So EVERYDAY this week I have tracked on livestrong.com, every day I have been under on my calories, everyday I have been right near 2000 mg on sodium, I have been at like 50-75% of what livestrong recommends for carbs. I have been drinking at least 6 glasses of water plus my tea every day. And usually it's more like 12. I have gone and worked out, I have worked in my yard, I have shoveled snow.
I have my calorie calculator set on lightly Active and I KNOW I was more than lightly active this week. I also have it set for 3 pounds a week. So when I got on the scale I was expecting at least a 2 pound loss in 5 days. Instead it was .4 pounds of a loss. .4 pounds for someone my size is NOTHING. Seriously if I lost .6 pounds per week for the next year I wouldn't even be under 200 pounds.
Ug, if anyone has suggestions other than, "well you have to take in less calories than you work off" which is what I have heard from doctors. I would love to hear them! Maybe I am just having one of those weeks and I need to be really good for more than a week but honestly I was hoping for a really good weigh in to inspire me to not suck it up for Halloween. Ah well, I guess I just need to work harder and be more careful.
So my official weight this friday was 236.4. Ug, I just got on the scale again to see if it was lower and it was 238.o AAAAHHHHH!
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Ug, so looking back over my food journal, I realized that I had more refined sugar than I was thinking I had. You know, a cookie here, hot chocolate there. It was all tracked and thus part of my calories but maybe that's the problem.
ReplyDeleteMy goal for the week: No refined sugar, except I am allowing myself to have 2 mini candy bars on Halloween. HOPEFULLY that will solve my problem.
I'm proud of you!! I know you're frustrated, but I think you're off to a good start!! Just keep it up! I know it doesn't seem big, but it is a loss and that's a victory! You can't win the war if you don't win any of the battles. I know, brilliant.
ReplyDeleteAnd hopefully this refined sugar thing will be the problem. I wish I had some brilliant insight, but I don't. I did read a article on yahoo about slower release carbs or something that are better for you. I'll see if I can find it again and post a link here.
Cool, that would be awesome! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSo this morning I kinda binged on food. Nothing terrible in itself, but it was totally me binging because I am upset. Not only is my weight not down, but our bank account is overdrawn. Since I weighed myself I have eaten, a piece of bread with butter on it, a cup of pasta with ragu on it, two tortillas with salsa and half of an avocado, 1/2 cup breakfast potatoes and salsa and the other half of an avocado. Ug, all the carbs are making me feel sick to my stomach, or maybe that's the thought of tracking it all. . .
ReplyDeleteOk, so I sucked it up and tracked it all, it was a grand total of 1011 calories. OMG, so that means I have 346 left to have dinner with. But it's totally doable. I am going to focus on drinking water, I am going to take a nap, I am going to do the dishes then I am going to have baked chicken and veggies for dinner tonight and I can still salvage today. And if I go over by a few calories at the end of the day. IT'S OK. Whew! I have a plan.
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely OK. One morning binge is not the end of the world. Stick to your plan. The part about the nap is pure brilliance! I may have to do that myself. And try to get some exercise - that will help you feel a little better about everything. I just had a 15 minute dance party by myself. Endorphins are awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a test from the weight gods. You can pass Mallory! Sometimes it can all be sitting in your stomach and you need to take a nice big dump. TMI, I know, but it's the truth. Maybe it didn't show today, but it will. Keep on, keepin on!
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