As reported, no loss or gain this week, but it's still that time when I find it hard to stay the course. Sorry male readers, but I'm talking about female matters here. I start to gain about two weeks before, and that means half the month my body seems to be working against me. Due to PCOS I was so irregular for years that my monthly visitor was more of a quarterly visitor. They put me on the pill some years back to force a regular cycle. After moving to Australia i decided i didn't want to be on the pill anymore. I also lost about 90 pounds, though I later gained half of that back. Since then, for whatever reason I've been regular again, all on my own ... and I hate it. I should see it as healthy I suppose, but I'm fast approaching 50, I'm never gonna have kids, so I'd be happy for menopause to come anytime now. I hate how this messes with my weight loss efforts ... not just by causing hormonal / water weight gain, but by making me crave the very foods I usually have no trouble resisting.
All this is to say that today I was very much off plan. It was a long weekend for Australia Day and we just settled into holiday eating. Granted there were a lot of junk foods in the house that normally we wouldn't get, but normally I have no trouble resisting junk foods. Today I just gave in without thinking really. Hot cross buns, chocolate and snack crackers too. I actually feel kind of sickly and very full right now. I suppose that's a good thing. I would like to think this feeling could be a deterrent but then as I've said, it's only due to hormonal changes that I even wanted that junk today. Most of the time eating right comes fairly easy to me. But this time of the month I do struggle. Hope you all had a better weekend than I did.
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I'd rather say I had as good a weekend as you did -- I made a batch of chocolate cookies (all vegan) for my birthday and we ate all of them. Just enjoy the day for what it was and tomorrow, if you feel you need to, pick up where you feel you left off. Hug!
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