the congregation is seperated into small groups lol and meets in one of their homes. I knew before hand that their was going to be amazing "church food" the kind that is so bad for you and almost sinful haha kind of an oximoran for sure there! Anyways the meeting was at 6 and I knew that it would be smart to eat before I went even though I was not technially hungry per say. I did eat my dinner and then went over and my plan was genious! I even said no to some amazing looking carrot cake! It was really nice to because it gave me time to be social and talk rather than be so focused on the food aspect. I know that sounds kind of lame or like who would be that distracted but it is hard sometimes when you go to social events with food because you forget your whole purpose lol!

So the moral to my tip is ALWAYS plan when trying to be healthy, that one meal is not worth ruining a good weeks worth of eating. Maybe have a few bites of something but eat before or bring an alternative, don't bring a dingy protein bar because I mean in book a protein bar DOES NOT ammount to anything compared to carrot cake haha, but bring a yummy 100 calorie pack like the new chocolate covered pretzels, SO GOOD btw :)! It was so much more nice to start out this week knowing I did not undo over the weekend the hard work I did during the week and know from here on out it's DOWN on the scale I go :oD!
~Kassandra