It's Monday. Here is the 360 degrees of updates.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I did go on vacation this past weekend. The decision that I ultimately made regarding weather to stay on Medifast or not while on vacation, ultimately reached to jump ship for the weekend. This actually all started on Thursday.
Thursday evening, on our walk with Lucky, we were stopped by our friendly neighbors. They are probably the only two people who we can call friends here, and they just live a few doors down. We ended up hanging out with them and there two kids, for a couple of hours discussing concerns that are occurring in our community. We were there so long, that the mom offered us a drink. Dean and I both said we would take water, and that we don't drink anything else. Then the mom demanded that the dad bring us sobes. We again said we don't drink..... but then she cut us off and said it's not alcohol its juice! This amusingly reminded me of when my old friends from Fresno introduced them to me. They all went into the convenience store to get some sobe's on a group date that we were on, and I belligerently refused to receive one, because I thought they contained alcohol. (yes, I know they really don't) Well anyways, we both accepted our friend's generous offers of the Sobes, they are Mexican, and I do know that in their culture its incredibly rude to refuse offers of items of consumption, and we had been standing outside in the Vegas heat for a while, so we accepted and consumed. I only drank a quarter of mine. (those things have tons of sugar in them!)
Then, as I was driving to Porterville Friday night, I could feel my blood sugar dropping rapidly. I was in need of food, and food immediately. I didn't bring any extra medifast meals, just the ones (I thought) I would need the next two days. Thankfully, I was driving through a town I am quite familiar with. I knew I could get their within a matter of minutes. I was able to safely get to a fast food place, Jack in the Box to be precise, and order some food. I HATE hamburgers, and knew a salad wouldn't suffice, I needed some carbs for energy to keep me going. I ended up ordering a chicken fajita pita, and eating it in the parking lot. Words can not describe how much better I felt after that. I found myself in a very dangerous, scary position. Dean was also past out in the passenger seat next to me, he too, was not in a position to drive. He was one sleepy monkey, and we were on a time crunch, so we needed to do what we had to march onward!
This decision to jump ship for the weekend had some to do with being on vacation, but mostly because I was going to run out of food in five days of getting back home, but not being able to afford a food order until Dean gets paid Wednesday, and it takes a week to receive the food. I gave it considerable thought to eating 3 Medifast Meal replacements each day we were gone, but then I came to the conclusion that I would be wasting a ton of money to half hazardly do the diet (each meal replacement is about 2.50), so I decided to eat the free food that my dad brought.
The good news, I ate things in moderation. I didn't have too much of the pasta or shrimp salad. At the hotel where we lodged Saturday night, their was a free continental breakfast. I consumed things such as mini muffins, mini cinnamon rolls, and biscuit-less gravy. They had biscuits and gravy. I had been craving biscuits and gravy for a couple of weeks, which is weird because I don't even like biscuits and gravy. I decided not to have the biscuits in order to save on the carbs.
Yes, I did eat crap this weekend, but I realized I did not like how it made me feel. The food that I consumed made me feel bogged down, but I never once ate food past my satiety (fullness) level. I missed my medifast food this weekend, I really did.
Tomorrow is the day that I return back to Medifast. On my way home from the rental car facility, I stopped off at a chicken place. I couldn't eat even one chicken wing without the salt from it literally burning my lips. It made me realize that I never, ever want to eat crappy junk foods again. Holy Hannah, there is obviously an ocean worth of salt in fast food. No wonder America is fat. Tonight, for dinner I am going to eat an artichoke with a home-grown peach. That doesn't sound like that bad of dinner, right? But it definitely isn't approved on plan.
Today, I weighed in at 163. Yes, that does mean an increase in weight. But I am 95% sure its water weight from the carbs and salt I consumed this weekend, along with not drinking nearly enough water all weekend. I will resume the diet tomorrow, so we will see what next weeks scale brings!
You might be wondering how transition will go when the "real food" made me feel bogged down. The truth is, that the crap that I ate this weekend isn't on transition plan either! Transition is where I gradually add in more fruit and veggies, its not an immediate jump back to carb riddled foods, and fast foods. So I am sure I will be fine. :)
I think the transition will be easier on your body than jumping back to carbs. We obviously need some carbs to survive, but mostly fruits and veggies is the healthiest way to eat. I also feel bogged down when I eat a ton of carbs and I haven't been on any kind of diet... I just notice a difference in how I feel based on how I eat. Although you did the right thing when your blood sugar dropped to eat carbs and protein (fastest and most efficient way to pump up your blood sugar).
ReplyDeleteWomen eating normal foods will generally fluctuate in weight up/down 5lbs so not drinking enough water, plus tons of salt and only gaining a few lbs, I think that is a huge win.