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December-29-06 183, up two pounds from last week.
Given how I succumbed the the lure of the holiday cookie tray, this isn't really that big of a surprise.
I have just one more 3 day weekend to get through, then it will be back to business as usual.
And I have good feelings about the upcomming year. December-22-06 181, down 1.5 pounds from last week. Not bad! But, this is the day before my 4 day Holiday's vacation, and there will be temptation aplenty along the way. I hope I do good, but what the heck, even if I do have a bad week ahead of me, Chrismas only comes once a year. December-14-06 182.5, down 1.5 pounds from last week. Frankly a surprise, since I've been having self control issues big time this week. For the first part of the week, I found myself eating like I was trying to gain weight. I don't know what the heck is wrong with me! But I guess I didn't do too much damage in the long run. But still, I need to work on the old will power issue, I guess. December-8-06 184, up 1.5 pound since two weeks ago. Maybe I'm part bear and am just gaining weight for the winter? I'm bummed. Also, things have been a bit stessful around here lately. There was a major ice-storm the week before last that knocked out my IPS. I did keep power, so I was alot more lucky than alot of other folks. And now my computer is doing some serious death rattling and crashing. This will eventually be resolved with a new computer, but till that happens updates to this site might be a bit iffy. Well, life is an adventure. November-24-06 182.5, up half a pound from last week. Eh, could be worse, what with it being right after feast day and all. Whatever weight I gain from having a four day weekend, I know will eventually go away. November-16-06 182, same as last week. Counting this as a victory, since I was up four or five pounds at the start of the week. I've just been having odd fluctuations ever since I got below the 200 mark. That's ok, I don't care if the road is a bit curvy as long as it gets me to my final destination eventually. November-09-06 182, down 1.5 pounds from last week. A no-nonsense week, and it showed on the scale. I needed this. I needed to know that if I actually did what my head knows I must do to lose weight, my body will follow. I'm kinda sorry that I know I'll get my monthly bloat next month, because it would be nice to see this sort of thing two weeks in a row. But even so, I know that I am back on track. November-02-06 183.5, down .5 from last week. Would have been more, I think, but I had a day of weakness when I was off for Halloween. Ate a full plate of fried sweet & sour pork at a Chinese place, had several pieces of candy, and drank more wine than I should have. Ah well, at least I sorta made up for it enough on the other days to still have a loss! October-26-06 184, down 2 pounds from last week. Most of that is water bloat loss, of course, but still I do feel that I am back on track. I had been doing a fair amount of mindless snacking when I come home from work. Now I'm being stricter in sticking on what I've planned to eat, and reaching for a cup of herbal tea with splenda when I have a need to just put something with flavor in my mouth. I really do feel that my latest stall out is over. October-19-06 186, up half a pound from last week. I came to the realization in the middle of this week that what I was doing just wasn't working. Eating by my sensible plans, then having a few "snacks" as I watch tv before I go to bed is simply keeping me from hitting goal. So, it's back to the old ways for me. Maintaining is fine, but I'm not at that stage yet. October-12-06 185.5, same as last week. So, it's starting to look to me like I'm practicing maintenance in the mid 180's for a while. I know that I haven't really been sticking to the calories that will make me lose fat. On the other hand, I have been satisfied with eating in a way that isn't causing me to gain either. I haven't given up on losing, but it is nice to know that my normal eating urges right now wouldn't lead me to blow up to my old weight. October-05-06 185.5, up 1 pound from last week. Ya, kinda a bummer. I didn't really blow off my diet or exercise in any big way. I do think that last week's numbers might have been a bit lower because of how sick I was. At least I feel better. September-28-06 184.5. down 2.5 from last week. Finally, I dropped the pounds I got in Branson and am back on track! Though I was pretty sick this week. I'm hoping that this isn't causing me to have a temporary weight loss effect. Well, next week will tell. September-22-06 187, same as last week. Well, I thought I would be able to report a loss, since I was down at the start of the week. But then I had a mysterious gain starting two days ago, even though I stuck to my diet. Go go monthly bloat time! September-14-06 187, up 1.5 pounds from 2 weeks ago. Not good, but given that I took a week off and went to land of Fried Chicken Buffets, not as bad as it could have been. And I do have some good news report, I upped my lifting weights by another 5 pounds. So maybe my gain was all muscle! Well, ok, not really. But overall, I'm not too upset about this. September-08-06 On vacation, no weigh in this week or last. Yeah, I know it's a cop out. But I seriously altered my sleeping pattern for the week, and I do feel that I'm not near the normal baseline that I have each week when I list my "official" weight. For what it's worth I do believe that I gained a pound or two. But at the start of the week, I hit a new low, 183 (and took another round of pics for the Supermodel page!). I don't think I'm going to have any outstanding numbers when I do my usual weigh in next week though. But that's ok, a bump in the road will not end the journey. August-25-06 185.5, down 1 pound from last week. But it would have been 188, if I had used the weight I had when I woke up for work. But I had a killer headache, called in sick, and went back to sleep for a few hours. After I woke up and puttered around a bit, I was down to this weight. So I dunno what my "real" weight is. Curious to see next week's number. August-17-06 186.5, same as last week. Which is actually a good thing, given that I ended the weekend at 189. And lately when I do have a big drop one week, I've noticed that I tend to gain a bit the next. I've started lifting weights again. I had the incredibly obvious brainstorm of mixing up my reps with my time on the elliptical. Do a rep, do 15 minutes on the machine, do another rep, end my time of cardio, then the final rep. It doesn't seem to be a chore breaking it up this way, and I don't have time to get bored. I think I can keep this up! August-10-06 186.5, down 3 pounds from last week. Ah, nice to have a nice big downswing for a change. And this was even during a week when I had a 3 day weekend, including a visit to a family reunion (hubby's) which included the mandatory pot luck. And we ate out a couple of times, too. I wouldn't have been surprised if I had no loss at all, again. Just goes to show that a stall out doesn't equal failure. August-04-06 189.5, same as last week. Though it's a shame to have to write that, since my 10 hour marathon sleeping event (I had a cool dream about miniature flying stone gargoyles that were singing as the flew around the room), I woke up at 187. But, since it was Saturday when I did wake up, it doesn't really count. I wonder if my weight is just stablizing around this 190 mark for a while. If so that's okay; I'm still solidly in the 100's. As long as that's true, I can't really feel bad about it. July-27-06 189.5, no change from last week. Well, I was losing weight during the middle of the week. But I had a couple of bad days during the end of the week, mostly involving some chocolate chip laden trail mix my husband brought home (an extra large bag! Though I did limit myself to a couple of handfuls, while in the bad old days I would have plowed through half the bag.) At least I'm getting used to my new hours, and didn't have a big gain this week. July-20-06 189.5, up 1.5 pounds from last week. Not such a good week for me. I got transfered to 3rd shift, so now working 11pm to 7am, instead of 3pm to 11pm I had been doing. I've been tired all week, and a lot hungrier than I usually am. I did eat some extra, but not enough to account for this much of a weight gain. Things will even out, I am sure of it. Also, my in-laws gave us half a cow a couple of days ago. We've got a freezer full of about 250 to 300 pounds of beef. And I'm a semi- vegetarian, eating around 1 - 2 pounds of meat weekly on average. This is going to be a challenge in its own right as well. July-14-06 188, down 1.5 pounds from last week. I still don't see much difference in myself, but I have more proof that others do. Last summer when I walked a couple of miles when I got home from work around midnight, no one really seemed to notice me. This year, I've had 3 or 4 cars stop and the drivers ask me if I wanted rides. One fellow pedestrian followed me for a bit a made a desperate bid to become friends. I guess I'm recognizably human now! I am in a small town with not much of a crime rate to speak of, so I'm not really scared of this attention. It's just odd compared to how it was last year. July-07-06 189.5, down 2.5 pounds from last week. Yay, the long weekend didn't totally negate my losing my usual cycle water bloat! For the first time I can officially say "I have less than 50 pounds to lose." Feels good. On a sort of down side, my In Laws are slaughtering a bunch of cows in two weeks, and they're going to give us around 250 pounds of beef. 250 pounds of beef? But.. um... I'm a semi-vegetarian! Sure, I eat red meat, but not very much, less than a pound a week! This might be a challenge. June-30-06 192, up 2 pounds from last week. I'm pretty sure my cycle has something to do with this. Added to this is the fact that it seems that in the days before my period, I tend to crave salty foods. I gave in last night with some potato chips. The low calorie kind, and I didn't over indulge. But I know they are packed with sodium. Oh well. I'm more worried about having four days off. Gonna make a huge veggie salad dressed with soy sauce and rice wine vinegar and use that for my mindless snacking needs. Maybe it will work and next week won't be a disaster I'm afraid it might be! June-23-06 190, down 2 pounds from last week. A little surprising to me, since I had been hovering at right around 192 all week, right up until yesterday. I had been sticking well to sensible eating, and exercising twice a day, so I thought that perhaps I might have gained a bit of water or maybe even muscle. Getting on the scale this morning was a bit of shock... nice to have a good one finally! June-16-06 192, down 1.5 pounds from last week. Good news. Though I wish I hadn't had that gain during my two week lapse. I'm getting tired of being in the 190s. Well, I suppose it's alot better than when I was in 250s! June-09-06 193.5, down 1 pound from last week. I've been all over the map this week, going as high as 196, and a low as 193. But, that sort of thing is normal for me at this part of my cycle, so I'm not too concerned. I have stuck to my good way of eating, and have done alot of exercising. Hubby bought me a bicycle, so now instead of just walking at night I can mix things up with that also. I am definitely exercising more with the warmer weather, and I have a feeling this is going to do good things for me. June-02-06 194.5, up 3.5 pounds since the last time I did a weigh in. Ya, it's been a bad half a month. My car broke down, so I was reliant on hubby to cart me around. We never did get to the store, so I've been pretty much living off of fast food like in the bad old days. I have absolutely *no* produce in my fridge. And I don't like this. But I get my car back today, and my new way of life as well! May-26-06 No weigh in this week. I had a hangover! May-19-06 191, down 1.5 pounds from last week. Not to shabby at all, and the second week in a row of decent losses. I'm happy! May-12-06 192.5, down 1 pound from last week. I feel like utter crap. I'm having very bad cramps and had to take the day off from work, and just now have the energy to turn on the computer. I also didn't follow my usual weigh in procedure, in that I've eaten today, had something to drink, and then a nice long five hour nap. So I don't really count this as a "real" weigh in. Next week will be be more telling to me. May-05-06 193.5, up one pound from last week. Given that I had a five day weekend, ate out a few times including one all you can eat buffet that featured my favorite from the bad old days, fried chicken (goooood fried chicken), this isn't nearly as bad as it could have been. In a funny way the buffet was a good sign. I decided to just take the day off, and eat what ever I wanted while there. I ate two pieces of chicken, and was stuffed. In the old days, I would have pounded down four or five pieces. I had half a brownie and a cookie for dessert. In former days, it would have been more like a large piece of cake, two or three cookies, and some cobbler with whipped cream. Oh sure, I still over ate, but not like before. I just don't have the ability to eat like that anymore! April-28-06 192.5, down .5 pounds from last week. Not a lot, but this is the first time in a while that I've had three weeks of losses, so I'll take it and be happy! I am taking three days vacation from work next week so that's going to be a bit dicey. But even if next week isn't good, recent weeks have shown me that I can bounce back and start losing consistently again even so. April-21-06 193, down 2.5 pounds from last week. Hey, it's nice to be expecting a good week and then actually get it! I'm not seeing much difference in my body from when I ten pounds heavier and stuck around Christmas time, but luckily, there are other signs that things are going well. My fine washables are starting to wear odd, they feel... baggy. I'm going to go shopping for a smaller size of those this weekend. April-14-06 195.5, down 1 pound from last week. Yay, finally a loss after two weeks of half pound gains. I think that turning one of the weekend days into a "diet" day is definitely going to be something I'm going to keep up. Right now I'm at the point of my monthly that I'm usually the heaviest, and I expect to be losing some water weight by next weigh in. Should be a good week then! April-07-06 196.5, up half a pound from last week. Ugh. Second half pound gain in a row, and several months of having a significantly reduced weight loss rate. I know what the problem is, the weekends. I've taken both those days as more or less "free" days (though I don't pig out on cookies, candy, or ice-cream... much). This worked fine when I was well over 200 pounds, but now that I am in a lighter range I need to rethink this. So, from here on out, on one of these days (Sunday, most weeks) I will log what I eat, and keep myself at 1200 calories or less. New weight, new tactics, and hopefully, new successes! March-31-06 196, up half a pound from last week. It seems that I'm in a new rhythm in my weight loss adventures. Up a bit one week, down more the next. Overall showing a loss. I wish I was still having the same level of success I had when I was over 200, but on the other hand, I am in better shape than I have been in well over a decade, and getting more so, even if it is in fits and stops. March-24-06 195.5, down 2.5 pounds from last week. Yay, a good week! Also, I realized this week that I passed another milestone; I now for the first time in about 15 years weigh less than my 6 foot tall husband. This was the last of the Big Milestones I was looking forward to, at least for a while. The idea of being firmly in the 100's so foreign to me that it's uncharted territory as far as my expectations go. But it's territory I definitely like! March-17-06 198, up .5 pounds from last week. I'm on my weekly bloat, so I'm not at all concerned with this. Also, I've had a bit of trouble with my left knee again, so I'm taking a few days off from exercising to let myself heal up. Planning to get back on track on Monday. This is just a blip, and I'm sure next week will be good. March-10-06 197.5, down 2 pounds from last week. So yeah, I'm thinking that last week's pound gain was just one of those annoying fluctuations I have to get used to since I've gotten to a lower weight. On a plus side, I have to buy new pants for work! When it first became apparent to me that I was having some success with my weight loss efforts, I bought a pair of work pants that were labeled size 12/14 Large (these are White Stag, from walmart, the type of pants that have an elastic waist and are made of some sort of synthetic fabric). I tried them on Wednesday, and ended up wearing them to work! I was floored, when I bought them I didn't really believe that they would ever fit. And now I have to go buy four more pairs! March-03-06 199.5, up 1 pound from last week. Not real happy about it, but still under 200 so it could be worse. I didn't really go off my diet in any big way, so I'm guess I was either a bit dehydrated or something last week, or a bit bloated this week. Whichever the case, I'm going to continue to soldier on.
February-24-06 198.5, down 2 pounds from last week.
Wait... did I just report a weight that starts with a 1? *looks around confused*
Well, it looks as though I've passed one of the milest... *Stops, lets out an
exuberant howl of joy, then does a cartwheel across the floor* Yaaaaaaaa ow ow ow *groin pull* ow
ow ow. February-17-06 200.5, same as last week. Which is actually sorta a victory, given that I started Monday weighing in at 205. I stuck to my diet and exercise pretty well this week, and am pretty sure I'm looking at my usual monthly bloat. I'm really, really curious to see where I will stand next week, though. February-10-06 200.5, down 1 pound from last week. It ended up being a decent week, though it didn't look like it might till the very end. I had one of my mystery over night two pound gains Sunday, which didn't go away until Thursday. But at least it *did* go away, and I'm pretty happy right now! February-03-06 201.5, up half a pound from last week. Disappointing, but still not the two pound weekly gains I was seeing during the holiday season. And I know that I didn't stick with my diet and exercise the way I should have this week. This is a small set back, but not a disaster. January-27-06 Weight: 201, down 1.5 pounds from last week, 1 pound down from my lowest weight of shortly before the '05 holiday season. Moving right along. It's nice to have a couple of good weeks in a row. My pants have been feeling loose again. I hope I have to buy more soon. January-20-06 Weight: 202.5, down 1.5 pounds from last week. Finally! A truly decent week. After a long period of struggling during the holidays, it's nice to see that I actually can lose weight again. I knew that this would happen, but it's still good to see. I am *so* sick of being in the 200's. I really, really can't wait until I break into the 100's. January-13-06 Weight: 204, down .5 pounds from last week. Not much of a drop, but after 3 weeks of having gains, I'll take it. I know that things are just going to be getting better from here on out. Well, maybe every thing but my memory. I don't know why, but I completely forgot to update my site last weekend as I normally do. I had plenty of time; I actually wanted to since I had a drop (sometimes, when I have a gain, it's hard for me write it down and send that out for the world to see). I need to organize myself! January-06-06 Weight: 204.5, up half a pound from last week, up 2.5 pounds from my lowest weight. Well, the holidays are officially over now. This week is the last of the short work weeks for me for a while. And short work weeks are the public enemy #1 to my losing weight. I do still feel that I am back on track, and expect to start having good weigh ins again, soon. December-30-05 Weight: 204, up .5 pounds from last week and two pounds from my lowest weight. My second gain in a row, but this isn't the tragedy that it might seem. I started off the Tuesday, the first day of work after Christmas, with a whopping weight of 207. And that seems to galvanize me, I think. For the first time in a long time, I really feel like I'm _into_ my losing weight again. I know it's weird to say this after a couple of gains, but I really feel like I'm on track again. This was another short work week for me, so the scale might not be too kind at this coming Friday's weigh-in (I always do much better at sticking to my diet during a work day), but after that, the numbers are going to go my way, I can feel it. There were a few other good points this week. I've upped my weights to 55.5 pounds for my two armed lifting. On the couple of days that it's been warm enough for me to go on my walks, I've started jogging part of the way. No way I could have dreamed of jogging for even a minute when I started this whole dieting thing. But my legs have just been feeling so full of energy, and my knee hurting so little, it just seemed like a natural step. I still walk alot more than I jog, and I get out of breath quickly, but I feel real good about doing it.
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