The Streak Is Over!

After total dessert abstinence all year, I caved in. I indulged in Mama Dathie's Apple Dumplins. And they were good. We were invited to a Mother's Day cookout and there were a multitude of Non-Lalanne approved foods stuffs. And I ate them, and I didn't really feel bad about it. Didn't even feel bad about not feeling bad about it. I also had a cupcake. and a literal bite of cake. And then Denise had a leftover cake sitting in the fridge from a Fancy Tea Party she went to Saturday, and I was all alone with it and The Boy was asleep and I had a piece of it. And Today at work they had a retirement party and they shoved brownies in my face and I ate three of them. Once I'm off the wagon I have a hard time jumping back on. Sunday was a balanced decision to enjoy some food prepared by the folks who had invited us, a time to relax and break bread and ribs with friends. That's cool. That's one of my goals, indulgence without guilt and hop right back into the swing of things. Today was not that good happy place, it was just a complete lack of self control. OK, I ate 5 brownies, but not all at once. And then I came home and had the stupid strawberry cake again. But it's gone now, I'm not digging in the trash for it.
Did I mention I have trouble controlling myself when it comes to baked goods?

I've been contemplating what Phase II of this experiment will be lately anyways. I have let a few things creep in- Organic Milk and Kashi or Fiber One Cereal, Cheese maybe once or twice a month, and I've been eating grains more often. All that cheating and I still have kept my weight around 178 pounds, up a mere three pounds from being really strict. Even after Sunday's indulgence, I was back down to 179.8#'s this morning. Tomorrow morning will be worse, of course.
So this next phase will be concentrated on exercising and eating as close as possible to how Jack Lalanne instructed his students to eat. I tried to eat just like Jack, and honestly couldn't do it. And that's OK, he didn't recommend folks to eat exactly like him. He admitted that part of the extreme discipline of his lifestyle was "an ego thing" for him. I'll report back with what the new food rules will be.
But I've got to decide what to do about dessert. Clearly we can't keep cake in the house anymore, that's for sure.

More about Jillian!

Anyone see the cover of May's Shape magazine???  Jillian Michaels!  Woohoo!  As soon as I walked in the door I tore it open to find out what else I could eat.

So imagine my glee when I read the part where "Not everything she eats is "good" for her"....  What does that mean????  Her explanation:  "I give food a number on a scale from one to 10.  Ones are superfoods that will practically cure cancer, like organice spinach.  Tens are crap that could kill you tomorrow, like a prepackaged cupcake.  The highest I'll go is 5 or 6.  For example, I adore Popchips.  They're 100 calories a bag - no preservatives, no trans fat and no artificial sweetners.  Is it a superfood?  No.  But will it kill me?  No!"

Hmmm so as long as it doesn't kill me I can eat it??

More about Jill:
4 - She eats 2,000 calories a day!  "Right now, I'm loving Nature's Path Hemp Waffles for breakfast.  My cleanest meal is lunch because it's usually a salad with seafood.  And dinner is often something from my book "The Master your Metabolism Cookbook", like the black bean chili"  (I HAVE THIS COOKBOOK!  Yea, more options!)
5 - She's a conflicted vegetarian "I don't eat chicken or red meat, but not because I think they're unhealthy.  I do believe we're omnivores and should have healthy meat once a week or so.  But personally, I can't eat it because I'm such an animal lover.  I've been rescuing dogs since I was 17."

Let's see..  she never weighs herself, she thinks she has a big butt (whatever), she sees a shrink and she wants to be a mom.  Important to note that she doesn't like to exercise.  She does it for the way it will make her feel.  Yep, I agree!

She also will eat Larabars.  Rock on - me too!

So I think I'm doing pretty close to what she would do..  Some things I have added in that she might not:

• Some dairy (still not clear on her stand on organic dairy) - I eat greek organic yogurt with organic granola, organic milk with Kashi go lean and I have splurged on a little bit of cheese on eggs when I eat them with Noah.
• Organic pizza - no more than once a week and I'm now thinking she might would consider this a 5 or 6 and eat it too!
• Semisweet chocolate morsels - may not be dark enough but I like to snack on 2 tablespoons in the afternoon while I work.  I let each one melt in my mouth.  It takes like 30 minutes to finish and it's only 4 WW points plus values!  Nice long chocolate fix!

So I guess, overall, I'm still sticking pretty close to her eating habits.

The exercise is another thing.  I need to think more "what would Jillian do" when it comes to exercise.  Like the week the inlaws were here.  I did NOTHING.  I didn't really have any time but could I have carved some time to do push ups, situps, etc?  Sure!  Would Jillian have done NOTHING?  Likely not.  The week following I was so tired that I only worked out an hour and a half the whole week!  Needless to say when I got back on the exercise wagon this week I was sore all week.  I did get 4 hours in this week and the week isn't over... 

So the new challenge is to try to think more like her when it comes to exercise.  I think my eating is under control in terms of her rules of food.  Having additional information is helpful.  Not knowing her scale is challenging but I think I get the gist.  Now off to more challenging workouts!!!