This week has been – shall we say … “interesting?”
I came in with such high expectations of at least meeting my goals. and not going far beyond them. In fact, on Tuesday when I got a craving (really, late Monday night) for pizza, I was able to fairly easily modify things for the rest of the week to stay on track, on the average. But … well, let’s just go through it day-by-day.
Sunday (December 27) was okay, I even counted – and didn’t cheat-not-count – the last mini Swiss roll from last week. But, then with dinner, I had Triscuits that I couldn’t count and stay on track. Apparently, it’s a new thing for me to eat my beef with salsa on Triscuits. Same with my chili (I’ll get to that later).
Monday was also fairly good, but again I didn’t count the Triscuits with staying on track, so they were a not-counted “forgiven” item. I should revise that statement: Monday was good until about 9pm. At that point, I had been working non-stop on a final report on an expired grant for NASA and trying to put together a talk I had to submit to a conference, and it was going to be a late night for both me and the bf. And, I got a pizza craving. So, I made one, and it was ready at about 1am on Tuesday …
… which is why Tuesday was “interesting.” Because I ate the first half of the pizza at 1am, and the remainder for lunch, I counted it all on Tuesday. I then went through and re-worked the week to still remain on track with calories and macros. And then … late night again, after working all day on that talk, the bf and I both got a carb craving. Not wanting to make a basic bread, I wanted to try my hand at making scones, something I’d not made before and had never liked from the store. This was going to be another “forgiven” (not counted) food in order to stay within the week’s goals … and I had 2½ of them. It was only today (Friday) when I did the math that I realized that each one was a whopping 300 calories.
Wednesday returned to being “good” except I had one left-over and originally “forgiven” scone. And Triscuits again.
Which takes us to Thursday. I had planned to make kanellängd – something else I hadn’t made before – but I forgot to factor it into my plan. So I was thinking that I would consider Thursday to be a “party / forgiven / calories-don’t-count” day and just not count them for the kanellängd. And then, the 8pm craving for pizza hit again, which I gave into. I shouldn’t’ve, I wasn’t even hungry. But, I did. (Bad me, bad! 😖)
And, the kanellängd was so good! For those who don’t know (which I expect will be >99% of you reading this), kanellängd is basically a Swedish cinnamon bread. With cardamom. You act like you’re making cinnamon rolls, making the long log, then before you cut them, you just snip about 80% of the way through, roughly 1″ apart, and then pull the snipped pieces to either side. Bake, and then cover in an orange glaze and icing.
Which brings us to today, Friday*, when I started to re-examine all this stuff along with my goals and weight. So, first thing I did was to change the week’s macros goal. I went from a “cut” to a “maintenance” and for my actual weight instead of a lower weight, and that gave me about 550 more calories to play with, per day, without going over. But, I then decided that if I’m going to do that, none of this pussy-footing around with stuff being “forgiven.” I was going to count it all. After all, who am I cheating or lying to … no one but me. When I did that, no matter what I did, even eating nothing today and tomorrow, I would still go over on fat and carbs (two pizzas loaded with pepperoni, and two breads, will do that!). So, this week will be the first since late April that I have formally gone over my calories and/or macros. It’s only fair, and it’s more than reasonable considering how much I’ve eaten.
So, that’s why this week has been “interesting.”
*Finally, I’m back-dating this post so it appears on December 31, 2020, rather than January 01, 2021.
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