Weekly Weigh-In -#2

- 3.4 pounds!!!!

I am super stoked to finally see that darn scale go down and to finally be back in the 150's.

Previous Weigh-Ins:

May 4, 2014: 180 lbs
June 30, 2014: 154.4 lbs

March 29, 2015: 164.4
April 15, 2015: 162.6
April 23, 2015: 159.2

(I forgot to weigh myself on Wednesday so I had to weigh myself today (Thursday) instead.

4/18/15 Evening Check-In- Day #41

It's 11:15pm and I have to get to bed so I'll have to make this quick.

First, I am happy to say that I completed my goal for the day and have taken 11,857 steps which surpasses my 10k goal.  I am also happy to report that I cleaned out my car (finally).  It took a couple hours but I am so happy it's done.  By 6pm I had only walked 2,500 steps so I decided to take the kids on the walk I did yesterday and they LOVED it.  If I can wake up early enough tomorrow I want to take them to Mt Tam for a real hike.

There is a lot to do tomorrow and not enough time:

-Go for a hike
-Go to local farmer's market (9am-1pm)
-Finish housework (priority because we're having company at 4pm)
-Laundry
-Catch up on emails
-Do at least two hours of work (getting seriously behind)
-Grocery store (dinner for tomorrow night & other items)
-Lemonade stand (promised my youngest we would do this weekend)

So, looking at all of the items for tomorrow it seems pretty clear that a hike is out.  It also seems pretty clear that making it to farmer's market might be out.  I need to do housework and laundry from 9am-12pm, go to grocery store, go home to make lemonade and drop off groceries, stop by my mom's to  pick up card table, lemonade stand from 2pm-4pm, and make it home by 4:30pm when my friend and her daughter are coming over.  I agreed to babysit the daughter for the night so my friend could go to a concert with her boyfriend.  Since she will be dropping off her daughter's car seat I should be able to run errands after 4:30pm.  I guess I'll just have to see how tomorrow goes.

Lastly, I was under my calorie intake by 100 calories but only because I burned over 400 calories walking.  I ate 1500 and burned 400 leaving a net of 1,100.  According to my Fitbit I would have to have eaten under 1,100 for the day (not including the exercise) so I am over by 400 calories.  I don't see how that would be possible though since that would practically be starving myself so I am going to stick with the recommendations from My Fitness Pal.  I should be happy I am under my daily calories , that I walked over 10k steps, and that I got a major item (cleaning car) crossed off my to-do list.  All in all, today was a good day.

Going to bed now...

xoxo

P.S.  I completed my 30-day plank challenge today AND I am in the lead on the Weekend Warrior Fitbit challenge.  I made a couple friends on the Fitbit website and I challenged them to this weekend challenge.  I was losing until I went on that walk with my kids and now I am in the lead!

Weekly Weigh-In #1

+ 1.2 lbs 

I weighed myself again this morning, not that I expected a change, and I weighed 162.6. That means I gained 1.2 lbs in the past two days and it means I've only lost 1.5 pounds in 18 days. I don't understand. It's frustrating since I'm eating healthy and exercising regularly for one and a half months. As I've said before, the last time I did this I lost fifteen pounds in 2-3 weeks. I don't remember the specifics but I do know I lost almost thirty pounds in 60 days. I would be happy if I lost even half of that this go around but instead I've lost only one pound. It just doesn't make sense. I am still going to stick with it since I made the decision to permanently change my diet but it's very de-motivating (not sure if that's a word) working hard and not seeing results. 

Yesterday I decided to use My Fitness Pal more regulary to keep track of what I'm eating to make sure I'm not going over my daily calorie allowance. I was more focused on just eating healthy before and didn't want to focus on counting every single calorie. Besides, I've done this before so I was pretty sure I was right around my daily calorie limit at the end of each day. But now that the f'ing scale isn't moving I am going to start using My Fitness Pal again. 

Yesterday I logged my calories throughout the whole day and after dinner I saw I had 165 calories remaining. I decided to have two sherbert pop-ups for dessert. I ended the day with only 5 calories remaining (consumed 1195 calories out of my 1200 daily allowance). I ended up having massive cravings AGAIN so I had a tiny bowl of cereal which worked. That made me go over my daily allowance by 120 calories. 

Weighing myself sporadically is driving me crazy. Because of this I decided that the only two options would be to stop weighing myself entirely or to start doing weekly weigh-ins again. At this point it would be really hard to not weigh myself anymore. I feel like I need to see the scale start to go down before I could give up on weighing myself. Otherwise, I'll feel like I'm not losing any weight, since I really haven't. 

What's great with weekly weigh-ins is that I can look at what I ate that week and how much I exercised and correlate that to how much weight I've lost, or in some instances, gained.