It’s time once again for What I Ate Wednesday, compliments of Peas and Crayons. It’s also time for me to face the dragon and get my post-cruise carcass back on the scale. Let’s just say I more than made up for any carb depletion I was experiencing before I left. Here’s how yesterday’s, back-to-the grind food went:
Breakfast was strawberries, Greek yogurt, chia seeds and almonds…
…a cup of green tea and big glass of water.
Post workout shake: coconut milk, frozen mixed berries, protein powder, spinach
Veggies, hummus, hard boiled egg.
Grilled chicken breast, Trader Joe’s Harvest Grains Blend with veggies.
I’m sure I gained at least 18 pounds on the cruise because I did virtually no running and did not hold back in the food department. At. All. I noticed though, how quickly more and richer food, and eating later at night made me feel. Pretty much like crap.
By some miracle, 4 days after returning to a more normal diet, I’m just 1.2 pounds heavier than I was pre-cruise. I’m not sure how that happened but I’ll take it.
Speaking of weigh-ins, there is so much conflicting information out there regarding how often one should weigh themselves. The spectrum ranges from weighing daily to never weighing at all. Historically I was one who would weigh in sporadically: Less than weekly for sure. Over the past couple of months, except for during vacation, I’ve been weighing myself daily. I will say it has caused me to be more mindful of what I’m throwing down, but I don’t want it to become an obsession or a way to define myself either. There are compelling arguments for both sides.
How often do you weigh yourself?
Good morning, Marcia! Your breakfast looks delicious – may have to go wrangle me up some yogurt – yum!
I’m one of those people who never weighs. I just find that if I get fixated on a number, I can’t let go (no OCD going on here ;). My weight stays fairly stable if I just ignore it and stay active. But, that is my personality. I think we are all different, and everyone handles it differently. I just know the more I pay attention to it, the worse it gets 🙂
Well, teaches me to read blog posts with a 5 year old talking to me! I am glad you KISSED, but were not STUNG by a sting ray! I am such a dorkbomb!
Anyway, great looking meals! Me? I am not “allowed” to weigh myself…but I do sometimes. Weight fluctuates, and so our dieticians weigh us weekly for an overall trend, but that is it. I am the type to fixate, so it is better not knowing!
Love me some cruise food. Mainly I love that you don’t have to cook or clean up! I guess I weigh in a lot, daily. We have a scale in our room so I step on periodically. Lately it’s more about seeing if I’m dehydrated after a run.
Never. Or almost never. I weigh myself really, about 4 times a year. When I did it more, the number I saw really had an effect on how I felt about myself that day. If I was up a lb or two, I felt like a fat hog. Was I really a fat hog? Did anyone even notice that I was 2 lbs heavier? No. But it really made me feel bad about myself. I just figure if my stomach looks flat and I’ve been exercising and I still fit into my size 6, then I’m doing ok.
But that’s me.
1.2 lbs is not bad at all! Good for you getting back on track so quickly. Glad you indulged on vacation – that is what it’s all about.
That is a good looking day of eats! Breakfast looks super tasty.
I’m a daily weigh-er. Keeps me mindful of my choices and I find it fascinating to see the fluctuations caused by things like that time of the month or the day after a long run (bloat city).
wowwww! when can i be there for dinner?? I never weigh myself except at the doctors, or if i am running in extreme heat (for safety reasons. i dehydrate!) I have been using the “do the pants fit?” method for years now!
I weigh myself every morning before I get in the shower. It’s not an obsession, it just helps me know how I’m doing (to keep up the good work, or to get my butt in gear).
Something about vacations and eating makes it seem like calories work differently, not sure what it is. I weigh in weekly.
I used to weigh myself daily but that became I burden I could not handle. Now I weigh myself whenever the mood strikes me which isn’t very often. I like it much better than way. I don’t need to focus on the number but rather on being healthy, right?
Daily for me. But it is more to help me watch for trending in the wrong directions. I also like to see the little things like Marlene said. I bloat horribly after a long run and for a few days before and after the start of my period.
Okay, i think i am still subscribed to your old blog so no wonder i haven’t heard from you. hehe.
Love the egg/hummus. They need to make an egg salad hummus. dangerous!
I weight myself every day but it’s more for water weight, to figure out how much I’m losing during a run so I can drink it back and stuff like that. I’m almost always the same so it’s more like a habit than an obsession I suppose 🙂
Way too often in the past now just a few times a week. But always before and after a particularly hard or long run to see how I’m managing my water intake.
Glad you had a great trip!
Your breakfast and smoothie like nommy!!! I refuse to weight myself. I don’t even ask the Doctor for my weight anymore. This year I did ask (since I had been working out more) and was in normal range (which I knew). I also found out that I had lost over 20 lbs in 2 years without weighing myself. Not being obssessive like I used to be about weighing myself seems to be the best strategy for me. You need to find what works for you 🙂
Hey, we are both crazy for strawberries this week! 😉
And your smoothie looks great.
I weigh in about once a week, first thing in the morning just to make sure I am on track.
I’m back to a once-a-week weigh-in after flirting with once-a-day. That was too much. We women fluctuate so much for non-getting-fat reasons–don’t need to do that to myself.
interesting. i always think about the weigh debate as well. i stick with once per week because i feel like that keeps me from assuming it was just a daily fluctuation and keeps me from getting too obsessed. it works for me but also makes it easy to think sometimes “oh i will just weight next week instead.” its a constant battle soemtimes for sure. i do like to weigh regularly thoiugh so that i can keep myself in check. that last chicken meal looks so good! and i am impressed that you were on a cruise and only gained 1 lb!!
Those strawberries look divine!!! Kudos on the minimal weight loss.
Right now – I’m trying to lose the excess weight, so I’m weighing in weekly, officially. I also spot check fairly often. I’m terrible. 😀
I used to weigh myself every day and that made me a very unhappy, obsessed scale-harpy. Then I gave it up all together and put on tons of weight. Now I weigh myself about once a week to make sure everything’s staying about the same and I’m much happier.
I used to weigh myself every morning, now I never do….or very rarely.
I want basically everything you had on your WIAW list 🙂 yum!
Well almost every day. Then of course before I head to WW to WI because well don’t want any surprises there. I wish I could be one of those who doesn’t have a scale at home or is good enough to not weight themselves between meetings.
i’m currently in a weight loss competition with my coworker and have to lose 2 lbs by next week. i have been stalking the scale-and i hate it. i think every 2 weeks is better for me. i can tell my clothes fit better & my stomach is getting flatter. i’m over the “number”
I vary greatly. I didn’t weigh myself for about a year. Now I am back to a few times a week. I have also done it daily at times.
I also feel like crap after eating junk…. like this past week. Everyone just left today, and I am so ready to be back to “normal” food again. As for the scale, I go in spurts where I’ll check every day, then forget for awhile. But like you, every day keeps me more mindful of overeating (most of the time).
Everything looks amazing! Yum!
I don’t weigh myself very often, it’s probably been a month or more since I last did. I go by how I feel more than the numbers on the scale especially now that I am trying to gain more muscle.
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