Weight on.....Weight off.
Sounds like some wacky Mr. Miyagi thing, doesn't it?
Week Forty-Six: 0.8 pound loss
Week Forty-Seven: 0.4 pound gain
Week Forty-Eight: 3.4 pound gain (I have some REAL choice words for this one....)
Week Forty-Nine: 3.2 pound loss (cue the Happy Dance)
Week Fifty: 0.4 pound gain
Nope....that's been the routine AGAIN. Seriously, I hate stress. I really do. I was all stressed out from learning my new job, and then we had to get ready to move our office to its new location. Most of December was spent readying for the move, and of course, lots of holiday celebrations and requisite junk food and sweets. Sigh. I'm really hoping for some sort of break in this nasty weight-loss roller coaster.
Please let 2012 be a better year......
LilySlim Weight loss tickers
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Friday, December 2, 2011
Weeks Forty-One Through Forty-Five
I know I haven’t been updating this thing near as often as I should. I hate to cite the excuse that I’ve been busy, but I really have!
This past month has been nothing but frustration for me with my weight.
Week 41: up 1.6
Week 42: down 0.6
Week 43: up 4.0 and one big “what the HELL”
Week 44: down 3.6 and one big “that’s more like it”
Week 45: down 1.0.
I have just been a big mess of stress with my husband being out of town for work and me starting a new job. I know I wasn’t making the smartest food choices sometimes and I know that it showed on the scale. I can’t make any excuses for that, especially when presented with the numbers. I’m just tired of dancing around the same weight for……well, it seems like FOREVER. It just sometimes really sucks your will to live.
More than the irritation, I’m horribly disappointed in myself. I had hoped to be a lot lighter at this point in the game; I had hoped to be about 40-45 pounds lighter at this point, and that’s obviously not happened. I really was hoping to be down 50 pounds by the end of the year and I know I’m going to have to seriously rethink that goal since I know I won’t realistically make that goal AT ALL. I didn’t want to be fat in the holiday pics that are sure to happen, and I guess I’ll have to deal with another year of fat pics. I just hope they don’t make it onto Facebook or something like that. Ugh.
This past month has been nothing but frustration for me with my weight.
Week 41: up 1.6
Week 42: down 0.6
Week 43: up 4.0 and one big “what the HELL”
Week 44: down 3.6 and one big “that’s more like it”
Week 45: down 1.0.
I have just been a big mess of stress with my husband being out of town for work and me starting a new job. I know I wasn’t making the smartest food choices sometimes and I know that it showed on the scale. I can’t make any excuses for that, especially when presented with the numbers. I’m just tired of dancing around the same weight for……well, it seems like FOREVER. It just sometimes really sucks your will to live.
More than the irritation, I’m horribly disappointed in myself. I had hoped to be a lot lighter at this point in the game; I had hoped to be about 40-45 pounds lighter at this point, and that’s obviously not happened. I really was hoping to be down 50 pounds by the end of the year and I know I’m going to have to seriously rethink that goal since I know I won’t realistically make that goal AT ALL. I didn’t want to be fat in the holiday pics that are sure to happen, and I guess I’ll have to deal with another year of fat pics. I just hope they don’t make it onto Facebook or something like that. Ugh.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Weeks Thirty-Nine and Forty
Well, the same stupid rollercoaster routine.......
Week Thirty-Nine saw a 2.4 pound gain, and this week (Week Forty) showed a 3 pound loss. Seriously, I am so tired of this up and down and up and down. The eating habits have not changed, but the stress level has. I wish I could say otherwise, but I guess it is what it is. I just wish I wasn't going into the early part of the holiday season with this current stress level.
I banged up my baby toe on my right foot today, and that thing hurts way more than a baby toe should. It's about 3 times normal size and it's all red and bruised. It hurts to walk on, no big surprise there, so going for daily walks should be interesting since I don't want to put any more weight on it than I need to. I was on my feet a bit today, and the outside part of my foot hurts a bit. I HATE it when my feet hurt!
Week Thirty-Nine saw a 2.4 pound gain, and this week (Week Forty) showed a 3 pound loss. Seriously, I am so tired of this up and down and up and down. The eating habits have not changed, but the stress level has. I wish I could say otherwise, but I guess it is what it is. I just wish I wasn't going into the early part of the holiday season with this current stress level.
I banged up my baby toe on my right foot today, and that thing hurts way more than a baby toe should. It's about 3 times normal size and it's all red and bruised. It hurts to walk on, no big surprise there, so going for daily walks should be interesting since I don't want to put any more weight on it than I need to. I was on my feet a bit today, and the outside part of my foot hurts a bit. I HATE it when my feet hurt!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Trifecta -- Weeks Thirty-Six, Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight
Ugh....where to begin......hmmmm....perhaps at the beginning?
These past few weeks have been immensely difficult for me for a number of reasons. One: There's been some serious juju at work. Two: My dear husband has been traveling a LOT out of town. While I'm certainly of sturdy enough stock to handle that little bit of change, it has been an adjustment. Three: I've just been plain frustrated. Frustrated as hell and irritated. All of these combined, do not make for happy weight loss. Especially, when you add in that I wasn't sleeping well at all (maybe 4 hours of good sleep a night), it's just one hot mess. Week 36 saw an oh-so-fun 2.2 pound gain; if that wasn't good enough, Week 37 saw a 0.8 pound gain. Thankfully, Week 38 brought a nice, cool 2.0 pound loss. Still, I wasn't doing any sort of happy dance at the scale. I'm just pissed and angry at myself for the stupid 3 pound gain over this past few weeks.....wait, no......3.6 pound gain over the past month. Total b.s. in my book. And for what? Nothing.
All I have to say is that stress can bite my lily-white butt. I don't like it, and the scale REALLY doesn't like it. If stress had a corporeal form, I'd drop kick it. I've been trying hard to make sure I get plenty of sleep each night, and for those nights where I have trouble, I've been taking these melatonin supplements that I got at Trader Joes. They have seemed to help a bit....just reset my sleep rhythm a tiny bit. I've also been making sure I get plenty of hydration throughout the day. I know that when I'm dehydrated I get the munchies....and obviously that's not good for weight loss.
So here's hoping that Week 39 has much better results. I need some happy news.
These past few weeks have been immensely difficult for me for a number of reasons. One: There's been some serious juju at work. Two: My dear husband has been traveling a LOT out of town. While I'm certainly of sturdy enough stock to handle that little bit of change, it has been an adjustment. Three: I've just been plain frustrated. Frustrated as hell and irritated. All of these combined, do not make for happy weight loss. Especially, when you add in that I wasn't sleeping well at all (maybe 4 hours of good sleep a night), it's just one hot mess. Week 36 saw an oh-so-fun 2.2 pound gain; if that wasn't good enough, Week 37 saw a 0.8 pound gain. Thankfully, Week 38 brought a nice, cool 2.0 pound loss. Still, I wasn't doing any sort of happy dance at the scale. I'm just pissed and angry at myself for the stupid 3 pound gain over this past few weeks.....wait, no......3.6 pound gain over the past month. Total b.s. in my book. And for what? Nothing.
All I have to say is that stress can bite my lily-white butt. I don't like it, and the scale REALLY doesn't like it. If stress had a corporeal form, I'd drop kick it. I've been trying hard to make sure I get plenty of sleep each night, and for those nights where I have trouble, I've been taking these melatonin supplements that I got at Trader Joes. They have seemed to help a bit....just reset my sleep rhythm a tiny bit. I've also been making sure I get plenty of hydration throughout the day. I know that when I'm dehydrated I get the munchies....and obviously that's not good for weight loss.
So here's hoping that Week 39 has much better results. I need some happy news.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Week Thirty-Five
I know this is super late as far as posting, but I did go up slightly this week; I went up 0.6 pounds. Lesson learned: Do NOT eat burritos on Friday before you weigh in. Enough said.
But darned if that burrito wasn't tasty as heck. :o)
But darned if that burrito wasn't tasty as heck. :o)
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Week Thirty-Four
Down 1.6 pounds!
After maintaining the weight for the past two weeks, there has finally been a change....and for the better! The hot weather we recently had was not incredibly helpful to me since all I wanted to do was eat cold/cool things like ice cream. Yeah, not so hot (pardon the pun) for someone trying to drop some nasty weight. So, when I went grocery shopping I thought I'd try to find some snacks that would help satisfy me. One day when I had just been hungry, I had gone up front to the mailroom and I thought I'd stop off and see if there was "something" I could get at the little snack shack. I happened upon some string cheese and thought "what the hell....why not?" It's cold, it's something of the dairy persuasion so it's got protein, and it's got a hint of saltiness which would hit that salty snack craving I was having. Wouldn't you know it? That bit of string cheese really worked. Guess I should have listened to my inner 5 year old sooner.
I was also starting to get roped in by the siren song of the vending machine with all of it's glorious Hostess snack cakes. Uh oh. A friend of mine had introduced me to Cinnamon Cheerios (really, I SHOULD have listened to my inner 5 year old) and darned if they weren't just super tasty and satisfying as well when you NEED something sweet. So, in the same shopping trip, I bought a box of those Cheerios. I've cleaned out the entire box, but those silly Cheerios really helped me stave off some not-so-nice sweet attacks.
I will cop to this though, I do have a special container for those Cheerios. I have a Goldfish plastic container that you are supposed to put fishy crackers in. Yeah. I rock the Cheerios in that thing. If nothing else, I'm losing weight and making my coworkers smile at my inner 5 year old.
After maintaining the weight for the past two weeks, there has finally been a change....and for the better! The hot weather we recently had was not incredibly helpful to me since all I wanted to do was eat cold/cool things like ice cream. Yeah, not so hot (pardon the pun) for someone trying to drop some nasty weight. So, when I went grocery shopping I thought I'd try to find some snacks that would help satisfy me. One day when I had just been hungry, I had gone up front to the mailroom and I thought I'd stop off and see if there was "something" I could get at the little snack shack. I happened upon some string cheese and thought "what the hell....why not?" It's cold, it's something of the dairy persuasion so it's got protein, and it's got a hint of saltiness which would hit that salty snack craving I was having. Wouldn't you know it? That bit of string cheese really worked. Guess I should have listened to my inner 5 year old sooner.
I was also starting to get roped in by the siren song of the vending machine with all of it's glorious Hostess snack cakes. Uh oh. A friend of mine had introduced me to Cinnamon Cheerios (really, I SHOULD have listened to my inner 5 year old) and darned if they weren't just super tasty and satisfying as well when you NEED something sweet. So, in the same shopping trip, I bought a box of those Cheerios. I've cleaned out the entire box, but those silly Cheerios really helped me stave off some not-so-nice sweet attacks.
I will cop to this though, I do have a special container for those Cheerios. I have a Goldfish plastic container that you are supposed to put fishy crackers in. Yeah. I rock the Cheerios in that thing. If nothing else, I'm losing weight and making my coworkers smile at my inner 5 year old.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Weeks Thirty-Two & Thirty-Three
Well, nothing new to report. I've maintained for the past two weeks.
There's been a lot going on at the house, and I'm actually surprised that I didn't gain anything. Granted, I'd rather be losing weight, but at the same time, at least it's not that super-annoying up and down, up and down stuff that just makes you lose hope. I know plateaus are sort of "built in" the whole weight loss journey, so I'm just kind of rolling with it. I did have a really awesome loss prior to this 2 week "Hold fast and don't budge" dealie-o. Usually when I have an awesome loss, I have a not so awesome gain the next week.
There's been a lot going on at the house, and I'm actually surprised that I didn't gain anything. Granted, I'd rather be losing weight, but at the same time, at least it's not that super-annoying up and down, up and down stuff that just makes you lose hope. I know plateaus are sort of "built in" the whole weight loss journey, so I'm just kind of rolling with it. I did have a really awesome loss prior to this 2 week "Hold fast and don't budge" dealie-o. Usually when I have an awesome loss, I have a not so awesome gain the next week.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)