You can’t restrict (or burn) calories one week so that you can eat them back the next. Punishing myself or restricting in advance would both be unhealthy for me. I’m eating healthy and balanced, and working out as usual, and one week of not tracking will be really good for me, in my opinion. I’m not doing 3 hours of cardio a day now to slim down for the trip, because I know that won’t work either. I’m not restricting my calories like crazy this week going into it, because I know that won’t help. My goal is to eat what I want in moderation, and not to punish myself if I over eat. And this vacation is where I put this to the test. This challenge I really worked on my relationship with food. I think what I’m most proud of is my mindset on this. If I eat too much bacon for breakfast, or too much cheesecake for dessert, THE WORLD WILL NOT END. But I refuse to let macros and food takeover my time to relax. I even plan to continue lifting on the ship, so hey maybe even some gains will come my way. And bringing a food scale isn’t something I want to do (though I have brought it to restaurants before).Ĩ days of eating and drinking whatever I want will NOT undo all my progress. Bringing my own food isn’t really an option since it’s a cruise. I would be absolutely miserable if I spent my entire vacation tracking macros. I worked hard to be able to eat what I want in moderation. But I also worked hard to gain strength, and have a healthier relationship with food. My response was “I’m going to eat whatever I want.” Their response was “But why? You’ve worked so hard to lose weight!” Well, in a sense, yes I worked hard to lose weight. THEN I was asked by a family member what I plan to do about food while I’m on vacation next week. And that got me back into the swing of things. I hit new PRs and I had some really great lifting sessions. Those few extra snacks and bites I allowed myself to eat (without PUNISHING myself) actually did me good. But a few weeks ago I finally felt strong again. I wasn’t cutting as much as I should have (which is where my disappointment lies, I suppose). I was still nowhere near maintenance macros, so essentially I was still in a deficit. I was in a slump, and those are hard to get out of. I wasn’t losing weight, and I wasn’t gaining significant strength in the weight room. But even though I’m upset with the progress I didn’t make, I’m also really happy with the progress I DID make. I know I wrote a long post about the numbers already, so I won’t go into that again. I took bites of things here or there, or I added in a snack that put me a little over on one macro and a little under on another. I definitely didn’t track my macros as strictly as I should have. I’m proud of my progress, but still a little disappointed that I didn’t see more. The Katy Hearn fall challenge has come to an end. 5 pounds of fat are gone and quite a few inches are shed.
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