Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Wednesday 1/23

Good morning!

Today's weight is...well who knows. I am now on prednisone for my poison ivy (I could not get it cleared up on my own) and I know from experience that I will pack on the pounds and fluid, as much as 10 lbs total from both though the fluid will drop right back off as soon as I stop the medication. So: I will not weigh until 5 days after I stop taking the prednisone. Watch this space on February 6th.

In the meantime, I'll continue to track my eating and maintain my calories, protein, etc. I suppose it's too much to hope that I'll get back up to 140 due to the prednisone and then be able hold it, but where there's life, there's hope. Looked at myself in the mirror at the doctor's and really did not like what I saw. I looked scrawny.

120.8
I managed to stay away from any junkfood yesterday. I had allowed myself a treat here and there and I was averaging 2 pounds higher. Yesterday was low carb-just the way I got below goal.

Woke up 2 pounds lighter!

Wouldn't life be great if we could pick our perfect weight and never have to think about it ever again!

Are you still going to start the thread Mom?  We would miss you if you didn't (for those of us who don't adapt to change very well :-)).

163.2 today.  Snowing and cold here.  About the same temperature as yesterday at 3 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sure will. Just not posting a weight. I once went on a 30 day scale boycott and posted every day, so I can do this one too.

Mom - take care of yourself. You seem to have the right approach to the situation. 

156.8 today. Struggling a bit to discover how maintenance will work for me. 

Judy

Mom, I agree with Jane - I hope you're still going to check in daily, even though you won't be weighing!

180.5 this morning. I freaked at first, but realized that I hadn't had my daily constitutional as yet, which is typically good for a pound or more, lol! I also ate high sodium foods yesterday, which doesn't help. My blood pressure at the dentist's in the afternoon was ok, but a bit higher than I normally run, so the extra sodium was not helping. I also find, for some reason, that the morning after dance class I tend to be a bit higher, then it drops by the next day. So to make a long story even longer, I'm not going to worry.

179.4

 

Good luck with the Poison Ivy!

The poison ivy will be fine. I've had to take prednisone for it before and it always kicks it in the butt. Now it's just surviving the side effects of the prednisone - moodiness, weight gain and bloating.

I would do the same if I had to take prednisone.  I hope you get better soon.

105.4 today.  I was a pound lighter yesterday, I blame it on Alan and the taste testing he is having me do for the Super Bowl party.  I have to remember to start saying "no".  :)