HYC Week 6 Check In

This has not been a great week on plan, but has been educational in some ways. I discovered that I am not one of those people who can have one splurgey day and then continue on plan, I am strictly an all or nothing type of gal. I know a lot of people who use their weigh in days as a "free day" and eat off plan after they've weighed and then start the new week the next day. I just can't do it. All the bad weeks I've had are the ones where I did that. I need to start as I mean to go on otherwise it's downhill from the get go.

I ate out way too much this week and that is definitely my downfall. It's not because I am tempted necessarily, I am usually good and order something Core plan which is easy to do, but I think the extra sodium and rich food are my ruin. I started the week on weigh in night with a Chinese New Year dinner at which I definitely used a lot of flex points but didn't splurge on completely. Problem is, I didn't save the week after that. Every meal I've eaten out was like that, not completely bad but not good either and damn! if those points don't add up quickly! Then I stopped tracking everything I was eating which led to ignorance which then led to apathy. I stopped caring and had the odd piece of chocolate and piece of bread, and now here I am the night before WI wondering how the week got away with me so. I am expecting a gain this week, especially after a monumental loss last week. I really need to even this out.

I am struggling a little bit. Scale Junkie mentioned the '6 week itch' and it's certainly true of me. Although I can blame some of it on the PMS monster I think! What worries me is the apathy, of being in a place where I don't have my goals in mind and don't care if I am following plan or not. J was great tonight and talked me out of pizza for dinner, he steered me away from the pizza aisle when we shopped and bought fresh meat and veggies instead and made a nice pasta. If he had left me to myself tonight I would have eaten pizza without a care! I am thinking of switching to the Flex/Points plan this week to give myself a kick and so I can have the pizza and stuff but I think Points might be an even bigger struggle.

So, my goals for the coming week are:

• To track everything I eat again
• Cook and plan meals more and not eat out except for planned occasions
• Put in the gym time
• Up my water a little bit

NSVs / Things I need to give myself credit for:

• I didn't jump off the wagon at restaurants even though I've wanted to, eg. at a tapas lunch with colleagues I didn't have the calamari and chorizo, I had chicken salad, poached fish, Spanish tortilla, meatballs and mushrooms, all Core
  
• Today I met a friend for coffee and he ate the most amazing slab of chocolate cake right in front of me and even though I could smell it and really wanted a bite I didn't grab it out of his hands!

I hope to have a much more positive post about the great week I had at next week's check in!