It's the beginning of the month, but I do not have weight or inches lost to post. Only because I do not want my competition to hear how much I have lost so far. June 28 is our weigh day and I will let you know the results after that. I can say that the scale has not gone up over the past month or even over the past weekend.
This weekend was our Fitness Fever retreat. Where fitness instructors from Y's all across Southern Ontario meet to learn new ideas and meet other like-minded people. There were 234 of us from Friday night to yesterday afternoon, taking up to 9 classes of all varieties. Being active was a given for me, especially Saturday when I took three hours of varying intensity (mostly high!) classes, one stretching class and two lectures and even danced with my co-workers for a bit on Saturday night. This was about the 11th time I have been to a retreat fitness weekend for the Y and the FIRST one where I could actually do all of the classes (modifying the tabata one!) without sitting on the sidelines watching for some or all of each class. We were at Geneva Park near Orillia on the banks of Lake Couchiching. What a gorgeous location! At Geneva Park, all of our meals and snacks are provided for us starting with an evening snack on Friday night. Luckily for me, no one could maintain the clean eating challenge for this week so it was cancelled. Even though the food is mainly healthy, there are certain non-clean foods provided (bacon, soft pretzels, date squares!) The food is amazing! Fresh, healthy and my downfall: buffet-style. I ate very healthy and less than I usually would when at Fitness Fever, but that being said, I still ate a lot and there are almost four weeks of the challenge left.
This week's challenge, starting tomorrow, is no red meat or cheese. The red meat is not a problem, but I have found the perfect breakfast for myself and it is cottage cheese and applesauce. This keeps me full until lunch with not too many calories. So, I am a little worried that changing my breakfast is going to have me cheating/binging later on in the day.
Speaking of binging, for the past three or four days, I have not had the crazy cravings and the feeling of being constantly hungry that I was getting used to living with. Something to be said for eating properly I guess. I've known that for years, but to actually stop eating too much is incredibly hard, because of those cravings. Once you are overweight, it seems impossible to start eating the proper amount of calories because you are constantly hungry. Overeating is not something I intentionally chose to do, but it was my body telling me to feed it all the time. It seems like an addiction. And like an addiction, the withdrawal is not pretty. Ask my family! For the first week or so (and probably still now, but not quite as bad), I was grumpy! Er, I mean grumpier. I wanted food all of the time. If you are not overweight, you may be thinking "whatever, that sounds just like a handy excuse", but how I feel from two weeks ago to now is completely different. I don't have that empty feeling even after I have eaten. I don't have that desperate feeling that I am craving something, but I can't figure out what, so I just keep eating. The challenge now is to not fall back into my old bad habits as would be really easy to do.
Last night, once I got home from my weekend, around 4:30, I had to plan and prepare my meals for the upcoming week. That was the last thing I wanted to do, but it had to be done. Today, I have finished making my breakfasts, soup for lunches and snacks for the week, just in case I don't have time some day. Without all of this preparation, I would possibly make bad choices some day because I got hungry and didn't have something ready.
Now, I have to plan my workouts for the week. If I don't plan them, I can to easily skip one. Today, I am starting with public skating on my new skates. Should be good for a laugh...
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