So... not gonna lie - I wasn't the best by far this weekend. But, I'm back today. I'm also starting to feel better healthwise so that is helping. I need to bust my butt to break even this week, probably, but I'll do it. Kinda bummed that I didn't get into the moscato I bought last night but I'll just leave it sealed for another time. I'm human --- I'm not perfect --- I fall down, but I get back up.
Just because I screwed up doesn't mean that I'm giving up on the program. I'm not!! It works. I know it does. And I'm sticking with it. I have less than 100 days til I meet my commitment goal. 2 days of screwing up (not full days) doesn't toss me out of the game. In the back of my mind I'm wondering if this will work kinda like calorie cycling where since I didn't eat great, if now that I'm back on track I'll see a big loss again. Probably not. But it makes you wonder.
So I had my mocha shake this morning and my protein chips. Gonna grab my zero cal Monster soon!
Hopefully I didn't disappoint anyone --- I know one person I probably I'm sure I did --- Kel! Sorry! But like I said, I'm not giving up at all!! <3
--Katie
This cold is taking it's toll. I know it's just a cold, but I think with this diet it's just totally draining me. Just feeling somewhat defeated. I just crave comfort foods and to feel better. Hopefully I'll be getting there soon!! C is doing better - so hopefully I'm next!! So I was going to wait until Wed to weigh but I wanted to make sure I wasn't gaining. Today I'm the same as on Wed so I'll take it. I also decided it was worth it to take dayquil today. I need some relief and don't want to totally annoy everyone at work.
Tomorrow I've got a craft show for Origami Owl -- hoping to sell a lot of my inventory, because...well...I have a LOT. LOL Need to scale back a bit and then get some of the new items :) And then get some parties booked!! And then we'll have game night which should be fun.
Okay - just a short update today cuz I'm not feeling it. lol TGIF!
--Katie
So this week wasn't so hot. I am down, so that is good. My ticker looks the same, but I am down a little under 2 lbs. Last week it rounded up on the ticker, and this week it didn't -- so there ya have it.
But I'm down a total of 17.6 lbs. since March 5th. I've also got a killer cold which isn't helping things at all. I know part of my anti-loss was the pizza the other day and then last night we went out to dinner to celebrate my hubs promotion. I did just get a salad with FF ranch, but did have some grilled chicken on it. Although I didn't eat a lot of it, it wasn't with the program and I'm sure it didn't help this morning. And just so you know, I did make good choices - I made them leave off the bacon (GASP!) and didn't eat the yummy bread and butter that came with it. I took the rest home, but I'm just going to have Steve have it one night.
Today on the menu is:
B: Mocha Shake
S: Butter Pecan Bar
L: Chik 'n' Fajita
S: Chocolate Pudding
D: Chocolate Shake
I'm gonna do better this week - gotta stay on track 100% and see at least 3 lbs. next week --- hopefully 5. Hopefully I'll start feeling better so I can start working out some too. Annnnnnnd just talking to Kelly - realizing that the dayquil and nyquil I'm taking isn't helping my weight I'm sure - duh, I'm taking the liquid and it has sugar in it! 19g?!!?!!!!!! WTF! Grrrrr!!! Okay okay.... that's all for now. Next week will be better guys!!!
--Kate
Phew - actually got some decent sleep last night!! Claire just woke up for 5 min which wasn't bad. Ahhh, I love my new bed. And I love nyquil. LOL
So yesterday was just about perfect. In the evening, I started getting queasy - so I did have an extra bar. But it's still a supplement, so that's not bad. I logged it and noted why I had it. I kinda wanted to weigh this morning, but opted not too. Probably for the best. I'm still worried about how that pizza will effect me. At this point, I might as well just wait til Wednesday and hope for a 3 lb loss this week. Fingers crossed.
I love that my pants are looser though and that I think this diet causes me to lose weight in different places than other diets I've done in the past. I'm guessing because you're in ketosis and burning stored fat. I like it. Normally my pants would fit the same and my bras would get baggy. I hope this keeps up and I can get into the mounds of size 18s I have at home. Sometimes I just feel cursed with a big butt and big stomach --- at least if I didn't have so much butt I could fit into smaller pants. HAHA
Oh well. It's all good. So no gym yet. I'm going to wait til I'm feeling a little better. Hopefully that will be soon. It's almost April - we shouldn't be getting colds!!
--Katie
Yep - I cheated. I couldn't take it anymore and needed to get it out of my system. Last night I ordered a thin crust pizza and enjoyed it thoroughly. I should probably feel worse than I do, but I don't. I think part of it was that I was really put off when I met with the exercise phisiologist on Thursday. I did ask about what if you were to cheat - like one meal in a month - would it totally screw you over. She kinda himmed and hawed (how do you even spell that?!) and so I threw in "What if I wanted to have pizza one night with my family?" And immediately it was like "No, not pizza - that would not be good...if you wanted to cheat, a better option would be 3 oz of chicken, or fish." Um lady - that's enough to just piss me off, that's not a cheat in my book (well it is - but so not worth it IMO). So then she proceeds to how when I transition to the mid or grocery plan I could talk about healthier alternatives to pizza - ummm - I don't want to hear that I can never have pizza again. This isn't helping things. lol
I should add in that earlier that day I watched my family eat some of the most delicious pizza ever - from Pias and I didn't have any. Didn't have any of their amazing good carby sourdough rolls either. OMGTHEY'RESOGOOD....I had a shake and some lettuce. lol I was just miserable yesterday. I was tired of feeling deprived. I was just crabby and it kept getting worse. I needed to feel like I had a choice. So I had a nice evening with my husband and C and we ate our thin crust pizza and watched Frozen. It was a great night.
Now if we could just get some sleep that would make things 10x better. Claire has been sick and not sleeping for crap - and so that means the rest of us aren't sleeping well either. I also caught whatever she has so that's no fun. Gonna make for a long day at work today - but hopefully catching up on things from Friday will help.
The rest of my weekend was good. I was good. And no worries, I'm on it today. I'm curious to see how this will affect me -- I weighed yesterday morning so we'll see. I've got my shakes and bar today. I'm gonna be perfect. As long as I'm feeling okay I'm going to try to get to the gym, but if my main goal is getting healthy and over this cold or whatever, so if I feel like I need rest more, I'm not going to beat myself up - but my eating WILL BE perfect.
Happy Monday Ya'll.
--Katie
Annnnnd...another 5 lbs down! Yes!!
As hard as this is, I do have to say it's worth it. Although it stinks a little completely sucks at time - at least it's doing something...I'm doing something! Luckily I have a great support system or else I'd be back to my old ways. So I haven't added in exercise yet. I still need to do that. Tomorrow I meet with the exercise physiologist so I can get her take on things. I just want to make sure that if there's exercises that I should or should not be doing that I'm following their guidelines.
I love seeing myself get closer to that halfway point on my ticker --- of course this is not my long term goal - but definitely my goal for this program at least. To see 235 will be a huge breaking point as I haven't been that "light" in years.... and 199... omygosh that will be incredible. I cannot tell you when I saw that last but I'm pretty sure it was before I was married!! We're getting there. Week by week....pound by pound....
I'm going to try to stay more positive this week....to keep seeing the good...not just the limitations or exclusions that I've placed on myself. Thanks for all your support!!
<3 Katie
I'm pretty tired this morning. C didn't sleep well, so that meant none of us slept well. Dontcha love how that goes?!!! Ugh!! Hopefully tonight will be better.
Yesterday was actually a really good day. Not gonna lie that my "chik 'n fajita" looked less than appetizing -- it looked down right disgusting - but it didn't taste bad. It wound up more like a soup. I don't know if that's what it was supposed to do, but whatever - it was edible. lol
Tomorrow I'll weigh and see where I am for week 2!!! I'm pretty excited. I'm still disappointed that I let myself get to where I was - but I am proud that I'm moving in the right direction. I know it'll be real once I start moving down and fitting into clothes that haven't fit. I cannot wait for that. Just a short post this morning....got lots of work to do :(
<3 Katie
