Week 2 - Weigh In

Loss for the week: +1.0 lbs
Starting weight: 238.0 lbs
Current weight: 237.4 lbs
Total loss to date: 0.60 lbs

Well I am not happy about my weigh in today but I had a suspicion my weight would go up after this weekend, so I was kind of prepared for it.

On Friday I suggested to my sister that we go out to dinner and guess where we ended up? A Fish Fry. And yes.. It was my idea. I had two Fried Cod fillets, some fried shrimp, and potato pancakes. Very yummy, but not so good for the diet.

Then on Saturday I skipped breakfast but went out to lunch with my Mom and sister to Perkins. I had a Grilled Chicken Salad though, so that was good. I even omitted the bacon it came with and added hard boiled egg. Then at the Holiday party I had some kind of Chicken meal with rice and some unknown substance on top (looked like gray guacamole??), and green beans. I also indulged in dessert and then had a few drinks. It was a good time though. I got a few compliments while I was there that I looked nice, so that felt good. I only danced for one song though, so didn’t really burn any calories off.

Sunday I went grocery shopping and then had Chips & Hummus for what we’ll call lunch and Chips and Taco Dip for what we’ll call dinner. It was kind of more just like an all day thing during the Packer game. So yea… Not a good weekend for my journey, but hopefully I can work extra hard to lose the gain plus some.

On another note, I bought some Whey Protein {Vanilla Cream flavored} & some Orange flavored drink mix. I read online that if you mix it together it tastes similar to a dream sickle. I had that for breakfast, in place of my Slim Fast. At first I got the dream sickle flavor, but after a while I had to choke the rest down. I could taste the iron flavor in it. So I’ll have to find some other way of drinking it. Any ideas? I read that you can also mix it with yogurt, tuna, or make a shake out of it. So maybe I’ll try one of those ideas. I’m still confused if I should be using this in place of a meal or if I should be having it after a workout? Any advice on that?

I’m giving blood today over my lunch hour at a sister company of ours. Think I’ll lose some weight? ;-)

Vitamins

I went to Woodman’s yesterday {I absolutely LOVE that store by the way} and bought some Vitamins. I got a Woman’s 1 a day, some Acai Dietary Supplements, and some water pills. I have never taken water pills, but from my understanding you can take them when you are bloated to lose some of the water weight you are holding onto. I think I might take one {or however many you are suppose to take} before my Holiday Party on Saturday. We’ll see though. I still have to read a little more about when you should take them, the side effects, etc. Have any of you out there taken them before? I got the vitamins because ever since I have been tracking on www.caloriecount.com I have noticed that I have been low in my nutrients almost every day, so I’m hoping this will help it. I’m almost to the point where I’m obsessed with the “grade” it gives me and it really bugs me when I see that I’m low on Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Calcium, etc. I was able to stay within my calories yesterday though and ended up with a pretty good day. I wanted to work out but American Idol kind of got in the way of that. I was going to do it after, but usually when I work out I get a surge of energy afterwards and then can’t fall asleep for a while so I decided to get my workout in this morning instead. I just did a half an hour on the elliptical and I hope to maybe pop in a workout video that I borrowed from my coworker tonight.. after Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice of course. ;-) Or maybe before… we’ll see. It’s so hard to fit everything in when I don’t get home until 5:45pm then have to make dinner, take care of the kids, clean up, etc. I really wish the day had a couple more hours to it! Or maybe weekends were 3 days instead of 2. But don’t we all. I guess I’ll just have to find a way to fit my workouts in. Oh.. and as for an update on how I feel about the scale- the same.. still hate it. After my good day yesterday and my workout this morning I hopped on the scale to see a 2 lb gain! Ugh! I’m not even going to pay attention to it though. It is so different every day. So this time I REALLY am only going to weigh in once a week so it doesn’t keep driving me crazy! New weigh in day = Monday!

I Hate Scales!

The above picture clearly illustrates how I feel towards the scale right now. We are sooo not BFF’s! Ok, maybe I didn’t do the greatest on healthy eating and exercising last week, but I still tried. I can only remember exercising once during the week, but it was for an hour and a half! I felt so proud afterwards to have exercised for that long.. and to have also had a good day of eating and staying within my calorie limit. I was sure I would have lost 1 to 2 lbs just because of that day alone! Nope- had a gain! A GAIN! I know I tell other people “you’re probably gaining muscle or retaining water” but I don’t want to believe it myself. To only have a weight loss of 1.6 is very depressing… especially after watching shows like “Biggest Loser” or “I Used to be Fat.” I know it’s not realistic to expect the kind of weight loss that they have, but still… 1.6 lbs? On the first week? I don’t mean to be crude,.. but I could take a crap for that amount of weight! Grrr… but this week is a new week and I’m going to keep trying. I’m going to try and up my exercise for the week and get in at least 3 good workouts by Sunday. So far I have one down {shoveled for an hour last night- man, was I sore by the end!} and 2 to go. I’ve also been trying to stick to around 1500 calories per day. I guess we’ll see how this week goes and see if I may need to tweak my plan a little. I think I’m also a little too obsessed with the scale right now {have been weighing every day} so I’m going to start only weighing myself once a week instead of every day. That’s going to be hard, but hopefully better for me in the long run. I have been getting really discouraged after I do well one day and don’t see a significant loss afterwards.