Getting Back on Track

Wow, what a weekend with Justin home for 4 days! I did not eat well at all and the scale has shown it. The main culprits were pizza, chinese, lots of treats, root beer float, mac n cheese and hot dogs! I am back up to 156.4 so I really have to get my butt back in gear. I already exercised this morning and now I'm eating a healthy fish and vegetable lunch so I'm doing better. Hopefully I can lose this weight easily :) Plus Aunt Flo came for a few days and then left again, weird body.....

Friday Morning Weigh-In: Two steps forward, one step back

This morning I weighed in at 153.4 which is up 0.8 pounds from last week. Justin was out of town part of the week so I planned a lot to do which usually means not being home much (not as many healthy eating options) and not as much exercise. He came home on Wednesday and we were going to eat at home and then go to the temple. However, we found out that my brother is going through the temple on Saturday morning (tomorrow) so we decided to skip the temple and homemade dinner and went out to eat at Applebee's and it was yummy, but not healthy! I also didn't exercise that day because I was on the go all day. We were planning on a date night this weekend but we need to get to bed early tonight since we have to be up at 5 AM so it didn't make sense to go out tonight and on Saturday we will already have a babysitter in the morning for several hours so we didn't want to go out that night either.

Then on Thursday my sister-in-law and family decided to stay for dinner after piano lessons and she went to buy us dessert. After I ate my dessert I looked at the calories and I had eaten over 400 for just dessert, whoa!

Anyway, I'm still feeling like I'm not too derailed and if this weight takes some time to come off, it's okay. I am not going to be so crazy where I eat tons on the weekend and gain a pound or two, and then work really hard Monday-Thursday to eat very little and exercise a ton to try and lose weight by Friday. Instead, I'm going to be a little more relaxed so that I don't have to have a free day where I just binge all day and eat so badly and gain weight.

There is one thing I don't get though. I will eat well all day and then maybe splurge a little in the evening and eat around 2,000 calories and then I gain weight. You'd think eating that many calories would put me in the maintenance group but it seems I always go up when I'm not trying to lose. I can't seem to find that balance where I just maintain. For example, this week I had a day that I was doing really well and was around 1,000 calories just before dinner. Then I ate a big dinner (probably 1,000 calories) and I gained almost a pound overnight. Science says that to gain a pound you have to eat 3,500 extra calories and I most certainly didn't do that but I did gain almost a pound. I wish weight loss weren't so tough sometimes! It's waaaaaayyy too easy to gain weight and not so easy to lose it.

One more thing in this long post. Only 2 weeks after my Aunt Flo came to visit I started bleeding again and it lasted only 1 day I think around May 13th or 14th. Now it's been 2 weeks after that and nothing. My body is definitely still not very regular and it will be nice when I know what extra weight to expect and when. TMI, I know, but it's part of weight loss and sudden unexplained weight gains.

P.S. Does anyone else read this blog besides Katie? I'd love to know if you read about my success and failure :)

Friday Morning Weigh-in

This morning I weighed in at 152.6, down 0.8 pounds from last week. This week I was a little more relaxed in my eating and didn't exercise every day but I was still able to lose some weight which is nice.

On Tuesday I went to visit my Mom in Murray and we went out to lunch but we went to Sweet Tomatoes which is a salad, soup and muffin buffet and they only offer healthy choices although we probably still overate a bit. Then I didn't get out of there before dinner time so we ate at Carl's Jr on the way home but I got one of their new under 500 calorie turkey burgers, it was just okay. I also only ate half of my fries so I am making better choices.

I feel like I really know how to eat well, although I don't always choose to do so. I am getting better at offering my kids fruit for snacks along with crackers so they are more healthy. They also know about exercise because they always ask me if I'm exercising when I am working out. I'm glad I am teaching them about being healthy. We even had an FHE lesson about making healthy choices and gave them 2 choices and said to name which one was more healthy and they did great at answering!

My hope is that someday I will always just want to eat healthy food and not go back and forth with eating healthy and then letting go. I feel like I'm about half way there mentally and would like to really try and change the way I feel about food.

Friday Morning Weigh-in

This morning I weighed in at 153.4 which is down 1.4 pounds from last week, yay! My last post was a bit of a complaint that I was up a pound even though I didn't really indulge over the weekend but by the next morning I was back down that pound. I had been taking percocet all weekend leftover from my delivery for my neck pain and it had plugged me up pretty good (sorry if I share too much info). I ate really well this week and exercised a lot and it's paying off and I am feeling good :)

Oh, and I also made a deal with Justin that I wouldn't buy any more clothes until I made it back to my pre-pregnancy weight. With almost all of my clothes feeling snug, this will really motivate me to slim back down!!

I just don't know.....

Well, after the Mother's Day weekend where I didn't really indulge all that much, I am back up a pound to 155.8. I have had a really hurt neck all weekend and today it is finally starting to feel 75% better and I can probably start exercising again tomorrow. Until then, all I can do is eat well and I am ready to do that.

Hopefully I can pull off a small weight loss this week but if not, I would like to at least be back below 155, where I have been every week for the past 5 1/2 weeks now, sheesh!

Friday Morning Weigh-in

This morning I weighed in at 154.8 which is down 0.6 pounds from Monday. I was hoping for an entire pound but I'll take a weight loss at this point! Normally I exercise before weighing in on Fridays but I hurt my neck in the night probably sleeping wrong so I am not able to exercise at all today. Oh well, I am glad to finally get below 155 (barely). I have been at 155 or higher for the past 5 weeks and I am finally eating really well and exercising 30 minutes a day to change that :) I am on my way hopefully!

Accountability

It's time to be accountable again. Last Monday I was up to 159.6 and this morning I was at 155.4, down 4.2 pounds. Good grief, my body sure is acting weird but I finally realized what could have caused the crazy weight gain and loss. Aunt Flo came to visit this past weekend but it wasn't very much and pretty light, but still there. I think that may have been why I was gaining weight when eating better and exercising. I also felt like I was retaining water.....drinking 7-8 cups a day and not peeing all that much so I really upped the water intake and I think it helped. Also, I went in for my 6 week checkup last week and my doctor said if I'm not breastfeeding or pumping, then the hormones should be back to normal. He did do a blood draw to check on my thyroid but it came back normal.

I am going to start weighing in again on Fridays and see if I can't get below 155. I have been at 155 or higher for the past 4 weeks and this is going to change! I also got a Doterra Oil called Slim and Sassy which is supposed to help boost your metabolism and curve cravings. I have been taking it for almost 2 weeks and this is when it should really start to kick in so we'll see. My friend has lost 20 pounds and she started taking it in December. She says it helps her lose or maintain her weight, even when she has a bad day or week.

Here we go again!