I knew the hardest thing for me in changing my diet forever would be portion control. Before I started trying to make a difference in the foods I ate both in quality and quantity was my portion. Sometimes I am like a bottomless pit! When you put good (read: awfully fattening but delicious) food in front of me like Susan's Buffalo Chicken Dip (scroll down for the recipe) , I could stand over that bowl with chips/crackers/spoon or fork...and just chow down. Ten minutes later I would be stuffed to the rafters and about 10,000 calories over my daily intake. I have been in that rut recently and I need to get back to the basics with what I am doing. I am not very "mental" about my weight. I don't look in the mirror daily and tell myself I am a fatty or that I look bad. I see that on the scale and know that I need to continue to lose if I ever want to get back to feeling healthy.
On the inside I do feel healthy I can run faster and longer than I have been able to in years. I can rip off pushups, situps, squats, lunges and other bodyweight exercises in my sleep. I feel very confident that I am going to have a great race next weekend at the Warrior Dash in Logan, OH. I am starting to get the itch to start signing up for 5k's and 10k's whenever I have free time in the coming future. One thing I am missing and most likely going to struggle with is mountain biking. I haven't been out yet this year due to the large volume of rain we have had since March. (10+ inches, and our normal is more like 2-4). The trails are just a sloppy and somewhat dangerously slippery mess. I am looking forward to a dry spell so I can get that fitness aspect of my life back.
I am kind of rambling in this post because I am struggling with weight just not coming off recently. I have posted before in the past that I struggled and things eventually got back on track. I can't for the life figure out why I am stalled right now. I am losing 0.1 to 0.3 lbs a week for the last few and I have been very disciplined with portions, meals, eating out, snacking, and everything else. I am wondering if maybe I am putting on more muscle mass recently with the additional resistance exercises I am doing. Maybe in a week or two things will change back and weight loss will start again. I know that these struggles will pass eventually and that everyone goes through these plateaus but it's still very frustrating.
Alright, enough VENTING!! This blog is becoming too negative recently when it comes to workouts I am going to promise not to vent too much more to you and instead come up with some interesting topics to cover in the very near future!! Anyone have and ideas or primers to improve these posts please feel free to leave them in the comments sections.
Hopefully next week after the warrior dash I will have some awesome pictures to post and some stories to tell!!
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