January 2012
28 posts
Rough Patch
It’s been kind of a rough few days. After my lackluster Saturday weigh in, I took advantage of my cheat day. Deep dish pizza was consumed.
That’s all well and good, but then I woke up Sunday morning not ready to resume my all-eggs-all-the-time breakfasts. We ended up at Waffle House, and I was indeed naughty. I made an attempt to be good for the rest of the day, and had a late...
WIS - FML Edition
SW: 324
LW: 257.2
CW: 256.6
Change: -0.6
I had a bad feeling going into this weigh in, and I wasn’t wrong. So this means that with my 0.2 loss last week, I haven’t even lost a full pound in two weeks. I’ve been kicking ass on my diet and working out consistently. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Sigh.
It sucks and I’m disappointed, but like I told my husband, there is no way that...
Retraining Your Eyes
One of the reasons I’m overweight is that my portion sizes are too large. You could probably say this about almost every overweight person, and about Americans in general. So one of the hardest things when you start your diet program is retraining yourself to eat and be satisfied with smaller portions. It’s really hard at first, but it gets easier, because your stomach does indeed...
Some Points
Still going strong with diet and exercise. This is my sixth week of being back on the wagon, and I’m riding a high right now where the dieting is almost easy. But I’m nervous to get lulled into a false sense of security, and temptation to revert to old habits will sneak up suddenly. For now though, I’m good.
I have been trying to make a point of drinking a lot of water. ...
Stupid Dreams
I had a dream last night where I fell off the wagon on my diet. My husband brought me a Slurpee, and it was supposed to be sugar free but it turned out wasn’t. So then I decided to drink a big milkshake since my diet had already been ruined by the Slurpee, and I woke up with a terrible feeling of dread.
When I realized it was just a dream and that I had done very well on my diet...
WIS
For Saturday:
SW: 324
LW: 257.4
CW: 257.2
Change : -0.2
Well that was a little disappointing. I told myself after losing over 5 lbs last week not to expect much this week, but when the whole week goes by and you’ve been sticking to your diet and hitting the gym, it’s hard not to get your hopes up. Oh well.
Yesterday morning I had my cheat meal - we went to a local...
Inner strength...inner strength
I do not want to go to the gym tonight. It’s taking all my resolve to make myself go. It’s been a long day at work and I’m tired, could be that my low-carb diet is catching up with me, or not enough sleep.
Found out the car is going to cost about $650 to fix. So I’ve been sitting here at work all day dwelling on money. Specifically the fact I’ve worked here for...
Nevermind
So…turns out I wouldn’t be going to the gym tonight after all. Instead, I was waiting for a tow truck.
Yes, the Universe seems to hate us this week. Yesterday we spent $1,150 on a new water heater, today the car won’t start. FML, as the young people say.
The car was just fine until I stopped to fill up with gas right before picking up hubby from work. I got back in the car...
Fantasizing
Been finishing off watching Heavy on Netflix Instant this week. The show could be better, especially the second half of the season, but it’s always inspiring to see people lose weight. And it starts me fantasizing…
I have this Excel document on my computer at work that is a weight loss projection. It shows me where I could be in the future if I lose a certain amount of weight per...
Warm Showers and Hot Chocolate
The hot water heater is dead! Long live the hot water heater!
This morning my husband woke up to absolutely no hot water. I ended up having to heat some water on the stove for him to take a sponge bath. When I got to work I called Home Depot, and, after a little sticker shock, we set up an appointment to have one installed at 11 a.m. I left work after only 1.5 hours, and met them at the...
Cold Showers and Coke Zero
Today was kind of a hard day. It started off rocky - halfway through my morning shower the hot water started running out, quick. And I was the first one in the shower. Guess what that means? Our water heater, that we’ve suspected of being shaky for a while, is finally going out. My husband had to take pretty much a cold shower after me.
A couple hours into the workday my previously...
Weekend Wrap Up
I don’t know where the weekend goes, it’s already Sunday night.
Today wasn’t a great day food wise - I had a crazy hunger attack this afternoon and did too much snacking while I was getting ready to make dinner. And since I did that, I went ahead and ate half a twice-baked potato at dinner that I wasn’t initially planning on. Today’s calories ended up around 2,000...
More Reasons to Lose Weight
#31 So offroad bike riding doesn’t make me cry
More Reasons to Lose Weight
26. To be able to go up a couple flights of stairs like it’s nothing
27. Fit into the four pairs of goal jeans I’ve accumulated over the last year
28. To feel comfortable shopping in Sephora/MAC (in my head I feel like the chic salesladies are thinking “no amount of makeup is going to cover up all that fat honey”)
29. To not be horrified seeing myself in a mirror or...
WIS
SW: 324
LW: 263
CW: 257.4
Change : -5.6
First thing I said when I got off the scale this morning: Woo-hoo!
This being the end of shark week combined with starting back on the low carb diet this week came together to help lose what may be 2/3rds water weight, but sometimes you just don’t care, it’s still a lower number. :-)
More Reasons to Lose Weight
21. Easily paint my toenails
22. To not be embarrassed for my husband at his work functions that he has to show off his fat wife
23. Wear a skirt without my thighs chafing
24. Shop at Plato’s Closet (name brand used clothing, not plus size friendly)
25. Ride the Silver Comet bike trail (would require biking at least 50 miles a day for several days)
Gym Pact →
What an interesting idea! An iPhone app that you hook your bank account to, and if you don’t go to the gym when you’ve promised you will, they take your money away, and give it to people who did go!
Interesting Point of View
The following was a post on MyFitnessPal, written by jennieodwyer, not me:
Yesterday was my one year anniversary logging on MFP so I thought I would look back and see how far I have come in these last 365 days. When I started on January 3rd I had already lost 15 pounds of my baby weight but was stuck at 180lb, which is a number I had never seen on the scale before (and not in a good way). I set...
Reasons To Lose Weight
There’s an awful lot of them. These are in no particular order. I’ll add more as I think of them.
1. Easier to roll over in bed
2. Can find tall boots that will fit over my calves
3. Be more comfortable and less embarrssed when riding to work lunches as a group, with three people squished into the backseat of a sedan
4. Never worry about fitting in amusement rides
5. Not...
Random Stuff
This is only my third day back at work after being off a week and a half…why does it feel like forever already?
Guess what my favorite activity is to take my mind off not wanting to be at work. That’s right! Mindless eating! And guess what I can’t do if I want to shave 60 lbs off my ass this year? Shit.
You can tell I’m on a diet and that it’s also shark week...
1 tag
Today was day one of being back on the strict low carb diet. And I already messed up twice. First, this afternoon I needed a quick snack so I grabbed the loaf of bread and started smearing peanut butter on it before I remembered. I went ahead and ate it anyway - one slice of 50 calorie whole wheat bread probably wasn’t going to make much of a difference.
For dinner I used a jar of pepper...
Bike Miles Roundup
I finally accounted for all my bike rides in the last couple of months and updated my cycling log. I ended up with 1,644.3 miles in 2011. I was about 50 miles shy of beating my mileage for 2010. I’m sure I would have easily beaten it if not for the Great Hip Injury of September. But 1,600 miles is still a very, very long way to haul my ass on two wheels, under the power of only my legs.
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