The weekend is over and I am a little mad at myself. Let me tell you why. Yesterday I went a little over my goal of 50 carbs again. I consumed 3105 calories, 57 carbs and114 fat grams. Then this morning I did my weigh in and I am now 219.6, CRAP!!! I have been staying on the diet pretty well and losing weight and then this weekend I fell a little off the wagon and I gain 2 pounds over 3 days? What is up with that?
Not only am I staying on this low carb diet, but I am also working out more than I have worked out in a long time. I have really been trying to make this work, so I can get in the kind of shape that I can be proud of. But here I go gaining weight and I am only on week three. I am frustrated with the diet and myself, sometimes I get my expectations up a little too high and then when I don’t achieve them I get upset. In the past I might think about going out and having a doughnut for breakfast and then fast food for lunch and say, “screw it!”
I am not going to do that this time, I have to keep on going for the full 90 days and see what happens. That is what happens to a lot of us in life, the going gets a little hard and then we give up. It is probably one of the biggest stumbling blocks for most people including myself. This time I am not going to let it happen to me and I hope that you do not let it happen to yourself either.
If you want to achieve big things in this world, you must work through the roadblocks that get in your way. If you can take one thing away from this low carb diet plan, it would be to not give up. Just keep working through it and I am praying that in 90 days I am going to be glad I did. If I can do it to lose a few pounds, just think what you can do in other parts of your life. You can be a better spouse, a better parent, a better Christian and a better provider for your family. And there are so many other things that you can improve on if you just stick with it until it is fully accomplished.
Writing this blog everyday is a challenge that is hard to do also. But I feel that it is helping me keep on top of it and that if I can help out a few people in the world with my experience then it is well worth it to keep writing every day. One thing that it has been doing is keeping myself accountable to you. When I weighed in this morning I thought about writing down a better weight, but that is not going to help me or you. If your weight bounces up too and I keep showing you that I am losing it could get discouraging. So I am telling you the full truth in this blog, whether it hurts or not.
I can take two positive things for the week. One is I lost 1.2 pounds for the week and I lost a quarter of an inch in my waist. So all in all I can not complain. Sorry about the rant today, but I just had to let off some steam.