I am back!!

January 15th!! WEIGH IN DAY!!!

I can’t believe it!! First my scale showed 201. Well, that’s not possible, that would have been a 13 lbs loss in 2 weeks, no way that could be right. And it wasn’t. I stepped on the scale again, ERROR. Oh man that is torture, what if it shows nothing?
I stepped on it again 203.5 lbs and agin and again and again, I did it 10x just to make sure. It showed once out of ten 203 lbs. Well, I’ll take the extra ½ pound and be very happy!!
Starting weight: 213lbs (Jan. 1st)
209 lbs (Jan. 8th)
Current weight: 203.5 lbs
Goal: 165 lbs by the end of the year.
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I lost 5 ½ pounds this past week and a Total of 9 ½ pounds!
That was so very unexpected. I also know not to expect too much next week. It will slow down if not stall at some point.
But for now, I am TAKING IT!!!! Yeah!!

Here are some highlights of what's been going on in the past few days:
or go to my journal on i-village to get all the details, but who has time??:)(I went back to get support during the battle of the buldge)
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-fbilose&msg=287.1&x=y

Jan.7th:
If I could cut out the sweets I would cut down on 500-600 calories a day. WOW that's a lot. Especially since I mostly consume them in the later pm hours.
I am out of the Lindt truffles. DH is out of White Oreos, I also have no more licorice. My supplies are dwindeling down. I haven't bought icecream in almost 3 weeks and I may not again for a while.


January 8th:
Wow, I lost 4 pounds.
I didn't expect that at all. I was hoping for one. Especially with all the food I had this past week. I guess whatever I have been doing is working. I am certainly motivated to continue.
But FOUR POUNDS I am still blown away by that. It, can't be all water weight, can it?
Not with all the food I had and all the water I drank. But who cares!!
I lost FOUR pounds!!
and I am not hoping for the same next Monday! I take anything, but a gain!

January 9th
Just got back from my walk. I am so glad I went. I had that little monster sitting on my shoulder telling me I was too tired and maybe I should rest instead. Ha, I won, I went anyways, for about 70 minutes.

January 10th
Squeezing all this water into 1/2 a day is torture. Not so much the drinking, but the p&&ing part of it. Can't go anywhere unless I know for sure there is a bathroom near by.
Got to go:) Oye!! hope this will pass soon.
Later:I went for 60 minutes and it was 3.2 miles. I took the car afterwards to messure the distance

January 11th
Got up much earlier than usual today. And went to bed way late. So I am dragging a$$. Not very motivated to go walking. I don't like being tired. But the day isn't over yet. I'll get myself ready and run some errands. This may just motivate me enough to keep going, even if it may just be down to the mailbox.
Later:I think today was not so good of a day in general. I have been so tired. I can't function on 4 hours sleep.
I didn't walk today. I will have to make up for it on Sunday! I don't like making up, I like being ahead. Get it out of the way and be done with it, kwim?

Jan. 12 th:
Didn't sleep much, again. That really messes with my motivation.Once again I ended up not walking. There was so much going on around here all day long I didn't even get the chance to take a little snooze. Just 20 minutes would have done the trick to get me up and running somewhat normally again.Plus we went to have dinner at a friends's house. Of course I didn't know what they were cooking, so I kind of saved my calories for that.Had 3 bananas and 1 cup of strawberries throughout the day. Which was fine, even though I know not the best thing to do.

And how about this? They made chicken cordon bleu for dinner. They are themselves on the "Atkins". So only protein and some veggies for them and they made some rice for us and their daughter.

I think I did good eyeballing the amounts. I pretty much checked this day off as calories all being used up.

I am not sure if I will get to workout tomorrow. DH and I will have to carry 53 sheets of drywall upstairs and install however much we can get up. I might have to count that as my exercise. Not feeling to good about losing another potential workout day.

Jan. 13th:
Getting a really late start today. Didn't get out of bed until 11 am. didn't get to bed til 3am though. I had to make up for some I didn't have the 2 previous nights.
I am so not looking forward to slepping 53 sheets of drywall upstairs. And installing it to the ceiling. But there is no way around it. Hubby can't do this one on his own.

I am kinda worried about Mo. weigh in. Worried that I didn't lose any more or gained some back, because of the lack of exercise the last couple of days. Need to keep positive thoughts and reminding myself that I am not just sitting on my a$$ all day and eating bon bons. More later:

Later: Got myself up and decided to walk down to the mailbox (had to do at least what I promised myself to do).
Once I was down the hill I decided to do a little jogging. I figured let's see how am I doing? It's been forever, I used to run quiet a bit (as in 50 lbs ago)

I am pleased, I managed to jog without stopping for 11 minutes total. Not too bad, if I may say so, especially with the hills (0.8 miles, not a lot, but I DID IT:))

I ended up walking /jogging for a total of 30 minutes and I feel good about it. Almost as if I made up a little for slacking off the last 2 days.

January 14th
Waiting to get the HO2 out of my system, so I can go for my walk (maybe jog).
Later: WELL, I didn't go for a walk or jog!! BUT, I did 50 flights of stairs in my house, plus walking across part of the upstairs (40 feet back and forth) each time I got up there. It took me 22 minutes. My 3 dogs joined me. It was a little crowed, but I apprecciated the company. It certainly didn't get as boring as I thought it would. Ya know doing the same ol' thing over and over again isn't so motivating to start with.
"Thank you boys"!! They are all sleeping now. Even doggies get excausted:)
I worked up a good amount of sweat and a solid fat burning heartbeat. Great leg workout!! Is my butt going to hurt in the morning??

(BTW: my a$$ and legs are killing me:)