Day Five Hundred and Sixty-Eight - Weigh in #81 - Regaining Focus

When you are on a weight loss journey you are expected to lose weight.  It is, after all, the entire purpose of the journey.  For some reason I forgot about this.  Back before Christmas, I still had the mindset and discipline required to hit my weight loss goals.  I ate really bad over the holiday, and since then I've been lackadaisical with tracking my food.  Because of this I have over eaten, and even eaten more than my calorie goal more often than not.  That's why I'm going off sugar for a couple weeks.  I had been eating so much candy and desserts that I was starting to become addicted to it.  It was so bad that I am dealing with a headache now that I haven't been eating it.

Let's jump right into my weigh in.  As I've said for the last few days, I was fully expecting to be back up a few pounds after the way I ate last weekend.  I was simply hoping it wasn't a cray amount of gain.  When I stepped onto the scale today, the result was just as I expected.  My weight was up 2.8 lbs.  I am down 150.2 lbs., with a current weight of 216 lbs.  I know that next week's weigh in will be great.  I'm committed to having an excellent week, and sticking to the goal of losing weight.  I'm finding my discipline again, and I'm going to lose my butter half.

My calories today weren't perfect, but they were still in my "ok" range.  I had too many chips while watching basketball tonight.  I only ran a 5K today.  I needed a more relaxing run, and so today was the right day to do that.  I will probably do the same tomorrow, and then pick back up with a long run on Saturday.  It is supposed to be really nice this weekend, so I should be able to enjoy my runs.