Catching up

Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news is, I've been completely on track with my exercise. Yesterday I did Cathe Friedrich's Push Pull. Today I went figure skating. And I am continuing to get compliments almost on a daily basis. Today ANOTHER person at work commented and said, "You are REALLY looking good lately!"

The bad news is I fell completely off the diet wagon yesterday. I don't know why. I was just HUNGRY and all I could think about was eating and I had absolutely no willpower to count or limit calories. I am not even going to tell you what I ate. Let's just say it was a lot and I didn't track a damned thing.

On the positive side of things, though, I am back on track and determined not to let this turn into a month long downward spiral. One thing that has been weighing on me in the back of my mind is how in the world I am going to manage December with all the social events (that involve eating) planned. The usual custom is that I go totally off the wagon in December, gain several pounds and then have to get back on track in January. Same story every single year. But this year I am not going there. I worked so hard to take off the weight I have - I don't want to slide backwards. But the fact is, I have about 9 social events on my calendar in December so I had to come up with a plan.

I decided the best way to deal with December is to plan the entire month out instead of going week by week. This way I can really figure out where I need to place the high calories days. Since there are so many of them in December (and they don't conveniently fall one-per-week) I need more calendar "space" to utilize in making my plan. Another thing I did was to shift some calories around to create a larger number of higher-calorie days. The end result, though, is that the calories all add up to 1800/day so no damage will be done.