Losing It

I know I’ve been putting on some muscle thanks to actually moving around instead of sitting at the computer 24/7. I’m figuring that’s why the scale isn’t going down faster . . . or at least I hope that’s it!

I’m definitely seeing changes in my body, though. The other day at Zumba, I actually had to stop and tie my drawstring pants because they were sliding down over my hips! These are pants that were skin tight a couple months ago, so that’s pretty encouraging.

I did take a photo this week. In fact, I took many, but the others I’m not posting here, because I did them in my undies. My body structure is shifting a lot and you can’t see that in my clothes. So, for my personal records only, I asked my husband to take photos of me, front side and back .   .  . with the idea of doing those once a month, so I can see exactly how my body is changing. Hopefully, the rolls of fat will just disappear over time!
Here’s the photo for this week. I wish I could figure out how to change my blog theme to include full posts . . .

Woke up this morning and did what most women who are trying to lose weight do, examined myself in the mirror. We have a full-length mirror in our room and I was surprised to see . . . I’m getting my shape back! My stomach is noticeably smaller, though I suspect the majority of it just decided to hang instead of standing up straight, but if you kinda cut it off just below the belly button, there’s a marked improvement.

Since I could actually SEE that I’m thinner (and the fact that I had to stop and tie my exercise pants tighter at Zumba on Tuesday), I decided to step on the scale again. A whole pound lower. If you look at my sidebar, I’ve lost a whopping 7lbs this month. Gak. Must speed things up!

I have a friend who is doing an extreme diet. She has a reunion coming up and is stressing out, so she is doing something that involves daily injections and 500 calories. She suggested I do it, too. I laughed at her. Five hundred calories? Seriously? I’d faint on an hourly basis on that amount of food!!

What I do need is to drink more water. I’m addicted to Coke Light. I thought it was better because of no sugar, but apparently it can stimulate your body into producing too much insulin and give you diabetes. Not sure what I’ll do for my astoundingly high caffeine needs, but it’s time to cut back and drink more water.

So, that’s my goal this next week. To drink 3 bottles of water a day (20 oz). I failed miserably in my plan to do Wii, but water I can definitely do. Especially if I get two more bottles and just have them sitting here on my desk.

How is your weight loss going?

Good grief, this month has just vanished in the blink of an eye. I’ve been dealing with a lot of stuff this past week and have to admit that I went back up a pound. Sob. You know how when you’re really depressed and you think, “One bag of potato chips won’t hurt.”? Well, they do. Let’s just leave it at that. Didn’t help that I’m bloated from PMS, either!

Anyway. Working on making this week better and getting things back on line.

Also, I noticed that the official report day is Friday, not Monday, so now I feel like a bit of an idiot, but anyhooo . . . .

Argh!!! I totally forgot today was Monday and was rushing about . . . but I still have 45 min. til midnight here, so I’m calling it Monday still, right? Right?

I’ve lost 2 lbs this week, woot, woot. I’ll blog more tomorrow, but for now two pounds.

I actually meant to be really brave and post photos on a weekly basis, but then I couldn’t get a good photo and I ended up leaving it for later and then forgot. Ahem. So, just for the record, here’s one of me from last week.

TMI Alert: Interestingly enough, over the past 8 days, I’ve noticed something happening to my abdomen. Normally it is just regular old fat. The other day, I looked in the mirror and . . . my belly fat is going away, but the skin is still stretched, so it rather looks like after you have a baby and you have that extra “flap” hanging there. My belly is hanging. And it hasn’t done that since after my second son was born nearly 3 years ago. I’m taking this as a good sign.

Anyhow. I’m still horribly ill and nothing is staying in my body for more than 2 hours, so while I do hope to feel better soon, I’m thinking this can only aid the weight loss. Plus, I’m drinking tons more water than normal because I’m losing so much of it . . . that’s got to be good, right?

Well, it’s Monday again, though I have NO CLUE how an entire week slipped past me. And it is time to report on my weight. Now, I’ve been really, really sick for the past two days, so haven’t eaten more than a handful of crackers. You’d think that would amount to at least a little weight loss right?

And it did . . . a whole pound. So this week, I’ve lost a pound. Woot woot! If I continue like this I’ll be almost forty by the time I hit my ideal weight.

Soooo, this week, I plan to attend BOTH classes of Zumba (Tue and Thu), provided I’m not still running to the bathroom every five seconds by tomorrow. And I’m going to play 30 min. of Wii boxing at least twice this week. It’s not much, but I’ll work up!

Or supposedly . . . I thought it said the first of March, but there’s nothing new on the website. Anyway. Today’s weigh in is at 222, a nice looking number, if we’re not talking about how much you weigh!