Don’t you hate it when that happens? I pulled out a pair of pants I hadn’t worn in a few weeks and ‘hmmm’ they seem to be a little snug. Well, that’s not a good sign. So I made my day complete, I stepped on the scale. EEK! It wasn’t the dryer… it was my own doing causing my pants to be snuggy.
For the last 3 weeks, I have avoided the scale at Bootcamp- with the excuse, I don’t want confirmation that I had eaten poorly over the past month. I knew I hadn’t made any attempts at good choices. It just happened to be worse than I 
had predicted. I have been eating whatever I felt like, trust me – all bad stuff. But, my big downfall has been drinking soda. Not just any soda – oh no… I hit the Mt.Dew! I completely sank the tank… It had been a year since I stopped drinking soda. Why did I start drinking it again? stress? sleepless nights and needed to function during the day? because I like it? how about all of the above.
What I learned is as the scale goes up… the stress is still there and the pants fit tighter and tighter (lets just add to the stress level, shall we). The sleepless nights are still there but, now I can add the extreme sugar highs and sugar lows throughout the day. As far as functioning through the day, oh I did that, but can you say moody? I mean more moody, up one minute down the next like a rollercoaster! As far as liking the taste… well… that’s tough one to overcome but the pros and cons speak for themselves. Caffeine, bad…sugar, bad… and there are no pros, really.
Time to pull myself up by the bootstraps. Jump back on the band wagon and make my pants fit again!
So, it’s a new day and time to move forward. Chalk it up as a learning experience. The soda goes away, as well as the bad food choices. I logged in with the Bootcamp scale and measured – go figure I lost 3/4″ on the waist, but I know exactly where that went 
Looking forward to a good week!
“To err is human…”
Blog you later
gretchen
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I love the insight in this line “What I learned is as the scale goes up… the stress is still there and the pants fit tighter and tighter (lets just add to the stress level, shall we).” It can become a terribly self-defeating cycle.
The most important part is that you have stopped the cycle and are getting “back on the horse”…Great work!
You can do it Gretch – great blog……………..xo
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