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Week in Review + Weigh In

By on September 20, 2010 in hcg, R2P2, running, Vibrams, weekend, weight

Happy Monday, friends.  Despite my extremely sore calves (hello running in VFFs & not stretching after!), I am as happy as a girl can be while saying goodbye to the weekend.  I am well-rested and for me, that is like being caffeinated for most people!

I am in a “boring” spell again, where all is well and each day/week is much like the last.  Workouts are good (but my trainer is going on vacay, boo for me, yay for her), eating is spot on, and the relationships in my life are on an even keel.  How often can you say that?!?

My weekend was wonderful!  For the first time in a while, I didn’t have much planned.  Saturday was a lazy day other than my short (2.2 miles) run in my Vibram FiveFingers.  I hadn’t run in them for about two weeks and I didn’t stretch afterward as well as I should have, so all day yesterday and into today, my calves are VERY sore.  I have heard that some people on HCG experience problems with muscle soreness and cramping and it seems to me that I do get more sore while on the Protocol than off, so I am going to talk to my ND today about some supplements (hello electrolytes!) to help with that.

Saturday night my hubs and I went out to a comedy show with my brother and his girlfriend – Arabs Gone Wild.  It was HIL.AR.I.OUS!!!  My family is of Lebanese descent and the show is joke after joke after story after story about Middle Eastern people and families that are funny to anyone, but especially funny to those who grew up in or with Middle Eastern families!  Seriously, go check out some You Tube clips from this show, it will make you chuckle.  My cheeks and abs are still sore from laughing so hard!  Here’s a photo of us at the show (I’m the second from the right):

Sunday hubs and I went for a nice walk in our neighborhood and otherwise vegged out at home together, which we don’t do nearly often enough.  I also, through the course of the weekend, cleaned the kitchen, did 3 loads of laundry, and cooked several healthy meals for us to nosh on throughout the week.

Weigh-In/HCG Update

So my general HCG update is that things are going well.  I only loaded/feasted for two days this time, and I’m not sure if that’s what caused me to feel more hungry than last time or not.  In any case, whatever the reason, my body has adjusted and settled into the “routine” of my daily injections and low calorie diet.  I stopped feeling hungry about two days ago and am experimenting with eating slightly more protein than the Protocol calls for (compensating for it calorie-wise by cutting out the bread sticks/Melba toast I’m allowed to have) and making sure to get as much fiber as I can on 500 calories/day.  My favorite foods this week have been homemade kafta, asparagus, and strawberries.

Here are some stats for you:

Round One Lowest Injection Weight: 217
Round Two Starting Weight: 220.4
Round Two Post-Loading Weight: 223.6
R2P2D5 (today) Weight: 211.4

I’m 11.4 pounds away from Onederland, people.  I am still trying to wrap my brain around that!

So there you have it – other than that last part, nothing too exciting or notable in my life.  Things are good, and calm.  And I’m happy.  How are you?

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Weekly Report

By on February 27, 2010 in Uncategorized

Well friends, it’s that time of week again.  Time to look back on the last seven days and see where I’ve been and plot out where I’m going.

First, though, don’t forget to enter my giveaway here!  The deadline to enter is 6pm on Wednesday.

Also, thanks to Cammy at the Tippy Toe Diet for the heads up on a tool I’m trying out this week – Tableizer!

Finally, please forgive me if I sound “off my game” today – I got bit by the latest bug going around and I feel like crap from the neck up!  I’ll be laying low as much as possible this weekend…the trick is figuring out how much is possible, since I have my nephew’s 3 year old birthday party today!

Without further ado, here are my numbers for the week:

Date Weekday Weight Exercise Calories Eaten Calories Burned Deficit
2/20/2010 Saturday 248.6 running -2461.00 3555 1094
2/21/2010 Sunday 250.2 walking/beach w/ kids -3103.00 3748 645
2/22/2010 Monday 252.4 strength training -1677.00 3049 1372
2/23/2010 Tuesday 249.4 off -2258.00 3025 767
2/24/2010 Wednesday 249.4 walking/play w/ kids -2232.00 3071 839
2/25/2010 Thursday 249.2 zumba -2157.00 3515 1358
2/26/2010 Friday 248.4 strength training -2713.00 3175 462

Something about the numbers isn’t adding up, folks.  Admittedly I’ve been struggling with my eating more the last couple of weeks, which has led to a decreased overall deficit.  But according to these numbers, I still had a weekly deficit of 6,537, which should have resulted in a loss of roughly 1.5-2 pounds.

I don’t think it’s the quality of the food I’m eating, either.  Here’s the nutritional rundown of what I’ve been eating:

A couple of high-fat days, but the equation should be calories in versus calories out equals weight loss.  So yeah, frustrated much?

That being said, I do have some work to do on the eating front.  I have struggled a lot lately with nighttime eating and I think it’s because I let my guard down and started eating in front of the TV again.  Once I start eating there (even if it’s my perfectly healthy, planned evening meal), there’s a part of me that wants to keep eating there.  Hence 1 ounce of cheese turns into 3 and I go from having a normal calorie day to a higher-calorie, high-fat day like yesterday.

So I’m adding one more promise to this week’s list: I’m going back to not eating in front of the TV.  I’ll take my meals sitting down at the kitchen table and remember to actually focus on what I’m eating and why.

In other words, less of this:

and more of this:

or this:

How about you?  How did your week ago?  Any victories or frustrations to share?

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Weekly Report

By on February 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

Whew, it’s been two weeks since I’ve had time made time to sit down and do my weekly report.  I’m happy to report that aside from the two evenings early this week where I made some poor choices, my eating has been spot on this week.  My workouts are also going well – Zumba Thursday night, a kick-a$$ weight training session last night, and today I’m going running.  In the 55+ degree, sunny Seattle weather, no less!  :)

I won’t make you wait for the weigh-in results – I’m up 1.0 to 248.6.  Here are this week’s weigh-ins, workouts, calories eaten, and calories burned:

My deficit for the week is over 7K calories, so I should have lost over 2 pounds.  Instead I’m up 1 pound, but I am not discouraged.  I know my body is changing – someone noticed yesterday that my arms are getting more toned, and I just bought a pair of jeans in a size smaller (18) than I’m mostly wearing now.  So I know my body is making progress and it will just take some time before that progress shows up on the scale.

You might have noticed two days where I didn’t weigh in – Sunday I wasn’t home so I couldn’t, and Thursday I forgot!  I also have two days (Saturday and Sunday) where I didn’t track my food.  I’m estimating I ate around 2,500 calories both days – they were higher than normal, but not outrageous.

Here’s my weekly progress chart from Sparkpeople:

For today I’ve got breakfast, lunch, and a snack tracked.  My husband and I are going out for a belated Valentine’s dinner tonight to a fabulous restaurant in Seattle called Osteria La Spiga – I’m super excited!  The food is excellent and they have a sampler menu where you get to try several of their dishes, which they serve with flights of wine.  I’m budgeting 1,500 calories for the meal but I think I can bring it in closer to 1,000 calories.  My husband will probably get the sampler, so I’ll get something else healthy and just try a few bites from his plate.  Gotta enjoy my wine, though!

What are y’all up to this weekend?  How did your week go?

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MIA, Mountains v. Molehills, and a Weekly Update

By on February 15, 2010 in Uncategorized

Hi, friends.  I’m so sorry I disappeared this weekend with no notice!  My plans for the weekend got turned upside down when, at the last minute, my brother-in-law decided to head up to Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands for his birthday weekend.  My parents still live up on Lopez (where I grew up), so we got up at the butt crack of dawn on Saturday to head up there, and did the same thing Sunday to get home in time for the hubby to make it to work for the day.

Here’s my update, in bullet-point format:

  • Saturday’s weigh-in: 248.6.  Not sure why I had a gain for the week, but I’m down today to 247.4 so all is well.
  • My workout Saturday included chasing kids and jumping on the trampoline with them.  Awesome!
  • I had a HORRIBLE eating day yesterday.  I don’t know why; there doesn’t seem to be an underlying reason as there often is.  I’m not beating myself up over it and I’m back on track today.  Sometimes a molehill is just a molehill, and I’m not turning this one into a mountain.
  • I’m still struggling a bit with my daily Beck habits, so I’m going to set some goals for myself this week (below).  I want to get these things to a point where they are truly a habit.
  • My workouts last week were AWESOME (no charts to share today, I’ll try to get them updated and share later this week)!  I’m planning another killer week workout-wise.

Goals for this week:

  • Review Advantages & Response cards 3 times per day – morning, lunch, and dinner.
  • Workout schedule: Monday strength; Tuesday cardio; Wednesday strength; Thursday Zumba; Friday strength; Saturday jogging (it’s supposed to be upper 50s and sunny this week, so I expect to get a few walks in, too).
  • Stick to calorie range (under 2K/day) every day, including Saturday and Sunday.  I don’t need to do this all the time (I can have one slightly higher day normally) but I want the discipline of doing this for a week.

What are your goals for the week?  How do you deal with a weekend that goes off-the-rails in terms of plans going out the window?

Congratulations again to Kat for winning the Complete Beck Diet for Life in my giveaway last week!  Don’t forget our book club is starting on Thursday, February 25, 2010.  Check back here, here, and here for more details and to join in the conversation about this book.  Your homework is posted here.

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Never Forget

By on February 10, 2010 in Uncategorized

A few housekeeping items first before we get to the “meat” of this post:

  1. If you’re interested in reading The Complete Beck Diet for Life and joining Scale Warfare, Bella, and me as we discuss the book and put it into practice, check out my first every giveaway post here, and leave a comment to enter!
  2. Yesterday was a much, much better day than the two previous days.  I read my response/advantages cards, spent 3 hours walking around the zoo with my sister, niece, and nephews, and did not eat anything after 8pm.  I stuck to my plan for the day and feel really good about that.
  3. Today’s weigh-in had me at 248.2, down 0.6 from yesterday but up 0.6 from Saturday’s low of 247.6.

Now, on to today’s “topic” – never forget.

I will never forget how I felt when I weighed nearly 300 pounds.  Do you remember how you felt at your heaviest and least healthy?  Here are some of the things I remember:

  • I got out of breath bending over to tie my shoes.
  • I couldn’t paint my own toenails without feeling like a contortionist.
  • No matter how many outfits I tried on, I didn’t feel like I looked beautiful.  Ever.
  • I couldn’t hike, dance, or play sports without feeling like a hot, sweaty mess who was about to keel over of a heart attack.
  • I was embarrassed of my lack of endurance when doing anything active with my friends.

I’ll also never forget the wonderful things that happened and feelings I experienced as I started to lose weight.  Here are a few more things I remember:

  • When I lost my first 60 pounds, my mom cried one day watching me run around with my niece.  She had wondered if she would ever see me with that kind of energy again.
  • My sister didn’t recognize me out jogging one day until she got close enough to realize it was me.
  • I quit sitting on the sidelines of life and took salsa lessons, which I’d wanted to do for.ev.er.  I had an absolute blast and discovered that I’m a pretty decent dancer!
  • I realized that I could do whatever I set my mind to.  I realized that the athlete within me had never died, just gone dormant for a while.  As I rediscovered my inner athlete, I discovered I was strong, balanced, competitive, and (dare I say it) even graceful.

When I contrast these memories and a million others, the start contrast between them really makes me think.  Do I want to go back to feeling the way I did at 300 pounds?  What a silly question – of course I don’t!  I love how much healthier, stronger, and more balanced I feel, both inside and out, now that I’ve lost a fair chunk of weight and live a much healthier weight.

The trick is in translating this desire to continue, this feeling of goodness and healthiness, into action when I am feeling tempted to make an unhealthy choice.  And that, I’ve learned, is where mindfulness comes in.  The reason I need to review my advantages/response cards daily?  To be mindful.  The reason I need to plan my food in advance and eat sitting down with my meal in front of me?  Mindfulness.

For me, mindfulness is the key.

What is the key for you?  What memories do you have of being fat that you will never forget?  What memories are you making now of your healthier life that thrill you?

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