Sunday
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Eileen - Day #323 - Sunday
Daily intake goals:: < 35g carbs / < 1700 calories / > 64+ oz. water
Exercise yesterday:: 60 min. tennis w/the Hubby
Net carb grams yesterday: 28.7 Calories: 1244
Weight today: 232.4 Change: -0.8 Total weight loss: -52.8
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I can feel that I’ve lost some fat recently. I can feel it in my clothes. I can feel it in how I fit behind the steering wheel. I can see it - a little - when I look in the mirror. Despite all that, though, I wasn’t perceiving results because it wasn’t showing on the scale. Or was it?
I’m gonna look backward here and recap a little history. Back on February 9th I weighed in at 234.6 and I celebrated because I’d finally hit the 50-lb. lost milestone. Then - within a week! - I gained almost five pounds! On February 15, I weighed 239.4 and then I hovered around that weight for a long time. On April 12 - almost two months later! - I weighed in at 238.6.
Right after that, on Thursday, April 16, I posted an entry to this blog that started with, “I have renewed motivation!!” At that time I dropped the lower limit on my carb and calorie intake and I stepped up my exercise to an hour a day. Since that date, my weekly Sunday weigh-ins have looked like this:
April 19 236.6 2.0 lb. loss from previous week
April 26 235.8 0.8 lb. loss
May 3 234.8 1.0 lb. loss
May 10 235.4 0.6 lb. gain
May 17 235.0 0.4 lb. loss
May 24 232.4 2.6 lb. loss
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. 6.2 lb. loss
Now 6 lbs. in 6 weeks may not sound like a lot to those who can typically lose 2 (or 5 or 10) lbs. a week, but for ME, it’s an astounding rate of loss!
I just needed to celebrate that! =D
Edited to add: I just thought of something more I want to celebrate! Today Hubby and I went to the movies (Night at the Museum 2) and he loves to sit in the very top row (this theater has stadium seating so the top row is way up high). Anyway, he was ahead of me and with his long legs I was almost running up those stairs to keep up with him, and when I got to the top I realized - hey! - I’m not out of breath! There was a time, not so long ago that I would have had to climb one stair at a time, nice and slow, and even then when I got to the top I would be breathing hard! THEN, Hubby’s earphones wouldn’t work (he’s hearing-impaired), so I had to go back down those stairs and when I came back up, this time I ran! On purpose! Okay it was more like a jog than a run, but I made it to the top and was only slightly short of breath! Wooohooooo!!!!
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congrats on climbing the stairs once, twice, even running! WOO HOO! And you are doing FINE on the weight. Everyone loses at different rates, even within themselves. It’s all good.
Good job on doing the stairs two times running! I think your weight loss is wonderful. You keep up the great job Eileen.
Have a great weekend.
eileen!! you’re the woman. 6 lbs is a LOT. Trust me. My weght loss has been slower, much slower. in total i’ve lost about 30 lbs in 10 months. you have to agree that is a pretty slow loss. the good thing is that i am still losing. slow and steady is good. my personal opinion is that slow and steady will be longer-lasting. this weight loss will be for life. so be proud of your 6 lb loss. you’re doing great. but then, you’re a rockstar!! tc.
WTG girl you are so awesome! I’m very happy for you- a loss is a loss! *hugz*
I am a really slow loser too, and I am really glad you made this post, because everyone is different, and some of us with the same effort will lose much less than the 1-2 pounds that are often called “average” - it’s not fair, but it’s the roll of the dice. If we were starving peasants we’d have had a metabolic advantage, but in the world of excess we become slow losers …
Congrats on the progress, you’re really doing great!
How exciting! I just love that you run up those steps like that. I bet some people are looking on and wondering how you can do it! It’s so great to be strong and active again. I know that one stepping you speak of. I had to go up the stairs one foot at a time. Right foot up one step, bring the left foot to that same step. And then repeat all the way to the top. I even had to stop and look up to get the courage to get it over with. It was really bad. Hubby even used to joke, “Run up those steps, old woman.” Good thing we use that kind of humor, or I’d have to hit him over the head with my purse. (That is once I got back down stairs and wobbled over to get it.)
Was the movie good?
Congrats on the losses & the gains (tackling those stairs). I think the biggest progress we can make sometimes is recognizing these accomplishments & celebrating them.
I’m celebrating with you!
Congradulations on all your accomplishments lately.. your hard work is paying off!