On a better note…. I am still in Cycle 3 of the 17 day diet. I have started to analyze everything I do as far as eat and exercise to come to the conclusion as to why I didn’t lose any weight in Cycle 2 and have yet to lose weight in Cycle 3. The most current theory I have come up with is that I am not eating enough calories. After logging everything I put into my mouth over the past three days I am only hitting the 1300 calorie mark because I find something to shove in my mouth at the end of the day to hit that limit. According to my own personal research, I should be eating at least 1300 – 1600 calories a day (1300 being on the much lower end) in order to lose 1 - 2 pounds per week. All I can do is experiment, yet again, and continue to log in my calories and weigh in next week and see if it has made a difference.
I feel like I am trying to seek out that happy medium that my body needs to finally click and lose some weight. I’m older, and just going on a diet doesn’t seem to be working anymore. It feels like there are all these equations and factors that have to be met to get the perfect results and VOILA! You lose a pound! That’s a lot of work for that pesky pound, but it would be worth it.
My co-worker is also on this diet and is steadily losing weight. She has lost weight in both Cycle 2 & Cycle 3. It is a little discouraging, but it doesn’t last long because I know what an achievement it is to lose that weight and I can only be happy for her. Then I go back to my little head and try to analyze what I am doing that is not giving me the same success. Is it the age difference, she is 10 years younger than I am, is it the exercise she is doing vs. the exercise I am doing?? She doesn’t seem to be hitting her calories either, but she is still losing the weight so it isn’t much of a concern for her. This isn’t something I have just started to battle. It is a battle I have been having with my body for over a year now. I have done exhausting workouts with trainers, walked miles upon miles, ran miles upon miles, dieted – you name it I have tried it – and without much success. Logging my calories eaten and calories burned is my last stop before I take all this to a doctor and/or nutritionist. I will take all these printed out papers and say WTF??? What is going on here? I don’t want to take any medicines to make it right. I just want to find the answer. What else do I need to do to lose weight? That is pretty much the only source occupying the frustration side of my mind.
On the creative side, I made my own lip gloss tonight for the first time. I had all the ingredients around the house and decided to whip some up. This is what it looks like sitting on my night stand “setting” until tomorrow morning when I can cap it up and put it in my purse. It is an experiment for one of many planned Christmas presents for friends and family this year. You can see where I haven’t been able to keep my finger from dabbing in it even though it hasn’t set yet.
As for TomTom, I love that kid. He told me that this diet thing just isn’t working and he is going to love me know matter what I look like… that I was always going to be his mom. Yep, I love him! He is getting back into the flow of school and enjoying his gifted classes. He is studying a grade level above his own in math and reading and about to start soccer at the end of August. I am going to enjoy this next week because it is the last normal week we have before all the extra curricular activities start full blast. We will have religion on Monday, soccer on Tuesday, Cub Scouts on Wednesday, soccer on Thursday and hopefully nothing on Friday. Phew! Just thinking about it makes me want to pull out the calendar and start writing it all down.
Thanks to TomTom’s motivation I have quit smoking… again. I fumbled over the weekend when I was drinking and bummed a smoke today to appease a craving. I am learning what triggers a craving and for the most part trying to avoid those things. This is easier said than done. I learned today that chewing gum is a trigger for me. I always popped a piece and went out to smoke. Today I popped a piece and had a huge craving that I gave into – but I am going to pick myself up and push forward with the hopes of not falling prey to another craving.
I have made a goal to do three journal entries per week. For me that will be blog entries per week. So here I am writing my first entry of the week on Thursday (I know, I’m late, right???) Better late than never. Until next time…
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