Friday morning at 155.6. Still raining. Woke to a message from my mother: She decided to come today, not Sunday. Nothing like your mother showing up early for a long visit when you aren't mentally prepared and neither is your home or larder.
Congratulations to Allison's son on getting his job! Welcome to the tech sector.
I'm about 40 minutes late for the gym and must stand up from the laptop NOW if I'm not going to make it an even "45" -- a number that lately, I don't like very much at all.
BIG BIG congrats to your ds, Allison! Very exciting indeed!
Dh did come home last night and I did use it as an excuse to skip hot pilates. His plane was 30 minutes early which allowed him to miss much of rush hour and get home at 5 rather than 6. I took the dogs on a long walk instead. My weight is up today. Sigh....
Excited for the long weekend though! Much trip planning to do.... plus hopefully cherry picking, yoga, etc.
I have an awful headache though. Had one yesterday too which went away with tylenol. I'm holding off for a bit but may succumb again.
Thanks everyone! He's super stoked to have landed this job. I'm so happy for him, too! Imagine, he's 22 and this is his first job. I started working at age 13.
Diet is going well, down 2 pounds of my vacation weight. In my mind, nothing really counts until the vacation weight is off--then I start the real struggle with weight loss. I was going to exercise yesterday--as was DH--but we got home and our housekeepers were still there with almost half the house left to do, so we didn't work out. Perhaps today.
We'll golf tomorrow, but Sunday will be too hot. Not sure about Monday yet.
Michele, if you don't mind me asking, what weight are you at right now? Your tickers all show being at your goal so I was just curious.
Today I skipped the 15 min interval run I had planned, but I walked a mile instead. Given that it's TOM I just really didn't feel like dealing with changing clothes, showering, etc etc etc for a 15 min run. If the weather holds out I'll do it tomorrow morning at home instead. My weight is finally making steady progress -- 149.0 on the scale today. On the flipside, I am super hungry. I've been keeping it under control and averaging under 1400 calories/day across the week, but the level of hungriness I'm feeling today and yesterday reminds me of how in the past I had found that I can't sustain a really low calorie intake long-term. Maybe I should go back to the 2 weeks on / 1 week off model, but not entirely "off," just a couple hundred calories a day higher during the off week. According to my app, for the last three weeks my weekly average of calories/day has been 1307, 1375, and if I stay on track today 1265 for this week. Maybe I could plan for like, 2-3 weeks with an average around 1300, then one week with an average around 1500. That should still be low enough to keep making progress.
In any case I've been doing pretty well about resisting temptation but right now I've just finished my lunch and I'm already hungry, so I came on here rather than looking for food. I think I'll just eat the yogurt I packed for a snack a bit early.
You have to find what works for you. I am one of those who never quite reached goal and probably never will. My life doesn't hinge on that any more but on staying in a range. I'm managing that very well without being really hungry.
Hope you find something that's relatively easy to sustain too!
Very quick post to say that I'm coming out of a busy period. I really hope that I'll have more brain space to focus on losing weight. As I write this, I can see that it mirrors Jessica's situation but on a lesser scale.
Very quick post to say that I'm coming out of a busy period. I really hope that I'll have more brain space to focus on losing weight. As I write this, I can see that it mirrors Jessica's situation but on a lesser scale.
I can't believe that I'm on vacation. What will I do without the structure of a corporate day & week? I'm feeling like an unsaddled horse, like the imprint of the saddle is still there and it makes me move around differently.
This is probably due to moving around yesterday, mostly walking, and less time staring into a computer screen, though I did indulge in intervals of that, too. My mother was gardening and I was running errands, doing laundry and vacuuming.
This may be spoiled today as I told a friend we'd stop by their cookout this afternoon.
I've gone down about 2.5 pounds so far. It's just a start.
Yesterday, after a round of golf, we went to lunch (yummy shrimp salad) and for dinner we had very low calorie squash soup. A win of a day in terms of eating.
Today the in-laws come for dinner and I'm making my mac and cheese. While not the best in terms of diet, we'll have salad with it and I'll take a small portion. DS is coming for dinner and I'm making him take the leftovers (it's his favorite).
Tomorrow we're doing a cookout. I'll have nice burgers, perhaps corn, baked beans. Perhaps chips. DD will be here, but SIL has to work. We're hoping DS will be able to convince his new boyfriend to come as well as we'd like to meet him.
I'm starting to be able to see the finish line for my current weight loss effort, though I tell myself daily not to get complacent. No idea why I seem to be able to stick to my eating plan the last few months, when I couldn't do it consistently for the previous 2-3 years. Not knocking it, mind you, just puzzled about what has changed in my head or body to allow this to happen.
Saef, do you think the overnight drop has anything to do with the start of vacation, and the drop in cortisol and other stress hormones that goes with it?
Jessica, if you're struggling with hunger a lot of the time on 1300 cal/day, have you tried eating higher fat/protein/fiber and low grain? I definitely feel full longer when my meal has, say, 2% or full-fat greek yogurt (plain, to minimize the added sugar) with fruit or made into savory dip with some salsa and eaten with raw veggies. Or veggies grilled with olive oil plus a chicken breast or salmon fillet. The minute I add pasta/rice/bread (even whole wheat), I start to feel hungry again much sooner.
Monday morning, it's Memorial Day, and I'm back up slightly, to 154.8.
It's a predictable blip upward. The only thing that I consumed at yesterday's cookout was a Diet Coke, but I sat on a lawn chair for just about four hours, as opposed to moving around, walking to errands or standing and folding laundry. I was so bored with the conversation and therefore mostly reticent. I went because my mother likes seeing people which, it appears, means telling them many uninteresting details about the daily lives and preferences of our family members and the people she knows.
I am not stressed by work but I am stressed from having my mother stay with me because of the attention she seems to require. I'm so used to living alone. I am good at quietly amusing myself. I am apparently one of those people who needs two hours alone to every hour in company, and I have limits which are quickly reached.
Today again it's cool and rainy. After the gym, I don't know. We could go for pedicures, or to a matinee, but my friend's husband is doing us a favor by coming around 12:30 PM today to hang an 18th century corner cabinet in one of my rooms, if he can. That thing has sat around on the floor waiting to be hung for over a year now. It would be so good to get this task completed, it would feel like getting unstuck.
to your DS Allison!
Jessica 
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