WW - Day 57 Starting week 9

Another good weigh-in this morning. To date I have lost 23.4 pounds -- 3.2 pounds this past week. Unless I have a substantial slow-down in the coming weeks, I should make my 10% goal by the end of the month with no problem!

Yesterday I worked at the Habitat site, and it was scorching hot in the afternoon. I consumed well over a gallon of water in 7 hours. Here's an interesting fact: I didn't pee once. I think I sweated so much that I didn't have enough left over to pee. Seriously. So, my question is about how to calculate "Activity Points" for yesterday. I just marked it down as a 10 point earning, but I'm really not sure what I should do...

Oh, and I ate like a fool at lunchtime. There was fruit (good girl). Then I constructed a sandwich on white pita (uh oh) of roast beef (gluck), cheese (gluck gluck), mayo (gluck gluck gluck) with 2 tomato slices and a pickle (too little too late). But then I grabbed a handful of... (sigh)... DORITOS of all things (what?). Then I came back for MORE Doritos (WHAT???). Then I had a brownie (of course you did). And a small cookie (why not?).

Oh baby, was I bad. It's a good thing I was swooning in the heat because that's the only thing that saved my weigh-in this morning!

It's clear that the whole food-choices process is easy when I am making my 3 meals plus snacks each day. But when I sidle up to a buffet luncheon, does my brain completely lose function? Do I have to have MORE THAN ONE serving of Doritos? A brownie AND a cookie? It's like I'm perfectly behaved day to day at the asylum, but let me out into the REAL world for a day and I can't be trusted.

Here's a question: How do you practice "trustfulness"?

FOOD: Basically dandy, except for yesterday. Maybe I would have lost another pound if I hadn't let my mind wander off...

MOOD: I'm just fine. (And I mean, I really feel fine!) Esteem is very up. General good mood, especially when I've been particularly active and had all my water. I'm loving the exercise. And I'm gunning for my 10% keychain in the next week or two. And I can even beat myself up in a good-natured way when I'm bad, and not throw in the towel on the whole process. THAT is progress because I have spent quite a bit of time mastering the art of self-defeat, and it now seems I'm beginning to become more comfortable with success and a general care for myself. And this is rubbing off in non-dietary areas of my life, too.

Who knew?