These are my added extra measurements as of Friday, day 8:
under armpit: 37.5"
around arm top and back: 44.5"
muffin top at its nastiest: 37"
I think I've made some progress this week! YAY!!!! A lot of this may be water, but who cares - I'm smaller than I was last week.
Haven't weighed myself yet, and to be honest, even though I KNOW I've lost, I'm a bit reluctant to. I know realistically that I'll still be in the 150s and that's a bummer. Also, I'll be weighing myself on completely different scales so I'm not sure how accurate the weight loss will be.
I went to the gym to do spin and thought I would bite the bullet and weigh myself; mixed emotions. As predicted, I have not yet dropped back into the 140s, but I have lost 6 lbs, so am 150lbs. Ok OK, so this may be water weight, blah blah blah, but at the end of the day, that water was making me heavier so I'm glad to be shot of it.
So in all, a good week. No doubt I'll have a slower week next week, but as log as I drop back into the 140s, I'll be happy.
I feel quite excited because I did some quick prelim measurements today. It looks like I've lost a couple of inches off my waist already, but I'll wait until tomorrow to measure for sure. Also, I don't know if it's the gel, or my mind, or just general weight loss, but my arms don't look as bumpy, and I think I may have lost 0.5 inch there, too!
I find this website very irritating; it has great facilities, like this blog and the different logs, but the food log database is APPALLING. I have started using a different website to log my daily food intake. Pity really; I would like to have kept everything together.
Will update measurements tomorrow, when I've been on this regie for exactly a week.
Another good day, helped by being very busy (Ikea USA is just as bad as Ikea UK just bigger; still, good exercise!)
Tried to drink water throughout the day
My hubby brought me back 2 delicious looking cupcakes from a work's party last night, but I managed to avoid them all day (would usually have scoffed them in 2 seconds flat). I'm keeping things fairly quiet from my husband, because he gets all caught up in it and then it adds to the pressure. I had one half of one and then begged him to eat the rest. Strangely, it satisfied me, so I feel quite good about it.
I think this is the key - keep the pressure off.
Exercise today - tramping round NYC and Brooklyn Ikea
Here I go again. I'm SOOOOO sick of yo-yoing so I'm going to try my hardest to make this the last time. Here are my goals:
1) My ARMS!!! My number one body nemesis. I've always hated them, wihsing I had delicate, elegant arms instead of ugly, heavy, lumpy ones. Yuch!!!
2) Fit into the Lucky Brand jeans I bought on ebay without a muffin top. They're a great length so I want to be able to wear them whilst still being able to breathe . .
3) Just feel GOOD about myself and fit into my clothes!!
OK - just had my morning shake and need to take my lovely dog for a walk. Here we go . . . wish me luck
I'm adding a couple of extra measurements to my records . They're of my other nemeses apart from my arms:
under armpit: 40"
around upper arm and back: 46.5"
muffin top at its largest, nastiest sponginess: 38"
