Ugh! I tried to hold on, I was doing so well! Then after my 2 hour cardio session Friday it all went down hill. Thursday of course was a bust, but everything preceeding that was good. And I have a horrible cough and head cold, YUCK!!!
I feel like I am too excited about just being at this weight and I am not as motivated, and that scares me! I am getting very close to my big goal. I think there's part of me that is truly afraid of hitting that goal. I can't believe how close I am!!!
Anyway, so this week will be more or less trying to take off what I put on. Anyone else feel a little discouraged today?
I did really well on Thanksgiving! Then all the sudden, I went crazy on Friday, Saturday and today! I am still visiting my family, so needless to say we are eating out a lot! I have exercised a little, but I am certain I have put on weight this week. I will weigh myself Tuesday morning. We are driving home tomorrow, an 8-10 hour drive! Eating breaksfast, lunch and dinner out tomorrow, too.
Hopefully anything I gained this week will come off fast next week.
I did OK but there's still leftover pie from TDay and leftover cake from hubby's bday. I didn't gain anything but definitely discouraging not losing any weight in two weeks.
Oh yeah I'm with y'all...I went nuts over the holiday starting with lunch time last wednesday (work t-giving celebration) and ending at dinner last night (pizza with an old friend). I bet I've gained AT LEAST 5 lbs in the last few days...crud!! Well, back on the wagon I go...
Hey girls, is this our weekly chat??? I'm annoyed at myself. I handled Thanksgiving itself perfectly fine. Small breakfast, reasonable lunch, didn't move too much (more on that later - injury-related) but I got out of the house and went fishing so I wouldn't be near food. Took reasonable portions, ate only a teeny bit of pie (my favorite), and dinner was at someone else's so no leftovers at my house. Every night BF's family was here and we had a bonfire on the beach but I didn't have any s'mores, not one. I did go slightly off-plan for a few days but didn't go over 2000 cals/day (except maybe slightly on turkey day). Then yesterday BF left on a trip, I had been sitting at home for several afternoons by myself already, and was very lonely and depressed. I tend to get that way when I'm by myself - I'm very co-dependent. I'd been meaning to invite the new girl at work over to welcome her, and knew she watched Desperate Housewives, so I invited her and someone else to come over later. And then I had hours before they came over, so I cooked chocolate chip cookies and clam spaghetti to feed to them. Of course I ate TONS of it myself. I didn't eat much all day but just totally pigged out for dinner.
It was like I'd prepared myself mentally to binge and feel guilty about it at Thanksgiving. I'd especially prepared myself to eat 1 big piece of pumpkin pie. When I didn't get my pie or my binge, I was so sad. It would have been worth the exercise. When I didn't binge on Thanksgiving, my body wanted to binge anyway. Being lonely just made it worse. So I binged yesterday. Does that make sense?
Tuesday I had gone for a super-long walk and seem to have a pulled a muscle somewhere in the arch of my foot. Seems really small but hurts a lot when I run or walk. Friday it finally felt better so I ran, but it started hurting again. Ran Saturday, same story. Gave yesterday a rest and probably today, too. I really need to exercise but don't want to keep aggravating an injury. Maybe I should just eat less. Genius, Megan, pure genius.
It was like I'd prepared myself mentally to binge and feel guilty about it at Thanksgiving. I'd especially prepared myself to eat 1 big piece of pumpkin pie. When I didn't get my pie or my binge, I was so sad. It would have been worth the exercise. When I didn't binge on Thanksgiving, my body wanted to binge anyway. Being lonely just made it worse. So I binged yesterday. Does that make sense?
That makes so much sense to me--I planned what to eat for Thanksgiving and ate healthily, then slid the next day when there was nothing but leftovers. It was like I wanted an instant reward for not binging on Thanksgiving...when I didn't magically lose a few pounds overnight, it seemed like it wasn't worth it.
I slipped up a little bit on Thursday night w/ dessert...but got right back on track (something I've never done before!) that very night and even though the next morning at breakfast I was tempted to continue eating sweets, I somehow found the willpower inside of myself to eat something healthy instead. After leaping over that hurdle successfully, the rest of the day was a breeze eating-wise. Except for Thanksgiving day, I exercised every day this past week. Today was my weigh-in for Week #2 and I lost 6.6 lbs. in my first week of my weight loss journey I am out of the 180's forever and by the end of December I hope to be seeing the 170's for the last time in my life. I'm pretty sure most of it is water weight, but I love this newfound feeling of being in touch w/ my body....that's something I never felt in the past b/c I was abusing my body and unable to listen to what it was telling me that it wanted. I don't want to abuse it w/ inactivity and junk/too much food anymore. I want it to last a long time and be in the best shape possible...and now I'm finally doing it!
jenn, i am so proud of you!
unfortunately, i am pretty much in the same boat as megan on thanksgiving i did totally fine, worked out, ate just a little all day, and didn't stuff myself at dinner. but it was the REST of the weekend that killed me. i was at home, so i would just snack alllll the time...there were all these little goodies that i never have at my apartment but my parents will keep around. i weighed in this morning and i was up three THREE pounds from last week. ugh. i am just going to have a great week this week, and then i hope by next week's weigh in i will be back down to normal. good luck in this week after thanksgiving!
Ditto what many of you have said--I stayed pretty much in control on Thanksgiving Day (I've never had such itty bitty pieces of pie before!), but then from Friday through Sunday, FOOD ORGY! It didn't help that I work part-time for a seret shopper company, so I did 2 secret evaluations this weekend: Friday night at a restaurant called Sweet Water (AWESOME food) and Sunday lunch at a diner. Both shops required that we order an appetizer to share, 2 entrees, and a dessert to share. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it, right?
Anyway, free food aside, I'm back on track today. I think even a greater power is telling me to eat less today--I ate a few bites of my yogurt and thought it tasted funny, so I checked the expiration date (Dec. 9), so I went to take another bite and noticed white fuzzy mold growing on the inside of the container. EEWWW!! Now there's a way to kill your appetite
Stephanie -- I know how you feel! The closer I get to goal, the less motivated I feel!
Spill -- there is nothing wrong with a little break every now and then!!
Megan -- I do the same thing, if I go out to dinner and plan to get dessert, and then I am too full to eat dessert, the next day I will go by a candy bar to make up for it!
Jenn -- You're doing great!
Jill -- OMG, gross! Luckily like Megan I already ate my yogurt for today.
Michelle -- Me too! I was at BF's family's house, and I swear they eat dessert every night. So much snacking!
I think you ladies are all doing great. A little slip every so often is okay! Nobody is perfect, you have to let yourself indulge every now and then. I feel so guilty when I read about you all having a tiny sliver of pie -- I had a tiny sliver of pie too . . . but I had a tiny sliver of each of SIX pies! I kind of pigged out Friday night too, which I am more embarrassed about because Thanksgiving was planned but Friday night wasn't.
This morning it was back to the gym -- it feels like it has been SO LONG since the last time I went because I was out of town and didn't work out at all last week (unless you count cooking and walking around a lot).
And here is something totally bizarre. After a week plus a weekend of uninhibited eating (okay, I didn't pig out THAT much, but I did have quite a bit of desserts this week and I overate at dinner Friday and Saturday), this morning when I stepped on the scale it said 130. I don't believe it yet, we'll see what it says tomorrow. But I totally don't get it -- it seems like every time I have a really pig-out weekend, I lose weight, but when I am good, I stay the same. I know that doesn't hold up in the long term (how did I get so overweight to begin with? Pigging out!) but it is weird. Maybe my scale is just broken. Here is the other funny part -- I got on the scale, it said 130. I was like, no way. I got off and on about 10 times in a row, 130 each time. I called in my BF to look and make sure I wasn't crazy, then got on and off about 10 more times! I still don't believe it though, it will probably be back to 132 tomorrow (esp since TOM is coming this week). The other weird thing is that I was suprisingly not too excited. I have been waiting to see that for so long that it was kind of anti-climactic, like, oh, there it is.
I think it's really weird that I would get to my goal weight after I have really not been trying to lose lately, just to maintain. I still don't believe it though!
Oh man, that's AWESOME paperclippy!!! I've heard that if you keep doing the same things over and over your body gets into kind of a "rut" and needs some extra calories or fat or something to jumpstart it again...don't know how true it is, but maybe that's the case for you!!
Does anybody else find that the time change is really screwing with their exercise regimen? I mean, I wasn't doing GREAT before but now that it's getting dark so early I hardly exercise at all except on weekends! My main issue is that I have to go to a nearby track or something and I'm afraid to go by myself in the dark... So, today I made a flyer to put on the bulletin board here at work trying to get a walking/jogging club together at a local lighted track for after work...wish me luck!!
haha I think we are all in the same boat. I planned so carefully my eating attack for Thanksgiving, and I was sooo good. The second I got home (since it started at 3:30 and we were there staring at all of the good food till about 9) I just started eating everything in sight. I should have just eating more at dinner at least the food would have been better. Oh well it's a new week.
The week AFTER thanksgiving. . .
Just get right back on track!
After leaping over that hurdle successfully, the rest of the day was a breeze eating-wise. Except for Thanksgiving day, I exercised every day this past week. Today was my weigh-in for Week #2 and I lost 6.6 lbs. in my first week of my weight loss journey 
I am out of the 180's forever and by the end of December I hope to be seeing the 170's for the last time in my life. I'm pretty sure most of it is water weight, but I love this newfound feeling of being in touch w/ my body....that's something I never felt in the past b/c I was abusing my body and unable to listen to what it was telling me that it wanted. I don't want to abuse it w/ inactivity and junk/too much food anymore. I want it to last a long time and be in the best shape possible...and now I'm finally doing it! 
on thanksgiving i did totally fine, worked out, ate just a little all day, and didn't stuff myself at dinner. but it was the REST of the weekend that killed me. i was at home, so i would just snack alllll the time...there were all these little goodies that i never have at my apartment but my parents will keep around. i weighed in this morning and i was up three THREE pounds from last week. ugh. i am just going to have a great week this week, and then i hope by next week's weigh in i will be back down to normal. good luck in this week after thanksgiving!
I don't believe it yet, we'll see what it says tomorrow. But I totally don't get it -- it seems like every time I have a really pig-out weekend, I lose weight, but when I am good, I stay the same. I know that doesn't hold up in the long term (how did I get so overweight to begin with? Pigging out!) but it is weird. Maybe my scale is just broken. Here is the other funny part -- I got on the scale, it said 130. I was like, no way. I got off and on about 10 times in a row, 130 each time. I called in my BF to look and make sure I wasn't crazy, then got on and off about 10 more times! I still don't believe it though, it will probably be back to 132 tomorrow (esp since TOM is coming this week). The other weird thing is that I was suprisingly not too excited. I have been waiting to see that for so long that it was kind of anti-climactic, like, oh, there it is.
I've heard that if you keep doing the same things over and over your body gets into kind of a "rut" and needs some extra calories or fat or something to jumpstart it again...don't know how true it is, but maybe that's the case for you!! 
