Manipulation and Chocolate

Sunday March 20, 2011

I have decided that Sunday will be my day off from exercise, goals, and logging food. Not a CHEAT day, but a day of rest like Sunday should be. In the past I have had a hard time with cheat days, I always make excuses for myself. "I can have treats today too because I cheated yesterday why not do it for today too and start over tomorrow?" My diets up to this point have been a giant excuse to myself. I am my worst manipulator! Not anymore, I am giving myself a day (Sundays) to not worry about my calories. But I will still be eating good foods. No Sugar even on Sundays! This morning I did have a muffin for breakfast which is a big NO NO! I didn't even think about it until I was throwing my wrapper in the trash I was making breakfast for the girls and just started snacking. I feel that I should be completely honest with this blog and I will have no way to manipulate myself. Thinking "Just eat it! You don't have to blog about it!"

Today in relief society we were talking about the word of wisdom. When you think about the word of wisdom you think of drugs and alcohol right? Today we talk about keeping our bodies healthy and how that related to the word of wisdom. We talked about our diet and harming ourselves but putting bad stuff into our bodies. How when we've gotten to a point that we don't just want something, we NEED it like Chocolate or Soda! Also how we should stay active to keep our mind and bodies healthy.
I really think that this lesson was for me today. In thinking about it, I know I have not been doing the right things for myself. I have an addiction to Chocolate! Whenever I bought chocolate to bring home I would do one of two things with it. I would either hide so I can eat it all myself over time or I would Eat it all before Ryan got home so I could eat it ALL! Then I would drive to the store just for a box of ding dongs or a bag of reeses. I would think about it all morning and plan out how I would get there. I feel like Chocolate controls my life. Well NO MORE!

In the past I have always done better on diets if I also exercise! I love the gym environment and going to classes like spinning, yoga, fit fusion, zumba, etc. Exercise also makes me a happier person. I love the endorphins I get while at the gym. Tomorrow I am going to do my first free training session with a personal trainer. I am excited but scared to see what kind of physical shape I am in. I think I kind of know with how sedentary I have been until recently.

Mondays goals:
I am going eat all 1800 calories my body needs
I am going to hit my calorie burn of 3500 calories

One of the tools I am using to count the calories I burn is The Bodybugg that they use on The Biggest Loser. I was really excited when I got it for christmas thinking it would do all the work for me but it still is alot of work to log all the food into the system so it can tell you your calorie deficient so you can estimate how much you will lose. 3500= 1 pound so if I burn 1000 calories more per day than I eat I will lose 2 pounds a week. It is really cool tool that will help me alot if I use it right.