Eating Is Not Going Well

I haven’t weighed myself since before I went to MEPS last week, and I hadn’t been really worried about it. I was eating regularly and good portions, gaining weight at a nice clip, and hadn’t been doing much cardio just for the extra cushion at MEPS.

But…now I’m kinda worrying.

My diet has been TERRIBLE since MEPS. The first day there I had a snickers bar, and that’s it, the 6 hours I was there. No water (except a few sips from the fountain) and no “real” food. The second day, aside from breakfast at 5 AM, I had a snickers bar and 2 cookies. When I got home I ate a heap at Hooters, but eating like that doesn’t really balance well.

Weight issues

I thought I was doing pretty good with my eating, but evidently I was wrong. I weighed myself this morning and I’ve dropped 2 lbs give or take. Which I know isn’t a lot, but I don’t have that much margin of error! I have MEPS on Tuesday (a week from today) and I have to plan on them possibly having a scale that weighs me lighter, them weighing me before I eat, and / or (pardon me) me taking a big crap before getting weighed!

I ate like crazy (well…for me) on a trip John, Avery and I took last weekend and this morning was the first I ran since last Thursday (*hangs head*). We did do a lot of walking, so maybe that countered all the calories I packed in at Sonics?

I went to CVS this morning and grabbed some Boost drinks and some pop tarts to snack on…and some ice cream, lol. I’m also planning on hitting the push ups, sit ups, squats, etc. pretty hard and easing up on the cardio this week. Hopefully I’ll pack on a little more muscle before MEPS.

Watch me have all this trouble putting weight on and then I’ll be complaining in a few years that I can’t lose any weight!

Quick note on excercise

I am having a hard time getting into gear with where I want to be excercise wise.

I want to be running at least 20 minutes every day and doing at least 3 sets each of 15 push ups and 20 sit ups; plus squats, calf raises and various other things to get my butt in shape for basic. I want to be doing this now so that I can gradually increase the load and be in pretty good shape heading to basic.  I’m currently running around a mile most days and doing maybe 2 sets of 10 push ups (girly ones!) and 10 sit ups. *Hangs head* I feel like I should be doing better!

The problem is, I know I have almost a year and the “do it tomorrow” voice is very convincing at 6 AM after the baby’s been awake in the middle of the night and I stayed up watching The Tudors later than I should have (hey, at least I’m honest). Plus, it’s starting to get cold and I HATE running in the cold…I hate doing pretty much anything in the cold.

So I lay there in bed and rationalize how one day off isn’t a big deal. And maybe it isn’t. A day off a week (plus weekends off) isn’t too terrible…is it? I get disappointed with myself when I skip, but oh how nice my bed feels!

I need to buckle down and stop making excuses and just do it!