Hi Jim, its great to hear from you. welcome back!!we really liked October even though it was mostly April Addicts and we already knew lots of people all ready.. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we go again next year.. I got back on the horse pretty quick but honestly struggling with my food.. i have been pretty low carb for quite some time and having them at Christmas has me craving them big time. I just know that its takes a few good consistent days in a row to get past it.. so.. after NYE! ill be more strict.. i hope to see that scale go down very soon..
Monique, this is really the worst time of year for trying to lose weight.. every day is a new day, forget what you did yesterday and make a commitment to tomorrow!..I always break it down.. I tell myself that tomorrow I will stay on program all day.. and when I do I feel really proud of myself.. one day at a time!!:sunny:
I start slowly on te eating thing other wise your diet WILL crash. If you are used to eating carbs and don't want to. Pick a certian type of food and take that one away from your diet.(i.e., Spaghetti... ok no more dishes with noodles.; or after meal deserts... cut them down from what you're at down by 1/2 for a week and the 1/2 again the next or if you can the cut it out). It takes 8 weeks to develop good eating patterns to where as such that you don't "want" or "need". But it takes 1 week or less to ruin that by eating what you want. So don't let the hard work go to waste. Know you can indulge while on a diet but don't crash like we all did at the holidays! My problem is that our house has so many effin cookies here right now it looks like a keebler tree house! I think I am gonna be bringing all the rest of these things to work to get them outta here.
My husband and kids are out of town until tomorrow and I've been cleaning out the pantry of anything that tempts me that is unhealthy! Since I do the grocery shopping, it falls on me. The rest of my family members actually crave healthier food than I do, for the most part. So, I need to focus on that!
Well worked out and ate good. It's a good start to the day. My diet is back in my phone and gonna work it twice a day until we go too. So off to my second work out. Shopping West Edmonton Mall. That should be good for 500 claories. Nah gonna do more later, shopping is to fun to be excerise.
So last night I weighed myself and was excited to see that I was down nearly 5 lbs. Well this morning I wanted to get that "First of the morning, after pee, but before breakfast" weight. I moved the scale away from the window a few feet and it said that I was 7 lbs heavier than I was the night before. Mind you, I only weighed myself and went directly to bed. I'm SOOOO sad because I've been working out pretty hard and don't know whether I'm producing any results! Thank God I've been measuring myself because I'll have to do it the old fashion way tomorrow morning and see if I've lost anything. I'm guessing I need a new scale battery? idk... it's a decent scale! ahhh!! Driving me bonkers! lol I'm also going to try to switch to nothing but water for at least the next month and see if that helps. I'm not a big soda person but my family had a ton of soda for thanksgiving and christmas. I need to get away from the extra calories! We can do it!
story of my life.. lol i step on the scale and think.. yeah.. quick review on what I ate and think.. hmm that's doesn't seem right.. so i get on again and its up .. so i take the best 2 out of 3 weights.. haha! im not gonna worry till after NYE.. I mean.. how much can i eat in one day.. certainly not 15 lbs worth in one night.. hahah!
great job today Monique, do you track what you eat? I do every so often.. I pretty much know now what the calorie count and serving size is on most everything i eat..but the calories creep up really easy.. so you might want to try that as well for a while.. keep it up!!.. it will be worth it!
The scale can always be deceiving. It not only depends on what you have been eating and drinking but how much "waste" is stored in your system while it processes. Your colon/intestinal track alone can hold up to 15lbs of solid waste matter that is just clinging to the walls. everyone likes to see the result in the scale number but it doesn't always work. The measurements and your overall internal feeling is what matters. I had been shown that by a swim coach I had. He let us drink pop and work out and eat what we wanted. then made us crash diet. No carbs(only for big meets), no refined sugars, high protiens, balanced fruits and vegs... you would be AMAZED at how your body reacts and complies with getting away from the man made crap. When we stopped the soda, between losing the sugars and the extra calories alone, I dropped 5 lbs in 1 weeks and I had SEVERE headaches for a week straight, and I was only 17yrs old. Then after the headaches subsided from the loss of sugar, I was bouncing off the walls with energy, completing workout sets that we would have rivaled Olympic workouts and still energy to burn. The other thing is people forget that in order to get fat out of your system it doesn't sweat out... you HAVE TO pee it out. Your body burns the fat but the sweat is just your bodies water supply keeping you cooled down. the fat when burned warms up and enters the blood stream. from there if not processed it will just find its way to some other area of the body. You need to drink as much water as you can within 1 hr of completing a workout so that you will expel that burnt fat and keep drinking it throughout the day. Oh BTW... I got back up on the horse and that some bitch tried to kick me right off. 1 1/2 hrs on the elliptical yesterday along with 1 hr p90x
