"Woman walks into a bar with a talking dog. The bartender says...'
Well, I am not sure what the bartender says, but Amarantha and Arabella, I will do extensive research to find an A-1 quality joke, if it will bring good cheer. On the other hand, Amarantha maybe you are right. A nap sounds better.
Sweet dreams...with visions of MP3s dancing in your heads.
Grrrrr...what a way to start the day. I've been knocking myself out cutting calories and really putting my heart and soul into my workouts and I weigh myself this morning, and no change! As a matter of fact I may even weigh a pound more. I'm firmly at 138 pounds. And here's the thing: I honestly don't know what else I can do to get the number to go down.
So here I am, where I've been so many times before. I'll keep on keeping on since i don't have a choice, but I'm frustrated. What part of the puzzle am I missing??!!
I tossed a bunch of colorful cut-outs from a French magazine for children last night and I had second thoughts this morning, so I took them out of the paper trash, in case my son hadn't seen them...
Amarantha ~ To answer your question, the book is Mozart in the Jungle by Blair Tindall (I happen to know several people in the book, lol).
The day hath arriveth and soon so doth mine MIL. 10 people for dinner tonight. And there must be 50-75 coming Saturday night. Am I crazy? Perhaps. ( ) I'm feeling better this morning, put some effort into it and also got a submission from a new freelancer that was almost perfect as is. Made my heart sing!
Eydie, is it possible your body wants to be 138? Other possibility: I KNOW whenever I increase exercise intensity my muscles retain water for a while.
Kaylets, that QOD --- you must have been chanelling me! I was thinking yesterday how I always do this: invite, invite, invite for a big party and then a few days beforehand think just that "What in the world was I thinking? Now I've got all these people coming to my house." And then I do a mini-freak out. Nothing is ever perfect and it's always fine and we have fun. I think I over-anticipate
I'm tired too, but okay in a global kind of sense.
K -- I must be off. Have to get work done in advance of MIL arrival. Love to all! Let's make this a good one.
Aria, I must go check out that book. Novel-reading and discovering what others are reading is of great interest to most of the Royal Court!
This question has vexed me for my entire--way too long--dieting life. What happens to me, each and every time I reduce my calories in order to lose weight is that I decide not to get on the scale for some period of time. Either I decide only once a week or, I have tried to get around the experience you had this morning by only getting on once a month, and last year when I lost alot of weight, I stayed off the scale for 6 months.
That plan sounds like it should work great, and for many, many people it does. For me, obviously, the six month abstinence worked very well, I lost alot of weight. But, generally, I have decided that here is the problem for me. Whenever, I finally get on the scale, it does not register as low as all the hard work I have been doing suggests it should. I get very frustrated, and upset. I decide it is impossible, and I stop working out and paying attention to what I eat. I don't always do it consciously, but when I find myself slacking off, and I try to figure out why, I can always trace it back to my bad day on the scale.
I know people say that you should only use the scale once a week because one's weight fluctuates so much every day (because of water), so, I am trying something different for the very first time. Have I thrown my scale out? No, I get on the scale every single morning.
It has been working beautifully, here's why, and I will use you as an example. Let's say that water weight fluctuation thing is true and this is what yo-ur scale did this week (except you did not see it because you did not weigh yourself
Thursday the 7th-138
Fri-137.6
Sat-138.2
Sun-138.2
Mon-137.2
Tues-138.5
Wed-137.1
Thurs-138
With my luck, and maybe yours, you get on the scale on a day that is registering water weight. What I do now, becuase I am able to see the whole week is say, "I started out last Friday at 138, the fairly mysterious, though somewhat reliable laws of physics and human metabolism say that if I exercised____ amount during this week, and ate only ______ calories, I cannot have gained or retained the same amount of fat I had last week. And the scale did say at one point this week that my body was only heavy enough to force its needle up to 137.1. The 138 doesn't shock me, and I assume it is one of those water weight fluctuations.
So....you say to yourself (and here is the kicker, and the single most important element of this strategy) "I was so disciplined this week, and I from my meticulous records I see that I only put 1375 calories per day in my mouth, I can not possibly weigh more than the lowest number I recorded this week."
Note: This method has also helps you be more thoughtful about what you put in your mouth during the week. It only works if you are absolutely sure of your intake.
Does this sounds totally crazy?????
I know that this won't work for everyone, and I know that some people don't need it, they can wait until next week when they will likely register a 3 pound loss. But I am very much suceptible to water weight, and to the frustration of not seeing a loss after hard work. This is only my second week, but I feel like I have conquered the scale.
Oh, gosh, the QOD got me mentally back in that place I was in after my accident in March ... what was I thinking? I kept askin' myself that over and over.
Eydie....I wonder if you are "taking a rest" ( your body weight) or even if you're not eating enough to lose.....
As one who still weighs myself daily ---and was the best lesson of my weight loss journey to understand how we are really always in motion and not static....and as for one who often times had no clue what exactly made the weight come off more one week than the next.....
.... Since my "stomach virus/whatever" .... I noticed I have dropped a pound still even from the drop when I was sick.... I have dropped a couple of fruit servings and at least 5 dairy servings a week..... The dairy is something I 'm not sure I would recommend.... the fruit, I know I often "overate".....
I have far less cravings than I have in years but not sure if that's still a throwback to being stomach sick or if I'm sensitve to the sugar in fruit...
Never thought I was but you never know do you.....
I feel less overwhelmed tonight although I have to call the WW's director of my area and tell her that the change in my schedule will NOT happen as I had hoped. There was an opening Tuesday's I was hoping to jump at for WW's but I can't see how it will happen this month. I would rather call them and tell them "sorry, keep me in mind if something opens that fits my current schedule and I'll let you know the minute my schedule changes ...."
Which I have decided to go full steam ahead. I have a couple of possibilties right now but am wondering if a nice slim gal like myself could work at the UPS place.... early in, early out.. lots of physical activity....hmmmmm
we'll see...
Thought of the day :
"The future is NOW"
Question of the day:
"Do you people can foretell the future?"
Just made some Sleepy Time...
Which reminds me, I have a blackberry bush in the backyard... wonder if I could use the leaves for tea.... or do I dry the fruit??
I've been knocking myself out cutting calories and really putting my heart and soul into my workouts and I weigh myself this morning, and no change! As a matter of fact I may even weigh a pound more. I'm firmly at 138 pounds. And here's the thing: I honestly don't know what else I can do to get the number to go down.
) I'm feeling better this morning, put some effort into it and also got a submission from a new freelancer that was almost perfect as is. Made my heart sing! 
I think I over-anticipate 
