CandleLITEr's Weight Loss

Dang, I got off the scale this morning and feel betrayed again. I worked so hard this week. I walked to work three times (today makes the fourth day), I kept up my water intake and even had a salad with vinagrette last night instead of the lasagna that was calling my name. Whatever!!!! I am so over worrying about the darned scale and how much it is effecting my feelings of self-worth. I have done so well all year and in the last month I've actually gained 4.5 lbs.

 

I still feel really good and for the most part I am very active and making really good food choices. I really shouldn't be seeing a gain but I am. I think the one thing I've done is to 'modify' the things that have gotten me to where I am in the first place. Occasionally I'm eating white flour pasta. Last week I had white rice. Earlier this week I had pasta with vegetables and Italian sausage. No sauce, low-fat cheese. However, I looked at the nutrition label on the sausages again this week and noticed that they have 32g of fat. So I need to get back into the game and start paying closer attention to the food labels and quit thinking that I can tweak the system I created that took off 35 pounds.

 

In fact, I think I'm going to do the detox thing once again for the next week to sort of jump start my body back into a lean, mean fat-burning machine!

 

Hope you are all hanging in there!!!

Sorry you haven't seen much of me (and you are seeing less and less of me everyday - LOL). I've been extremely busy plus last week I flat lined. I just didn't feel up to blogging again about another blah week. But as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm right back at it. Drinking lots of water, walking to and sometimes from work three times this week.  I know I'll have a good weigh in tomorrow. The only temptation is my aunt and uncle taking me to dinner tonight at an Italian place. I'm going to stay away from the wine and the brick oven pizza for sure.

 

Hopefully everyone is doing well and I promise I'll write more tomorrow.

 

Muah!!!

Well, I'm not surprised to see that I gained weight this week.  I'm not even really concerned about it.  I've had an incredibly busy week.  Yesterday I had classes in the morning and work study in the afternoon/early evening.  I had been up kind of late the night before and I was soooooo tired!  I ended up eating way more than I should.  So that contributed to my weight gain.  Maybe it's just me, but when I'm feeling low on energy, I always end up eating too much.  Oh well.  Also, I was at Shari's at 12am the other night with my "friend", having an extremely late dinner.  So again, not surprised!  Hopefully this week will be better. 

 

On a side note, my legs aren't rubbing together as much when I walk as they used to.  Yay me! 

So for the second week in a row I had a weight gain. But I'm really not surprised. My back is still not back to normal so my activity level is just hardly anything. I still don't have a pedometer so have no idea what my steps are each day but I can pretty much guarantee they aren't anywhere near the 10,000 I have as a goal.

 

It's been a busy crazy week with activities almost every night and pretty much the entire weekend last week. I went to a concert Friday night, then went to the beach with the girls over the weekend, then another concert Sunday night. I know I had way more to eat and drink than I should have and didn't drink nearly enough water. Plus I worked 12-14 hour days this week and had music and movies almost every night after that. Needless to say, I've been having to grab food on the go and have even skipped a couple of meals. It always amazes me that skipping meals can contribute to weight gain.

 

But today that changes. I'm getting back to my meal planning and cooking ahead and am vowing to drink at least 64 ounces of water every day. I still won't have a pedometer to track my steps, but I think if I can get my meals back in line, the rest will fall in place.

Boy, I'm just having a really rough week. I gained half a pound this week which really didn't surprise me at all. I buggered up my back on Sunday in the yard and have been struggling with it all week. I was still trying to get my walks in before and after work but anything more strenuous was out of the question. In addition, I've been really busy after work and didn't get a lot of time to plan out and implement good food options this week so ended up grabbing whatever was available - usually a sandwich or popcorn. Certainly not fast food, but still not the best choices.

 

Earlier this week I was with a friend and we were going to drive to an area where we were going to walk. On the way there, we witnessed a road rage incident that involved a driver shooting at another vehicle. It happened very quickly but I saw it all and it really shook me up. Not only did I just want to crawl in my safe bed and put the incident out of my mind, what I really wanted to do was eat a big ole' slab of something nasty good and then crawl in my bed. Fortunately I didn't do that. Unfortunately I didn't get the walk in. The whole thing just keeps playing in my mind over and over again. No one was injured but I keep imagining how the whole thing could have gone so much worse. Needless to say, I haven't been sleeping well.

 

....then I lost my pedometer yesterday and now I can't even post my walking miles on the Olympics challenge this week. I didn't walk to work at all this week but I still think I was doing 3-4 miles a day. But rather than fudge or guess, I just won't participate.

 

For some reason I'm just feeling sort of blah...perhaps it's the weather. We've been having a really wonderful summer with beautiful blue skies and temperatures hovering around 75-80 everyday. Today it's overcast and drizzly which is exactly the way I feel.

 

I have a bunch of activities this weekend and am hoping that my back gets to the point where I can start being active again. This is the pits!