Happy New Year! — as belated as this is.
The good news is, if I stay on top of things from here on
out, I’ll still be able to make 164 by August 1, my original goal date. The bad
news is, I won’t hit 196 by my birthday, and probably not by Feb. 11 … just not
enough time left.
Yeah, I put on weight for Christmas.
I stopped tracking my intake. And I found it hard to start
again. I lost some of it after Christmas morning, only to put it back on for
the new year. Since New Year’s Eve, I’ve been hovering between 215 and 216.4.
Three weeks ago, I was 13.8 pounds ahead of my original plan. As of Monday, I
was only two pounds ahead. As of this morning, I’m 12.8 pounds over the monthly
goal line.
Yesterday was the last straw: For reasons I can’t quite
remember, I made a ham and cheese omelet sandwich. Seven hundred and ten
calories, which I didn’t think about until I got around to logging my intake.
When I finally crunched the numbers and saw the result, I said, “Okay, that’s enough!
Get back to your program, Layne!” Sometimes, you just have to get mad at
yourself to get over yourself.