Kamerad

sentence substitute - A shout of surrender, used by German soldiers

          Yesterday was a "bad" day for me. Diet wise that is. Otherwise it was absolutely fantastic! See, its that TotM (you can figure it out!) and yesterday was just the beginning of it, so I was somewhat irritable (Glenn can vouch for that), a little bloated, and overall just didn't care. The day started out as usual. I have a good routine going, with eating a good breakfast (to reduce sodium I have stared eating a good mixed berry cereal with skim milk and it is delicious. Plus, who would have thought that the serving size on the box is actually satisfying... I would always just pour until the bowl was filled to the top and dump in a tonne of milk, but it turns out that the serving size fills me up enough to make it to my morning snack, it's fantastic!)

My sister in law's, my brother in law, Glenn, and my niece were planning a trip to Barrie's Winterfest - check out this cute picture of my niece at winterfest (fyi it was just taken with my point and shoot camera, not my good one) ...

so I had even put a couple of Zip-Lock baggies of snacks in there to tide me over until family dinner. All was well until that point. Family dinner. Oh so good, but TOO good. Especially when all you want to do is eat! Instead of limiting myself (as I said, I was in an "I don't care" mood) I ate, and ate, and ate. Not only all of the yummy rotisserie chicken including *gasp* the skin, or the carb filled potatoes, or the absolutely delicious bread with margarine.... but here's the biggy a generous helping of Boston Cream cake. That's right folks, custard, cake, thick chocolate icing, and whipped cream (oh let's not forget the handful of mixed fruit on top.. that has to count for something right?). Don't get me wrong, I also had some delicious cauliflower, and broccolini (a mix between broccoli and kai-lan, chinese broccoli) and I probably could have even stayed within my calorie range, but didn't purely because I shouted "KAMERAD" to my cravings and just went with it. You will be happy to know however, that when I weighed myself this morning, the scale hadn't changed from the small increase I had yesterday morning (the water weight from that TotM) but still, I felt slightly guilty at the end of the night, and then really guilty when I started feeling nauseated, and was woken several times throughout the night because my stomach hated what I had done to it, and I did not feel well at all! My body was not at all used to the sheer volume of food I had consumed in one sitting! What I learned big time from this event was that I think in the end I am going to have an easier time maintaining as long as I don't let every meal get back to the way it was last night. It was a reminder that I can have one of those meals every once in a while without suddenly gaining 10 pounds, which sounds pretty ridiculous when I say it but in my head that is kind of what I am thinking.

So I vowed to make today better, and better it has been. Much, much, much better! My sister in law Jacquie, being the deary that she is, got me a couple of coupons for free classes at the gym she frequents. She asked me to come along to one with her today, and I am so glad that I did. Today was my first time trying out a Zumba class. It was a tonne of fun and the hour just flew by! I then came home, had a bite to eat, and thanks to my awesome co worker lending me her Hip Hop Abs DVD's, I did a 30 minute workout with Fat Burning Cardio workout on there. It was fantastic, I still feel some burning in my abs, but it was pretty intense when I first finished! I am on track with my eating, and about to run to the grocery store to pick up some more veggies, I go through veggies so quickly (and by my previous post of my dinner I am sure you can see why!) I think when I get back from Hawaii, I will be looking into getting a membership at a gym so that I can attend some classes on a regular basis. This is a routine I would like to establish, and continue with even once I have reached my goal weight. I think this is the most realistic for me anyway, because I just can't see myself working out on my elliptical a few times a week once I am done losing the weight. Could be a big reason why I didn't continue working out last time after I had lost a lot of weight and then gained it all back. I think with classes I will be more likely to stick with it and continue, simply because they are so much FUN!

I am not going to do my Monday weigh in due to some water weight, and I know it's water weight because my rings are tighter and harder to get off. I will wait it out another week or so and weigh in then. Until then I am just going to keep plugging along, and hope for the best. I hope everyone on this journey is doing well!