Been told I’ve lost weight recently

And although I feel like maybe I have, my clothes don’t fit any better and the scale says the same thing it has been saying for months.  177lbs.  That’s still 10 lbs down.  That, thankfully, hasn’t changed despite having gorged myself with food a couple times.

I haven’t set a new 5lb goal in a long time because I’m just not ready.  All my motivations of late have been directed at other things like cleaning and decluttering the house.

One thing has changed tho.  Since my shoulder surgery left me unable to keep food down for the first 2 days post op, I had been eating a lot of salads.  That hasn’t helped with my chronic constipation, but maybe it’s helping to debloat myself somehow.

I guess I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing until I’m ready to do more.

10 down, 30 to go

I honestly don’t know how (or if I can truly believe) I lost 10 lbs since the start of the year.   I’ve been down 10 lbs for a few days now but I had to wait and see if my scale wasn’t smoking crack or something.   I must have been retaining water 7 days ago because the weight just plummeted in 1 or 2 days.   I do remember LOTS of trips to the head tho, so that thought is probably not so far off the mark.

I’m incredulous because I don’t feel a significant change in how my clothes fit.  Only difference is that I can get my belt on the 4th notch.  It used to be 2nd or 3rd depending on levels of bloatedness, but I still have a life saver around the middle.  And my boobs still spill over my pre-Maya bras.

I should feel better about this, but I haven’t even been exercising.  I think that losing the next 10lb is going to require that I start using my treadmill.  Oh,  I keep forgetting how much I’ve been running around the house to clean things up.  So…  maybe I haven’t been as sedentary as I keep telling myself.

Anyways, I know I don’t sound as estatic as maybe I should be, but somewhere deep inside, I’m hopping around snapping my heels ‘n stuff and singing badly.  I haven’t weighed 178 since 2005.    10 more LESS pounds will take me back to 2003.

Pop Rocks - the diet candy

Remember these little popping fuckers?

poprocks

Well, as I’ve discovered, they’re the best thing for people trying to lose weight.   You know why?  Because one packet is only 35 calories!!  and it has zero fat (as candy shouldn’t).   They’ve been great way to satisfy my sweet tooth cravings.  And they’re just obnoxious enough in the mouth to do the job!

I’ve gone and bought myself a case of these things.  Crazy..  but better than sneaking entire bars of 3 Musketeers!

Fatblog update

I have lost 6 lbs total since January 1st.   I lost 7 but gained one back this week.  I think that last lb is water weight.   You can’t really gain or lose a pound in two days, but who knows.

I’ve been following the weight watchers diet for 2 weeks now and it has been easy until Thursday.   I had spent a lot of time feeling hunger pains but that is easier to deal with than mad cravings. On wednesday night I had a frozen pizza and I think that screwed me up really good, because on Thursday all I could do was think about food.  I had things like a slice of cheese and a slice of bologna, spaghetti, then a mini-pizza I make from english muffins.    I also had stopped logging the food that day which makes it real easy to ignore how it adds up.

2 days later I sat down and logged it all from memory.   I was shocked to see that the mini-pizza was only 5 pts, but the bologna was 2pts.  For what you get, 2 pts for a single slice of bologna is really ridiculous.  The pizza would have been less if I had made it with fat free cheese and it makes for a nice little meal.  Something to keep in mind next time I go shopping.

Today was another “wash” except that now that I logged it all in, it doesn’t look as bad as I had imagined.   I went to the movies and had popcorn shrimp and curly fries.  Then later I got a small caramel macchiatto.   With skim milk.   Thank god cuz it woulda been more otherwise.

Anyway, I’m not sure what to make of this points system but it has worked so far.  I always wondered how so many people lose weight on it, and I think it has something to do with calling it ‘points’.   It makes it seem like some game and the more you eat, the more you lose on points.

Holy McShit!

Despite my recent McDonald’s stint, I fucken lost McWeight, yo!  Nearly Mc5 pounds this month! I can’t McFucken believe it.

I still missed getting a McGriddle last week, tho.  I wonder how many McPoints that is.  If it’s not so bad, I might McTreat myself to one this weekend.

Back to the gym

So I’m glad I got off my ass and went to the gym today.  But somehow lifting weights in front of a wall of mirrors isn’t my idea of a self-esteem building activity.  But I was surprised to find that I wasn’t cringing at myself as much as previously.  I told the trainer, that I didn’t think I looked as fat this time, and he was like “.. uhh…   just bring your log book next time and we’ll see” (in spanish).  Something tells me he didn’t agree.  lol!  I keep telling myself that it could be worse, and that it will get better.  (..as I suck from a can of La Lecherita.. sigh).

On the upside, tho, I weighed myself this morning and was really surprised to see I have lost 4lbs.   I’m still skeptical tho, like maybe the scale’s batteries need replacing.  So I’m not going to celebrate too much.   4 lbs.  That’s a lot for …6 days.