Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad week! And I had just set a new goal, too! I haven’t exercised a lick, and I’ve been eating Valentine’s candy instead of meals. Not intentionally, it just happened that way. I did liberally share the chocolate with the girls, so most of what I ate was the fat free, sugary crap like gummy hearts and oversized conversation hearts, but bad, bad, bad.
Blah. I’m not being too hard on myself, but I am annoyed.
Fortunately, I haven’t gained any weight. This amazes me, but I’ll take it. So I’m still 218.5. It is my intention to kick by butt into gear this next week and do really well. The hard part is, I’m spending most of next week at my mom’s in Central Oregon. Vacations are never good for “diets”, but my mom eats healthy, and she has a treadmill now! Woo-hoo. So I have no excuse! The problem is that two of the four days I’ll be gone will be spent driving. You don’t burn many calories doing that, so my goal is to make sure I get treadmill time on both of my travel days. If I do it before I leave, both times, I’ll feel better and be more likely to get it in than if I wait and try to do it afterwards.
My body is doing way weird things right now. I think I might be premenstrual. First of all, I’ve been a bit snappy with family. Secondly, I’m literally BUSTING out of my bra. Hate it. Third, I feel puffy all over, and I’ve been unusually hungry for awhile now. No, I’m not pregnant. I think I’m just gearing up for a particularly hormonal cycle. I usually don’t have premenstrual symptoms, I’d say I only get this way, or some form of it, two to three times a year. Maybe eating all that blasted candy has magnified the situation. I feel yucky.
But we always try to end on a positive note over here, so while I totally sucked this week, and despite the fact that I’m going on vacation next week, I am optimistic that next week will be better.
(And I’m going to cheat here with some knitting content and tell you that I’ve started knitting my first pair of Koigu socks! I’m loving it. They are soooooooo pretty! This pair is for my Grandma, if she likes them, and I want one, too! I’ve finished the cuff to one, and am 2/3 done with the second cuff. Then I’ll move to one heel, then the other… one instep, then the other, etc. Soooooo much fun! Why did I think I don’t like socks?)
How was your week? I saw Miss Katie last night at knitting group, and although I didn’t notice, because I am lame, Julie brought to our attention that her (being Katie’s) jeans were practically falling off!!! Hooray for Katie! I’m so excited for you! You look lovely, girl. Keep it up. :-).
February 19th, 2005 at 12:23 am
Hi Laura,
I left work last Friday and suddenly realised I hadn’t emailed you. Sorry. I did read your update and the comments. Regarding your try to loose those pounds by your birthday (you are also a Taurus – mine is on the 17th but 10 years ahead of you) – it should be possible but I once experiences when trying to loose weight with a specific date in mind that I got nervous about it and came to an plateu. My advice would be to carry on as you are doing and not try and give you a set date. It reminds when I promised my son to give up smoking on a certain date and when that day came I wasn’t ready. I did stop a little time later and have not yet restarted.
To be very honest looking at your photos you look as if you have much less weight than you say you have. It must be the exercise~.
Anyway, regarding my weight, I am at loss as what to believe. I staretd a weightloss therapy locally with a therapist – it consists of electric acupuncture, hypnosis, homotherapy, … It is still early days and I have another one today. We are working around the background as to why I am depressed, overweight, etc. The reason why I chose this therapy is that my mind seems to go its own way whenever I wish to loose weigth… its like sabotage. Looking back I have been wanting to loose weight for 30 years out of my 40 and am at my heighest weight today. Its this contradiction that I am trying to get rid off. Sorry for long post.
February 19th, 2005 at 8:03 am
Thanks Laura, you’re such a sweetie! I was walking on air as I left last night after Julie said that… I was really motivated this morning when I went to work out, and then we took the boys down to the beach and we had a nice walk. It was so bitter cold, but absolutely beautiful out. Lots of people were walking their dogs and my son got to see a “choo-choo” go by and one of the ferries. He really enjoyed seeing the other kids flying kites, so I think we’re going to have to get one of those. 🙂
Well, my weigh-day is tomorrow but it looks like it will be somewhere around 168 which means I’ll have lost 3 lbs this week. Guess I’ll be going shopping for jeans sometime soon, huh? Or maybe I’ll wear those loose ones for a little while longer just to feel skinny!
February 19th, 2005 at 9:56 am
How did I do? Let’s see: the jeans that I bought when I lost weight two years’ ago are too tight, I didn’t exercise or increase my water intake this week, and I ate an entire jar of marshmallow creme by myself today. But, to end on a positive note, I am happy for the rest of you that are doing so well. I know I’ll hear even better things from you guys next week!
February 19th, 2005 at 10:40 am
Mmmmmmm, marshmallow creme! Oh, wait…. uh, sorry about that :-).
February 19th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
Hi Laura – It was you I saw at the knit shop today (we talked about blogs and knitting socks with Koigu…). I wondered to myself if you were Poor Miss Finch. I really like your blog too. It was nice meeting you. maybe I can drop in for knitting on Fridays sometime soon. Have fun with those socks. 🙂
February 19th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Despite my midterm on Monday, I got out of the house today and went to the park with friends and played frisbee. It’s a lot more of a workout than it sounds because we’re so bad that we spent all our time running after it! I know, that’s a pretty sad workout week, but I do a lot of walking ( I don’t have a car) so that’s got to count for something, right?
I still haven’t made a new dish, but this week I tried three new foods: guava juice, ika sushi and a semi gelatinous mango/coconut desert.
Next week I hope to report that I’ve gone to the gym and made a new delicious meal.
February 19th, 2005 at 10:38 pm
Hi Laura! Hmmm, my asthma seems to be doing better, but now I have a sore knee! I remember having trouble with a shopping cart on a slanted parking lot, and boom, the next day, stiff knee. But before that happened, I got two one hour workouts on the treadmill in this week. I sure hope this knee clears up soon, doggone it. We didn’t have any candy here, so that was not a problem, but we did go out to dinner and had bread and dessert with it, and I only drank water. But as usual, the scale isn’t moving much, if any. I know I sure feel like Alice in Wonderland. I keep making more effort as time goes on, but it seems all I am doing is keeping more weight off. In fact, I am so tired of it, that I have recently given up my ritual evening cup of ice cream. It used to be a bowl, and has been down to a cup for the past two or three years, but I guess I have to make more of an effort and just give it up entirely. I am not immobile with my knee, so perhaps I can just get in shorter workouts in between icing and stretching. Have fun at your mom’s and don’t forget to take a photo of her in her sweater!
February 20th, 2005 at 8:22 am
Hi Laura. I bet your right about the sugar…the combo of that and pms are probably the culprit of your mood and your bloating.
I’m still sweating away working out 5 days a week for at least 2 hrs a day. I’m doing good with food choices and have eliminated alcohol and coffee during the week…very tough for me. My hubby says he can really tell a difference…but the scales are not budging much. They show a 2 lb loss FINALLY which makes it 6 lbs since Jan 1. Another positive note is that I usually have terrible PMS and this month I didn’t even know it was coming until it was here…a very good thing 🙂
Enjoy your vacation!!