Not too shabby...
Well, this was a pretty decent week. I lost 3.6 lbs I am however a little disappointed...My next benchmark was going to be 40 lbs and this week's loss took me to 39.2, a stinkin' eight-tenths of a pound away! How frustrating! Oh, well, I guess I can't complain too much...just frustrating to come so close!
No Sleep...
I swear I haven't had a decent night's sleep in 3 years (make that 4 - pregnancy is just as bad for sleep as babies). But the past week has been hellish! I'm trying to get my one-year-old to sleep in his new crib and it has turned out to be quite the exhausting ordeal. This is not helping make my PSMF easier either. When I am constantly up that late at night I am seriously craving chocolate! I swear if I were a sleep walker I would probably be walking to the nearest store with almond joys!
Half way point...
So I am around what I had considered the half-way point of my diet. When I made my progress charts I made them for twenty weeks and I am currently at week ten. I can't figure out if I am reaching a slump (in terms of motivation) or just the opposite. Some days I feel so FREAKING sick of eating protein and vegetables and NOTHING else. And some days I feel super motivated by the fact that I am finally noticing a difference in terms of clothes size etc. Think I need some more motivation. Any suggestions?
About Me
- OnMyWayToThin...
- I am a 27 year-old wife and mother of two. I am currently in a Grad School Intervention Specialist Program, though my undergrad was in Journalism and that is were my real passion lies. Don't get me wrong, I know I will love what I do...I have worked with kids with Special Needs for half my life, but I also have a great passion for journalism and literature.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Other stats...
Other promising statistics and numbers...
BMI: my bmi is down six points
Size: sometimes it's hard to tell this accurately because of the difference in stores etc. But, it seems like my clothes size went down about three sizes. My bra size also appears to have gone down, they are also much more flattering (slightly less pudge to stick out!)
Inches: Overall (if I am adding them up the correct way) I have lost 21.5 inches. 2 per thigh, 1.25 per calf, 6 in my waist, 4 on my hips, 1 per bicep, 3 on my chest.
BMI: my bmi is down six points
Size: sometimes it's hard to tell this accurately because of the difference in stores etc. But, it seems like my clothes size went down about three sizes. My bra size also appears to have gone down, they are also much more flattering (slightly less pudge to stick out!)
Inches: Overall (if I am adding them up the correct way) I have lost 21.5 inches. 2 per thigh, 1.25 per calf, 6 in my waist, 4 on my hips, 1 per bicep, 3 on my chest.
Weigh day let down...
Down, but not much...
So I clearly jinxed myself yesterday, but I thought I was having a particularly good week because when I weighed myself yesterday morning I was down quite a bit. However, I was about 1.2 pounds heavier this morning than yesterday morning...that has not happened since I started this diet. I always consistently go down day to day, or at the very least stay the same...never went up though.
Either way, my loss for this week was 2.9 lbs. I figure that's not too bad either considering my last weigh day was actually Sunday, so I only had 5 days, instead of the usual seven. Will probably weigh myself on Sunday too, just to see what the full week would have brought me. Today's weight will remain my official count for the week though.
Running total: 35.6 pounds
So I clearly jinxed myself yesterday, but I thought I was having a particularly good week because when I weighed myself yesterday morning I was down quite a bit. However, I was about 1.2 pounds heavier this morning than yesterday morning...that has not happened since I started this diet. I always consistently go down day to day, or at the very least stay the same...never went up though.
Either way, my loss for this week was 2.9 lbs. I figure that's not too bad either considering my last weigh day was actually Sunday, so I only had 5 days, instead of the usual seven. Will probably weigh myself on Sunday too, just to see what the full week would have brought me. Today's weight will remain my official count for the week though.
Running total: 35.6 pounds
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Weigh day tomorrow!
Friday morning is nearly here (duh-duh-duhhhhh)...
Feeling pretty positive about tomorrow morning's weigh in. Had a good clothes week I guess...went into American Eagle for the first time in years and fit comfortably in a pair of their jeans (and not the biggest size they offer either!)
Fingers crossed things go as well as hoped!
Feeling pretty positive about tomorrow morning's weigh in. Had a good clothes week I guess...went into American Eagle for the first time in years and fit comfortably in a pair of their jeans (and not the biggest size they offer either!)
Fingers crossed things go as well as hoped!
No Sleep....
Three days...
So for the past three days I haven't really been sleeping. This poses a particular problem with my diet because then I not only have to fight hunger pangs and carb cravings all day long, but then in the middle of the night as well when, let's be honest, inhibitions are lowered anyway. It's been rough, especially last night when I literally didn't sleep AT ALL!
And I would not admit to this if not for the saving grace of the anonymity of blogging, but in my sleepless hungry hours I have watched the entire series of Wildfire! I think I actually had an addiction. Just finished the last episode this morning. So of course last night I was sitting on the couch bawling my eyes out most of the night. It is a very dramatic show...
No cheating...
Regardless of my hopeless battle with hunger and cravings I have managed not to cheat. I have only Diet Mountain Dew and cigarettes to thank for that though (and my very supportive husband)! Those are healthy ways of fighting food cravings right? :op
So for the past three days I haven't really been sleeping. This poses a particular problem with my diet because then I not only have to fight hunger pangs and carb cravings all day long, but then in the middle of the night as well when, let's be honest, inhibitions are lowered anyway. It's been rough, especially last night when I literally didn't sleep AT ALL!
And I would not admit to this if not for the saving grace of the anonymity of blogging, but in my sleepless hungry hours I have watched the entire series of Wildfire! I think I actually had an addiction. Just finished the last episode this morning. So of course last night I was sitting on the couch bawling my eyes out most of the night. It is a very dramatic show...
No cheating...
Regardless of my hopeless battle with hunger and cravings I have managed not to cheat. I have only Diet Mountain Dew and cigarettes to thank for that though (and my very supportive husband)! Those are healthy ways of fighting food cravings right? :op
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
So Hungry... Day 61
Being back home does not equal easier diet...
So, I really did think that being back home would make being on my diet easier. Not so much. I want to eat EVERYTHING right now. I know I'm still not really settled in, I mean I haven't even been back a week and the weekend was full of birthday parties and lots of visitors, but holy cow this week has been rough. I mean, I have never found the smell of cereal so ridiculously appealing! Every morning when I feed Liam his cereal I am practically drooling... what I wouldn't give for a carbalicious bowl of Captain Crunch! Haha. Oh well...
The good part...
The good thing is that I seem to be able to notice a slight drop in weight every morning. Which, I am not sure that I was able to do in London. Although I couldn't exactly read the scale properly so who knows! Either way it's the only thing keeping me going on this hellish no-carb regimen.
32 lbs and going strong (I hope!)...
Monday, June 13, 2011
Update
Delay...
Well apparently the past two weigh days have been Sundays. Between not having a scale in Paris and then coming home and feeling very bloated...well you get the point. This week it will be Friday as usual though. I am home, my first weekend full of catching up and my son's birthday party is over. I can finally find some routine and stability in my days.
Hopefully this will only help my weight loss. In the mean time my most recent weight loss was 2.1 lbs. Bringing me to 32.7.
Hopefully I will have more time to blog this week....did I mention how happy I am to be home :o)
Well apparently the past two weigh days have been Sundays. Between not having a scale in Paris and then coming home and feeling very bloated...well you get the point. This week it will be Friday as usual though. I am home, my first weekend full of catching up and my son's birthday party is over. I can finally find some routine and stability in my days.
Hopefully this will only help my weight loss. In the mean time my most recent weight loss was 2.1 lbs. Bringing me to 32.7.
Hopefully I will have more time to blog this week....did I mention how happy I am to be home :o)
Friday, June 10, 2011
Blah...
Home Sweet Home
So I am finally home! And thrilled to be home, but feeling very blah! So tired and well, just blah!! Didn't weigh myself this morning out of self-preservation. I feel very bloated due to traveling and didn't want to screw myself over by weighing myself while retaining water. I can't handle a downer right now!
I will weigh myself tomorrow morning though. Hoping for the best, but still don't know what the difference in scales will be, etc. So....
We shall see I guess.
So I am finally home! And thrilled to be home, but feeling very blah! So tired and well, just blah!! Didn't weigh myself this morning out of self-preservation. I feel very bloated due to traveling and didn't want to screw myself over by weighing myself while retaining water. I can't handle a downer right now!
I will weigh myself tomorrow morning though. Hoping for the best, but still don't know what the difference in scales will be, etc. So....
We shall see I guess.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Late weigh day
Another guesstimate...
Once again I had no one to read the scale for me, so it was another guess, between 3 & 4 lbs. lost, so I will stick with the lower (3) just in case! Brings my total to just over 30 lbs. Can't figure out what is wrong with me though! I just can't get excited about that. I think it's because on one of the charts I have made (I have two) I have written down how much weight I want to lose and I see that big number and think that no other number matters much in comparison...
Survived Paris...
I can't even believe I survived my whole Paris trip without eating anything non-diet. My three-year-old's behavior was horrendous to the point he had me in tears (a lot). I'm sure if you have read any of my previous blogs you know that his behavior since we began our month in London has slowly taken away all his manners and his behavior has gotten worse. However, our trip to Paris was the most horrifying, mortifying, ungodly experience I've ever had.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed as much of my trip as possible, but he threw fits (in public) that I have never witnessed on any child before. He actually smacked me in the face...that has never happened in his whole life until he started getting too spoiled and allowed to get away with anything in London. It is so frustrating because I don't know how to cope with this kind of behavior, I have never HAD to deal with this kind of behavior. I am totally lost.
Anyway, the point to all of this was that I survived being around wonderfully delicious food 24/7 while being beyond stressed and I didn't touch any of it! I at least feel proud of myself for that (and also a little sad!)...I was in Paris and didn't get to have ANY French food...no croissant, no chocolates, nothing...
Sigh...
Once again I had no one to read the scale for me, so it was another guess, between 3 & 4 lbs. lost, so I will stick with the lower (3) just in case! Brings my total to just over 30 lbs. Can't figure out what is wrong with me though! I just can't get excited about that. I think it's because on one of the charts I have made (I have two) I have written down how much weight I want to lose and I see that big number and think that no other number matters much in comparison...
Survived Paris...
I can't even believe I survived my whole Paris trip without eating anything non-diet. My three-year-old's behavior was horrendous to the point he had me in tears (a lot). I'm sure if you have read any of my previous blogs you know that his behavior since we began our month in London has slowly taken away all his manners and his behavior has gotten worse. However, our trip to Paris was the most horrifying, mortifying, ungodly experience I've ever had.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed as much of my trip as possible, but he threw fits (in public) that I have never witnessed on any child before. He actually smacked me in the face...that has never happened in his whole life until he started getting too spoiled and allowed to get away with anything in London. It is so frustrating because I don't know how to cope with this kind of behavior, I have never HAD to deal with this kind of behavior. I am totally lost.
Anyway, the point to all of this was that I survived being around wonderfully delicious food 24/7 while being beyond stressed and I didn't touch any of it! I at least feel proud of myself for that (and also a little sad!)...I was in Paris and didn't get to have ANY French food...no croissant, no chocolates, nothing...
Sigh...
Friday, June 3, 2011
Weigh Day come and gone...
No scale...
So here I am in France and by the grace of God alone have managed to stick to my diet. Every where I go I smell wonderful pastries and other delicious foods! And to make it worse...this has been the worst trip ever with the kids. I am enjoying myself here, but the kids' behavior has been absolutely appalling. I am embarrassed every time we are out and horrified by the time I get back to the house. I can't wait to get home and get them back to normal. They are NOT this poorly behaved all the time and I don't even know where to start when addressing it!
Anyway...can't do my weigh day today because I don't have a scale, so I guess I will just weigh myself when I get back on Sunday morning and go with that number as my estimate.
Until then...
Until Sunday, I will be off to the Louvre and the Paris Aquarium. Did a little shopping and site seeing, now I get to do what I was most excited about! Yay! And hopefully the aquarium will keep the kids very occupied because I don't know how much more of this behavior I can handle without losing my mind!!
So here I am in France and by the grace of God alone have managed to stick to my diet. Every where I go I smell wonderful pastries and other delicious foods! And to make it worse...this has been the worst trip ever with the kids. I am enjoying myself here, but the kids' behavior has been absolutely appalling. I am embarrassed every time we are out and horrified by the time I get back to the house. I can't wait to get home and get them back to normal. They are NOT this poorly behaved all the time and I don't even know where to start when addressing it!
Anyway...can't do my weigh day today because I don't have a scale, so I guess I will just weigh myself when I get back on Sunday morning and go with that number as my estimate.
Until then...
Until Sunday, I will be off to the Louvre and the Paris Aquarium. Did a little shopping and site seeing, now I get to do what I was most excited about! Yay! And hopefully the aquarium will keep the kids very occupied because I don't know how much more of this behavior I can handle without losing my mind!!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Day 47 of my PSMF (Protein Sparing Modified Fast)
Progress...
So, I guess I should feel really happy with my progress overall. I have been on the fast for a little over six weeks and I am down (as of last weigh-in) just under 30 lbs. Not really sure though how that will pan out once I am back in the States...the scale here at my in-law's (in London) absolutely sucks! I can barely read what my weight is, and because it is first and foremost measured in stones, then kilos, THEN pounds, I literally need someone else to read the scale while I'm on it to get an accurate reading. And since my husband has abandoned me here in London, I have to just take the best guess. I have been assuming the lesser number (in terms of pounds lost) just in case.
It has definitely been harder here too, not just the food...which I have stuck to the food I need to, but it is more difficult with measurements. But, by far the hardest thing is not being able to drink. Let me preface this by saying: I am not a big drinker, I would even go as far to say I rarely drink when I'm at home (in the states). However, I am in London, where pub culture is everywhere, plus I am staying with my in-laws with my one year old and three year old... in other words, I'm super stressed!!
So, basically I am saying that I have had the occasional glass of wine, but I think, all things considered, I have done pretty well! I'm sure to some extent it has slowed my weight loss, but I can accept that. Especially since I know that once I'm back at home I will go back to my routine with food, no drinking, and lesssssss stress!
To Paris...
So tomorrow morning I am off to Paris with the kids to meet a friend! Excited to meet up with her and hang out in the city for a few days, but still a little stressed about traveling alone with them. I realize that this trip will be a piece of cake compared to flying back to the states with them by myself, but I'm still anxious about it.
Jusqu'à Paris ... Au revoir!
(Thank you Google Translate)
So, I guess I should feel really happy with my progress overall. I have been on the fast for a little over six weeks and I am down (as of last weigh-in) just under 30 lbs. Not really sure though how that will pan out once I am back in the States...the scale here at my in-law's (in London) absolutely sucks! I can barely read what my weight is, and because it is first and foremost measured in stones, then kilos, THEN pounds, I literally need someone else to read the scale while I'm on it to get an accurate reading. And since my husband has abandoned me here in London, I have to just take the best guess. I have been assuming the lesser number (in terms of pounds lost) just in case.
It has definitely been harder here too, not just the food...which I have stuck to the food I need to, but it is more difficult with measurements. But, by far the hardest thing is not being able to drink. Let me preface this by saying: I am not a big drinker, I would even go as far to say I rarely drink when I'm at home (in the states). However, I am in London, where pub culture is everywhere, plus I am staying with my in-laws with my one year old and three year old... in other words, I'm super stressed!!
So, basically I am saying that I have had the occasional glass of wine, but I think, all things considered, I have done pretty well! I'm sure to some extent it has slowed my weight loss, but I can accept that. Especially since I know that once I'm back at home I will go back to my routine with food, no drinking, and lesssssss stress!
To Paris...
So tomorrow morning I am off to Paris with the kids to meet a friend! Excited to meet up with her and hang out in the city for a few days, but still a little stressed about traveling alone with them. I realize that this trip will be a piece of cake compared to flying back to the states with them by myself, but I'm still anxious about it.
Jusqu'à Paris ... Au revoir!
(Thank you Google Translate)
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