Pity, party of one

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So yesterday's results were a huge disappointment.  I feel like I had a bit of a pity party.  I've had these before after disappointing weigh ins, but usually they only last a few minutes and I move on.  Not so much yesterday.  I received some lovely encouraging words from my friends, which is great.  I do so love my support system.  One friend of mine mentioned to me that when she got "stuck" in her journey to lose weight, she visited a naturopathic (I think that's what she called it!) doctor.  She discovered she had some food intolerances that were holding her back.  Sugar being one of them (please God, no!!!).  I am thinking that I may look into this option myself. 

People have suggested that I write a food journal and exercise more or drink more water...The problem with that is that, as a general rule, I already 1) track EVERY day (all day), 2) I drink 10-12 cups of water (pure water, not counting coffee, juice, milk, etc. in this number), 3) Exercise 4-6 days per week (last week it was 6) and I don't ever, ever, ever, take a cheat day or a day off...

...until yesterday.  I am really disappointed in myself.  I went to a friend's place last night for a potluck and I did a whole lot of mindless eating.  I couldn't tell you how many points I ate.  The last time I did this was over a year ago.  I enjoyed myself, but as soon as I got home I was mad at myself.  Why do I always seem to sabotage myself when I get close to a goal?  That was my problem in the past.  I'd get close to a major milestone and then quit and walk away.  Not this time.  I went into my online WW tracker and allotted my 49 weekly points to "party at Deb's" and am walking away from the whole mess.  Today is a new day (without any extra points) and I have 6 days to do it right to make up for yesterday. 

I've had my pity party and a moving on to my week of determination.  Perhaps this could be another sugar free week.  When I did that a few weeks ago I dropped 1.4 pounds that week...I only need 1.2 to reach my milestone ;-)

Oh, I forgot to tell you!  Went to the new Canada Games Centre yesterday after WW!  It's soooo nice.  The treadmills have built in fans.  AND they have two stair climbers!  I missed my stair climbers :-(  The gym I've been attending doesn't have them.  The only issue I have with this new place is that they have no elliptical machines.  Their version of the elliptical is the ARC machine...which I am NOT a fan of.  I think I just need to learn to love the ARC like I did the stair climber.  We'll see.  Hoping to go back again this evening.  Their fitness schedule begins tomorrow.  I think this week I will do water aerobics on Monday and Friday, then I have a personal training session with Kellie on Wednesday, so Tues/Thurs will be just regular cardio workouts.  Maybe the re-introduction of water aerobics will help mix things up for me this week - maybe throw my body into confusion and force it to drop some weight ;-)

Happy Sunday everyone - it promises to be a nice warm day here in Halifax (+8 degrees Celsius I think!)