It's always a bad sign when a constantly-updating weight-loss blogger falls off the map, right? It's almost always indicative of backsliding.
In my case, there have been two reasons for my absence. First, I backslid with peanut butter. I've been eating copious amounts of it late at night when I've been at home for about the last week. Second, I went out of town for a few days and didn't have time to update (legitimate reason!).
I'm going to write individual daily posts for the days when I was at home and one post for the days when I was out of town.
As for my peanut butter problem... Well, I'm exposing it to light now. I'm hoping to get through the rest of the day without eating any more of it. When I had this problem last time, I beat it back by only eating 1-2 tbsp of peanut butter per day and only in oatmeal. I need to return to this strict habit. It only took me four instances of eating non-measured "tablespoons" of peanut butter, in oatmeal or not, to get me to the point of eating it straight out of the jar.
Some nights I was really enjoying the taste of the peanut butter, but it would fade. Some nights it was never there to begin with. I just wanted the feeling of it in my mouth. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to occasionally splurge on a certain food (especially one that is marginally on-plan) but my problem is that if I slip up once it seems that I go on a week-long tailspin of doing it every day.
So far this bingeing doesn't seem to be affecting my weight, but I'm concerned about a-few-days-down-the-road effects. We'll see. Maybe if I stop this now my weight loss will resume.
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