Weigh In: August 11th

Weigh in Wednesday. 

I actually almost forgot this morning.  But, there it was.  The scale.  Chuckling as I tried to leave the bathroom. 

"Just where do you think you're going?!"

"Uh, sorry. I forgot."

"Not a chance chickie, jump on!"

So I did.  I wasn't expecting miraculous results. My eating has just been OKAY this week. It showed a gain of .8.  After last weeks loss, I'm okay with that. 

Today's eating was just OKAY too.  Frozen pizza.  Grr.  It would be better if the husband and kids ate it all. It's the leftover crusts and pieces that call to me!!  So I ate some.  Then some leftover peach slaw from last night.

I drank more.  Still not enough for some reason, but more. 

Weigh In: August 4 Summer 15 Challenge

Isn't salt amazing??  I wrote about this last week how I was absolutely amazed at what salt can do to the body. I've seen where I will eat out or get pizza over the weekend and Monday morning have "gained" 2 -3 lbs. in salt.  That's why I don't weigh in on Mondays. 

Well, the weekend we were out of town we ate out a lot. I didn't necessarily gorge myself but we ate out.  McDonalds, Subway, a buffet, and pizza.  Then I did eat a individual size bag of chips every day while at the hotel. Oh - AND I was having my period.

Anyways, I came home Monday, fat and bloated, jumped on the scale and was 249. 

WHAT???!!!

That was 11 lbs. gained in 5 days.  I was 238 the previous Wednesday.  Can you imagine how horrified I was to see an 11 lbs. + weight gain in 5 days!!  I KNEW that a lot of it was salt and water but how much?  I knew I overate but I kept thinking, "I didn't eat THAT much, did I?" By my next Wednesday weigh in, it was better. Not gone, but better. Now, the water and salt is gone. Plus I've been tracking calories and eating good. 

I came in today at 236 even. *sigh of relief*  Back on track. For now. 

So next week is all me. No salt and water to whine about. I am completely avoiding the restaurants. Not picking up pizza.  None of that.

I think I mentioned that I was in a new challenge for August? The End Of The Summer Challenge.  I started that challenge on August 1st at 237.6.  The salt and everything bad was completely out of me by then so it was the PERFECT time to pick up on the challenge!!

I did good today. It was busy so I didn't track my food as I was eating it but I came out okay. Not super but okay. I need to plan and track though, otherwise I DON'T stay on track.

Weigh In: July 28 Summer 15 Challenge

I didn't post yesterday. I had a super bad migraine all day and just felt horrible and went to bed early.  I ate about 1400 calories yesterday. 

So my weight is going the wrong way.  Totally the wrong way.  I gained 4.6 lbs.  Bad as that number is, it was almost twice that a few days ago. I've already lost a lot of the water weight from this weekend and I'm HOPING that there is a couple of more lbs. in there yet to go away. My feet and legs are still swollen.

It's funny, I never had SUCH an issue with salt and water gain before.  At least it wasn't noticed.  If I eat out once, I notice it the next day. A bit.  We ate out a LOT this last weekend, plus I ate a 260 ish calorie bag of chips every day plus completely unhealthy hotel breakfast every day. I came on Monday looking like you could just pop me I was so puffy!  I've never seen such dramatic results from this before.  Does anyone else have this issue?

So I've been drinking water like crazy and it's starting to come back to normal. Not that gaining 4.6 lbs. in a week is normal by any degree.

The only good thing about seeing such horrible scale numbers is that it keeps me focused. But what happens next week?  Do I go back to my "snacking" ways?  God, I hope not! 

I've seen several different kinds of weight loss blogs. I've seen the ones that people are super pumped about losing weight and then all of a sudden.  Nothing.  Then I've seen the ones where you see a steady decline in weight and they are doing SO WELL. I so wanted to be that blog.  I still have the hopes of being that blog.

What I refuse to be is the blog that just STOPS.  That would have disasterous results.  So I am determined to keep posting even if you all see me go back up to 300 lbs.  (Please come over and shake me silly if you see THAT happen). 
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Wrote that above this morning, now off to bed.

So today went well. Still snacked a bit more than necessary. I ate about 1600 calories and drank about 5 gallons of water and peed every 5 minutes. My feet and legs are still swollen more than normal but not as bad as yesterday.

Weigh In: July 21 Summer 15 Challenge

I knew today wasn't going to be pretty. Not nice at all. I'm so heading the wrong direction.  Not that I'm surprised.  I haven't been focusing at all. Sure, I've been busy. Actually, I've been crazy beyond belief busy and that is highly unusual.  Still no excuse.

Today was horrible. Two words. Amusement Park & McDonald's.  Okay, that was more than 2 words but you get the drift.  I ate enough sodium to last the entire month.

I am reading a book.  A weight loss book. I'm going to finish it and let you know what it is and how awesome it is soon.  He's talking about how every Monday was a "new Day 1" for the diet and how by the end of the week it would result in failure.  Until the Monday and the new "Day 1".  That's what I keep doing.  I'm yoyo-ing the same 5 lbs. and it's getting annoying. 

Sigh.

I'm going to be gone until Sunday night. We're going to an awesome convention and will hopefully come home refreshed and ready to start.  Again.  I am packing good food for the convention and we're not planning to eat out except for one night of pizza.  (I'll be good).

So for the Summer 15 challenge, I'm at 238.2 which is a  4.2 lb. gain I believe?  No way am I going to make the 15 lbs. by September 7th but I am still going on and going to track my numbers!!!  I won't give up.

Weigh In: July 14 - Summer 15 Challenge

Weigh in Wednesday.  Oh, the evil scale. How I dread thee... 

Despite my continuous snacking throughout the week, I did manage to lost 1.8 lbs. this week.  That's what it's telling me so we're going with it.  Never mind that I had to blow my nose, shave my legs, clip my toenails and spit into the sink before achieving that number. 

The summer 15 challenge isn't going to well.  I'm going to have to haul some serious butt (and my butt IS serious) to lose 15 lbs. by September - ish.  I'm still up by 1.4 lbs. My math skills in some of my posts have been wrong but I started at 234 for the Summer 15 challenge and I'm at 235.4 for the day so I'm up by 1.4 I guess. Maybe by next week I'll break even!!

I ate good today! I came in at about 1500 calories and limited the snacking. I had a 130 calorie Nutrigrain bar that I didn't need nor was I hungry for but that's okay. At least I didn't have 3 of them.

Weigh In: July 7 - Summer 15 Challenge

I was SOOOO disappointed by last weeks gain that I was determined not to gain this week. I didn't do as well eating as I would have liked but at least the scale showed a loss.  My ankle and leg aren't swollen anymore so maybe it's because of that. Who knows.

So I have a 1.2 loss for this week.  I'll take it.

So for the Summer 15 challenge, I'm still a gain of 4 lbs.  Yuck. So 19 to go if I am in the running of the million dollar prize.  Er, or the drawing.

I ate too much today. Not horrible but just too much snacking.  A few ritz, a few pretzels, a finger full or two of peanut butter.  Stupid stuff.  I'm sure I ate about 1800 calories.  The snacking is GOT to stop! I'm taking in 400 - 500 calories extra just with stupid snacks!  Grrr.

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Weigh in: June 30 - Summer 15 Challenge

I pretty much knew that this week would result in a gain.  Mostly because of all the salty, sweet, sugary, way unhealthy food I've been packing in. Some because of fact that my ankle and leg are still swollen.  I'm not one to blame "water weight" too much but in this case, I'm hoping that when the leg swelling does go away, it will float away a bit of weight that shouldn't be there.  That's what's happened in the past with my foot. 

To make a way long complicated story short: The bones in my ankle are all gobbeldy gook, the Dr.'s really can't explain it or give me a diagnosis.  I have very little movement in the ankle at all. Over the last year or so I've been babying it, big time. Pain went away, movement increased so I decided it was time to get back on the treadmill and see what it could do.  Bad idea. I screwed it up again, then with being on my feet non stop over the weekend cooking and partying, it is all completely swelled up and I'm back to square one with the pain.  I won't whine any more about it, but the treadmill is out. At least the running part, I can maybe do some slow walks in time, but no runner I will be. Now I know.  Moral of the story, I'm still dealing with it and it's all swelled up, it will go away and hopefully a pound or two will go away too.

So I came in today with a gain of 5.2 lbs.  Yuck.

So the stats for the Summer 15 challenge is a total of +4.4 out of -15.  Which means I have to lose 19.4 lbs. to complete the challenge.  Time to get my butt in gear I say!!

Same crud happened today that I've been doing all week. My meals are fine. I'm tracking 1300 - 1400 calories but then I throw something extra in there for no apparent reason and I don't make up for it.  Today, a friend came by with a huge piece of cake. I ate it all.  I didn't even think about it, I just ate.  Then I knew that I should have one fajita for dinner rather than 2 but I didn't.  They were delicious and I ate 2.  So I ate like 500 or so calories that just didn't need to be there. Then I grabbed a handful of M&M's out the door tonight.  Why do I keep doing this!!   Grrr.

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Weigh In: June 23 - Summer 15 Challenge

Weigh in Wednesday.  I used to like Wednesdays.  They made me feel like the week was half over.  Now, weighing myself first thing in the morning on a Wednesday, I feel like a new week is starting.

I lost .8 lbs.  An even pound would have felt better.  It was to be expected that it wasn't better, I didn't eat the greatest. Not horrible but not superbulous either.  Alas, a loss is a loss and I'll take it. I"m trying to eat small for the next several days as we have a Luau for about 60 people on Saturday and I am preparing the food!  And it's NOT healthy!!

Hopefully I'll be too busy entertaining guests to eat a ton.  It's usually when I am putting all the food away that I start to munch on leftovers.  We'll see, it should be fun. 

Today went well. I came in at about 1400 calories, even with a piece of butterscotch Amish cake/bread.  Yummers.

So for the Summer 15 Challenge, I am at .8 out of 15.  The goal is to lose 15 lbs. by September 7th.  I need to get my butt in gear!

Weigh In: June 15 - Summer 15 Challenge

Ok, so I JUST found out about a weight loss challenge from Plus Size Bloggers.   It's the summer 15 challenge. It goes from June 15th to September 7th and the challenge is to lose 15 lbs. and continually post results on your blog.  I'm psyched because I so need this extra motivation to lose weight!! 

So this is an extra post, just for them, announcing my official weight. My official weigh in day is tomorrow morning but I will go with what I was at this morning as they need the first weight today.  Deep breath!  234.  Sigh.  I'm dead even where I was 2 weeks ago.  I'll post more about it tomorrow on official weigh in day.