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December-23-05 203.5, up 1 pound from last week, up 1.5 pounds from
my lowest weight of 202. Ya, another upswing. I was telling myself for a while that
I was just in a normal plateau, but the truth of it is that I think I just got weary of constantly focusing on
my weight. I've been eating more than I ought to, plain and simple. I really do feel
that the holiday season is a big part of the reason why. I do so much better on sticking to my diet
when I have the routine of a work day going. I've taken a few days off, and we've had several short
weeks in a row. I've decided not to worry too much about that. Just one more holiday,
next Monday, then it will be back to business as usual. It may be a stale cliche, but I've decided
that I'll just take a bit of a vacation from focusing so much on my diet, and re-dedicate myself to the task when 2006 rolls around.
I'm actually looking forward to the holidays being over because of this!
December-16-05 202.5, down 2.5 pounds from last week, up .5 from my lowest weight of a few weeks ago. Well, at least I have these down weeks to counter the up ones. And all I need are couple of down weeks in a row... It will happen eventually, I know it. I did make it to the recipe contest, but I didn't win anything. I wasn't that surprised, really. Greens are a main component of the dish I entered, and they do have a pretty strong flavor that isn't a favorite with everyone. I did have fun, and it was nice to go somewhere besides work and the grocery store for a change. December-09-05 205, up 2.5 pounds from last week, up 3 pounds from my lowest weight. Well, not a very good week at all. Even with more or less sticking with my diet I had a pretty good gain, mostly in the day or two before my weigh in. Also, the recipe contest was postponed to this coming Friday due to snow. I've decided to take another day off from work and go, but if it is cancelled again I'll skip it. On the plus side, I've upped my (two armed) lifting weight to 50 pounds on my home gym, and I'm pretty happy about that. I love, love, love the feeling of being stronger than I was before. When I started I was lifting 20 pounds, so I've really made some progress that I can see. Which is good, since I've pretty much stopped walking at nights. It's really hard for me to get up motivation when it's in the teens. December-02-05 202.5, down 1.5 pounds from last week, up .5 pounds from my lowest weight of 2 weeks ago. I was hoping that I would get back to my lowest weight, but I'm pretty close anyways. It's a bit aggravating to be hover so close to the below 200 mark though! Well, that's ok. It's alot better than when I wad hovering near the 260 mark. I know I didn't quite stick to my diet this week like I should have. I just need to work on my resolve a bit. On a side note, my Southern Style Stew (which can be found on my recipes page), has been chosen as a finalist in a healthy recipe contest that is being held here in De Soto. I'm taking the day off this coming Thursday and making up a batch of it, then taking it to the local civil war era hotel, The Arlington, to be judged along with all the other finalists. I love this sort of thing, I can't wait! November-25-05 204, up two pounds from last week. I'm a little disappointed, of course, but not really surprised. A combination of not sticking to my diet very well this week, plus a visit from my monthly, gave me an idea that this might not be that good of a week for me. But that's okay, I'm not about the weekly weigh in, but rather the big, big picture. I'm doing alot better now than when I started, and I know that I will have good weeks ahead to counter the occasional bad one. Also, last week I posted some new pics of me on this site, and by tabbing between the pictures of me in different windows I actually can see a difference in how I look. It's the first time since I've started that I've been able to say that. I'm not really on a time table here, so this backsliding really isn't that big of a concern. Sooner or later, I'll get there! November-18-05 202, down 2.5 pounds from last week, down 1.5 pounds from my lowest weight two weeks ago. I'm still having some serious weight fluctuations on a day to day basis. Up two pounds, down a pound and half, up another pound, down two, all week long. But in the long run, the low numbers are coming around more often than the high ones, and now I'm at an all time low. It's keeping me guessing, but I can live with it! I'm guessing that next week's weigh in the day after Thanksgiving might now be quite as good as this one, but I can live with that too. November-11-05 204.5, up 1 pound from last week. Another sorta baffling week for me. I was down to 202.5 by Tuesday, and it looked as though I would have a very good week. Then, for no apparent reason, the scale goes up. Ah well. I know that this will turn around sooner or later. November-04-05 203.5, down 3 pounds from two weeks ago, down 2 pounds from my lowest weight of 3 weeks ago. I had a weird work schedule last week, and I just sorta forgot to update my page. I'm not giving up on this site; I'm just absurdly set in my routines, and when they change I fall apart. Ok, not fall apart, but start forgetting to do stuff I usually do. Anyways, I seem to be back on track for the weight loss, at least for now. I've started lifting weights again. I found that I was having a hard time making myself do it when I got home from work. I was just too tired then, and just wanted to veg out in front of the tv watching Adam Sessler or Alton Brown. But since I started waking up an hour early to use the elliptical I've found it's much easier to actually start pumping the iron then too. Of course, that means I go to work with sore arms. But I'm sure they love me enough there to put up with having to listen to me complain about that. Really. October-21-05 206.5, up a pound from last week. I'm not as upset about this as I might be. By Wednesday I was at 205.5 (I typically gain during the weekend), so I thought the prospects of my being able to post a loss were very good. Then, even though I stuck to my diet and exercise, I gain a pound. No way this could be a pound of fat. Just can't be. And fat are the only pounds I care about. I'm curious to see where I'll be at next week! October-14-05 205.5, no change from last week. Given the huge drop I had last week, this doesn't really surprise me. But I have been noticing that my clothes feel looser than before, even my bras. It was kinda funny. I got home from work Monday and while getting undressed I notice my bra was only hanging together by one hook. I thought it was odd, but thought it was just a fluke. But the same thing happened on Tuesday. Then it hit me... I wasn't putting enough tension on them anymore to keep them together! I had to start using the second row of hooks! I was almost floored. This has never, *ever* happened before. No change in the scale, but I'm still counting this as a good week. October-07-05 Weight: 205.5, down 3.5 pounds from last week. Alot of that is from losing my water bloat. But I have been exercising in the mornings now too, spending a half an hour on the elliptical. I was really surprised at how good I felt the rest of the day after I did this. It was like I was taking happy good-mood pills or something. And I could just *tell* that I was losing weight over week, even without looking at the scale. I really felt all week like my slowdown was over. It was like I caught a weight loss second wind. I feel great! September-30-05 Weight: 209, down .5 pounds from last week. It was kinda a weird week for me, with my weight fluctuating from as much as 212 to 208. I dunno what's going on. But I plan to keep marching on till I stabilize and continue to lose weight. And any loss is good, even if it isn't as much as I might hope for. Sometimes I have to remind myself of that. September-23-05 Weight: 209.5, down .5 pounds from last week. I thought it was going to be a full pound this week, weighed an even 209 on Thursday, but then had a mysterious weight gain Friday morning even though I stuck to my diet and exercise program. Ah well, fluctuations are just part of the fun! My husband has been going for walks with me at night. He wants to wander all over town, but I point out that for me, after a full day of work, an hour's walk is enough! I have to have *some* unwind time at the end of the day. September-16-05 Weight: 210, down 1 pound from last week, and down .5 pounds from my lowest weight of 9/2/05. I've decided I might be eating too much for my last meal of the day. The salads I've been eating are very good sized, I've decided to cut them in about half. I've also decided to cut back on my serving of fruit at the end of the day, also roughly in half. I've been eating pretty much the same way since I started my diet, but now that I've lost close to 50 pounds I think that I simply need to eat less to keep up my rate of weight loss. Also, I am giving a go of not logging my calories anymore in Fitday. I think that I've gotten to point that I can gauge what I ought to eating internally. If it doesn't work out, I can always go back to it. September-09-05 Weight: 211, up .5 pounds from last week. Since the three pound drop the week before, I don't know if I actually gained any weight, or if I was just dehydrated when I weighed last week or something. I have to be honest in saying that I haven't been eating the way I ought to be this week. I've been having strong hunger and cravings, even though I haven't really changed much about the way I'm supposed to eat. Well, new week, new chance. I'll be focusing more on the way I eat, and see if I can reverse this gain. September-02-05 Weight: 210.5, down 3 pounds from last week. And once again, I get a nice "my period went away" bonus when I got on the scale Friday morning. I'm getting real close to being able to say "I've dropped 50 pounds", which I look forward to. I still don't see too much change in me, though others say they can. I do notice that when I'm laying in my bed on my back, there is a sense that there is less of me. I was half asleep and I noticed that I was absentmindedly rubbing the area of my torso just below my where my rib cage ends. It just felt... odd. My rib cage was sticking out in sharper contrast to my belly than it used to. I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to see even more changes. August-26-05 Weight: 213.5, no change from last week. I'm not really concerned about the scale staying the same since I'm on my monthly cycle, which almost always causes a stall in my weight loss. This week I've been trying out artificial sweetners for the first time ever. I've really missed having my daily hit of caffeine at work, but since I take my tea and soda with real sweetners I'd pretty much given up drinking them. I still like tea sweetened with sugar better than the Splenda, but the stuff is tolerable. Also tried yogurt with aspartame and didn't gag too bad. It's not a big deal, but anything I can do that I can tolerate to cut out calories is a good thing. August-19-05 Weight: 213.5, down .5 pounds from last week. It was a bit of a rough week for me. One of my best friends at work was let go for excessive tardiness and absences. I knew she was on thin ice, but it was still hard on me when it happened. I had an urge to just go through the drive thru at Mickey D's and cram a Big Mac in my mouth. I didn't, but I didn't really feel like focusing on my diet either. I ate too much chocoalate this week. August-12-05 Weight: 214, down 1.5 pounds from last week. Again, a good week. It's a bit unusual for me to have two of them in a row so good. I'm thinking that it's the walking that is making a difference. It could just be a fluke, but I'm not going to argue with success. On Thursday this week I passed a guy covered with tattoos getting into his apartment as I walked by. He told me I looked hot. I assume he was wearing beer goggles, but even so, it's been a long time since I've heard anything close to that said to/about me. I hope I hear it more often as I keep loosing weight. August-05-2005: Weight: 215.5, down 2.5 pounds from last week. Some of this is from losing my monthly water bloat. Even so, though, it feels great to be so solidly into the two teens. I've walked two miles a day everyday when I get off from work. I dunno why, but it seems that walking is making me lose weight faster than the elliptical does, even though I can tell that I'm working harder on the machine. Well, I'm going to go with what is working, and keep walking for now. July-29-2005: Weight: 218, down 1 pound from last week. I'm still doing a bit of walking. I might go back to using the elliptical this week since my knee feels a lot better. I'm noticing that my new pants are starting to feel a bit loser, though my underwear don't seem to be. All in all it wasn't a bad week.
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