FAILED!

Originally written on
Feb 21 2010 20:14

Okay, so I didn't really fail today, but it was rough.

First off, I did not wake up early enough to have breakfast. I still had breakfast, snack, and lunch but all of them were off schedule. The whole day was screwed up!

I did not have 2nd snack because I forgot to bring the snack to Church. So I was starving!! I only had 900 something calories before I left for Church. That's nothing! I realized when I got home (very late...740) that I was 800+ calories away from 1800 cal goal. Geez...well, my dad cooked one of his famously caloric mac and cheese meals so I just had some of that and decided that those calories were going to eat up most of the 800 calories that I needed. (my dad cooks VERY fattening and caloric meals. mac and cheese and garlic bread.)

I didn't even want to find out just how many calories I had. It didn't matter because I knew I wasn't going to go over 800 calories. So on my food meter I just said "Dad's Meal for Dinner= 700 cal." I didn't know how many calories were really in the meal I had, but I didn't care. Like I said, It didn't matter. I knew it was a lot and it wasn't going to be more than 800.

Still needed a snack at 930 because I was starving for so many hours without my snack that even after the super caloric dinner I was still hungry. I knew I could handle the calories and even if not, I didn't care...today was such a screwed up day anyways. What I decided to have for my evening snack was 1 pumpkin bar like usual, but also a banana. I was about 300 calories over the limit, but it was close enough and I would at least not be hungry anymore.

There will be hard days and days when you don't do so well, but the key is to not let it get you down and do better the next day. I do not want to cheat on this diet and I don't refer to days like these days that I cheated. Cheating to me I think is more like totally forgetting about the diet and having that donut that you know you can't have or just consciously not doing the best you can. Do the best you can! You will have hard days, but do not let them get you down and do not give up. Do not just forget about the diet. Try your best, but don't kill yourself when you aren't perfect.

I think what I will have to do to resolve these off-days is to actually wake up for breakfast. Yes, that's right, no more sleeping in. Go to bed on time and wake up early to have your breakfast so you can eat your meals and snacks on regular schedule.