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Mid week weigh in, and the water retained, etc...is starting to come off. I have been very true to my way of eating, with only meats, cheese, eggs, and veggies (including salads)... so it's starting to turn around!!! WHOOO HOOOOOOO!
Been limited in my exercise - this heat will kick your butt anyway - but I try to do some here and there. A little at the gym, some here in the house (like I've always done...like squats while waiting on the dogs, and pushups on the kitchen counters.)
I am feeling much stronger mentally. And emotionally. Both good signs that the 'carb related junk' is moving out of my body.
Just working on keeping my focus - and this decent drop since coming back from vacation is just what I needed to stay motivated. It made the last few days WORTH IT! NOW...I just want to keep the momentum moving in the downward direction.
My body typically will take it's sweet time - maybe a pound a week... so I will re-weigh in on Sat (as was my norm) - and as long as I know I am not cheating in anyway... I will likely go back to weighing in once a week. (I think). (haven't decided yet). (may weigh every day, but only record here once a week.) Either way... it becomes an obsessive compulsion if I do it too often - but then maybe I need to be obsessed about it for the time being - as I don't want to linger in the 150's.
I definitely don't want to do anything to hinder my progress until I get back under the 145 mark.
Even if that is Christmas time... I don't care. I just want to get this extra weight off. I feel lousy with it back on...feel less desireable. Feel like I have that little muffin top/roll thing going on...which wasn't there a few months back... it just makes me feel like a 'failure'. to myself.
Now don't get all concerned - I don't feel like a failure in general. Just disappointed in myself that I let this get this far out of control. That was never my original mindset. Heck, I was all about RED FLAG WARNINGS when you go 5 lbs over your goal weight. TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. Well, to be honest...I didn't see much of a difference between 140 - and 145, and I WAS trying to lose, and I was gaining instead. And to top it off, I was getting frustrated too! So the occasional invitation to eat out w/ hubby - like mexican night - seemed to be adding to the problem. And - I didn't realize it then!!!
So - no more eating out unless it is completely low carb friendly, just like I did in the beginning. No excuses...no substitutes...no 'just this little bit' won't hurt... NO MORE! SUPER DUPER FOCUS is in order until some time this fall (which is how long I expect it to take to get to the 145 mark... then we will work on slowly adding back in.
The one difference - one cheat meal per week. (but only if I have been faithful to exercise 4x's that week.) (I have been reading that this is really good for the hormone, inflammation, and overall metabolic responses going on in the body for people who eat low carb, but exercise faithfully.) It basically gives your metabolism the mixed message - so it doesn't think you are in need of storing fat. Low carber's tend to eat higher healthy, natural fats. So you can use that to fuel your body. Then force the body to go to the stored fats for any extra.
Problem is - eventually if you don't put some additional sources of fuel in the body - the metabolism starts to immediately replenish the fat stores that you used... in case it will need them again.
Your body is really quite smart!
So if you mix it up, just enough to let the body think it isn't starving, it isn't going to have to go without forever... and you have a meal once a week that includes 'low carb pasta' or 'low carb bread or tortillas'... add in some kind of dessert etc... THEN go right back to eating low carb, healthy and natural all the rest of the week... your body will barely be catching on by the next week's cheat meal.
Meanwhile you will lose weight. Slowly and steadily.
Well, at least that's the goal, and the hope! It was working for me before my Mom's death... and now that June is over, and I have regained my focus from my super vacation slacking moment!!! - I am getting this back in gear!
Hope this helps someone else, too... that's the only reason I am writing this all out.
Much Love.
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156.5 lb
Lost so far: 0 lb.
Still to go: 16.5 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 6.1 lb a week
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