Friday Morning Weigh-in

This morning I weighed in at 146.6, which is down 0.8 pounds from last week. I wrote about feeling derailed but the nausea has all but left now and I have been doing some fun interval programs on my treadmill and when I mix up workouts I tend to have greater weight loss. I didn't eat perfectly this week, but I didn't go overboard much either.

After two weeks I was supposed to be at 146.8 to stay on track to lose 4 pounds in 4 weeks, and I am right on track, yay! I like these mini goals, they are great for me and I seem to have more success. Also, I have just over 5 pounds to go and I can taste the end coming and it makes me happy.

However, I have been craving my homemade sugar cookies since before I had the baby and I was gaining so much weight I never made them but I still really want them. So, I think I am going to make them today, indulge a little and be done with my long standing craving :)

Feeling derailed

This past weekend has been tough, in fact, the week has been tough. With having this constant nagging of nausea it has been hard to ignore hunger when it makes you sick. Therefore I have had to eat more than normal and what's worse, eat before bed or I feel ill when I get up with the baby in the night. If the baby didn't get up, I would probably be fine. Plus, I can't really push it with the exercise because I don't feel well enough to. It may be time to see the doc. I hate it when things are going so well and I feel so close to the finish line just to have something like this derail me. Boo!

Thursday Morning Weigh In

Normally I weigh in on Fridays but I will probably go out with my siblings for outing day again and I wanted to see what I really weigh after exercising etc. So, this morning after eating breakfast and then exercising I weighed in at 147.4, which is down 1.4 pounds from last week. Just over 6 pounds to go to my pre-pregnancy weight, yipee!

One downside though, I am not feeling very well lately. I have slight nausea that just won't go away so I need to eat snacks pretty constantly to feel okay. However, I am pretty good at making healthy choices like fruit and frozen cooked veggies but still, it's there plaguing me. I am not pregnant since my cycle ended recently but I wish I knew how to get rid of it.

Also, our bed has gone bad unfortunately and I haven't slept well without back pain for about 3 weeks now. We finally bought a new bed last night and I finally woke up without total pain. However, my baby and daughter were up so many times last night that I feel like a walking zombie today. I hope I can enjoy my new bed with more sleep and less back pain soon!

Friday Morning Weigh-in

This morning I weighed in at 148.8, just 0.4 pounds higher than my goal. However, if I exercised and then weighed in I would definitely be below my goal but I just don't have time this morning to do that since we are heading out to the SL County Fair today. Yesterday when I exercised and weighed in I was at 148.2, so I really do feel like I made it to my goal especially since I exercised 50 minutes and then shoveled and wheel barrowed dirt into my backyard for an hour and ate really really well :)

I liked having this mini goal to go towards and losing 4 pounds in a month feels really good. So, with that, I am going to make another goal to be down another 4 pounds in one month which will be September 12th (or hopefully Friday, Sept 9th). Then I will only have 3.5 pounds to go to my pre-pregnancy weight, yay! So, I will continue my weekly weigh-ins but my newest goal is to be 144.8 by September 12th :)

I usually like to exercise first and then weigh in on Fridays but that has been hard this summer since my brother, sister (and sometimes sister-in-law) have gone on outings Friday mornings. After next Friday though, these will end since Timmy is starting school :) It will be nice to get back to my regular schedule.

Cheers!

New favorite treats

So, lately if I need a little treat, I have done pretty good at not eating too much. I am currently enjoying roasted marshmallows on my stove (25 calories each!) I also eat a few chocolate chips which helps with my chocolate craving and I also eat the Skinny Cow truffle ice cream bars, delicious and only 100 calories. I also have otter pops and I love the pink ones and I also really like the Stauffer's chocolate animal crackers, yum! One other delicious treat is from Menchies, the frozen yogurt store and their cup cake flavor with a few almonds on top is so yummy!

I decided to weigh myself in this morning and I was 149.4, down 3 pounds! After eating cereal and then exercising I was down to 148.8 just before I showered. Last weekend was not so stellar when we had friends over and I ate way too many chocolate chip cookies, but I have been really trying to eat well and work out this week so I feel good.

I know I didn't make it to the month mark next week on the 12th but I'm weak, lol!

My main motivation is to fit in my jeans this fall. I have some jeans that fit me now but they are too long and I don't love how they drag. All of my other jeans are still a bit snug so I really need to get back to my pre pregnancy weight to feel good in my jeans. The only jeans that sadly fit really well are my pregnancy jeans and I don't really want to wear those anymore. I have luckily fit into enough of my capris and shorts (not all) this summer so it's been okay but this fall, I need to wear my jeans! Getting closer, yay!

Trying something new

So, I have decided to put my scale away for a month and see how I do. I know there is a lot of advice that says to weigh yourself every day to really monitor weight loss/gain closely and other advice that says don't let the scale rule your life and just weigh in occasionally. I am usually all for weighing in every day, however, it is getting out of hand. I am starting to weigh myself every single time I go to the bathroom, as well as when I go to bed and when I wake up in the morning. I know, pathetic! It's starting to affect my mood and my eating habits. If I weigh in at a lower weight I am happier but then I reward myself with food which is of course, negative. I know I shouldn't but I always think, I worked hard, I can take a little break for a day which really sets me back. If I weigh in at a high number (especially at the end of a day that I worked hard and ate really well), then I'm depressed and grumpy.

So, it's time for a change. I put the scale away and I will not pull it out until I weigh in on Friday, August 12th. The only thing I'm worried about is that I will tell myself that I have a whole month before I weigh in, so I can eat a little more lax right now but I am trying to banish these feelings and really keep going strong.

Here's to trying something new! Of course I won't have Friday weigh-ins until then, but I believe I will still post on my progress of just trying to live a healthy lifestyle which will not be so tied to my weight :)

Unfortunately, I did not weigh myself this morning before eating breakfast, running and drinking a lot of water afterwards, so I don't have a great starting number, but I think 152.4 is my best guess so I'll stick with that and shoot to be at least 4 pounds less (148.4) when I weigh in again. Toodles!

P.S.

Tomorrow it will be 10 weeks since I started making myself accountable and as of Friday, I had lost almost 5 pounds. I guess 1/2 a pound a week isn't too bad, but it could be better. However, when I step on the scale tomorrow, it will definitely be higher than that but I will try hard again this week.

It is frustrating though when you work out like crazy one day and indulge with 2 pieces of cake and gain weight. On Saturday, I was working in the yard from 8 until 1 mowing, weeding, trimming, etc. I did a lot of physically taxing manual labor and I gained weight, it was sad. I think it got me a little down so I ended up eating way too much today because I figured if I wasn't going to lose weight after all of that work, then why try today. I know, I know, it's a bad thing to think but I thought it and gave up today.

I did read an article about a woman who did a blog to lose weight and she ended up losing over 100 pounds. She wrote that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise and ain't that the truth! It just proves what happened on Saturday to be true. Diet really is the key. When I did my yeast free diet, I did not exercise at all really and I lost 6 pounds the first week from diet alone. It slowed down after that but it was key. I really want to do that diet again just to lose this weight, uggh!

Okay, I just had a chat with my husband, and I told him to really hold me accountable and encourage me to eat better and not let me off the hook. If someone in my own house is going to be working on this with me, perhaps I'll have better results. I told him I want 2 free meals a week which will probably be Saturday night (date night) and Sunday dinner with families. He agreed to help me, yay! I just hope I don't hate him for it :)

Okay, that's enough ranting for now.