Ladies... this morning... I was at 157 lbs. 157 lbs is my goal for a week from today. Granted, that's just for today, and I never change my ticker until I've been constant for a few days, but... GOD, do I ever feel good about seeing that scale go down! I've fluked down to 158 a few times in the past few weeks of eating kinda crappily, but I haven't seen 157 on the scale in.. oh god. Months. Maybe a year? And all I did was eat wheat-free over the weekend. I had... oatmeal, and wheat-free rye bread, and potatoes and turkey and rice. I carb-loaded this weekend, and I lost weight. ****, f*cking, yes!
I'm walking to campus today. I'm walking for the exercise, I don't care if I'm a little later than usual.
RemeberHowToSmile:
Oooh, I remember you from LAST time I was here! Lookat you! Wayta go, darling!
I'm not allergic, no. My mother cut out wheat and gluten because she has an intolerance for it... it gives her intense digestive issues. But ever since she did, she's felt FANTASTIC, and she's a firm believer that wheat is like... the devil. And she knows how much I've been struggling with my weight. I love my mom to death, but she weighs 138 lbs now, and I watch her "subtly" eye my bulging stomach critically and not say anything, and you just know she's doing her whole, "I'm worried about your health--" in her head thing. So when I visited my high school best friend this past Thanksgiving weekend, and
her mom had literally vanished into teensy tiny nothingness... because she'd cut out wheat and gluten, I was hooked.
What I really love about it is that I can still eat potatoes (which I adore) and rice, and I just buy rice noodles instead of regular ones... and I eat gluten-free rye bread instead of regular bread... so far I haven't felt starved of anything.
Elwing:
Whenever my period comes around, I dart up two or three lbs, and my body sits there stubbornly until about a day before the end of my period... then I tend to "miraculously" drop 4 or 5 lbs. Periods can definitely cause water weight.
Mmmm, pancakes. Depending upon the place, there could be an excessive amount of sodium for preservative purposes in the pancakes, which could be adding to the water weight as well... or if you had salty things on the side of your pancakes, like hashbrowns or breakfast sausage...
Either way, I'd just go healthy and anti-salt for a few days until your period's over, and things'll probably go back to normal!!
Heather:
Ahh, man, what a pain. To do all that work and not see immediate results. HARSH, huh? I hate that. Tho your husband sounds like a DOLL for being so fantastic about things, and being completely right, as well!
Also, RHTS (RememberHowToSmile) was talking about something like this thinger here, which I'm in love with:
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
It's great, you can calculate how much you should be taking in a day, and it'll zig-zag pattern it for you if you keep tabs on your calories hardcore.
Bella:
Mindlessly browsing the internet for useless knowledge?
Get stumbleupon. I sh!t you not, you will be in love in a heartbeat. It's fantastic.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
DO IT. I'm not even joking, I'll come to your house and install it for you. It's amazing. It's just a button that attaches to your browser and when you click it, it takes you to websites based on interests that you enter. They're always amazingly cool things. Hold on, I'll stumble a few times right now and put the links here.
Stumble 1: (I've actually seen before. It's called Post Secrets. It's a website of postcards... people send postcards of secrets that no one else knows to a P.O. Box, and they're posted. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're sad... either way, it's hella interesting.)
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Stumble 2: ... lol, well, one of my interests is space, because I think it's super cool. One of my other interests is photography, so this is the link I got for my second stumble:
http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery_category.html
Stumble 3: LOL, this is crazy.
http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/200...th-of-sharpie/
MEREDITH AGAIN!
YOU!!! Congratulations!!! 50 lbs, woman, you're a superstar!! WELL DONE!!
And you're soooo close to onederland, you'll be there in no time! Weee!!!
ArtsnSmarts:
Wow, that sounds super stressful, darling.
I didn't get to the gym this morning like I'd intended, either. Makes me feel really guilty. What I would say about your weekends is that the reason you have no trouble during the week is because your meals are so planned, right? Maybe a not-too-shabby idea would be to keep your meals for the weekend really PLANNED. Every snack, every meal... plan it out and make sure you've got the healthy food available in the house.
Also, I d'nno if you're like me, but I tend to snack when I'm bored. Make sure that if you're having a super relaxing day.. that you do something with your hands to keep them from auto-munching on snackfood. I'm super lame, so sometimes I knit while watching a movie, and I keep a calorie-free drink nearby as something to throw down instead of a snack.
I know it can be rough watching the scale rise when you've worked so hard to see it go down... but just know that you've done it before and you can bring it back down again. I have faith in you, I know you can do it!! Check in with us often, and let us know, whether the number's jumping up, or sliding back down! GOOD LUCK!!
Leighish:
Hey, whatever works, eh?
