Bottomless Pit

I have ALWAYS been a bottomless pit. My doctor has actually said before that he thinks that there is something wrong with me and that I’m missing the little part of your brain that tells you when your full.

I’ve taken medication for it before, and it’s worked… I would usually lose like 10 pounds or so, but then I’d get used to the medication and it wouldn’t really be working anymore and the pounds would creep back on. Even if it was working though, I know that medication is not a solution to my problem. I need to learn to STOP eating, even when I’m not full. And, medication is not a long term solution.  Lifestyle change is the only longterm solution.

That’s why I chose to do weight watchers. The points gives me the structure to know that I CANNOT keep eating, even when I really really really want to. And WW still allows me to eat cheetos and whatnot when I want to, which is very important.

Today, I made some poor eating decisions, but I also made some good ones.

• Poor – I went to Chick-fil-a for lunch. Negating factor – it was breakfast/lunch, and I only ate it because we don’t have Chick-fil-a in Chicago and I’m on Spring break!
• Poor – Ate cheetos for a snack. Negating factor – I put the cheetos down before I got carried away and ate some raw veggies with light ranch dressing instead. Then I ran/walked for 40 minutes and burned 400 cals.
• Poor – big ole steak for dinner. Negating factor – ate lots of steamed veggies with it, and I didn’t finish the entire steak. Gave some to my dad and some to the dog. I loooooove steak though. I never have it when I’m in Chicago because I can’t afford to buy it, never go out to restaurants that serve steak, and don’t have a girl to cook it on even if I could afford it! So again, spring break splurge!
• Poor – I had a biiiig ole bowl of ice cream during Grey’s Anatomy. Negating factor – it was blue bell, it was delish, and we don’t have that in Chicago. Also – I never keep ice cream in my house so I never do that! So really, no negating factors there…. but it was worth it.

I have my alarm set to get up before my hair appt. in the A.M. so I can get a decent workout in. Which will be needed because we are going out to dinner to an Italian place tomorrow night with my grandparents. I will try to steer clear of the bread basket, but let’s be honest here… that’s likely not happening. But it’s Friday during Lent, so no meat means I’ll likely just have some plain pasta, which isn’t sooooo bad.

I’m off to dream land now… sorry if this post was a bit rambley! Hope everyone is doing well and staying on point!