This past week was a weird one. So much so that I didn't have it in me to write my normal blog post on Monday it's Wednesday now! I start my weeks on Monday, and this one was also the start of a new mondy, February. Everything was lined up for me to do well, new week, new month, new motivation. But something was weird, I didn't feel right, didn't feel like I was doing enough to reach my goals.
My meals were ehh this week. I didn't meal prep because I didn't have any food to prep and for some reason couldn't manage to go grocery shopping. I managed to scrape together some stuff for lunches and make decent dinners. But the weekend came around and I was craving. I wanted wings so I went to Applebee's with my friend at least 35sp on Friday, I went out to eat for dinner again on Saturday and got a french onion soup bread bowl and chips from Panera 30sp. I know that I don't usually use my weeklies and I NEVER use my FitPoints, but this weekend I used them all. It wasn't the absolute worst thing I could have done, but it definitely wasn't good either.
I went to the gym every day, Monday-Saturday, because I was thinking "February is the shortest month, if I'm going to pick any month to go to the gym every day, it should be this one!" but that turned out to be not good. After extensive Googling may or may not be accurate I found several sites that laid out the benefits of rest days, and why you shouldn't go to the gym every day. So I abandoned that mini goal of going every day for a month. I took Sunday off, and went to my normal Zumba class on Monday, then took Tuesday off as well. I went back to the gym this morning and it felt great! I did 45 minutes on the elliptical and it made me feel good and I am still running off the endorphins from that! So I will definitely be taking advantage of rest days from now on, since it didn't seem to help getting rid of them!
Overall, it was a weird week. I did manage to lose 1.2lbs at my Weight Watchers meeting, but I know I could have done better. I have already gone grocery shopping for this week, and have a bunch of new recipes lined up to try. I know that I am not perfect and that sometimes I will have setbacks. I am just grateful that this particular setback didn't really affect my progress on the scale, and that it was mostly just a mental setback. I am ready to push forward for this week and month, and I will reach my goals. I am less that 6lbs away from my goal of 50lbs lost by the end of February and with 19 days to do this, I think it is definitely possible! I just have to keep on trucking!!