Connecting

I realized last night as I was eating my buffet food that I still haven't really made the connection between what (and how much) I eat and how much I weigh.  Yes, intellectually I know the two are very tightly related.  But I can eat a plate full of buffet food all the while thinking about how I'd like to lose the 5-10 pounds I've gained.  It seems that my brain still thinks that there are things I can eat that will make me thin.  Like if I eat lots and lots of this veggie I will be thin.  I just doesn't work that way and I need to figure out how to make that connection.

Speaking of the weight I've gained - I am going to have to weigh myself when I get home.  I've fallen out of the habit of weighing myself daily because I didn't like the numbers I was seeing.  So I told myself to take a few weeks off from that.  My thinking (flawed though it may be) was that I's somehow manage to lose several pounds so after a few weeks I'd weigh in and be happy.  The fact is that without that daily weigh-in, I tend to lose track of my goals (and the connection with all the things that will  help me achieve them).   So when I get home, I restart the daily weigh-ins.  Maybe not until Sunday, but definitely at that time.

Exercise is okay.  Ran 7.5km yesterday (Wednesday) and will run again this morning before packing up my stuff.  Actually, its been pretty good this week.  Exercise can be hard while travelling and I've done well.

Food on the other hand, no so well.  I haven't been logging what I eat because 1) its been buffet style almost every meal and there are just too many items to log and 2) I don't know what half of what I eat even is.  I plan to restart my logging exercise today, starting with breakfast.

And today I get to go home - back to my fridge full of veggies and my kettlebell.  I'm looking forward to starting the official part of the Kettlebell Burn on Sunday.