Jill's Day 9/10 of Jillian's DietBet Challenge

Posted on October 16, 2014

So it has been a very long time since I posted...since the last time I posted I did not eat very healthy and I did not do any exercise. I have been terrible... last weekend was thanksgiving weekend, I ate kind of healthy during the day but then binge on unhealthy things at night and for dessert at our thanksgiving meal. I felt terrible. I felt like I was the heaviest I have been. But when I got home I weighed myself the next morning I was even lighter than when I left! It was super exciting, I kept weighing myself over again. That was Wednesday.

Yesterday, I decided to make cookies because I love to bake but also like to eat them. But in my head I was making them for the children, for school and snacks. I ate healthy all day, but had too many cookies :( I don't know why I trick myself into this every time... I just need to stop making things because I have no self control. Yesterday I needed milk so I decided to walk to the store instead of drive, with my two children. The kids were good and I felt great! In total to walk there and back it was 3 miles.

Today is a new day, my 3 year old is going to daycare today, which leaves me with one child. I am going to do my Jillian Michaels workout and possibly some rockstar jumping jacks! I started off by weighing myself, it was bad news. Instead of maintaining my lower weight I seem to have gained it back. How does that even happen..the cookies?? Oh well, need to get back at it.

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Cynthia F.

10/21/2014 11:17AM

I have told myself for a really long time (we're talking decades), that I have no self control when it comes to sweets and snacks, but really it was that I just wasn't paying attention. I would let myself eat the whole bag of cookies, or the whole bag of chips and say, man, I shouldn't let myself have those things.

But since I've started tracking my eating, I am finding that I CAN allow those things into my house and into my diet. I tried it first with a family size bag of M&Ms. It said on the package that there were 8 servings in each bag, so I divided the bag into 8 servings. I knew the calories per serving, so when I wanted a serving, I logged it into myfitnesspal and then ate that serving (VERY SLOWLY, so I could enjoy it!). There were a couple of days that I had more than one serving, and that's ok - because I tracked it and kept myself honest about it.

I currently have a container of Coffee ice cream in the freezer. It's been in there for a week now! CRAZY!

Jenny A.

10/17/2014 4:13AM

Another great advantage of not baking sweet stuff is that the children and husband will eat healthier. It's a win/win!

Mary Lynn

10/16/2014 5:13AM

I usually do good at work. It is in the homefront that I have problems. When I was home with my kids, I baked . . . cookies, bread, pie. It was always "for the kids" or "for the husband." But truth be told too many times, by the time the cookies were cool enough to put away, the three trays of cookies would become two trays of cookies. And my butt kept getting bigger. So I stopped. The only time I make bakery is if it is leaving the house and I have committed to make two dozen cupcakes or whatever and that is ALL I make. Truly, we are all eating healthier.

You can do this. You still have time to get back in the groove.