Low Carb Tuesday

It was supposed to be "no-carb" Tuesday, but due to lack of preparation on my part, I ended up eating a yogurt sweetened with sugar this morning and a pint of raspberries. However, raspberries are actually one of the fruits lower in carbs, so between the two I ate only about 30g of carbs (out of the maximum I should eat for trying to lose weight, which is 150g). I had spaghetti for lunch that Jeremy made last night, except that I subbed tofu shirataki noodles instead of wheat pasta, which has only 3g of carbs for a 4oz serving, which is mind-blowingly low compared to the whopping 40g of carbs in standard pasta.

Also filed under the "win" category is that I had a chamomile tea instead of my regular steeped tea with 1 milk and 2 sugar, and I honestly didn't even miss the caffeine. Sometimes I'll really feel like I need a tea or coffee in the morning, but I think my bike ride into work this morning (yes, a 50-minute ride into work!) left me feeling energized, and I really got the tea out of morning ritual more than anything else.

More "win", I just got back from the gym. I did less time on the elliptical than I normally do because a) I rode my  bike in and still have to ride my bike home, and b) I wanted to spend a little time in the hot tub because my neck and shoulders were hurting a bit. Still, that's a lot of exercise for today, and I'm planning on doing it tomorrow.

Something I just saw on Reddit that inspired me to come here and spill my guts:

"Simple pleasures: Working out until I can barely stand, then quickly showering. Why? Because afterwards, you can just sit around, lazy as fuck, and feel good about it. This is the best feeling of all time. Seriously. When people ask me why I exercise so hard I try to describe this feeling to them and I just can't. They'll never understand unless they do it."

 I think I'll keep depositing little gems like this that I find here in this blog, because if I'd have read this yesterday when I did spend most of the day on the couch, it might have motivated me to get off my duff and go for a bike ride.

Speaking of yesterday, the Monday of a long weekend, I kind of ate my face off this weekend. I hadn't logged a single point since Friday, had a total splurgefest on Saturday evening with Victoria and Chris, and had a generally lazy weekend. I was sure I was going to have gained several pounds when I stepped on the scale this morning, but I was only up a few ounces. It's not great, but it could have been worse. Then today I took matters back into my own hands and have been cutting carbs and exercising. I'm confident that I'll be able to keep it up for the rest of the week (well, the exercise part...not so sure about the carbs. Eep!) because for me, dieting is easy when I'm working. It's the weekend that completely throws me off. Since I'm not sitting in front of a computer all day like I am with work, I don't have my Weight Watchers tracker staring me in the face, and I don't have Google constantly open for me to look up the nutritional information for what I'm about to put in my mouth. I also am not active like I am during the week, as I feel it is my time to relax, but the problem becomes that EVERYTHING relaxes. This is a sticking point that I must work on.

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