Friday, February 26

126.6 today. I didn't go down in calories yesterday but will try today. I did however get 60 minutes of exercise in which was good. My son had his counselor's appt. and it went fine. Overall he seems to be doing better. When I mentioned that to him he said he "ever hear of fake it til' you make it?, Well, that's what I'm doing". He is attending school and the outbursts have stopped so I do believe things are looking up even though he might not feel it at this point.

Work today - have to be there at 6:30 am which is why I am here so early. Going to try a new Thai place tonight for dinner. Busy weekend with Winterfest dance at the High School. Middle son likes to hosts the pre-dance parties so we will have 15 or so kids over for appetizers, games and pictures before they go out to eat! Church on Sunday as usual!

Paula

Good morning all,

149.7 up 1.3 today. My body just does not want to give this weight up. I must admit I am getting very frustrated and may need to rethink the stepping on the scale everyday and focus soley on keeping my food clean and exercise. That is what I did loosing the 200lbs in the first place. As long as I do what is right the scale will move. However, this updown updown for the past three weeks is starting to play with my head. Today I am already struggling with the WTF I might as well have XYZ. I know my food is bang on and my exercise is good as well. Yesterday was 45 minutes of weights along with 20 floors on the stairmaster and then later a 4K run at a good speed and incline. I am working out at least six times a week and sometimes more. I am fortunate that I can go to the gym on my lunch break and then I again meet hubby after work at the Y. 

Food is over 90 grms protein

Under 40 grms carbs (only clean veggies and fruit) except for my once a week treat of good chocolate not more that 150 calories worth

Under 1000 calories a day (most days closer to 800 to 900)

Fat not over 40 grms (nuts, avocodo etc)

Anyway sorry for the rant, hope you guys all have a wonderful day and keep doing what you are doing - you are guarding your skinny!  Good Job!!!

Hugs Lorna

Lorna, you are doing so very well!!!!!  Your strength (physical and mental) inspires me!  

Only you can decide if not weighing daily makes sense for you. 

But, let me overlay my own demons over your current head games.  A couple of driving reasons I chose to join this group is that I knew that

1) I was going to do maintenance different this time so I get a different result 

2) Daily weighing is a must.  I must stay present.  I must acquire scale zen when scale is being stupid. 

For me, the WTF feeling--I'm not going to weigh today,  is the first step of my disordered mind wanting to go ostrich.  And once I go ostrich, weight gain, runaway gain! follows fast.   And Lordy, can my mind rationalize not weighing!  Most currently, every day I have the wrap on I think what's the point of weighing when it is a false reading with this wrap on.  Every. Single. Day. 

So, tread carefully, my friend.  Even before I read your post I was thinking that if I should ever decide not to weigh,  I would need to post my eats for the day, just like you did above. 

Sometimes the scale is the devil trying to knock us off our path!  I also know when I should ignore the scale, but it is so much easier said than done.  It will move, you will win.  Just keep swimming.

You're doing everything right Lorna and the scale will reward you for it. It always does. I suspect it's your exercise regime that makes the numbers fluctuate - to be expected!

Hugs! I so get where you are today! 

Here's a little anecdotal story for you to consider:

Every Friday at 4:30 I work out with my trainer. Every Friday he gives me a new workout routine for the upcoming week. Every Saturday and Sunday no matter how cleanly I ate my weight would be up 1 to 2 pounds. By Saturday late afternoon the soreness would set in. By the following Tuesday my weight would usually be lower than it was on Friday morning. This scenario repeated itself over and over again for many months. It was not until I was pushing my workouts again regularly during the entire week that the Saturday automatic weight gain stopped. 

Anyhow, something to think about. I'm guessing your weight is highly influenced by muscle repair right now. 

Wow Lorna, I can see why you would be frustrated. Your eating and exercise plan is excellent, if not a bit too restrictive for the amount of exercise you are doing. I think you are wise to not weight every day.

Good Morning Motivated Mindsets !!

     It seems like all of us are experiencing how critical and tenuous "having our head in the game" can be.  Why is it that when losing tenths of a pound, it seems so slow and when the trend is upward, it seems to leap and jump ?  Why do those up-down-up-down patterns take so much wind out of our sails when the overall trend is actually downward ?  It is hard not to let maintenance challenges "mess with our heads" because that is all many of us know. Those old tapes have insulated and protected us for a long time.  Staying the course, powering through, making the next good choice and keeping our eyes on the prize are things worth joining Paula's son in "faking it until we make it" (i.e. What would someone successfully maintaining do ?).  Initially losing weight comes with lots of instant gratification.. maintaining forces us focus on how today contributes to a long term goal of healthy habits.  Mary, you are right ..everyone IS working it, and it IS a journey, not a race.

     134.6 today.  Yes, Monday I was 131 something.  Yes, the old experiences and tapes make 134.6 seem bigger than a bus in comparison, but I am successfully maintaining at my lower red line, so I'll do a happy dance until that sinks in.

Journey on !!!

Diane - you are so right - Journey on!!!! Thank you for your posting today! I really needed to hear it!  This group of Skinny friends is amazing; I can't believe it took me so long to join in with your guys! ****y I think would be the word of the day where that was concerned. I was now somehow magically normal Ba ha ha ha!

Those flucutations are what I need to get my mind wrapped around as being ok!  You got this Diane!

Hugs Lorna

You're right on track Gurl!