Free Day #2

I did want more of a workout this morning, but I was up later and therefore got up later than I had planned. So I only got in a 4-mile run. But we have NOTHING planned for tomorrow, so I can make up for it. The thing that most sucked about that? The scale was down again this morning. I can't decide if it is a good or bad thing that I don't have fractional numbers on my bathroom scale. On one hand, perhaps I could take even more joy in watching progress if 3-days of 140 were 149.9, 149.6 and 149.1. But as it is, I have to deal exclusively in whole numbers.

And numbers are strange, strange, confusing, things. The scale this morning said 148. I want to do backflips...and it did admittedly excite me. But I try to temper my excitment my remembering that a mere 5 days ago the scale read 155 and, of course, I have no delusion that I actually lost 7 pounds in 5 days. (Nor would I want to....I want this to be healthy and lasting.)

Part of my surprise is that I had more calories yesterday than I had originally recorded....not a ton, but they came rather late in the evening. I had been better at not doing that, but I was really, legitimately, hungry last night (not just mindless, emotional eating).

But, the number was still a real mental and emotional boost and while today is a free calories day for me (I am making homemade ice cream tonight...whoo hooooo!) I have been pretty good about my calories so far (we are about to go out for mexican...). So while I will be over 1400, I am sure, I have not gone crazy. We did go to the UCLA game today (darn Bruins!) and I did have a tri-tip sandwich, and split garlic fries with Richard, but I had a very small breakfast and my homemade ice cream is lower fat than normal ice cream (skim milk, half-and-half instead of cream).

An interesting side effect of this effort has been my becoming pickier about my food. For example, the trip tip sandwich came on a mass-produced sub role. The meat was great (fresh off the grill!) but the bun was not even a little worth the calories. Had I been able to find a fork, I would have just eaten the meat. But the situation as it was, I pushed most of the meat to the end of the bun and ate a little more than half the bun.

I am trying to savor that which I do eat. Enjoy it. Eat less, enjoy it more. That's a good goal.

Weight: 148
Physical Activity: 4-mile run
Calories: Who cares....free day!!!!