Don’t Blame It On The Sunshine - Blame It On the Bingo!
What an awful week weight wise. I’m back to 172lbs again - basically right back where I started. I know finding something to blame for my lack of control is pretty poor, but I know that I got into a fat, lazy, mindset this week and stayed there.
I had to research online bingo for my work. So there I was sat on my fat bum on the PC for hours on end playing, watching and taking notes. I started getting into it. Sadly I have one of those addictive personalities, smoking, chocolate, basically give me something nice and comforting and I’ll quickly become addicted to it. Mind you I can be the same about exercise too - but never good and bad at the same time. It’s like having different personalities on different shoulders nudging you in one direction or the other. They can’t ever work together to have a happy medium though.
Back to the bingo. I even started participating in the chat rooms on there!! Then started to see the bad sad of it. People who had lost money that evening and were trying to win it back. It made me sad to think of people paying and playing for the chance of a dream that the odds of getting were just so stacked against them. I was glad when I’d spent my money allocation on it. I did have a couple of wins but ended up putting it all back
And that’s what happened to my weight. I ended up putting it all back on. The 4lbs I’d worked really hard to lose crept back with a bit of bingo evening snacking.
Bingo - it’s a waste of life, time and money. The only real way to make money is to earn it I reckon. And the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise. Now I need to take my own advice and get back on my cross trainer.
So I’ve done 10 mins on the bike and 20 on the cross trainer today - hopefully back on the straight and narrow.
I find that even when I have my bad weeks I feel less guilty about them when I jump back into my exercise/diet plan. For example: I also had a bit of a rough week and it showed in all aspects of my life. I’m more positive and have a ton more energy when I work out. It’s shown me a more motivating reason to be healthy. Now don’t get me wrong wearing a bikini is awesome too, but I like the energy more!
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Recognizing your shortfalls is 80% of the battle in my opinion. Fixing them is easy. Admittion is the hardest part. You have done that now just go fix it. You rock.