Weekend Recap

First off thank you to you all who either messaged me or commented on my last post and just being back in general and the overall support :). I have to say that I was so nervous to post that last picture on Saturday and felt some shame of just having to really face the damage of not being on top of my weight and health has done to me. It's just so good to know I am not alone and what I am saying makes sense and that you guys are so encouraging about it, it was deff. a good boost to make it through the weekend.

I can say my first weekend eating healthy again went great and wasn't too hard to fight the temptations. For some reason weekends are my weakness's and I find it SO much easier to justify eating crap because "it's the weekend" it's like it becomes this right of passage in your head that I know at least for me I feel I deserve to eat unhealthy or too much or whatever because I am off work and with friends generally or whatever, but problem is it's not, and sadly one weekend of two days can ruin a whole weeks worth of work. That has been a real issue for me this last year so I am deff. celebrating a good weekend of clean eating. I really only had to hurdles that were tough to jump but they were Saturday night when a group of high school friends and I went to out favorite Mexican place that pretty much everyone at my college/town love called Puerta Valarta. It is very good, pretty inexpensive but as most Mexican places run not real healthy, and to top it off it's unlimited homemade fried chips in baskets at your table which makes it very tough! I just chose that while yes I could have done the most healthy option which are their salads but honestly the sodium and fat in them are terrible and it would have been at least 600 or 700 calories and because my body is so detoxed from that kind of food it wouldn't have agreed and it hasn't the last 2 times I have been here, so a nice trick I have and I am sure many other healthy journey seekers do is eat before you go! I ate a nice healthy dinner at home right before and drank a lot of water so that way I would feel full and hopefully things wouldn't look so tempted, and it worked! I also got a Diet Coke as my treat because I don't drink soda too much at all anymore, but figured that would be what my exception would be and would keep me busy. It was deff. not giant thing but a small victory for me because saying no to friends has been SO hard and I have been justifying weekends for months now so I left that night really happy, and ended up getting some low cal, 110 to be exact Frozen Yogurt for my other treat after waiting through the meal and I was satisfied and proud of myself for once.

My other hurdle was last night at my Small group meeting for my church. Our church splits up into small groups twice a month and meet at one of the group members houses and we always go to my "like a second parents" house The Harris's. It is wonderful and Susan is a wonderful cook so there is always great things to eat. Last night they ordered pizza after we had our meeting and salad and desserts and again I ate before hand and brought a Carbonated fruit calorie free drink with me and wasn't too tempted there either, other than as the night got later the cookies started calling my name lol! Another lady in our group Pam makes the WORLD'S greatest cookies that I wanted so bad as about 10pm rolled around because I stayed late talking to some of the group but I reminded myself as I stopped to think about it that I would regret it and that when I went home I could make some 100 calorie popcorn or a small something there. So I did stick to my guns and again felt pretty happy.

I think this weekend I learned I have to slow myself down when it comes to a craving or a temptation or whatever and just mentally talk myself through  and deff. NOT make an impulse choice. That's really what our health and being a health nut boils down too lol, it's all about caring and now caring and really thinking through what is going in your mouth. Do I really love doing it all the time??? Heck no I don't lol, but I have learned that I enjoy it later on and that patience is key as well and really weighing the options and slowing down to make well thought out caring options. It's no different than how we slow down to plan our daily outfits or take time to shower and go to the dentist to get our teeth cleaned, do we love doing that stuff all the time and would we like to skip it some days, I know I do but in the end it makes for a happier, cleaner, healthier you :). So again I am retraining myself to care, slow down and think. That's it for my weekend wrap up and I hope you all are having a great start to this week! I have already thought of a lot of great things to blog about this week and a lot of things I am excited about and hopefully a weight loss to report as well!
~Kassey