Goals for week 9: Getting back on the wagon

Last week I really fell off the wagon.  I know that if I continue down this road, I will gain back the weight that I worked so hard to get off.  I really need to refocus, tighten up my food, and make my workouts more challenging. These are my goals for week 9.

Refocus:  I let my frustrations and stress get the best of me this week and I turned to food as comfort.  I have been on several diets in the past and I have always done really well for about 2 months and then I just gave up.  I think it's because my weight loss and changes in my body start to plateau at this point.  I need to recommit myself to this year of healthy eating.  I need to keep my long term goals in mind.

Tighten up my food:  This one is a little bit more difficult.  On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday I attempted to stick to the menu plans on the Stripped Diet.  On each of these days I followed the plans until about 3 pm.  After that I just ate and ate and ate.  Although it was clean foods, it was in larger quantities than I should have eaten and I continued to munch into the late evening.  I don't think that I'm ready for the stripped program.  I think that I need to stick with the cooler 2 plan and watch my portion sizes. I think part of the problem is that in order to follow the other plans, I would have to decrease the intensity of my workouts, which is the opposite of what I like to do. Most of all, with Thanksgiving this week, I'm just going to work on self control.

Challenging workouts: I asked Monica, an aerobics instructor, what higher intensity workouts I could do. She is going to email me some more challenging exercises that I can incorporate into my Tibata workout. I'm also going to continue to run 3 days- 2 days of HIIT and 1 long run. I will do 5 days of strength training, with 1 day including Tibata.