One other month has come and gone, and the month of June occurred to be my birthday month. Once I got here up with my one and solely decision for this yr (to go a yr with out sugar), I initially wished to offer myself 12 cheat days for the yr — one monthly. However Matt thought that was too many, so then I diminished it to 6 cheat days for the yr.
From January by the tip of Might, I nonetheless hadn’t used a cheat day. So I wasn’t fairly certain what I wished to do for my birthday. Did I need to keep the course and see if I might go the entire yr with out utilizing any of my allowed cheat days? Or did I need to give myself some liberty (and maybe a reward for having misplaced virtually 30 kilos up to now this yr)? I actually did need cake. White sheet cake with buttercream icing from HEB is my absolute favourite dessert. However the considered consuming sugar truly scared me. Would I be like an addict returning to an outdated vice, pondering I might do it simply as soon as after which cease, however reawakening that factor inside me that then wished an increasing number of and extra over the next days?
Truthfully, I didn’t make my closing choice till the evening earlier than. Should you needed to place a wager, what do you suppose I did?
I ATE THE CAKE.
Effectively, would you’ve gained or misplaced that wager? 😀 I made a decision to eat the cake. We’re midway by the yr, and I made a decision that this was time to offer myself a free day earlier than buckling down, getting again right into a exercise routine, and getting critical about ending robust on this well being journey for the yr.
So on my birthday, I went all out. I had my favourite meal — beef fajitas from Rosa’s Cafe. Then I purchased 1/8 sheet cake, a bag of cheese puffs, and a big container of pre-cut combined fruit. I ate all three fajitas for lunch, adopted by a chunk of cake. Then I snacked on every part else the remainder of the day. What actually shocked me was that by bedtime that evening, all the fruit was gone, and a lot of the cheese puffs had been gone, however I nonetheless had a complete lot of cake. To be sincere, I loved the fruit each bit as a lot as I loved the cake. That actually shocked me.
However on the finish of the day, I threw out the remainder of the cake. And I didn’t put the plastic shell high again on and throw it away within the kitchen trash can. I do know myself sufficient to know that if I had gotten up the following morning craving sugar, I might have dug that out of the trash can. I might have advised myself, “However it’s in a plastic container! And I put a brand new bag in it typically! It’s protected! Nothing might have gotten on it!” And I might have dug it out of the trash, opened up that plastic shell container, and dug in. Should you’ve ever been hooked on sugar or anything, I do know you in all probability know precisely what I imply. It’s actually embarrassing and shameful the lengths a few of us will go to to get that “repair”.
So I wasn’t going to take that likelihood. As a substitute, I took it exterior and threw it into the large trash can. Irrespective of how determined I’m, I might by no means dig one thing out of that may. 😀 However I used to be so happy to get up the following morning and never have any cravings in any respect. In reality, I haven’t even given sugar a thought since my birthday. I haven’t craved any sweets in any respect. The following day, I simply obtained proper again to my regular low-ish carb consuming, and went about my regular life.
The bummer is that I gained 4 kilos. I imply, if I’m going to have a cheat day, I’m gonna do it proper! 😀 I’ve since misplaced these 4 kilos, however I’m again to the place I used to be on the finish of Might. In different phrases, I didn’t lose a single further pound in the course of the month of June. I actually had an total undisciplined month, and I’m fairly dissatisfied in myself for losing that point. Not solely was I not disciplined in my consuming (regardless that I solely ate sugar on my birthday), however I additionally obtained off of my exercise schedule. So regardless that I weigh the identical now as I did on the finish of Might/starting of June, I really feel “fluffier” now, and I really feel like my denims match me just a bit tighter. That’s an actual bummer.
I’m actually having a tough time determining the way to match every part that I have to do right into a day. Matt appears to wish extra care and a focus lately, in order that’s taking on extra of my time. We’re each getting up earlier and going exterior within the morning in order that we will begin our day within the morning solar and with our naked ft on the grass. So getting up that early requires us to go to mattress a lot sooner than we used to. So discovering time to slot in a exercise has been difficult this final month. However certainly one of my most important objectives for this subsequent month is to make {that a} precedence. I do know that if I don’t handle myself, that really places Matt at higher danger. So making myself and my well being a precedence is, in flip, the most effective factor to maintain him protected and wholesome. So I’m going to make it a precedence to get again to a exercise schedule this month.
So, as all the time, I’ll finish my June well being journey replace with some comparability footage. I all the time return to this image firstly of the yr…
After which listed here are two footage that I took yesterday…
So right here is me in January in comparison with me yesterday…
And test this out. I used to be wanting by older footage final evening, and I got here throughout this image of me from July 2022. I used to be about ten kilos heavier then than I used to be firstly of this yr. So that is virtually a 40-pound distinction. See how I used to be holding the cellphone larger to take the image? That was an try to cover my double chin, however I used to be unsuccessful. Additionally, my hair was a large number. Clearly, I by no means meant for that image to be revealed on-line. 😀 However I’m swallowing my satisfaction and exhibiting you as a result of I believe the distinction may be very noticeable.
So we’re midway by this yr. We’ve six months left to go, and I nonetheless need to lose about 75 kilos. It’s time to buckle down once more and get critical about my purpose.
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