Sistah Pat

Morning weigh in - 186.5

It’s not fair!  Here I am watching my calories, working out every day and hanging on to the desperate hope that if I shave my legs, pluck my eyebrows, cut my nails and remove my nailpolish I just might be able to lose another 1 1/2 lbs by Thursday.  Then Sistah Lisa (who’s been out of the picture for almost a month) emails to say “I’m so excited!  I went to this website that calculates your basal metabolic rate and figured mine out and by keeping below that rate by 200 calories a day for a week, I’ve lost 5 pounds!”

Come on!  Life is so unfair!  I go to http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators.html to see how this works and it says my basal metabolic rate is 1490 calories per day.  That means I burn almost 1500 calories a day if I just lay in bed all day.  Lisa cut 200 calories per day and lost 5 pounds this week.  I haven’t seen anywhere near 1500 calories in more than a month and I can’t seem to get anywhere.  Is Sistah Pat just a little bit bitter?!  Why am I having so much trouble?  Maybe I should look at some kind of dexatrim or something like that.  What’s the one where the woman gives up snacks and her husband gets skinny but she just loses all her boobs and gets a bigger butt?

Sigh…here I go again, chasing after the pounds.  I wouldn’t be this way if I didn’t have a deadline approaching.  I’m not stupid.  I know that Lisa didn’t lose 5 lbs because she cut 200 calories per day for a week but, even though my head knows this, it still chips away at the morale.

7:45 p.m.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~8<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

This is  me…good vibes coming in, bad going out.  I’m not really sure at this point if this (8) is me or if this (0) is me, probably more like (0).  No doubt about it, I get frustrated with this routine but it doesn’t mean I’m giving up.  I’ve just got to take a deep breath and rejuvenate.  I’ll keep right on doing what I need to do but I have to admit, when someone says they gave up 200 calories a day for a week and lost 5 pounds, it gets to me.

I came home and worked out.  Did the treadmill for 70 minutes, burned 420 calories and went 3.25 miles.  Not much distance there because I concentrated more on the incline than the speed.  Kept it at 3mph  until I got to 6% incline and then dropped it down to 2.9, dropped it again to 2.8 at 9% and kept it there.  My ankles are bothering me a little but nothing drastic.  I actually think I’m beginning to get more mobility after working on an incline.