Got up early to get real exercise today. Walk/run for 20, followed by pushups and yoga stretches for another 20. Not too bad.
Eating okay as well.
Missed meditation. Maybe if I'd read your post last night.
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Time to get back on track for real.Yesterday, I had a great big RED day, the first in a while. I ate four slices of pumpkin bread (which is really much more like cake than bread) after supper. After the first slice, I was in full "I've blown it anyway" mode and was packing it in. (Like saying "Hey, I just put a tiny dent in the car - think I'll run it into a tree and completely total it! I mean, it's bent anyway...")
Yes, I had "reasons." They don't really matter. Eating did not at all address the actual issues I needed to address. It was just a bad choice.
I felt awful when I went to bed, and woke up with heartburn. Heartburn! I never used to get heartburn! Nasty stuff. I spent most of the night not-really-sleeping on a stack of pillows.
This morning, I still felt yucky. Even thought about skipping breakfast, but knew that would undermine habit in the long run. So I had a tiny cup of yogurt and told myself firmly "this is your meal." Yogurt was actually a good choice. Lunch was salad with tofu, also a good choice. After those two light meals, I'm only just starting to feel normal.
In my recent history, this is a pretty major binge. I do pretty well on No-S, and don't have a lot of red days. But in long-term history... I blush to say I've done much, much worse. So I'm a little surprised that I felt SO miserable.
My only explanation is that my body has gotten USED to reasonable portions and decent food over the last few years on No-S, and is letting me know in no uncertain terms that it doesn't like being maltreated. I wonder if I was so out-of-touch with my own needs that I just missed those signals in the past, or if my body was so out of whack because of the lousy eating I did that it couldn't even protest?
At any rate, I have no desire to do this again any time soon, if ever. I feel that I owe myself an apology for doing this to myself!
Thank you for the kind words, Kathleen. I think one of the strengths of No-S is the supportive community, and as long as I've been doing this, I still appreciate it.Kathleen wrote: You're doing well to simply face what happened.
Kathleen
I've always been an All or Nothing person when it comes to dieting, and I'm starting to learn that some effort is better than no effort -- it's hard to change old habits, but I'm working on it. The same applies to exercising --I tend to set unrealistic objectives, that deep down I know I can't meet, so I end up doing nothing. With the new habits I'm trying to develop, I'm thinking that even if my exercise objective were to take a walk around the block every day (unless the weather is really horrible), at least it would get my body used to being in motion, as you say. And sometimes, the hardest thing is to get started, so a potentially 5 minute walk around the block can lead to a 30 minute walk instead.KCCC wrote:Butterfly, you are SO right that something is better than nothing! I have a theory that "a body in motion stays in motion and a body at rest stays at rest" is not really about physics, but exercise. If I do even a little, I stay "in motion," but if I stop, it's very very hard to start again.
Thanks, Thalia!Thalia wrote:for an S-Day treat made with leftover bread, you can do a strata! basically a savory bread pudding. Or stuffing or panzanella. There's that whole world of recipes made up by desperate cooks to use up their stale bread ...
You are making me want to start baking again!
No, you can't beat yourself up. I'm starting to find that if, in a particular situation, you make the better choice (even if it's not the best choice), example: choosing a piece of cheese over a piece of cake, or not turning a little slip-up into a full-day eating binge, treating it as yellow rather than red yields better results because it won't totally derail my day.KCCC wrote: Despite what I told Butterfly on her thread, I counted it as an S-day yellow rather than a red. Psychologically, it's easier to "waste" a NWS than to call that a red this early in the month. (Two NWS S-days a month is my informal limit. So, one down.) I have been SO GOOD this last week under great temptation that I just can't beat myself up for that little.
Lol! That's so funny that you wrote this when I was thinking that I'd eaten "out" too much lately! But I'm glad you find the thread interesting. Most of my weekday cooking falls into "thirty minutes or less" recipes.Vigilant2010 wrote:I'm getting hooked on your check-in thread because the food you eat sounds so delicious and gorgeous and balanced! Gives me something to shoot for.
In the meantime, I'll sit here with my mouth watering.