Today was a bad day. A very bad day.
It's Christmas and I'm not spending the holidays with family this year. I did spend last week with family, but there's something awfully lonely about being alone on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So, to make a long story short (and to avoid the whine factor) I cheated on my diet today. Big time.
I was hungry this afternoon. For weeks I've been craving a cheeseburger and onion rings. So, today I gave in to the temptation and had some food delivered. First off, the food was crap. I ordered from Grub Hub, which despite the photos of burgers on their home page, have disturbingly few actual burgers available. The sad thing about cheating today was that some of the better delivery places were closed. TryCaviar is amazing and has some great burger joints, but they weren't operating today. Anyway, I got a burger, onion rings and some cheesy fries. Yes, I know, I overdid it.
Despite all the food, I didn't eat everything. I had a few rings (3-4) and half the burger. It was okay, not great. That's probably a good thing considering I needed to go right back on the diet! The burger was blah and I only ate a couple fries. I ate enough for a small lunch and threw the rest away. I figure it was about 1,000 calories, so with breakfast I probably ate about 1,250 calories today. Not bad overall, but well over the limit on this diet.
This really made me realize that I am an emotional eater. I was sad and lonely. I was also upset about the low weight loss. As I mentioned yesterday, I only lost 3 pounds over the past three weeks. Sure, that's respectable. But, when you're cutting back as much as I am, the weight loss should be more. The average in the program is about 3 pounds a week. I lost half that. For three weeks in a row! Errgh!
Hopefully this won't mess me up too badly. If I don't lose much next week, at least this time I'll understand why!
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