The Power of "No, Thank You"

I attended an Iftar yesterday hosted by one of our corporate partners and Im proud to say that I didnt eat anything and stuck to the plan. 🙋🙋 

They kept asking me to eat but I responded "No, thank you. Im good." and drank water and a diet soda. The Iftar event was nice and I stayed until 8:30 as planned. I reached home a bit late than I wanted and ate my last meal around 9:20pm. Our neighbor also hosted a hotpot with braai session.. so I dodged a lot of bullets yesterday evening.

Small human wave to me! whooohoo! #smallwins

Anyhoo, I read in the forum that there's a Golden Week of losses after TOM. I sure do hope so!! I need it. I weighed on the 3rd of May and planning to weigh tomorrow morning. Good luck to me...

I havent deviated in terms of food but I am guilty of the following:

• eating past 9pm
• sleeping late.. like really late last friday (3am) and I will most probably do that again tomorrow

I recently purchased a fitness band and I like how it tracks my sleep. I wanted to see how much deep sleep I get in a night because thats where the HGH gets to work. So far so good. I havent really engaged in any form of exercise, but this program doesnt require it. I want to start working on my flexibility though, just do some stretching.. wake those muscles up and eventually start yoga. 

25th Day: Making Procrastination Work for Me :)

Tee-hee..

Its almost Eid and we are currently off season at work, so there are tons of opportunities to not really work. I am currently planning ahead the things to do etc once the season kicks off in Oct, but right now.. I'm not. :p

Im using this time to re-read my diary in the newyouforum, giving myself a reminder of who I was or how I was on plan. I surprised myself a few times with what I wrote. I admire that woman, so tough, deviation free for almost 70-80 days? :D

I've also been reading up on other posts and the links that Koh had suggested. Tons of great material! That forum is really amazing, and it does help to keep your head straight to goal. Read up on a few diaries too.

The forum is way too quiet. It does help when people respond, because its nice to know that you are being heard? at the same time though, if there were a lot of people active there, it means a lot of people are also trying to lose weight (?). Anyhoo, I hope those people who were commenting on my diary are well out of the cycle of trying to get to goal, or at least living in health.

I'm still on plan and deviation free. Nothing to report much. 

I have a problem with sleeping though. I get to bed by 10 and I dont sleep until late.. past midnight. I just cant sleep good. But in the afternoon, I do. Like yesterday, reached home around 4:30, had some crackers, and did some stuff around the house to keep myself awake. Did some mindless browsing, and at around 7 dozed off! uff, at 7:30 bf came home and I woke up from the deepest sleep I ever had!! It was so good. Why cant I have that when its actually time to sleep?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

Argh.

We have a very long weekend next week and Im not travelling anywhere.. 8 days of being at home. Im already enumerating the things I should do because knowing me, when Im bored, I think of eating and thats a long time of being bored that I just might deviate by not being prepared.

Day 25 - All meals, fruits & crackers taken, vitamins too. Deviation free.