I Just Don’t Get It!
Last weekend, since it was my first “mini-vacation” in ages, I decided I wasn’t going to count calories. I wasn’t going to worry about what I ate. I was in a luxury hotel with room service and free Happy Hours, and I was going to enjoy myself.
Friday night’s dinner: a Reuben sandwich and French fries. And cocktails. Many, many cocktails.
Saturday’s meals: cheese omelet with fruit; turkey club sandwich with fries; steak with garlic mashed potatoes and steamed veggies. Three “Red beers” instead of cocktails. (Hey, they’ve got tomato juice and that’s “good” for me!)
Sunday’s meals: bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese and red onion; a bacon-mushroom-Swiss burger with curly fries; green salad and grilled pork chop with pineapple rings. Iced tea.
I stood on the scale this morning a little worried about the damage done over the weekend — not that I’d change a thing; it was lovely not worrying about calories.
The result? I lost a pound.
I. Lost. A. Pound.
I ate like a freakin’ pig and did little more than lounge around in my hotel room, reading and watching TV, and I lost a pound.
It’s enough to make me crazy!
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Comment by Flap
August 13, 2007 @ 12:10 pm #
All of that chewing burned off the calories?
Comment by Chubby Mommy
August 13, 2007 @ 12:48 pm #
Yeah, that must be it. LOL.
Comment by Tsoniki
August 13, 2007 @ 12:54 pm #
I joined LA Weight Loss months ago and was a-freaking-mazed at how much food they wanted me to eat! I was literally stuffed and had to force myself to eat every day. After a couple/few weeks my body got used to it and I actually got hungry (ie stomach growling) when it was ‘time’ to eat.
I lost almost 20 lbs in three months so I know that eating more is what you are supposed to do. Drives one mad right?
Comment by jae
August 13, 2007 @ 4:51 pm #
Cortisol. You’ve been stressed for the last month which builds up cortisol that causes you to retain fat.
More weekends away, I say!
Comment by Chubby Mommy
August 13, 2007 @ 4:54 pm #
Love it!
Actually, now that my husband’s back in town and homeschooling’s resumed, I have decided — and I’m not taking a household vote on this — that I’m going out by myself at least two evenings a week. I need the time to unwind and to get out of the house without a child in tow, and there are too many movies and errands I just don’t get to because the rest of my time is otherwise spoken for.
Will be interesting to see if this lowers my stress levels — and my weight — further. I wouldn’t be surprised, actually.
Comment by Elizabeth
August 13, 2007 @ 8:00 pm #
I got hungry just reading that list of food you treated yourself to, YUM! Good for you for deciding to take two evenings to yourself. When Mom is less stressed, everyone is less stressed. I go to Barnes and Noble and sip a Starbucks Mocha while leafing through magazines, does wonders for my stress level. And once in a while, I go all by myself to the movies. I hope you get to do it!
Comment by Chubby Mommy
August 14, 2007 @ 6:40 am #
Ooh, I’m going to have to make B&N my next outing. That sounds lovely!
Comment by Annaliese
August 14, 2007 @ 4:12 pm #
OMG, that should have come with a “Caution: Food Pr0n Ahead!” label. Mm, a reuben sandwich. Mm, that bagel!
Mm, any sort of alcohol. At. All.
So jealous.
Maybe it’s that ZigZag technique?
Maybe it was just your body’s way of saying “Thank you!!!”
Comment by Chubby Mommy
August 14, 2007 @ 4:16 pm #
That’s what I’m wondering… and kind of hoping, too. If I can eat like that one day per week and still lose a pound weekly, well hell, I can DO that!
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