The bacon probably isn't helping either
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:48AM I promised I would 'fess up if I fell off the HASAY wagon, even though I decided to focus on being healthy rather than on pounds lost. So I kind of half fell off. Like, one leg dangling.
Easter kind of screwed me in the food front - quite a few cupcakes with butter cream icing and a chocolate bunny or two. But I was still working out, so I figured I'd be okay with a week of bad eating right?
I GAINED FOUR FUCKING POUNDS. In a week. That is not even remotely fair. Ya'll know how long it took me to lose four pounds - is it even physically possible that I got them back in 7 days?
Apparently it is, because they've stayed there all this week. I've tried to be good (hubby is off work which always messes with the healthy eating a little) and I've been working out like a maniac.
("Maybe you're pregnant already!" said FoN.
Yes. I'm 3 days pregnant, and I've gained 4 pounds. I'm really ahead of the curve, here.)
It's kind of frustrating to realize that despite the healthy role models I had growing up, the thousands of tasteless healthy meals and the many times my mother shoved us outdoors to play, the pattern that I'm going to end up following is the other one she showed me: my mother seemed to be chronically on a diet, continually trying to lose that last ten pounds. Constantly at war with food, even when - by all appearances - she was winning.
Anyway, I'm going to keep focusing on my workouts, because if I do manage to get pregnant I do NOT want to be as unhealthy as I was the first time around. That sucked. I want to be ready to run that marathon, ya'll.
Maybe the food thing will just fall into place, right?
Right? Guys?
Reader Comments (36)
RIGHT!
I should be at the gym right now instead of blog reading...
YOU can do it!!!!
All you can do is try and every time you want that chocolate bunny just look at it like a big globby pile of fat or a zombie.
You can do this! Just keep saying HASAY HASAY HASAY. Make it your food fighting mantra.
Remember that eating sugar and refined flours cause you to retain water... that's how you can gain 4 pounds in a week. It's mostly water.
Stay away from the refined stuff, watch your salt, and they'll probably drop off.
I'm with GreenJello on that one...excess water. I have the same issues with water retention - especially once a month. :)
Hubby being home always messes up with my 'healthy' eating, too - not to mention the whole 'normal' schedule.
You can do it!! Next week that leg won't be dangling! ;)
One step and one day at a time. You can do it. Don't beat yourself up for falling off the wagon. I do and it doesn't help me. I bet by next week you will be back down that four pounds and more and if not at least a couple of pounds. I know what you mean about wanting to be smaller and healthier than you were for your first baby because that's where I am. If I want to have another baby I have to get this weight off. I'm giving myself until the end of the summer to shed about 20 pounds at least. I hope I can do it....I want to lose at least 40 pounds before I have another baby in a couple of years.
psssh. it's water weight gain. just don't bathe or do dishes for a few days.
:P
One day at a time....if you fall off the wagon then just climb back on! Just think if you hadn't lost those 4 pounds before you might be 4 pounds more. Keep up the great work and you can get there.
Ugh. Dieting totally sucks.
I find the best thing is to try not focus on restrictions, which is hard. When I am spending all my time thinking about the healthier choices I can have (and lots of them) I don't feel as crappy. The lack of obsessing seems to help matters... Plus, I stopped weighing myself. I judge how I am doing by how my clothes fit. Another way to not obsess. The scale can make me insane. Not good.
I am sure you are doing great! Good luck!
Hey Keely...no stress baby! Four pounds ain't life or death!
You have made up your mind to realistically try a healthier lifestyle and you're doing just that!
Don't make me come up to Canadaland! Or do! I would love to cheat on HASAY with you and FoN!! :)
I have BEEN done with babies, but I still need to lose some weight. Good luck!
Your body weight fluctuates up to 5 pounds in a day. Check it again in a few hours, I bet it's different. It's not how much you weigh, it's how you feel and fit into those jeans.
Isn't it a dichotomy? The naughty food tastes so good while you're eating it, but makes you feel like shit later. The healthy food tastes like shit, but makes you feel good afterwords.
My answer is wine. But, of course, that's my answer to all questions.
eventually you get to a point where you crave the fruit and veggies more then the stuff that shouldn't be the only think in your diet.
It was Easter. You enjoyed yourself. It'll come off again.
"Yes. I'm 3 days pregnant, and I've gained 4 pounds. I'm really ahead of the curve, here.)"
I love you. I just want you to know that, kindred spirit.
you really DO gain the weight faster with the second child.
Easter was a bitch this year.
I'm fighting the chocolate bunny war too.
let me tell you a secret: when i found out I was pregnant with miles - five weeks pregnant, to be exact - i whipped out my maternity jeans and didn't look back. if i'm being honest with myself (and I am because this isn't MY blog)putting those jeans back on didn't have much to do with being pregnant. it's hard.
at least you know where you went wrong. i think that counts for something.
If the healthy food tastes like shit, you're doing it wrong.
One thing the NHE diet has done for me is absolutely demolish my taste (and cravings) for junk food. We do fast food maybe once a month - and candy bars are down to essentially zero.
We will occasionally get some high quality chocolate, but generally that gets consumed one or two segments at a time on a cheese plate.
My wife loves potato chips, so we probably average a bag or less per week.
It's gotten to the point where NHE isn't really a diet anymore, it's a lifestyle, and it's super easy to maintain.
Well think of this way Keely, that's four more pounds for the zombies to consume.
It's okay to be kind to zombies.
Just sayin'!
Ha!
Trying to get healthy and lose weight is my one difficulty in life. I've gone to college. I've got my MBA. I'm on my way to buy a house. But I can't seem to lose any weight. I can gain it just fine though! Life isn't fair, ya know!?
4 pounds in a week...please. I can gain 7 pounds in a day if I really put my mind to it.
i'm on my way to the gym because i feel like kaka when i don't go. also, i might have had one (plus 3) rice krispie treats last night. blerg.
quit weighing yourself. i weigh more now because i put muscle on. use your clothes: tight? eat one less slice of pizzer. loose? hello cold stone:)
no worries, bacon is a vegetable, i swear to god.
Hang in there! Sounds like you're doing all the right things... whatever you do, don't get frustrated and quit!!!!