This challenge is making me too competitive. DH has been riding to work a couple of days a week, to help his weight loss quest. I can't ride to work, and although I've been exercising like crazy, it's making me nuts. There have been several positive changes in my eating habits (like more veggies) and I've kind of lost my taste for some things that I know keep the pounds on me. But, once I see my good # on Friday, I loosen up a little, mostly because we go out on the weekend. I enjoy myself. Then, I end up spending the whole week trying to get back down to the # I was at on the previous Friday. It's probably not going to happen tomorrow, as I gained a pound yesterday.
I know you all are going to say "so what?" but I think this is the same reason why I don't compete in athletics. I get extremely focused on comparing myself with others, and then I get stressed, and it ends up being a negative. I have a considerable amount of self discipline, which I think makes all of this worse.
I didn't need to lose as much as DH, just wanted to reset my set point... I kind of feel the same way as when he rides faster than me! I know I shouldn't compare, but this (eating healthy) is one thing that I've always been "better" at than him. This is all distorted thinking, but it still bugs me.