So this was a challenging week. I got sick, and that meant I triggered my emotional thoughts around eating. All I wanted was comfort food, and for me that generally means bread and sandwiches and the like. Two days I found myself going way over my daily calorie range, and not because I was hungry but because I just really wanted it. While Ozempic has helped a lot with wanting more normal portions of things, it can't do all the heavy lifting for me!
The first day I went way over- I ate nearly 2700 calories that day. And my stomach really, really didn't like that. I was bloated and uncomfortable and had pain in my stomach for a few hours. Apparently that wasn't enough to stop me from eating nearly 2200 two days later, either. I'm not super impressed with the choices I made, especially since I wasn't even really enjoying what I was eating. It brought back a lot of the feelings of shame around overeating.
I'm going to try and make a plan for next time I'm not feeling well, so that this doesn't happen again. There's nothing wrong with mindfully having a higher calorie day, and I wouldn't be upset with myself for that. The issue here is that I was falling back into old patterns and not even enjoying it. So this is definitely behaviour I want to extinguish!
I also wound up taking three days in a row off from exercising while I was sick. I didn't have the energy and I needed to rest. Today I was finally ready to get back to it and it felt good instead of exhausting!
Since I had the bad days and I was sick, I wasn't expecting to lose any weight this week. I was pleasantly surprised to still have a good loss!
I tried a few new recipes this week and I'll try to write them up soon for the Recipes page!
OZ Week 3 gain: 2.0lbs
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