I seem to have plateaued a bit

My weight is stuck but I measured myself yesterday (found the book I'd written my measurements in) and I've lost 8 inches total, 3 on my tummy alone!  I was very happy!

This week I watched Biggest Loser and I was struck by how hard they work everyday at losing weight.  The night before weigh in some of them were up most of the night exercising.  While I think that is pretty extreme for normal life it did help me realize that I could be working a lot harder than I already am.  On BL they were working so hard that sweat was pouring off their face and they were crying because they weren't sure they could do even one more of whatever they were doing.  Then they pulled through and were able to do several more.  I'm breaking a sweat but it's not pouring off my face and I don't very often get to the point where I have to force myself to do just one more.

So I decided this week I was going to work harder.  I upped all of my reps and increased the time on all my workouts.   Now I'm up to exercising 1.5 to 2 hours.  I have to get up at 6 to do it but thats ok.  It has felt really good.   I've also been working harder on not eating crap and sticking to my plan.  I was doing fine until yesterday when we got valentines ready for a party today.  We had leftover candy and had a terrible time keeping them out of my mouth.  I told myself that two chocolate kisses wasn't going to hurt anything.  And it wouldn't have if I'd been able to stop after that.  That two turned into more like 2 handfuls!  LOL  Sigh, oh well.  

Tonight hubby and I are ditching the kids and then spending the night at home with just the two of us.  We had planned on spending the whole weekend at a hotel but we didn't get our taxes filed in time so we have to do it on the cheap.  Thats ok.  No kids is a vacation in itself!  I've been telling myself that Valentines weekend was going to be one of my splurges.  For just the next two days I'm going to eat anything I want and not worry about how much I will gain.  Hopefully my hard work from this week will pay off and it won't effect me too much.

Official Weigh In

So, here it is, the big weigh in.  I was much lower than I imagined I would be.  My dd was holding the tube of toothpaste,  I couldn't figure out any other way to get it in the pic of the wii weight page.  So, I went from 160.9 to 151.2, a difference of 9.7!  Yay!

I wanted to do measurements but my Palm Pilot is having issues and that is where I stored all my previous measurements so I don't have anything to compare them to.  I will still measure today and will post the differences some day when I figure out to fix my Palm.

So, yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what happened

With the wii fit board it comes with little attachments if you use it on carpet. I weighed myself with them on and then took them off and it makes about a 5 lb difference so I think I must have weighed myself a few times with them off. So going from my starting weight I've lost a total of 5 lbs which still feels pretty good.

The bad news is that I haven't exercised for two days. I started a new medicine Monday that is giving me insomnia really bad. Monday night I slept about 4 hours and last night I slept about 6. Hopefully tonight will be better. I will definitely be getting back on the wagon tomorrow. I just feel so much better on the days I've exercised.

When I went to lunch today I got a turkey club without the bacon and mayo on whole wheat so I think I did ok.

I think I know what happened

I don't want to say yet but it means I never lost 10 lbs to begin with, which is good because it also means I didn't gain 7 lbs in one day! LOL Anyway, I will test my theory tomorrow and tell you if it worked.

So I kinda took a break over the weekend. I still worked out Saturday but didn't think much about eating either day. Weighed this morning and had still lost 1.7 so thats good. Last night was my bro's bday so I ate a piece of cake and some icecream. No biggie. It's the everyday eating that concerns me.

So....this week I have a girls lunch out and a midwife friend is taking me to dinner. What are good choices at Olive Garden? I'm going to lunch with friends that have had weight problems in the past and have lost a bunch of weight so I'm planning on asking them to help me make good choices. Both of them are so beautiful and huge inspirations to me!

Someone asked what kind of midwife was I becoming. I'm going to be a CPM and do homebirths.

Frustrated

I've gained 6 lbs back. I'm not quite sure why. It happened on Wednesday and I can't get it to budge. The only thing I can think of is that I skipped lunch on Tuesday. I had an unexpected visitor, we'd been invited to go swimming so I was looking through storage to find swim suits, when I got to the pool I realized that I had never eaten. I ended up eating way more than I would have normally when I got home because I was so hungry. BUT I've maintained the inches lost, actually lost more. I just don't get it.

So.... maybe my body thought I was trying to starve it and wants to hang on to every bit of food that it can.....maybe it's a combination of that and muscle increase.....maybe I lost the first 10 lbs too fast, I've been worried about that....maybe I'm a failure and just can't do anything right.....who knows. It's been really hard to not give up. I just have to keep telling myself that eventually it will go down again and I need to be patient.

I increased my exercise Thursday and today to about an hour and 15 min. I'll repeat that tomorrow and then Monday I want to get up earlier and do an hour and a half. It's not all aerobics. It's part yoga, part strength training, part aerobics. The increase will be just in the aerobics area.

I never did start keeping track of my calories and fat. I might have to start following recipes that have the info listed. It's just very time consuming for me to figure out what each individual ingredient is, add it all together, divide it by the number of servings we might get out of it and then figure out how much I will eat. I just don't have the time. Maybe some day I will figure out what all our favorites are and go from there. Until then I don't know what to do.

Just frustrated.

Feeling normal again

Family is better too except my 16 yo. I think he's going to need a Dr also.

Weekly update- I exercised 6 days last week, two days were light days while I was feeling crappy but at least I did something on those days! Weekend eating was not great but we were 4 hours at a meeting and starved when we got done so we stopped at Wendy's. Trying to balance the eating good and staying within our budget I had a $1 chicken sandwich. I have no idea how much fat and calories they have so..... yeah, there ya go. It's also really hard to curb the snacking while dh is home. Almonds are good for me but too many is not! LOL

The good news is...... I lost 4 lbs. A total of 10 lbs! Awesome. I also measured myself yesterday. I've lost at least an inch off my waist, hips and thighs! I'm very happy! I put a skirt on yesterday that I haven't been able to get buttoned before now. I got it buttoned!

My goal for this week is to write down everything. I need to know for sure how many fat grams and calories I eat mostly because what you don't know CAN hurt you. It would also be nice to have a report for my Dr when I go see him about my cholesterol next Monday.

Feeling better

I finally gave in yesterday and went to the dr. I started getting worried because the infection was spreading to my chest. One of my biggest fears from getting the blood clot in my lung is pneumonia so I decided I'd waited long enough and got an antibiotic. I can already tell a difference this morning. Tomorrow I should be nearly back to normal.

My good news is that yesterday I finally had a good eating day. I got in about 5 servings of whole grains, 3 veggies and 4 fruits plus lots of water. Yay me! As soon as baby girl goes back to sleep (she was up at 6:00. Usually she sleeps until 10) I will finally be able to get in a full workout.