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\"\"<\/a>My schedule this month has been insane, as you may have noticed.\u00a0 I’ve not had a weekend off since sometime in July.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when my schedule gets crazy, two things happen.\u00a0 One, my house becomes a complete disaster.\u00a0 I keep up with what I have to (dishes, laundry), and everything else falls apart.\u00a0 And two, I end up making poor eating choices and my diet falls apart.\u00a0 And I start to gain weight.<\/p>\n

While I’m hoping that some of the weight I’m holding onto is still water weight from my ride this weekend, as the days pass, that becomes less and less likely.<\/p>\n

It’s not like this is a new issue for me.\u00a0 And it’s not as if I don’t plan for it.\u00a0 I have gotten fairly good at making sure I have healthy foods around.\u00a0 But the problem is that when I’m tired and busy, I don’t make the choice to eat those healthy foods.\u00a0 Or I eat too much of them.\u00a0 Even things that are good for me must be consumed in moderation.<\/p>\n

For me, another big part of the problem is that once I’m off the wagon, it’s like my brain says “Well, we’re down here, might as well enjoy it for a while.\u00a0 That wagon will be there later.”\u00a0 So if I travel for a weekend and race and eat out, when I get home, I don’t immediately go back to healthy eating.\u00a0 Instead, I continue to add in things I don’t need to be eating.\u00a0 I don’t know if it’s because my body is craving them or if I’m just being lazy.<\/p>\n

But it’s something that I definitely need to remember going forward.\u00a0 One off meal or one off weekend is fine, but I need to immediately return to healthy eating.\u00a0\u00a0 I need to make sure that I let myself have fun and relax without completely ignoring the need to be healthy and watch what I’m eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My schedule this month has been insane, as you may have noticed.\u00a0 I’ve not had a weekend off since sometime in July.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when my schedule gets crazy, two things happen.\u00a0 One, my house becomes a complete disaster.\u00a0 I keep up with what I have to (dishes, laundry), and everything else falls apart.\u00a0 And two, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nBusy Schedule = Weight Gain - 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