Only lost 0.4 pounds at my weigh-in this morning, and that after much coaxing of the scale and checking several times while loafing around and not eating until I got a number that at least wasn’t a gain. I did some serious cheating last week, but it was all contained to about 3 identifiable meal-confined slip-ups.
Today’s been yet another Fresh Start Friday for me, and this week I’ll behave myself.
I bought 3 more sets of Grey’s Anatomy brand scrubs, so now I have enough skinny scrubs that I can stop wearing my baggy stuff to work and looking ridiculous.
OK, Saturday weigh in for me too. Not such a big loss this week but I am inching downwards.
I lost half a pound this week or 200g. Sigh… but it is still a downward trend and came from a week of careful (ish) dieting but almost no exercise because I was crazy busy and also had a cold and felt crappy tired for three of those days. So at least a tiny loss is something under those circumstances.
I have now lost a total of 3.4kg (7.5lbs) in three weeks so not bad all told but I have to try harder and MOVE this next week. Goal for mid december is to be at 70kg which is still 6kg away…
I’ve been out of town for a month, so I haven’t gone to weigh-in in a while. I’ll be weighing in Tuesday morning, and I suspect I’ll be down a little bit.
I do have a non-scale victory, though. When I was packing up I looked in a drawer that I hadn’t been using for years. It contained three pairs of pants that were eventually retired because they were too tight to be comfortable. On a whim I tried them on… and they all fit!
I love beer, except when trying to lose weight. Today was a perfect example of why I posted my questions about beer. I weighed in this morning at 200.8 pounds, that is up over 4 pounds from Friday! That should not be possible, right? That is 14,000 calorie GAIN. Now I drank a lot of beer on Saturday (bachelor party) but I also ate very little (to full from beer) but no way, no how 14,000 calorie increase to add 4 pounds.
My weight varies WILDLY throughout the day. At first, I thought it was just a freak occurrence, but once I’ve gotten to weigh myself regularly, I’ve found fluctuations as high as 5 pounds (from 177 one morning, to 182 the next) for a 24-hour period. My Wii Fit (which I’ve abandoned for more serious exercise, but has helped get me jump started on the health kick) says body weight fluctuates up to 2 pounds a day. I find that my body is much more extreme.
So, no, you certainly haven’t gained four pounds of fat weight. You may just be retaining more water, you may still have food/waste in your system, etc. Depending on how much beer you’ve consumed, you certainly could have gained a pound or so, but no way the four pounds are of real weight.
Just got angry with SparkPeople, again. There’s no Recipe Builder there. You can define a food grouping, sure, but that’s always for one serving. So I made a pot of soup this weekend–I just wanna enter the whole recipe, and say that it has so-many servings! Gaahhh!!!
Soooo… you are saying I can keep drinking beer, right?
I realize fluctuations happen but this pattern just repeats itself every week. Not as severe as last weekend usually but always that weight gain after the weekend. So by Friday I’m only back down to where I was before and then zip - right back up.
FYI - This morning’s weigh in was 199.0 so 24 hours, eating healthy, and hitting the gym yesterday got rid of 1.8 pounds of the weekend gain.
Yes, there is, SparkRecipes. Click on the Recipe Calculator and enter your ingredients and the number of servings and it will calculate the calorie count for you.
Then, you can save the recipe and choose to share it or keep it private. And it’s kind of small, but once you have the recipe pulled up, you can click on “Add recipe to menu planner” to get it into your Nutrition Tracker. That button is under the nutrition info on the right side of the recipe. Don’t forget to scroll to the bottom of the recipe…you get three points for making the meal!
I’m afraid that if you want to keep drinking beer every weekend, that’s what’s going to happen. I try not to drink every weekend, but when I do, I notice the exact same pattern. (Except this week, for some reason.) There are two issues at play. First, beer does have a lot of calories. Twelve ounces of light beer has over 100 calories. So if (like me), you’re having 7-10 beers (I like beer) that’s 700-1,000 calories above and beyond what you’ve already eaten that day. Secondly, alcohol dehydrates you and makes you retain water. Most of your post-weekend weight gain is probably water retention. Sometimes our bodies really like to hang onto that, and it can take almost the whole week to get rid of it. And, as you noted, by then it’s the weekend again. A lot of weight loss programs advise giving up alcohol, at least in the short term, when trying to lose weight. I think that’s good advice, but if you don’t want to quit (like me), I’d recommend at least cutting down a bit. And make sure you’re drinking plenty of water to combat the water retention!
Sparks and I went to the gym for the first time last night, and it was great. They have a Nautilus circuit which we worked through, then we tried out the treadmills. It ended up being a six-point workout, for me. Neat.
A weekend without beer… oh dear. I do the week without it, usually not a problem. Weekend? Hmmm… let’s see, this weekend is a wedding so that is probably going to be tough. Next weekend after that is a roving cocktail party in the neighborhood. Drats, this is going to require sacrifice. Haha.
Whooo, back from Europe over a month now and still haven’t lost any of the Austria weight (damn those enormous portions!). November is rally 'round the exercise DVD time (and with wifey taking a work sabbatical, I’ve got a walking buddy now, too). :crosses fingers:
Well, I am still sitting between 87-88kg. I’ve been less strict on the diet (more carbs) to give me a bit more energy for running/cycling/gym. Things are still toning up, and I am hoping that once that has occurred, a bit more weight will drop. My wife got me a winter training under shirt - a really, really close-fitting lycra-ish tee-shirt. It actually looks pretty impressive when on, but I need to lose a bit more round my belly.
Currently, my gym workouts are focussing on the current gym challenge: points for a top five finish doing 2 minute stints of pressups, crunches, tricep dips, burpees, rowing and treadmill. While not the fittest or strongest in the gym (by a long shot) I can achieve a top 5 placing on the rowing machine (580m) and treadmill (.5km). I fail completely at the others, so am working really hard at them, and have till the end of November to get into the points range. Not that I am competitive. I just think that it is remarkable that I have improved so much over a year to be even in the same range as the instructors and other guys.
Core just wasn’t working for me, this time around. Aside from weekend visits to relatives when it was impossible to follow, I’m now doing some heavy exercise and sitting bored at a desk all day. I was feeling tired, grumpy, desperate, and naughty. Often when I ate, I felt a “falling” sensation, as if the food I was eating just wasn’t giving me what I needed.
So, new plan. I’ve made up about fifty 300-calorie meals and will have five of them a day… six on post-workout days if I feel I really need it. I’m ecstatic. Bread! Cheese! Peanut butter! Crackers! Chocolate! Everything is possible and so far, the plan is supremely bearable. We’ll see if I continue to think that way.
And IvyLass… I planned those meals with SparkPeople. Now that I’m finding my way around, I’m starting to think it’s really cool. The “free” thing is particularly cool…
Also, Sparks and I joined a gym. Went for the second time last night. Nautilus Nitro Pro circuit plus 35 minutes of cardio–did 20 of them jogging and 15 walking at an incline, last night.
This morning, for the first time ever since I’ve known him, I weigh less than my husband.
I weighed in at 159 when I got up. He weighed in at 161.5 when he got up. Now, I was naked except for panties and he was wearing boxers and a cotton bathrobe so I guess we might actually weigh the same if you subtract but he assures me that his bathrobe doesn’t weigh 2.5 lbs and I’m just going to have to take his word on that.
So, I’ve reached a small goal. I weigh less than my husband. :D:D:D
I’ve had a marginal week on WW though. Don’t think I’ve dropped any weight at all. I may try core for a week or two and see how that feels.
I tried the new MGD 64 last night (mentioned by velvetjones upthread). It’s not what I’d call great beer by any means, but I must say, it’s not too bad. Of course, I’m a light beer drinker anyway, so it wasn’t too big of a change for me. It’s very light, with pretty much no aftertaste, and it didn’t make me sick (some beers are really naughty to my system). I definitely think I’ll drink it again.
OK, Saturday weigh in for me!
Last Saturday: 76.2kg (168lbs)
This Saturday: 75.0kg (165lbs)
So, a 1.2kg (2.6lb) weight loss this week and a total of 4.6kg (10lbs) since October 4th when I began! I am really thrilled as last week was only 200g down… HOWEVER… goal is 57kg which is a looooong way to go yet.
This week I paid more attention to getting moving though didn’t do anything too strenuous, and I even hit my kids’ Halloween stash a couple of times but in moderation.
I have also managed to get back into some jeans that were abandoned as impossible six month ago but we are talking severe muffin top and inability to sit comfortably so a bit more work required before I can wear them in public!!
