On a Slippery Slope

For the last 6 weeks I have been very good at keeping within my daily calorie budget.  One or two weeks I went over my calorie budget one day during each week but was right back on track.  This week though I have gone over my budget 4 times and it all started with the cookies on Tuesday!

Tuesday, I had the cookies and rice.  That put me over budget by 189 calories.

Thursday I went out with friends and even though I worked out for an hour on the elliptical after I got home I was still over budget by 51 calories.

Friday I had 1/2 a brownie at our afternoon tea at work.  It was a workout day but I was still over budget by 37 calories.

Today I did good all day but tonight I made a barbecue pork roast and it look so good that I had 5 ounces.  That put me over budget by 239 calories for the day.

Those cookies on Tuesday started me down a slippery slope where I started eating foods that I hadn't touched in 6 weeks - cookies, cake, brownies, sweet alcoholic drinks.  Obviously my weakness is sweets!  Even the pork roast can fit into that category because it has a brown sugar barbecue sauce.

I will really have to stop myself from eating sweets more than once per week otherwise I just keep wanting more.

At the gym today I didn't work out as hard as usual.  I wasn't feeling well today and didn't have any energy.  I was doing OK but then we realized that the exercises that I was doing that was suppose to target my butt wasn't working.  That led on a 25 minute quest to find the exercise that would work those muscles.  We tried 5 different exercises but I couldn't feel the burn with any of them.  In the end, the "sumo squat" did the trick but I had to up the weight I was holding in order to actually activate the muscles.

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