The week so far and ahead

I don’t think I am going to meet my goal of remaining under 70kgs this week. So far the scales and my food chart indicate that I wil have a gain. Too many gym sessions skipped, too many little treats here and there.  I t happens sometimes after a super good week, not an excuse I know, but it does.

The problem started because my weekend held an unexpected event - my neighbours house burned down.  Seriously - right to the ground, it was horrible. One of those old fibro shacks, it might as well have been kindling after the long hot summer, and it was gone in minutes. I spent Saturday trying to do whatever I could for the family and making tea and coffee for firemen. Because of this, I didn’t do what I’d planned to do on Saturday, which was meal plan, shop, laundry and clean.

So, usually if these things don’t happen on the weekend, I do them Monday night. But monday after work I went to check out a problem at our (mine and my sister and her fiancee’s) investment property. So I didn’t get home until late. Tuesday I went dancing, wednesday I went to visit my Nana.  So, to date, meals have only been sketchily planned at best, and calories have not been counted. The gym has not been visited on two occasions because I’ve slept in (no excuses)  Preparing for work has taken more time each evening because lunches are not planned and clothes have not been selected.

I have however, made the best choices I could. I’ve bought salads and soups for lunch in place of packed meals and had dinners from the freezer instead of the fast food shop.

Things are not dire in any way, I’ve just given in to the chocolate box a few too many times this week, and I think it will nudge me just above the 70 mark. I was only just below it to start, and it was tenuous at best. It seemed to good to be true, a 1.6kg loss, maybe the score was skewed downwards by an unusual amount of dehydration? It certainly hasn’t shown up since.

I could, if I really wanted to, turn this around, do heaps of exercise and eat really well for the next two days and hit my goal. But it’s the easter long weekend and I don’t think that is realistic. So I will continue to eat and exercise normally and take whatever number pops up on the scale saturday morning as my just and proper due.

That’s all.