The Week That Was.
Well! Had an interesting week, full of challenges, eating-wise.
On Monday and Tuesday, for whatever reason, from 6pm on, I was just *starving*. And yes, my TOM is coming up, but it's not due until this Wednesday, so this whole extreme hunger thing was happening over a week in advance.
And it's not like I'd done anything different: I drank my water, I continued to have white beans on my daily salad to add protein (and fiber), had my usual meal items, all of which usually fill me up just fine. But, this past Monday and Tuesday, my body just wanted more for some reason.
I did pretty well coping, I think. I was looking to get fiber in me to help deal with the hunger, so on Monday, I ate a bunch of baby carrots and drank even more water than usual. And on Tuesday, I had two bags of Kettle Corn (100 Calorie packs) and lots of water. So, I only ended up going over my targeted calorie intake by about 100 calories each of those days, but it was really weird that it happened at all...
Then(!), on Friday night I had my first real social outing since I've started (the other times I've gone out since starting, I stuck to iced tea and Sprite Zero). We were helping a friend celebrate her birthday, so we did dinner and a bar afterwards. To help cope, during the day I made low calorie choices wherever possible. I didn't starve myself by any means, I just always choose the mean option that "ate up" (sorry, bad pun) the least amount of calories. And then at dinner I, of course, only ate half of my entree (which was always my M.O. anyway, but I was more conscious of it this time), and brought the rest home for lunch on Saturday.
I actually still managed to lose 1 pound this week, which was great considering that, with the challenges I'd faced, I was just pretty well going to be happy if I just managed to maintain.
Of course, like many others, I have TOM coming this week. So, we'll have to see how that goes. I didn't manage to fit in any exercise last week, so I'd like to aim for getting in some time on the recumbent bike at least 3 times this week and definitely will drink *tons* of water and iced tea to deal with the water retention/bloating.
Good luck to us all, hope it's going well for you and have a good week!
