WIAW: Overeating Monday

Happy Wednesday my friends!  How can we make today a great one? 

I’ve been racking my brain for blog-worthy posts this week and though I know it’s WIAW so that helps, but rather than show you what I ate Tuesday, let me share what I *overate* on Monday.

This WIAW brought to you by Jenn at Peas and Crayons:

You see, I had my 33 week check up on Monday at 815a and I knew I’d have to get on the dreaded scale.  So I really had been trying to keep my eats in moderation the previous days, particularly on Sunday. 

I didn’t eat anything pre-appointment, which is the norm for me, since I eat my oatmeal at 9a. 

When the moment of doom approached, I saw that I was still *under* the targeted amount for my stage in pregnancy.   Wahooo!  Fyi, I’ve gained plenty of weight, no worries, my doctor is very happy with my weight gain.

Somehow that number said to me “ Eat whatever you want, as much as you want, for the rest of the day Shan!”  Don’t mind if I do Mr voice-in-my-head! 

So without further ado, here is every single, naughty, indulgent, second/third helping thing I ate:

• 845a: Grande non-fat half-caff 3 pump vanilla latte (a la Starbucks and the red cup)
• 9a: Mixture of candy corn and TJ’s cinnamon almonds (delish combo by the way).  I estimate I ate about 1/3 cup total.
• 1130a: ½ of my leftover veggie calzone from Gumba’s – please note that had to have been a good ½ pound of cheese embedded in the fluffy dough.
• 1230p: 1 pumpkin cookie (flat / crispy, like a sugar cookie almost)
• 3p: 2 more pumpkin cookies
• 4p: Medium Ambrosia apple
• 445p: Handful of Love Grown granola (estimated 1/4 cup)
• 505p: *Many* spoonfuls of Pilgrim Joe’s pumpkin ice-cream (guessing ½ cup)
• 7p: Darbar Indian food: Paneer do Piayza  + at least ½ cup rice + 5 or 6 triangles of naan.  It may have been more, friends.  I kept stuffing.
• 9p: PB Snickers funsize

Ugh.  Oh dear me.  I felt like a total lard@ss after that day.  I really couldn’t stop myself though.  I felt like I had a free pass since I was “underweight.” 

The question is, why do I do this to myself?  I feel like I’m definitely indulging enough in my regular days so it’s not like I’m working through a deprivation.  But I do think that I’m putting a wee bit too much emphasis on the old scale-a-roo.  Pregnancy is *not* a time to go willy nilly with your food and neglect the scale completely, but it is a time when you can be slightly more relaxed about the number.  Does that make sense?

Bottom line is that my check-ups are not a game that I need to beat.  I am truthful with my doctor in every other way, and yet, I seem to try to ‘game’ the scale so I can be at the low end of my weight gain.  This silliness must stop.

Tell me, when you see you’re at your low-end weight range, do you allow yourself to indulge more?

Favorite Indian dish?  I can’t pick just one, nor can I remember all the names.  But pretty much anything veggie makes my heart sing!

Long work days and food guilt

Hi guys…I’m exhausted.  Can I just tell you that I’m not one of those people that thinks working 12+ hour deserves a badge of merit.  In fact, I think it makes me lame.  Lame for putting work above life.   I can appreciate and understand that it is necessary at times (and dare I say, fun!) but nevertheless it is still has the ability to drain me!

And did I ever mention how I get super crabby if I don’t eat on time?  It’s frightening.  You don’t want to see a 30 yr old throw a temper tantrum believe me.  And usually I’m good about popping a snack or something; but if I eat later at night, I feel like every calorie is just going to turn into fat on my thighs as I sleep, so I end up not snacking.

Sp pre-Date Night (Wed) I may have looked something like this:

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Yeah I’m a real peach to hang out with   Date Night wasn’t off to a good start.  I was late from work (after the hubby, which never happens).  And I had my cranky pants glued on.  I didn’t think those suckers were coming off for anything!

While Zach was chattin’ away at Gumba’s, he noticed my glazed over expression and one-sided silence, to which he smartly stated “How about I not talk to you until you’ve had 3 bites of food.”  Brilliant idea.

Sure enough, a few bites into my salad and I was A-Ok

The rest of Date Night was quite nice actually and I felt nearly de-stressed by the time the night ended.  WIN!

Now to recap the eats and exercises…

Wed Eats:

• 715a–12 oz coffee with 1tbsp creamer
• 9a–1 packet TJs cinn-apple oatmeal with 1 tbsp pecans
• 12–Asian salad togo’s with <1/2 dressing (400 cals according to the nutrition info online)
• 245p–Sbux venti 4pump vanilla nonfat latte
• 515p–half a medium banana
• 720p–romaine salad with oil/vinegar and 1.5 pieces garlic bread
• 740p–pasta primavera (zucchini, peppers, onions, carrots, asparagus).  I ate all the veggies and half the noodles
• 8p–1 glass of Merlot

Exercises: N/A

Thursday Eats:

• 745a–16 oz mug of home brewed maple nut coffee with 1+ tbsp vanilla creamer
• 845a–Nature’s Valley PB granola bar (on the way to a meeting)
• 1145a–small work-catered Italian salad (romaine lettuce, red onions, olives) and ZonePerfect Fudge Graham bar
• 3p–1 medium orange, 1 bag of Miss Vicky’s jalapeno chips
• 7p–3 slices feta/spinach frozen pizza (to which I added cut up green olives and arugula) (about 400 cals total) and 10 carrots with <2tbsp spicy hummus

Exercises:

• 2o minute walk with Naava
• 40 minute treadmill (variation of walk/running for 20 minutes, then 20 minutes at 4mph / 5deg incline)
• Ab work: 50 crunches, 1 minute (each) side planks, 60 dolphin planks
• Tricep dips (while watching tv)

So how do I feel about all this eating?  Guilty.  Yep.  Guilty.

I realize I haven’t eaten anything too horribly bad — or in excess, for that matter–but my current sedentary work situation is making me feel a major lard@ss, hence the guilt over eating anything that is not 100% fresh, nutritious and low-cal.  And yet, all I want to do is eat !  Why the heck is that?

What I am telling myself is that this proposal will be done and gone in less than 2 weeks at which time I can kick it back into health-mode and up my workouts.  Kauai is a month and a half away –>  motivation 8)

What motivates you?

Desk job?  or do you stand / move around?