November 16, 2009 Diet Blog

It was business as usual as Monday began and we were off to the races with clients and phone calls. I proudly showed off the phone pictures of my nephew and the Spider Cake. The girls at work were so cute about it. They acted impressed even though they could probably bake circles around me. Still, it was very cool to be me today.
For breakfast I had weight watchers one point choc cake and coffee. For lunch, chicken breast, carrot sticks, grapes and lite n fit yogurt. No snacks. For dinner I had chicken breast and green beans and then I was off to body conditioning class where I did 30 minutes at 2.8 speed and the last 10 minutes at 3.0 speed. I was quite proud of myself.
Sadly- pride goeth before the fall...sigh. Hubby and his diving pal decided that they wanted to go out to eat. Hubby had eaten with me so I was surprised. Anyway- to make a long story short- the passenger seat goes where the driver seat goes and it went to a Mexican restaurant.
Chips, salsa and a big diet coke came first. I tried to control it but I had too many. Hubby and I split a chicken Quesadea. It was delicious. I knew I was doing the wrong thing but literally couldn't stop myself. I'm not sure why. The only emotions were good ones- not stress or any of those things...gees...I guess I just want to be like everyone else sometimes. I didn't have an entree...at least I controlled that much.
Body conditioning class was interesting. They talked about nutrition and that the minimum caloric intake for dieting men should be 1500 calories per day, and women should be 1200 calories per day. She explained intake vs expenditure of calories. The body needs to expend approx 3500 calories to lose 1 pound. The body naturally uses anywhere from 2000-2500 calories just to function through out each day. That leaves 100o-1500 left plus whatever your intake is to burn off. To lose fat you must be negative 500 calories per day to lose 1 pound a week. Whew! My head was spinning. Elliptical or aerobic exercise burns 3-500 calories in an hours time. So if we exercise for an hour a day and burn 500 more calories than we intake that should cause weight loss success at about 2 pounds per week which is the correct way to do it. It was a very interesting discussion.
I'm heading for a hot shower and some shut eye. I am mad at myself. Not only was I weak at the restaurant - I enjoyed it. I thought about it and did it anyway. It's all about desire. How much do I want it? What will I do to get it? I do want it. I'm going to have to stay in mode if I'm ever going to attain my goal of successful weight loss. How the heck does one stay strong? Where was my stupid will power? Anyone understand what happened here? There's no excuse. I just threw in the damn towel.... I'm going to pull it together tomorrow.
Remember: We look as good as we can for today. Tomorrow we will look that much better. We can't let our perception of our bodies keep us from having a good time. We MUST stay positive...and FOCUS! Have a great night. See you next blog. ;-)