How could I have hit a plateau when I had done some hard exercise last week and didn't eat my points every day??
Easy.....When you don't eat your daily allowance of points your body goes into starvation mode, a misgnomer from the dark ages is that you should only eat 3 meals per day and no snacks. However this is incorrect and you should eat several meals throughout the day to keep your body from having to go into starvation mode. I did not do this during the week so my body held onto what it could in order to keep going so I stayed the same weight.
I got really upset, dejected and deflated and almost felt like going home and eating a really fatty meal just to make myself feel better but that is the old me, the one who would eat her feelings. Instead I went with fellow members to the local McDonald's and whilst they ordered coffee I sat there with my bottle of low joule cordial and talked about how I was feeling. Even when I caved and was thinking of getting a small hamburger to treat myself, I asked the girl serving for the brochure on the saturated fat and kilojoules within their food. She couldn't provide me with one so I said politely that I wasn't going to order anything and I sat back down. I was proud of myself for having the strength to walk away at such a difficult moment in my journey.
I ended up coming home and eating the healthy pasta casserole I cooked earlier and just treated myself to a small handful of mozzarella cheese as there was no parmesan available for me to sprinkle on. I figured that was a better option than eating saturated fat.
My leader suggested I go home and measure myself as she said that the scales alone would not tell me if I had improved in my physique, so dejectedly I grabbed the tape measure and my old blue book that had my measurements in and I started measuring and recording. I was completely blown away by the fact that I had not only lost half a centimetre off of my upper leg (a major area of dislike for me) but that I had also lost a centimetre off my hips. The biggest surprise was that I had lost a whole 2 1/2 centimetres off of my waist, no wonder my pants have been falling down!!!!
I feel much better about my plateau as it has taught me that even when the road seems still a little far away, I am making progress in other areas such as my physique, my health and wellbeing and my sanity.
Tomorrow is a new day with a fierce determination to work harder and work smarter and I've made sure that I've started the week eating my points. I have certainly done that today and will continue to do so during the rest of this week.
Until next time,
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