Not Such A Great Day

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm addicted to sugar. And today wasn't a good day, so I splurged, treated myself, binged, comforted myself with chocolate. I was frustrated because the last three days my weight has wiggled about more than a caterpillar in spring and this morning it had gone up. A whole pound. After being so careful to eat right and exercise and count my calories. I tried not to think about it during the day, but by the time I turned on Top Model, I was reaching for the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (sorry sister, I'll buy you two more packets when you come!). This was after I had had a caramel and chocolate covered macadamia at lunch, a handful of trail mix as a mid-afternoon snack, and a handful of white chocolate chips with my supper. I know, serious overdose.

I did manage to keep it to 3 PB cups and 4 Maltezers, so it wasn't toooooooo bad. But I felt kinda depressed as I walked home, thinking about how all that exercise I did today went for nothing, since I ate it away in about 3 seconds. What a waste!

Two things. 1: what can I do when the scales go up and I feel depressed? 2: how can I prevent this from happening again?

I'll answer #2 first. I think the trick is to allow for 1 snack a day that I can choose what I want it to be. I am burning enough calories with my 90 minutes of daily exercise that I can afford a 150-calorie snack. I will also brush my teeth right after supper. I absolutely hate brushing my teeth (all who agree, please raise your right hand!) and if I do it right after supper, I won't be as tempted to snack more because then I would have to brush them all over again!

#1? I should buy only one junk food at a time. I need to decide on a comfort food that I can eat handfuls of and not feel guilty about because it's low calorie. My snack food of choice right now is buttered popcorn flavoured rice cakes.  I need to affirm myself when the scales go up and choose to think positive thoughts, to recognize that I am feeling healthier, and to look at the trend of my weight, give it a week, and see if it's gone down.

Let's see how it goes!