Week 13 - Trends

 Last week: 216.8
This week: 214.8
Loss: -2.0
Total: -35.2
And another week in the bag.

I find myself doing things that I'm not sure if I can qualify as a bad habit or not, as the weight is still coming off.  It is something I'll continue to keep an eye on though.  My weekends for most of January have been untracked.

During the week, I track without fail.  Every single thing gets put in the tracker, whether I'm over or under points for the day.  On the weekends, not so much. In fact, while I'm still mindful of portions, and what I'm eating, I tend to relax a bit and take the weekends 'off'.

That's not to say I'm going out and gorging on junk food, making unhealthy choices or eating until I feel like I'm going to pop.  If I'm at home, I cook a meal, mentally tally the points and leave it at that.  If we happen to be out, I may have a ceasar salad instead of a garden salad, but I'll skip the appetizer of deep fried cheese (trust me, that's a sacrifice in and of itself) and the fettuccini alfredo, but if I want a burger, I'll have a burger.  The funny part is they're not all high point days when I'm not tracking.  Last Sunday, I had an egg substitute omelette for breakfast, a late lunch of soup and melba toast and forgot about supper entirely.  Looking back I counted it up and it worked out to about 500 calories for the day. Oops. Although it does explain why breakfast the next day tasted phenomenal.  (Which is pretty impressive considering it was salted oatmeal with some flax seed.  Tasty I'll grant you but phenomenal is a stretch)

The weight is still dropping, so I'm not inclined to change this right now, but I think it's something I have to keep an eye on so it doesn't get out of control too.  It'd be too easy to include Friday and Monday in the 'weekend' and let things creep up until I'm not paying attention at all.  But if it doesn't creep up, it'll be nice to know that I can eat normally at least a few days out of the week without having to be as obsessive as I am currently about numbers. 

I think that might be part of my long term goals with this.  Not only to lose the weight which is of course key, but to teach myself to eat 'properly' without having to measure, weigh, track and obsess.  Now here's hoping it's not the first step on the slippery slope back to where I was.