Offsetting A Bad Food Day With Exercise and Water

Thursday was a strange day Divas~ One of those days I'm sure we'll all go through at some point or another. My monthly visitor is almost here and I have been CRAVING something sweet. So..... the sweets monster came out and all reason went out the window. My will power totally broke into a million pieces. No amount of prayers were going to save me. I CAVED. I had about a 600 calorie binge. OMG!!!!!!

What's worse (and lesson learned here). I did not use my tools properly. Usually I keep my iPhone handy and use it to journal my food by getting onto the Internet and using www.calorieking.com. (It helps me make better choices). But NOT TODAY!!!!! Did you know that the Subway Tuna 12" sub has almost 1000 calories? OH HELL NO!!! I did NOT just suck down almost 1600 calories in one sitting for lunch. Not to mention I still had dinner to go and I already had breakfast.

So thank goodness housework was in my plan today. (It burns as much calories as walking at a steady pace). I deep cleaned for 3 hours and then hit a Zumba class. And I drank lots of water. At the end of the day, when all was said and done I consumed about 2800 calories but surprisingly, I burned about 4000 STILL leaving a deficit of over 1000 calories so I made my goal anyways. The Heavens were smiling down on me and they have been watching over me so I have to give thanks for that at the very least.

Here are the fine points of today's lessons learned, if you gotta binge and you just can't resist, then a) do it in the morning so you got all day to burn burn burn or correct b) exercise MORE to offset the calories already consumed c) pick exercises that you know will burn more cal/hr. d)drink lots of water e)watch the rest of the calories for the day by using your tools, know what's going in instead of figuring it all out later. You might be pleasantly surprised in the end. I know I was when I stepped on the scale. I still lost weight when I got back on the scale. Woooo Hooo!!!!

So Who's The Skinny Diva and Who's The Fatch Chick and Which One Are You?

That's like asking if Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde were the same man. The Skinny Diva is that strong, confident woman inside of all of us. She appears when we have the courage to tap into her energy and become her. She doesn't put up with all the crap that society puts on her. She's free to be herself and feels comfortable in her own skin. And she's not afraid to know the truth. She makes time for herself and she knows what she wants and needs and how to maintain her sanity. So why and how did she get eaten? Funny you should ask.

For me it was falling into a rut. And ruts REALLY suck!!! You don't even see them coming. It happens gradually over time. Little by little, one small decision after another. I was never prepared to admit that until recently. I made each compromise and sacrafice until one day I looked in the mirror and didn't even know who I was any more. I had lost me. I had blown up to just over 300 pounds. How did THAT happen??? Oh there were lots and lots of warning signs along the way. I certainly ignored them. Living in Denial always seems easier...you know? I put sacrifice and service to others and my family before me. Every time we got busy, it was fast food to go. Every time I was too tired to cook, I'd pop something awful from a freezer box into the microwave. Every time I was lonely because my husband was working too many late night hours, I'd bake cookies for the kids' lunches and eat half of them with a glass of milk. It was small choices here and there that made me turn to food. Not just sadness, but with everything. And with each bite, I was consumed by her. And eventually she ate me whole and I became "The Fat Chick". The Big Fat Truth is that it doesn't have to be that way.