Ferafilia: Happy Birthday!!!!! I hope you had an amazing day and here's wishing you an awesome year ahead filled with joy, health, peace and blessings! As locals say here on birthdays "many happy returns of the day, long life and prosperity. Hip Hip Hip Hooray!!!" Anyho, yay yay yay on beyond 50 lbs lost and meeting the target, that is awesome and amazing in every way and I'm so so very chuffed for you!
LaurieDawn: Thanks for your kind words. I haven't hit my stride yet, you're right and many days it feels like I'm failing especially when that mythical group called "everyone" seems to be doing so well BUT then I try to look at the bright side and find small victories. If I had continued as before, by now I would be nearly back where I started, so even if I'm not progressing, there is victory in that I've at least plateaued my gain trend line. I know if it wasn't for you guys I would be on the other side of 200 by now and probably close to right where I started. I'm crossing my fingers for your weigh in today and hoping it's the stuff that Onederland is made of. But whether it is or it isn't, you're still awesome and you'll still keep plugging away, I know.
garnetrising: Yay on being tinier! For better or worse, I put stock in the scale numbers but those numbers are just for me... and you guys on 3FC I suppose, but mostly for me because no one would care if I was 500 lbs but miraculously had a waspish waist of supermodel proportions... Dem inches don't lie and that's what people see in the end. So yay on the inch loss!
jenjenangel007: I'm so glad you're feeling better. Exercise endorphins are great! And if they're helping your RA and getting you healthy at the same time then double score!!!!! I'm a big believer in vitamins and supplements. I take fish oil (cod liver oil) too and I think it helps with a lot of things, plus it's good for you anyway. Definitely do your research and check out what supplements could help, I mean it can't hurt.
MissLoud: Yay on feeling better and getting back your workout mojo. Being alone as munchy TOM approaches is nightmarish but I have total faith you will rock it and be victorious in the end. You're doing awesome!
martini: I'm sorry about the work situation. I think it's probably not a terrible idea to unrestrict the eating for a few days but maybe keep in mind maintenance level calories and still be mindful. There's nothing worse than stressing how you're going to contain meals out and social obligations within a 1300-calorie limit whilst going through the wringer as well.
I'm doing alright, myself. Yesterday was a successful fast day. I'm doing alright so far today although it's been the oddest morning with 3 plain crackers and a boiled egg for breakfast even though I have steel cut oats in my lunch bag as well, no I hit the emergency desk stash. Thankfully, it was just 3 crackers. Now I don't feel like oatmeal. I want I dunno... something hot and spicy?? Sigh... The office runner already came round to take lunch orders and in a fright over not ordering the fastest of fast food, I told her not to worry and so now it's lunchtime and I'm frowning at my oatmeal like it's its fault that I brought it in.
I haven't yet done a weigh in this week because I've been in a rush every single morning. I will try to make it happen tomorrow though because I have a later start than normal office hours. I lost weight last week and it's been a while since I've had a losing trend so it would be nice to have that and as such I'm trying to stay on track. Oatmeal for lunch is soooooooo uninspiring though. And blah. And proteinless. I'll think of something. What do you guys have for lunch at home or work day-to-day. I could use the ideas.
I'm amazed I'm doing as meh as I am with my re-loss journey and I'm not freaking out. I think the 180s are a comfortable weight for me. In 2011 when I was in them, I stayed for 8 months, maybe I'm more complacent at this weight or maybe my body just likes this as a resting weight like it did the 230s and even the 150s (which I also tried to leave for nearly a year) or maybe it's a combination of both my psychology and physiology but I'm kind of over them and I don't really want to be here in this weight anymore. It's not super urgent, but I would like to make some progress. Sigh. Like even to get out of the mid 180s and to move more solidly into the late 170s/early 180s would be encouraging. Anyway, I still plug away. I see growth though, last time when I plateaued I was in the depths of despair (I mean not actually, just in the melodramatic Anne of Green Gables way) but now I'm just a little disappointed and yet pragmatic about the whole thing. I think part of it is that I know that other than physical fitness, my life didn't dramatically improve socially or emotionally by being at a lower weight as I though it would. I had a lifelong chubby girl's view of what being considered slim by society would mean for me and I got there and was there 10 months and it wasn't like I imagined. So maybe that's released some of the emotional urgency for me. I don't know. So now I know that, it's like weight is now just weight but it isn't going to fix me or the things I want to be different about myself which is good because I am no longer wrecked by the scale but not good because it's harder to build the urgency I used to have. I DO definitely want to go back to my low weight because I liked the way I looked in clothes better and could run faster and do things easier when I was there, but I guess my emotional expectations of that weight have changed and so now I'm relying of the lure of fitness and vanity to make me do what I need to do to progress and it's harder than it was before. I don't know if any of that makes sense. Or if anyone knows what I mean... I'm just typing away... partly because it saves me from myself ordering something not on plan. I'll go warm up my oatmeal... Maybe if I'm not hungry, I won't want to make unhealthy decisions at work. Especially if everyone sees me warming up food... I'll be more circumspect about what else I eat during the day #SecretEatersAnonymous
Anyway enough of what's inside my head. Have an awesome day people.