LizardAnn

Sorry for the gross-ness of the the title, but it’s what I’m wondering about…..here’s the story:

I got up and weighed myself this morning, and the scale read ZERO pounds lost!! I was quite a bit frustrated, because I have REALLY tried this week to watch my calories, I increased my exercise significantly, and I’ve been drinking 4 to 5 LITERS of water a day!! But not a single pound came off!!! I decided NOT to get too down on myself—- BUT I WOULD IF THIS CONTINUES NEXT WEEK AFTER ALL MY EFFORTS!!!!

Anyway, I did my exercises, ate breakfast, showered, and went to the bathroom–when I got out, I decided to confirm that I had lost nothing for the past week (why?? I have no idea…maybe to beat myself up a little bit more), got on the scale again, and lo, and behold, I had lost a pound!! Hence, the title…..

I’m recording the lower number on my weight ticker, and from now on, I’m not going to weigh myself on Monday mornings until AFTER I’ve had my morning visit to the loo! tee!hee!

Wow, it’s amazing how a day of rest helps your mind, body, and soul!!  I was SO sore and hurtin’ on Wednesday, although I kept plugging on and walked an hour that evening….and I was SO busy Thurs., that I didn’t have time to write here, although I did keep up with my food journal.  BUT  I felt so good this morning, I’m not hurting anywhere anymore….and when I made myself put on my exercise clothes and started thinking about the exercises I was going to do today, I actually got a twinge of excitement!  :)  Yes!  A strange thing, I know, but a good thing!

Now to conquer the rest of the day!!  Woo-Hoo!  I’m having to really fight the temptation to step on the scales…..I don’t know WHY I think I’ve lost any more, my pants are just as tight as before….but there’s that little voice of hope….”maybe, just maybe this time…..”

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!  TGIF!!  

That’s pretty much all I can think about today!  Owwwww, I’m in pain…..I can barely even sit on the toilet, my muscles are hurtin’ so much!  Think about a 100-year old woman getting around, in and out of chairs, bending down oh-so-slowly to pick up something on the floor…..that’s ME right now!  LOL!  I have to laugh, because it’s all due to the exercising I’m doing….these muscles obviously haven’t worked this hard in a LONG time!  tee!hee!

Sunday, an hour of walking, Monday, a great exercise DVD, Tuesday, my Fluidity bar, and today, another hour of walking…..Thank goodness I won’t have ANY time tomorrow to work in any exercise, because my body needs LOTS of Ibuprofen and rest!!

So even tho’ I’m in pain, it’s one of those good kinds of pain, one that I know will make a difference in me, so I’m gonna take it and smile! 

Gettin’ ready for bed, so good night, everyone, and have a good tomorrow!!

Yay!  After almost a week of clouds and rain….blue skies and SUNSHINE!!  Made me very happy! And I did real well today…..only 2 oatmeal raisin cookies as my sweets (although I will confess they were BIG!)….until dinner…….

Duh-Duh-Duh-DUUUHHHHH! (Think Beethoven’s 5th!)  FRIED CATFISH AND HUSHPUPPIES!!!! Oh, it’s been SO long since we’ve had it—Emily had a late soccer game, and it was too late to go home to cook, so I went by Catfish John’s for carry-out….Yum!

I did okay portion-wise on the beans, coleslaw, and fillets, but OH!  Those WONDERFUL hush puppies!  Kinda overdid it there….I ate five…..but they just melted in my mouth!

Surprisingly, when I entered everything in my food journal, come to find out I didn’t do so bad after all, overall for the day…..all because I DIDN’T eat all the crap all day, I didn’t snack on all those empty calories.

BUT I think I’ll still REALLY watch for the rest of the week, and try to get in an extra workout (or 2!), just in case those hush puppies decide they want to spend some time on my hips!

Got on the scale this morning…TWICE….the first time I had lost a pound, and I was a little disappointed.  I had a bit of a migraine, so I went back to bed and slept.  Next time I got up, I had lost ANOTHER pound!!!!  Isn’t that strange????  Wish it was really that easy!!

We’re being inundated by rain around here, tornado watches/warnings, flood warnings, etc., (5th or 6th day of it, I’ve lost track!), so no walking AGAIN for me today…BUT after my 2nd snooze this A.M., I got up and did an exercise video I like.

Made me feel like I really accomplished something this morning!  And somehow, because of the more intense workout (maybe??), I didn’t feel like snacking SO much today.  Somehow, I just didn’t do it….even though I was tempted by those orange-pineapple sandwich cookies!!!

Hope this keeps up….we’ll just have to see how things go from here, but if I can at least lose a pound a week, I’ll definitely be going to Disney World @ my goal weight!  Woo-Hoo!

Just a quickie post before I go to bed…rain AGAIN today, but I actually got in an hour of walking: during my youngest child’s baton lesson, I walked around inside the facility.  I’m hoping that between the walking and the 5 liters of water I drank today, it’ll offset the FOUR BIG Pillsbury Ready-to-Bake cookies I ate tonight @ our Church Community Group meeting.  :(  And I was doing so well today, too……

Weighing in tomorrow…..hope SOMETHING has come off, because my pants feel just as tight as they did when I started this a week ago.

(Positive thoughts, positive thoughts, positive thoughts…….) 

UGH!  No walking for me again this morning….I’ll be glad when all this rain moves on and I can get back outside!

I was SO busy yesterday, and didn’t eat too badly choice-wise, but portion-wise I coulda done a lot better…BUT because I was so busy, I didn’t have a single moment to SNACK (mainly because I wasn’t home to graze!)!  I only had my 3 square-meals, plus my water!

I was SO tired after yesterday, though, that I went to bed @ 9:30pm, and didn’t move until 8:30 this morning!  Boy, do I feel refreshed!  :)  I guess my body really needed that!

I’m trying NOT to step on the scale until Monday, but I really wanting to see if I’m losing any weight….I will be patient, tho, in an impatient way! tee!hee! I will be VERY disappointed if I haven’t even lost one pound, since I’m really trying……We’ll see on Monday, won’t we??

Have a wonderful weekend, everybody!

That’s how I’m feeling this morning…I didn’t get to exercise yesterday: worked ALL DAY (8A-6P), and by the time I got home, cooked dinner, and ate, it was too dark & too stormy to walk, and doggone it, I was just too tired!

Still too yucky to go out this morning, and I have WAY too much to do today anyway!!  I KNOW I have to get in my time for exercise, but WHERE???  And yes, I know that I’m sounding like I’m just not trying to FIND/MAKE the time, but my life is way too busy to exercise more than 2-3 times a week, and that’s just not enough to get this weight off of me.  It’s already almost 9am, and I still have to shower, dress, etc., then do my list of a million errands–it’ll be 8 o’clock tonight before I’m done (REALLY!!), and again, I’ll be too tired.

Okay, enough of that…I’ll try to stay more focused on eating less today, drinking my water, and maybe this weekend I can get in some exercise….maybe make up for missing time this week.

Ugh!  I’m still mad @ myself for eating all those little Easter candies late yesterday afternoon and into the evening….I had to estimate in my food journal what I’d eaten, and up until that point, I had been doing real well! Who knew those little chocolate Easter Bunnies were so Evil!  tee!hee!  I know one of my weak times is late afternoon/evening, but I’ve never really ever figured out just how to get through it….drinking water doesn’t help, and  snacking on raw veggies just doesn’t cut it (or appeal to me, either–not a veggie person).

I gotta work today and tomorrow, so let’s see WHEN I’m gonna be able to fit in some exercise…if I do, it’ll be a plus to this day! 

Well, I got up this morning and walked….and although it was SOOOoooo cold, it really felt good to do it—I think this program is really going to help me…..I have to actually THINK about what I’m going to put into my mouth to record it in my journal, so do I really want to put down that i ate that Reese’s peanut butter egg???  I know I won’t be perfect–there’s only one who is!–but this will help me stay accountable….I HOPE!