This Is What You Get When You Don't Pay Attention

You get to start over with a new life and a new identity, just like this was a witness protection program. I love starting over. Maybe that's why I do it so often.

So it's the day after Thanksgiving. All is quiet around my house. My son left to go back to Michigan. I briefly braved the Black Friday crowds. And all of us are still digesting the food babies we made yesterday.

I had such a great day yesterday. Thanksgiving is the one day I happily spend making food all day long. It's a way that I express my gratitude for my husband and son by making food with heaping helpings of love. But the end of dinner, I'm exhausted but oh so happy seeing the pleasure on their faces. I wouldn't trade it for a instant 10 lb weight loss.

And even though I ate like there was no tomorrow, I did something that I never done before. I went to the gym and worked out on a HOLIDAY!!!! A freaking holiday. And it was AWESOME!!! I had the best workout I've had in a while. Everything was hitting on all cylinders. I even felt so good, I did a metabolic finisher at the end. I was inspired by the Girls Gone Strong who posted a finisher on their blog. Of course I didn't do the exact finisher they suggested. Theirs was KB swings, KB squats and KB snatches. I couldn't do a snatch to save my life so I changed it to KB swings (15 reps), KB goblet squats (10 reps) and KB one arm rows (15 reps each side). I did two sets in 5 minutes. Discretion being the better part of valor, I left it at that, not wanting to risk ruining things with an injury.

I still need to get in a walk today, my third of the week, but it's really cold and windy so I need to work myself into it. Tomorrow is the gym and back to my food plan again. I'm going to start cutting my calories from 2000 to 1800 by 50 calorie increments over the next few weeks, getting me through the holidays. I don't think I'm going to make much progress as far as my weight goes until after the holidays, simply because I never really do. All I really want to go is get myself used to the calorie level I'll be at for the next few months and learn some more hunger management techniques. I tried the one Rog and I discussed last week, about pre- and post-workout food, and it seemed to help (see awesome workout above).  I'll experiment some more with that and with meal/macro changes to see what works best.