morning weight: 180.0
exercise yesterday: none
sugar yesterday: 2 cookies; bread: 2 sandwiches
morning weight: 178.8
exercise yesterday: 45 minute brisk walk
sugar: biscotti bread: chicken wrap for supper
Still pretty happy that I am staying in a negative calorie balance, even if it is just by a couple of hundred calories on some days. My back has been sore this week what has had an impact on my exercise. I have never had back pain before and I don’t like this at all.
I have had a series of bad news bulletins from various family members. An uncle and an aunt are both very sick, and my sister has had a bad fall off a horse and now has two broken arms. The family is scrambling a bit to cope with all this at once.
Here’s a tip: tan in a can? Very hard to work with. I have been trying to ’spray on’ a tan on my legs. This morning, I looked like a 2-legged skunk - a wide white strip down the back of each leg. Ok, I thought, I can fix this….huh. Now I look like I have been slogging through mud puddles.
I have been using the gradual facial tan/moisturizer and that has been more succesful…
The whole reason behind this, aside from the fact that we have had a grand total of 4 days of sunshine since July 1, is that since I had a cancerous spot removed from my nose leaving me with a wicked scar, I have not gone outside without a thick layer of high powered sunscreen on every inch of exposed skin. Still, I dream of sporting that beach baby tan ( as if I didn’t have red hair and green eyes). So I am hoping for magic in a bottle. As the woman said, “It must do SOMETHING or they couldn’t charge $25 an ounce for it!”
Who says we don’t believe in magic anymore?
morning weight: 179.6
exercise yesterday: nada
sugar yesterday: nope bread: one english muffin, ten crackers at dinnertime (see how it sneaks in?)
morning weight: don’t know
sugar yesterday: nada
bread yesterday: one slice whole wheat
exercise yesterday: kneeboarding
At 45, I am determined to learn how to kneeboard and water ski. After my first lesson, I hurt. My arms, shoulders, back and neck.
But it sure was fun!
morning weight: no idea
exercise yesterday: strolling with the dog
bread: nada sugar: nada
Sunday morning on the boat, yes one more weekend at the dock. Grey, cold, wet weekend. Again. Sun is maybe peeking through, if it warms up at all we will head out with the power boat.
Dog is sleeping on the deck, guarding the boat from the Canada geese and the gulls. Bored, bored, bored - me too. I shaved my legs for this?
morning weight: 178.4 ( this is getting ridiculous) Goal A: 171
exercise yesterday: not really
sugar yesterday: nope
bread yesterday: some crackers with dinner
I am beginning to think that the bread/sugar combo is very bad for me. Not only do I eat way too much of it, if I am not careful, it also seems to strongly affect my body/metabolism. I mean, clearly I am not losing a pound a day of fat, since I am eating a sensible amount of food and not really exercising with any degree of commitment.
My goals with fitday are to keep myself in a negative calorie balance, and to try to get more consistent nutrition. My goals with exercise are to get 300 hard minutes a week. I’ll revisit those when I have to.
morning weight: 179.6 (!)
exercise yesterday: 30 minute brisk walk ( not up to power)
sugar yesterday: I was going to say nada until it was pointed out that chocolate covered coffee beans are, in fact, covered in chocolate. Darn. Ok, so I had 8 of the little things. I do love that strong dark coffee flavour though…
bread yesterday: 1/2 a regular bagel - because I was starving and running between appts.I did only eat half and threw out the rest.
Pouring rain this morning. Since I didn’t cut the lawn last night it will stay a small jungle for another couple of days. I don’t really care but I think the neighbours might.
Yesterday I finally re-stocked my kitchen with fruit and veggies. Ever notice how you buy the same things over and over? I have to start bringing more variety into my fridge, and I don’t mean more types of mustard.
morning weight: 181.4
exercise yesterday: 40 minute brisk walk ( not up to power)
sugar yesterday: nada
bread yesterday: 1/2 a bun
I love chocolate covered coffee beans, love them. Especially now since I am jumping up and down from the wicked dose of caffeine.My eyes are very wide open.
morning weight: 183 (!!!!!)
exercise yesterday: 60 minute power walk
sugar: nada, although it was a struggle
This makes no mathematical sense, if you believe in ‘a calorie is a calorie’, however, it seems to fit the carb-sensitive theory. According to fitday, I am well, well, below the calorie balance required to lose weight but instead the number is going up, and quite rapidly. However, the spike does coincide with a jump in the amount of bread I have been eating. On Saturday, for instance, I had 6 slices, after not eating bread for about two weeks, really. I am going to cut it out (bagels and crackers too) and I am going to tell Sailorboy I can’t eat bread, and see what happens.
And just to add misery on misery, I recorded my measurements and was shocked at my waist size. Shocked. The last time I was this fat (about 18 years ago) my proportions were very different, I seem to recall. More of a classic pear shape (read: big big hips). Now the fat seems to be collecting in my gut. Welcome to middle-age, I guess.
I can already tell this is going to be a *great* day.
