If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

I am not surprised.  The saying “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten” totally rings true here.  I have not been trying this month.  All I have are excuses, no decent reasons. 

I gained two pounds.  That’s an extra 225 calories per day over what I need to maintain the size I am.  Almost two cookies or three pieces of bread or a bowl of cereal or ½ a bag of popcorn or over ½ cup of ice cream which is pathetic!  Writing that last sentence was hard.  Actually admitting what I could have eaten to account for the extra 225 calories…  It was all after dinner.  It had to be, as I didn’t eat out very much and when I did, I planned for it by adjusting my day’s calories or exercising more.  I actually ate out less as I didn’t work in a restaurant four days a week.  I pack my lunches now and they are full of fruits and vegetables.  My breakfasts are constant, a dairy product and a fruit followed by a grain later.  Most of my dinners are healthy and eaten at the table with my family.  It’s those snacks….

Let that be a lesson on what not to do!  June is a new month.  I started it out well by going on my Y training retreat at Geneva Park this weekend.  I had healthy meals, exercised a bunch and got some partying (not all) out of my system.  I will be planning my entire week of eating, not just dinners, exercise and back-up plans for the inevitable.  I will be getting more sleep and more water.  I already have a playlist that I am really excited to work out to and a new cyclefit playlist. 

 I will keep you posted.  I have realized that I do eat better when I am regularly writing posts.  I don’t think it’s the thought of embarrassment (admitting my weight solved that).  I think it’s the actual writing, having to put down my failures on paper (screen actually) is really hard.  I am still not giving up.  It’s a learning process.  If it was easy, everyone would do it…and 60% of the population wouldn’t be overweight.  I don’t want to be part of that statistic anymore.

Cheryl Pounder, two time Olympic gold medal winner in women’s hockey as our keynote speaker this weekend was motivational too.  She was an excellent speaker and part of what I took away from her speech was that you can’t always succeed, sometimes you fail.  It’s what you do after failing that counts.