is what I have done and it's something I had no intention of doing, but do it I did.
Here's the deal, in the 3 weeks since I decided to take a break from the whole dieting thing I have managed to regain a little over 6 pounds. I was doing fairly good up till Easter weekend. I had only gained back 3 pounds and was holding that fairly steady and wasn't feeling to bad about it. But over the holiday weekend I put on the other 3 pounds. That was my own stupid fault because I had cooked such good food for the family that I over indulged. Had I held to only 1 serving I probably would have done fairly well, but oh no not me, I had to have 2nds of some of the most fattening foods on the table and I did this 2 days in a row. SHAME ON ME!!! Now I will pay the price for my over indulgence, plus I had stopped taking in enough liquids.
I am now back on the wagon again and i have joined the local gyn with my neice in law. She is quite the little encourager and she makes working out fun.
After much consideration I've decided to take a break from the whole dieting thing. It had taken over my life to the point that's all I could think of and it was becoming way to confusing. So for the past week I've eaten pretty much what I wanted to and tried to keep control of my portions, of course, I failed. In failing I hve put back on the 3 pounds I had managed to keep off for the past 2-3 weeks. But I was hungry and tried of feeling deprived when the rest of the family was eating things that I really liked.
This is the beginning of our busy time of year what with all the camping we do and it's so difficult for me to maintain and really watch what I eat and keep track of the calorie intake. So like I said I'm going to take a break and just try to at least stay where I'm at now if I should manage to lose some then great more power to me. I know it's slow and steady to win the race but darn it sometimes we just have to eat.
I will continue to make entries on here and post my weight but will not be making a conscience effort to lose.
After spending yesterday going to Fantastic Caverns in Springfield, MO I feel pretty good about myself. Unfortunately I indulged myself and had a fish sandwich and fires from McDonald's then later in the day on the way home I had 1/3 pound cheeseburger from Hardee's along with about 1/4 order of chili cheese fries as well as about 4 medium size cokes through out the day and I only regained .4 of pound. That is unless it takes a couple of days for my slip up to catch up with me. I'll work on not letting that happen.
My plans for the grandkids spring break kind of fell through at the last minute and now I've got to come up with something else for them to do this week. There is suppose to be a old ghst town sort of thing not far from where we live that we might go check out later this week.
Here I sit planning on yet another restart to whole diet thing. Hubby is on the road and I can use my treadmill again something I plan to do with a vengance. I just don't uderstand how laying off for 2 days can have such an impact on the whole weight loss thing. I know my DR had told me not to walk 7 days a week but if I don't I know what will happen. Is it just my age?
Anyway, I'm going to use the liquid thing for most of today to try and jump start me again.
I read an article in Woman's World that said we should take our weight and divide it in half to determine the amount of water we should take in daily. Does anyone else find the things we read and hear confusing? Just about the time I think I've got a handle on how do things, I read an article and I'm confused. I think I'm just going tostop buying those magazines.
I did stay within my calorie allotment yesterday and did manage to walk down my road for 1/2 mile, but it wasn't enough. So I'll just to work that much harder this week., which will be difficult to do. Tomorrow I'm suppose to spend the day at my son's watching the grandson, so treadmill use for tomorrow. Seems like it's always something that prevents me from doing what I need to do. Then on Saturday we are leaving for a mini vacation and I know there will be no real exercise then. Just hope I don't suffer a major setback, I can't handle many more of those.
Thanks to all who are leaving comments encouraging me. I really do appreciate it.
at least I'm hoping for a new and better week. I don't know what happened, well yes I do, but I don't know why it happened, but it seems to happen each and every weekend that my husband is home. On Friday I weighed in at 170.6 and today I weighed in at 173 yet again. It's so damn frustrating because the only thing I have done differently is I haven't gotten to use the treadmill like I normally would. When my husband is home I have to put it up out of the way so that he can get to his side of the bed. But I did keep to my calorie limit and I did ride my bike 1/2 mile yesterday which I thought was going to kill me. I'm so sore today I can barely move. So why did I regain 2.4 pounds???? There is one other thing that I've noticed over the past few days and that's I'm not going to BR like I was even though I am still drinking like there's no tomorrow. This does have me a little worried.
Any way here it is a new week yet again and I spoke to my pharmacist yesterday and he suggested Green Tea with Hoodia as a supplement to maybe help my metabolism get a jump start.
After beginning to get somewhat disheartened about my weight loss, I did some research and was somewhat amazed by what I found.
Did you know that in order to lose 1 pound of weight you have to burn 3500 calories per week? That’s seems to be my mistake, I’m burning on average only 2100 calories per week. So that means sometime during the day I have got to find the time to get in the extra walk time to burn the additional calories. I don’t know for sure how I’m going to do this, but do it I will.
I will also have to really watch my caloric intake more carefully and not do the late night eating I am so famous for. For the first time in a number of days I did not want to snack late night last night. I think that’s because I gave myself yesterday off and actually ate a normal meal at dinner time Monday night and again last evening and I did not get in the bed feeling hungry.
I will work on balancing my calories a little better throughout the day.
Another thing I will have to work on is getting in the 500 calories burned each day. I plan on doing 3 sets of 1.25 miles daily which will burn right at 167 calories each time
Because I must be doing something wrong. Here's the deal, seems like no matter what I do, how diligent I am in my walking and watching my calories. I try to be so careful about the fat intake and to stay within my caloric limit. I walk anywhere from 2-21/2 miles per day burning about 250-300 calories that way and hold my calories to 1300 or less.But still yet I'm boucning around like a damn ball. I can sway as much as 2 pounds in a day. It's like I can't find the happy medium here. So I've decided to give myself today off and eat what ever I want. Oh, I'm not going to overboard with the eating, I want go around eating everything fattening that I can find, but I am going to have some of the things I have been depriving myself of. Maybe that's why this is happening to me. All I know is it's very disheartening to work your butt off and to eat like your suppose to, have all the liquids and to weigh in and find a gain of anywhere from 2/3 of a pound to 2 pounds. Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated.
OMG !!!! I had such a bad night last night. I just knew I was having a heart attack., but it was actually just one of the worst gall bladder attacks I've ever had. I had to keep telling myself that I wasn't having any of the signs of an actual heart attack. My trick of drinking real pepsi at room tempature didn't help as it normally would. This went on all night long with not much of change even this morning. But I know what it is and that there really is nothing to be done about it. My DR has done tests and there is nothing wrong with my gall bladder, at least nothing that would justify surgery. It's just that at times the old gall bladder doesn't want to squeeze like it's suppose to. I will survive of this I'm sure. I'll just have to endure some pain and scary moments.
On to other things now. I have finally at long last broke the 172 mark on the old scales. At least I'm going to call it as a good thing, the scale read 171.8 (LOL) I don't care that it's only 2/10 of a pound or not. It's my 2/10 of a pound loss and I love it. It inspires me to keep on keeping on.
I'm also thinking now (and I need some conformation on this from someone smarter than me) that I need to keep my calorie intake at around 1300 like the DR told me. Since the calories I burn off take away from what I take in. In other words if I take in 1000 and burn off 300 only 700 for that day count. Right? So I need to take in 1600 in order to maintain the 1300. Is that right?
I've been trying to find somewhere on the net to give me these answers but have not been successful as yet. I do not want to make an appointment with my DR to ask him because I would stilll have to pay the office visit payment of $75.00. I don't want or need to know the answers that badly. Somewhere on the net is the answers I seek. If any of you know where I can find these answers please email me a link would you?
Did I panic for no reason yesterday when the scales showed that almost 3 pound regain? I don't know all I know is today I'm back to less than I weighed on Thursday. I'm thinking the thing here is I did not sleep well at all (less than 2 hours) on Friday night and therein lies my weight regain. I remember reading somewhere that you have to sleep in order to lose weight. Did I just retain all the liquid that I took in on Friday or what? Guess it really doesn't matter since it's all gone now. Thank God.
I did however walked 2 1/2 miles on the treadmill yesterday, I hadn't intended to do that much but did it anyway and it felt really good. I have walked 1 1/4 miles today already and plan on another 1 1/4 miles a little later.
Yesteday I did not take in any solid food until dinner time and then I had a nasty tasting Smart One's. I mean it tasted like canned dog food smells. Maybe that's why I couldn't finish it all. The remainder of the day I only had Slim Fast Shakes along with my tea/water. Trying to do the same again today. I did keep myself really busy yesterday and that's something I need to do again today and always. Idle time is what gets me in trouble every time.
For those keeping up with me I've now lost 8 pounds and looking forward to even more losses.
And I couldn't help myself or at least that's what I'm going to tell myself to justify what I did.
I feel like an old limp dish rag this morning. I bet I didn't sleep a total of 2 hours last night but I did eat. After taking Tylenol to relieve the cramps in my legs which will usually put me to sleep, I was desperate so I began eating. I did however eat only low fat things but eat I did. I ate until I was almost sick and still sleep would not come. Don't know if sleep avoided me because I had trouble breathing when I would lie down, or because I couldn't get my room cool enough or what. All I know is that I was miserable most of the night. I would get up and walk around but was afraid I would wake the rest of the household. I have now been up out of bed since 4am and I have a busting headache.
Needless to say I'm back to where I was at 2 weeks prior and I don't like it one bit.
Going to go lie back down and see if sleep wlll come now.
