I get knocked down, but I get up again

Harder to stick to this go-round

my3sons — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:52:06 +0000

I was really awful about my eating by the third day of vacation, and I didn’t do anything about it until a week after we got home, so I definitely needed to redo P1 to ditch the cravings again. It’s been a lot more of a challenge to stick to it this time, though. I’m having to really watch myself, and I’ve spent a good amount of time having to convince myself that I really don’t want to ren out to Brusters for cake batter ice cream (and other equally bad stuff).

Last week: 207 This week: 203

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my3sons — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:51:00 +0000

I was so not good on vacation - and the whole first week back home; I gained 4 pounds.

Back on track now, though.

CW: 207

I’m such a dip sometimes

my3sons — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:13:36 +0000

I got a little upset this morning when I stepped on the scale and it was 202.5 - meaning I had only lost a half pound since the last time! What I had forgotten was that the “last time” I weighed was just a couple of days ago - not a week ago; my actual weekly loss was 2 pounds; reason number 38 why I need to weigh-in only once per week - my memory’s too bad to do it more often! lol

SW: 209 CW: 202.5 Weekly loss: 2 pounds Total loss: 6.5

A post a long time in the making

my3sons — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:33:25 +0000

I have looked forward to being able to write this for a long time. I know it isn’t my “official” weigh-in day, but I knew I was getting really close, so I took a peek at the scale.

203

That means I’ve met my first mini-goal to lose 10% of my starting weight. I’m probably going to be walking around with a HUGE smile on my face and a bounce in my step for the rest of the day.

Phase 1 is DONE

my3sons — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:33:03 +0000

Sooooo…. I “officially” finished Phase 1 as of last night, and I didn’t do too badly; I didn’t lose nearly as much as I did the first time I did SBD, but I did have that cheat meal at the reunion last Saturday. I will add back a bowl of oatmeal or a serving of brown rice for the next week then I’ll redo a week of Phase 1 since I want to get as low as I possibly (and healthily) can before vacation.

The numbers:

SW: 209 CW: 204.5 2 week loss: 4.5 pounds

Decisions, decisions

my3sons — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:15:55 +0000

I did end up having a cheat meal at the reunion Saturday, but I at least tried to mostly fill my plate with green beans and peas. I also went right back to P1 after we left.

This Thursday is my last “official” day on P1, and I’m trying to decide what to do; we leave for vacation on 6/21, and I’d really like to get down as much as possible before then, but I don’t want to burn myself out by staying on P1 too long. I think what I’m going to try is to move on to P2 on Friday by adding in steel cut oats - probably for an evening snack since I get nauseated if I eat less than 2 hours after getting up - and do P2 for a week. The following week (the week before we leave) I’ll drop back and do one more week of P1. P1 restrictions have never really bothered me, but it is possible to get burned out, thus the P2 week in between.

I’ve also decided that, while I don’t plan to go overboard, I’m not going to try to stay strictly on-plan while on vacation. For one thing, we’re going with 5 other people (one of whom will do most of the cooking and paying for the food), and I’m not going to “burden” her with having to cater to my dietary restrictions. For another thing, I tend to be very active while on vacation and do a WHOLE lot of walking every day; 99% of the time I lose weight on vacation even when I pay no attention at all to what I’m eating. Once I get home I’ll do another week of P1.

1 down; 1 to go

my3sons — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:26:28 +0000

Week one of phase 1 is ovah! I stayed totally on plan - not even a single slip-up, so I’m very pleased with how I did. I didn’t lose much weight at all, but my period will start within the next day or so, and I always put on at least 3 pounds during the week before, so the fact that I lost ANY instead of putting it on like usual is a good thing; I’m hoping that next Friday’s weigh-in will be heaps better.

Tomorrow is dh’s family reunion, and anyone who has ever been to a Southern family reunion knows that there isn’t anything served that could remotely be considered healthy or SBD friendly. I’ve racked my brain trying to come up with something I could take that I could eat while staying on-plan while it still being palatable to everyone else there, but I’ve come up empty. I think I will allow myself a small cheat instead - I’ll just eat what’s there but try to stick to small portions of the least unhealthy stuff (green beans, peas, meatloaf instead of fried chicken, etc) and skip the deserts entirely - I can have a SBD desert when I get home. I’ll be right back on plan Sunday, so hopefully it won’t do too much damage.

BTW - I find it completely unfair (and rather irritating) that I’m working this hard and it’s coming off agonizingly slooooooowly, but my husband can just cut down to medium portions of junk instead of large and the weight just melts off.

Ok - for the numbers:

SW (this time) 209 CW 207 Total loss (this time) 2 pounds

Low blow

my3sons — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:00 +0000

My MIL brought Burger King for everyone. I was good and had none of it. I might cry, though - it smells sooooo good.

Goals for the rest of the week

my3sons — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:54:21 +0000

aka: SBD phase 1, day 5

I got on the scale yesterday and weighed the exact same as I did on day 1; I KNOW better than to weigh more than weekly esp since this is pms week & I have all of that bloat to deal with. My three new goals between now & Friday are:

1. Stay on plan (which I have)

2. Increase water intake to combat retention - laying off the salt would help, too, but I know my limits lol

3. Stay OFF the danged scale until my weigh-in day (Friday)

SBD Phase 1, Day 1 redux

my3sons — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:36:22 +0000

I had my fill (I think) of watermelon yesterday, so my “official” SBD kickoff is today. My highest weight was actually 226, but since I’m starting SBD over again, I’m going to use my current weight as my starting weight for the purposes of keeping track on this blog.

SW: 209 (down 1.5 pounds from yesterday - probably all the watermelon lol)