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22 November 2011

Some ups and some downs yesterday...Let's talk about what went well first.

I did go do my swim yesterday! I have a buddy here at work and whenever I feel like slacking on my workout, I tell him and he makes me go to the gym. He does the same for me. Sometimes it means an extra trip to the gym if he or I needs the extra encouragement, but it works out for us. I mean, who couldn't use an extra workout. Another thing that went well yesterday is that I tracked everything that I ate.

What didn't go well yesterday? First off, my healthy eating plans were sabotaged by a team luncheon here at work. I ordered my food without the butter, but they put it on there anyway. And I didn't complain and I ate the butter. Which since I'm allergic, made me have a tummy ache. Then I made pork chops for dinner. That would've been great, but I LOVE PORKCHOPS! And I ate two of them instead of my perfectly portioned 5 oz peice. Then I scarfed out on the rest of the sauteed kale. And my stomach hurt even worse. I'm not used to eating that much anymore. I ate over a pound of kale. My poo is going ot be SO green today!

OK, so now for the daily accountability checklist:
1) reduce sodium to RDI levels -- Not even close.
2) track everything - even on weekends -- YES!
3) 1/2 of all meals must be veggies -- Kinda, yes for dinner, no for lunch.
4) drink 1 gallon of water every day - No. I don't know how much a drank yesterday.
5) journal every day for accountability (use this list as a checklist) -- Yes!

My score is a 2.5/5. That's a failing grade. Must do better today.

21 November 2011

DANGIT! I am just teetering on the 170 mark. Some days I'm over it a tad, some days I'm under it a tad. Everytime I've lost weight, this is where I plateau. Right around 170. Why is it so hard for my body to just let it go? I know I had a hard time for the last two weeks, but I didn't over indulge. I was just too busy to track what I ate. This week, I KNOW I haven't over indulged. Even though I didn't track over the weekend. I didn't eat anything not planned and I didn't go over 1600 calories either of those days. I ate 3-400 calorie meals and had 400 calories worth of snacks. Actually, yesterday I didn't even eat my snack. So, I'm probably under calories for yesterday. And I've been drinking a gallon or more a day since last Wednesday.

Today is the day where I'm starting back exercising in the mornings. Well, I messed up this morning already because I left my workout bag at work and didn't have it with me this morning. But I'm going to go workout at lunch time.

I think that I know what one of the culprits is...sodium. Since the whole Noah in the hospital thing, I've allowed the sodium intake to go back up to my old levels. Salting everything, adding seasoned salt to everything -- not good. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go back down on the salty stuff. *Sigh* I SO love my salt. But I also SO love losing weight and I've really got to work myself through this plateau.

So, here's the plan for this week:
1) reduce sodium to RDI levels
2) track everything - even on weekends
3) 1/2 of all meals must be veggies
4) drink 1 gallon of water every day
5) journal every day for accountability (use this list as a checklist)

Eventhough I've never done it before, I know I can break this plateau and move beyond it. NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!

17 November 2011

Very happy that I didn't have a weight gain this week. I've been holding mostly steady for the last coupla weeks. The weight gain that I did have 2 weeks ago came from buying a new bathroom scale.

Now that things have settled, I feel like I can get back on track with tracking my food and with exercising. GAH! Two weeks of minimal exercising has really turned me into a sloth. Well, not really but I have been struggling with not climbing into bed and pulling my covers over my head - while eating gluten free vegan cupcakes.

In addition to tracking exactly what I eat, I'm going to Hot Yoga tonight and playing soccer tomorrow. I'm not yet wanting to exercise 2x/day. I'll start that next week. I'm kinda bummed that my soccer team isn't going to play this winter, but I'm kinda not bummed because the soccer clinic that I've been wanting to go to forever is only on Friday nights. This gives me to opportunity to get better and really kick some soccer but in the Spring. :-)

I'm also going to start attending the Saturday a.m. free soccer practice that they offer for women at my local park. I really want to become a better player!!!

I've got an super-atainable goal - I'm going to get down 5 pounds by New Years day. Not huge. Allows for holiday indulgences. I think I'm even going to start an official challenge.

17 November 2011

Weight: Lost so far: Still to go: Diet followed:
77.4 kg 3.4 kg 7.1 kg Poorly
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15 November 2011

I hardly ever put any personal information in my journal and try to keep it totally diet related. However, today I need to vent. I'm really having an emotionally hard time.

My son has been in the hospital for a week now due to attempted suicide. And to top it all off, my landlord who has been trying to get me to buy his condo told me that he needed to know today of all days whether I would buy the damn thing or not. Today is also my first day back to work. And now I'm a basket case. I've been crying all morning and I can't seem to stop. Of course this is the first time I've cried since all of this happened, so it was only a matter of time when this damn would finally break.

So, I told the landlord that if he needed an answer today, then it was No, I don't want the condo. Then I told him what happened with my son. He knew that he was in the hospital, he just didn't know what was going on. Well, my LL finally decided to be all nice and shit and then that was even worse. HE told me we'd revisit this whole thing in the new year and to not worry about it. I started crying even harder. Apparently, the last thing I need right now is someone to be nice to me.

I've got a meeting in 40 minutes and if I don't stop crying I will never be able to leave my office. Unfortunately the meeting is in my office and they poor guy is going to flip out when he sees my crying ass. Engineers don't handle girls or emotions very well. Put those two things together and you've got major cooties. I mean I'm an engineer and I don't deal with emotions or girls very well.

This sucks. Well, writing about this has made me feel so much better. But I think that if one more person comes and asks me how I'm doing, I'm going to flip out.


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