Weight Woes

I know I said I wouldn’t, but you knew that wouldn’t last didn’t you?  I have no self control.  I don’t weigh myself 12 times a day, but I do need to do it after I know I’ve been less than stellar.

Here’s the really bad thing.  I lost a lot of muscle.  :(  I hit the scales at 165.5.  That is half a pound from goal.  That is not right.  I lost muscle.  But I did lose fat as well.  I did BF and it was down to 30.9% I think.  Down a lot.  So honestly I may have been better than I thought.  I just feel like I’ve been constantly eating.  I may have, but it was spread out far enough and the portions are small.

We all know I can’t eat the really bad foods I want.  lol  No nacho’s, no pizza right from delivery or freezer even, I can’t even eat most chips I loved.  So I guess that may be helping?

So seeing what the weight was.  I got a hard 20 minutes of cardio on elliptical in and then stability weights.  I hit my abs hard.  I’m used to hitting abs with my clients now so it was really boring. 

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Ok, I know my next goal was to be 165, but I’m moving past that goal.  I keep tittering around that goal and it’s crap.  lol

My next incentive was my big lower back piece.  Hubby has decided to get his tattoo and he said we will both go in for them!  WOOHOO, I am so damn excited to see ink on him and get more ink on myself!  But that was my incentive for hitting 155.  That means that I need to lose 13 pounds.

He is on weightloss goals now as well so I know we can get only healthy stuff in the house and more workouts.  But 13 pounds for girls is much more.  Especially since he has more to lose than I do.  But that is sounding like excuses and it is.  If I stuck to it, I could hit it in no time.  I’m committed to keeping it off forever and not the quick fix this time.

But I do want that tatt!  I have wanted this tatt for over 3 years now.  I can’t wait to get it.  After that, the sky will be the limit.  I’d honestly have no problem tatting my whole body up.  I LOVE IT!

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K, maybe it’s a monthly weigh in if I’m luck.  lol  But I’m here so shhhh.  I was a little more excited this morning than I am this afternoon.  I weighed in this morning at 166 and was so excited that I had only 1 pound left to hit the first major goal.

But then we realized that the scale is off and it upped my weight to 167.  :(  RATS!  Ok, I’ll still take it, but I liked 1 pound much better.

I do have to say it’s exciting to see the scale jump around the 167-169 weight range when I move around on the scale.  Such a big difference mentally.

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Did you hear the scale.  That’s the sound of it bouncing all over the place again.  I’m so tired of being sick.  I have not worked out in almost 2 weeks.  I tried to last Sat. and literally almost threw up.  I couldn’t breath and I felt green.  It’s now Friday and I’m going to hit it good today for the first time in so long.

I’m still going to focus on the cardio and the jogging in particular.  We are doing the sound to narrows 12k on June 14th.  Plenty of time to get there.  I’m going to ease into my cardio today with hubby thankfully.  Do some light weights and lots of them and then hard on the abs.  I’ll hit abs again with my evening client.  The scale said 178.5 this afternoon. 

PS-quick update:  I wrote this post while at work with no internet access.  lol  I burned 450 calories on the elliptical and jogging.  We also did push ups on the bosu ball, dips on the bench and then leg lifts into hip raises and a set on the ab bench machine.  Just the basics today and it felt pretty good.

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Well the weight will start coming down here soon.  But it’s going too be muscle mass I’m losing.  :(  My allergies are so icky.  I just don’t want to do anything.  My stomache is icky from the drainage, my throat is all scratchy, my eyes are foggy and of course my head isn’t even attached.  My stomache was so icky this morning that I had to cancel my 7am appointment.  so didn’t want to do that.  For one thing I haven’t worked with her in almost a week and another it was time to repurchase sessions.  So now I am waiting until sat. for that check.  Anyway, you can see by my rambling that I’m just loopy.  lol

I didn’t get any more cardio in yesterday.  I will probably get on the bike today a lot.  This needs to clear up soon because I have a 12k to start
training for.  A client/friend and I are going to run it on June 14th.  The longest I’ve ever done is a 10k (6.2 miles) so this 12k (7.4 miles) is going
to be a serious challenge.  But we have time to get ready for it.  It’s going to get us outside running and it’s going to be awesome to have a running/training partner!  That will surely get the extra weight off of me.  I’ll be focusing on losing weight and hitting bench marks on the running.  No more heavy weights.

Now to just get these allergies out of the way so I can start the training!  Weigh in is supposed to be once a week, but I felt the need to get on there.  It’s 175.5.  That’s the highest I want it.  No more going back up and down from this point to 178.  I just have to get my butt up out of this chair and get it done.  No matter how I feel.

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Well I have been blogging, I just haven’t been posting them.  So sorry!  I blog at work on a notepad document and then transfer them over at later date.  I try to be good about it and do it every day or at least every other day, but alas, it’s been over a week now.  Serious OOOPPPPPS!

I’ve been doing so much better.  I have my food mostly in check.  I have cut my portions down and I am working on burning 500 calories a day.  It’s working because even when I’m putting on a couple of water pounds or a bad eating day, I’m still only weighing in at 178.  Not going back over that 180 again, that’s for sure.  WOOHOOO

Weigh in today is…176 and it’s the end of the day for me, I’m leaving the gym in just a minute.  So that means this morning I would have been on target with only 10 more pounds left to my goal!  This weigh in puts me at 11 pounds to my first goal.  Last time I was at 165 I was very happy there.  I plan on hitting there again and seeing if I want to go down from there or not.  11 pounds is so close!  And the awesome thing is, I did not do it by starving myself.  I have not deprived myself of anything at all, just cut my portions down to human size and getting my 4-5 meals back in a day.  Eating 2 times a day is so bad for the metabolism.

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Well I moved for over 150 calories 6 out of 7 days this week.  The 150 was only one day.  The other days were 300+ with yesterday being 507 calories burnt.  I closed out the week having burned an extra 2,200+ calories for the week.  Pretty darn good, I’m proud of myself.  Oh and the weight over the holidays?  I maintained.  But then this week I was down to 178.5.  Progress is there and that felt awesome.

My portions are back in control.  It’s so all about the portions.  I can eat just about anything as long as I keep the size down.  I haven’t been doing my late night eating either.  I guess it helps that I have to be in bed by 10 on most nights for early morning appointments.  Tonight was the first night I’ve had cheese and crackers in weeks.  I didn’t even enjoy them that much, I just needed a snack and that was about all there is.

My only worry about the weight loss is that I’m losing muscle.  I can’t lift right now because I hurt my arm.  It’s been two weeks since I’ve lifted and I know that I’ve lost muscle.  Next week I will at least hit my legs and see what I can do for upper body.  Maybe I can hit a few machines at least.  So I don’t have a lot of options for the muscle loss, I will just keep up with the cardio and do what I can.

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K, gotta keep track of where I’m at.  This will be embarrassing, but I have to do it.  Today I am weighing in at 180.5.  Holy crap I’m so mad at myself for doing this again.  But, it was the emotional eating and drinking I was doing.  You can’t drink an extra 600+ calories and not gain weight.  The morning coffees were stacking back up again also.  So I was probably taking in more like 1000 calories on some days from just drinks.  YIKES, get a grip and get control of it.

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