awww chickies sorry for all the struggling. I've been eating fairly well and think progress is being made but I get on the scale and it's good so I double check and it's instantly up 1.5lbs, so I get back on and it's still up, what the ****? so I think I need a new scale but I'm afraid to find out it's not the scale.
I'm going to try to tough out the rest of the week 'til Friday and just maintain my new lumpy self.
On the weekend I'm going to try a water/juice/soup regimen to flush all the crud out of my system and then restart the calorie counting on Monday.
I think I have to give up the diet Pepsi. The caffeine is making me jittery and causing a major system crash in the afternoons. I think all the aspertame is affecting my sleep and that's making me so tired I'm eating to try to stay awake in the evenings.
It's all just a big circle that keeps repeating itself. I have to break the pattern and the diet Pepsi is the way to start.
dagmar - that flush sounds like something I need to ... I'm not doing anything official, but I am going to try to eat clean and drink lots of H2o the next few days. I ended up in the garden from 5:00 until dark. I knew I should've walked/run beforehand because by the time I was done, I was too pooped to go. On the plus side, the carrying, digging, hoeing, are exercise... just not the cardio I was planning on.
Have a healthy day!
p.s. Bat - I think it's your scale!! An instant change means it has gotta be the scale. Maybe a mother's day gift idea - unexciting I know
Batmomm - I think that dreaded scale trick happens to everyone... I've gone as far as to move the scale to another surface - carpet, tile, etc... Yea... no budge.
Dagmar - you are so committed I commend you
SusanB - you are the most honest Ticker Tracker person I know!! I always give myself a week to get back down on that thing... before I adjust it. Strangely - I run from the scale to the computer when the numbers drop on the scale. Irony huh?
Hope everyone is having pretty weather today. We have 80's and sunny here. Hookey was calling my name... but I stayed strong.
I get into trouble if I flub things. I learned how easy it is to cheat on fitday ... and gained weight. I learned how to hide a gain here at 3FC ... and gained more weight.
I do worry that I'm not a very good example and I don't know why ... regain and yoyoing are just about epidemic. Perserverance is not.
I succumbed to another mini-binge session last night and honestly, I didn't realize it had started until I was hovering around the fridge/cabinets, searching for something to eat. Luckily, I don't keep much junk in the house, but I did manage to find 3 Fig Newtons, many many Triscuits, 3 sour patch kids, and a stick of cherry liquorice (egh, I hate cherry liquorice!).
Other than that slight slip up, I've been good with daily exercise and have been walking instead of taking the bus... and I decided to begin weight lifting regularly (2x a week enough?) to try and change my body.
Dagmar- yes my name is Kanna Thanks. I'm half-Japanese.
My dad has a mantra that he customizes for each situation:
"Everyday, in every way, things are getting better and better."
Mine:
"Everyday, in every way, I am getting healthier and healthier."
Every day, in every way, I'm getting stronger and stronger.
Dagmar
That's going up on my quote wall in front of my treadmill. I"m going to try out waking up early to work out. Today was my first day. I know I can keep it up during the warmer months....Winter will be an issue I deal with when it rolls around again.
In the mean time.... I was having a sugar craving this evening and succumbed to half a pbj sammich and a small cookie.
I never thought I'd be able to wean myself off diet colas...when I began my weight loss odyssey I was guzzling at least 2 liters a day. I stopped, frankly, because the kids started to want to drink the same thing. That stopped my habit. I love diet pepsi and still get it when we're out and allow the kids a sip here and there..but it isnt' in the house...
I tell you, it was hard.....harder than it was to quit smoking for me.
Susan, i think i might check out that no excuses thread. i'm waaaaay too good at finding excuses.
i haven't been on here in a while but i was reading through some of your posts and saw a bit of struggling and a lot of re-determination. i've definitely been struggling but now is the time to get going for me. I have ONE WEEK until my bf's parents are coming to town and i hate to be this vain but i really want to look good because i know his mother isn't too keen on the fact that i am not jewish. don't know why i feel like looking amazing will make up for that... but anyway! i know if i exercise and eat well for a week i may not drop a significant amount of weight but i will FEEL much better and i think that confidence exudes and makes you look better too.
i recently STARTED drinking diet soda... BAD move. not often, just when i'm at work. we had a problem with our water softener last week and the tap tasted like ocean minus the dead fish.
This is going to sound kind of ridiculous but I'm having a problem with salads. I eat a salad that I make myself at a salad bar in a grocery store and that part is great and super healthy... but I always end up getting way too much... today was a record weight of 1.5lbs. It's mostly veggies, but I still end up feeling stuffed afterwards (like 15 minutes after I eat it all) and then I'm uncomfortable for a while. I think that's my way of making a salad more appealing, instead of having carbs or a burrito or something unhealthy... to have MORE of it!
So I'm gonna work on decreasing the amount of salad I consume at lunch this week. I want to relearn portions and know that I don't "NEED" all that much food. I may WANT it, but I don't NEED it.
Lekhika - I wish I had more motivation to work out in the winter time, too. I always feel like hibernating... and come spring, it's like, "ACK! All those cozy nights!! turned into LOVE HANDLES!!!" or my donut, I like to call it. I like that my donut is getting smaller these days, though.
Getting back OP
Thanks. I'm half-Japanese.
