Well, last week Natalie gave herself a break and a week off from weighing in and offered to let us do the same. I didn’t take it last week, but I’m going to this week because I’m pretty sure that it was a BAD week! I had someone ask me if I have any tips since, so far, I’ve done so good. I’ll give you my tips and point out that this week I didn’t follow these very well at all!
1 – No soft drinks. I was falling asleep Saturday afternoon before the game and had a little bit of Dr. Pepper. I also had a sprite earlier in the week because I didn’t feel so great. Both not good ideas. Those drinks are 100 calories that you consume without even thinking about it! And the drinks don’t fill you up like 100 calories of fruit would!
2 – Walk 3 times a week. I think we might have done this but if we did we didn’t walk for long each time. I think it’s finally time to break out the Shred with Jillian today. I’ll let you know how it goes.
3 – Drink more water. I did pretty good on this over the weekend but during the week I have a hard time sticking to this.
4 – Limit (or preferably eliminate) sweets. Even 100 calorie packs have 100 calories. The week before I barely ate any sweets and this week, while I ate less than usual, I still ate some. Today I’m back to the no sweets rule which is helped by the fact that I haven’t gone to the grocery store and we don’t have any! 🙂 If your self determination doesn’t work remove the temptation all together!
Overall those four things have been working with me so far but I’m not feeling like last week was a good week. Too many chips and Publix Ranch Sour Cream Dip (to die for!) this weekend and I had another cupcake this week. This week I’m eliminating snacking and if I’m starving after 30 minutes I’ll eat some fruit instead of some other type of snack. I’m going to drink extra water and skip the sweets. And I’m going to start the 30 minute Shred since I think it’s going to rain all week and walking is out.
