Coffee, 2T half-and-Half, 1 teas sugar
Clementine
Coco multigrain pop cake, x2
egg salad w/ tomato and lettuce (the tomato and lettuce helped a lot!)
Puffed grain cake x2
tiny apples
Cake – one piece of carrot cake
Gym!
Butternut et Spinach Colbeth
Abuelita

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Coffee, 2T whole milk, 1t sugar, splenda
Clementine
Cheerios, 1/2 cup
Coco multigrain pop cake, x3
egg salad
Puffed grain cake x2
Peanut Butter, 1T
Yogurt, Siggi’s, Strawberry
Muesli 1T
Gym! 30 minutes treadmill
Enchiladas
Tofu Fries
Wine, 6 fl oz

Another day of really-really hungry.
Tomorrow I’m going to put lettuce and tomato on my egg salad sandwich, and see how that does.

Enchiladas were rice-and-tomato base. Tasty, normally very filling.

hopefully, the hormone spike settles soon and my body believes that we’re not going to starve.

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In which I was hungry all day…

Coffee, 1/4c 2% milk, 1t sugar
Cardio Shopping, 15 minutes
Cheerios, 1/2 cup
Clementine x2 (3?) Then another one at home
Banana
Puffed grain cake
Coco multigrain pop cake, x3
(these were an experiment. They taste… okay.)
(satisfying crunch, though)
egg salad, Weight watchers recipe, 1/2 cup
Tinyapple
Puffed grain cake x2
Peanut Butter, 1T
Salad, doctored, with bacon, pepperoni, tomato, pepper, and so on
Small Batch Mississippi Mud Cake
(This was delicious, and about 1″ x the bottom of a bread pan. Super rich)

Edited to add
Hormone level: irritable and 1-3 days from my period. No wonder I’m hungry!

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So *cough*

Looking at the scale (177.4), clearly I need to try something different.

Would you guys be willing to be my accountability for a couple weeks? I figure if I have to make a daily blog post with food & exercise, I’m a lot more likely to actually track it.

<3

Lyn

[disclaimer: I was sick last week, didn’t track well mostly because of that, and I know I’m bloated, which usually adds a pound to two pounds. But I’m still not losing weight.]

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174.2 That’s more like it.

And last week, while better than the week before it, wasn’t stellar. Less tracking. So, It’s Monday. Gym tonight, and back on track with tracking.

I can do this.

(I feel less heavy, which is sort of weird.)

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176.0

🙁

I’m going to mark this up to what thnidu called "fuctuations" last week.  

Also, I didn’t track food that assiduously. 

Next week! 

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It wasn’t a good week, not really. I spent the whole week angry at myself for having gotten back up to this weight, wearing elastic-waist things that actually /fit/ and feeling silly and crappy about the whole thing.

I also spent it, however:
* tracking my food more carefully (Not on the days off, still working on that)
* going to the gym three times (M, W, F)
* trying to generally be more active.
* Trying to think positively about weight loss.

Today’s weigh-in: 174.8 lbs. Down 1.8 lbs, which is better than feared.

(hormones: I’m either still bloated, more bloated, or bloated again: my boobs hurt like hell and my period is due in ~2-3 days)

I tried three tracking methods this week:
http://www.loseit.com/
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
Weight watchers, via excel formula ++ asking Rion for points on dinners.

Obviously, three tracking methods is not sustainable, but I’m still torn between Lose It! And Myfitnesspal. I might try a third method (people have suggested a few)in lieu of one for a week or two.

24.8 lbs to go, 25 weeks to go. Yay!

Perpetual Note: Please do not suggest or tell me 1) I don’t want to get down to xx weight, 2) xx is not a healthy weight, 3) anything else suggesting I don’t know what weight I might want to get to/look good having reached.

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Okay, so, my original goal (when I thought the scale was going to say 166 or so when I stepped on it) was to get to 140 by my father’s birthday, July 15.

My current goal is to get to 150 by July 15 and to 140 by October 1st. (Data point: I’m a broad-shouldered five foot eight woman.)

So, I’d been noticing for the last week that my jeans were uncomfortably tight, and finally stepped on the scale – 176.6 lbs. Um. That’s a bit higher than I’d been expecting. That’s a bit higher than it was last year at this time. 🙁

I’m not going to panic, however. I am NOT going to panic.

What I am going to do is try to go at this like I did when I had over 50 lbs to lose.

I’m going to track everything. Everything. I know I’ve been mindlessly snacking on pretzels at work, and I’m going to count them now.

Exercise: I joined the gym again last week. 2x a week in the gym, 3x if I can wrangle the time, and something physical at total of at least 6x a week.

I am not going to panic.

I’m still pondering /what/ weight-loss/food tracking system to use. Using Weight Watchers worked for me; using Weight Watchers new-system with someone else figuring the points didn’t work nearly as well. So do I go back to old system? Do I buy a membership? Do I try something free?

Food tracking is only half of it; I’ve discovered that I need concrete numbers and limits. And, of course, I need to remember to stay active.

Here we go. 26(ish) weeks, 26(.6) lbs. Let’s go.

Note: Please do not suggest or tell me 1) I don’t want to get down to xx weight, 2) xx is not a healthy weight, 3) anything else suggesting I don’t know what weight I might want to get to/look good having reached.

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So, as some of you may recall, one of my goals for the year is to lose 33 lbs over the year.

I was doing pretty okay for January and the first half of February – except that, rather than plateauing the week of my period and then dropping 2 weeks’ worth afterwards, as I did the first time I did this, I just plateaued and then returned to normal (slightly under 1 lb/week) loss afterwards. Rather frustrating, but survivable.

Then Late February into Mid-April happened. Sick, moody, sick, moody, different sort of sick…

…and then I didn’t step on the scale for two or three weeks, during which there were three birthday celebrations and a LARP with Domino’s Pizza.

I am exactly where I was when I last weighed myself (or at least wrote it down) at the end of February.

Okay! So that’s the new starting point. 166.6 (With Oli: 179.2). It’s Thursday, I’ll average every Wednesday.

Go!

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