Losing It

Being a woman just sucks sometimes. It’s that time of month this week and after my initial jump 2 lbs I’ve stayed the same. I’ve also been feeling yucky and not really watching what I eat (though I’ve been having lots of salads!). Ugh.

The one good thing about this past week is that everyone and their dog wanted to meet with me. All my blog readers from Expat Mom seem to be in town this month and so I was out every day last week!! That meant a ton of walking around the cobbled streets of Antigua (which has to burn twice the calories, right?). Hopefully that will pay off when this darn bloat goes away.

My big milestone right now is to dip below 200 lbs. I haven’t been there in a while and it’s depressing . . . my weight tends to go up and down, always hovering around 220 and I am so NOT accepting that 220 is my body’s comfortable weight.

This morning, I stepped on the scale and it said . . . 116!!!!! I haven’t been that low for a very long time. While it’s not a huge drop, it’s a significant one. Now to just keep this sucker moving down!

That means this past week, I’ve lost 3 lbs. MUCH better!! And in total, I’ve dropped 10, which is pretty awesome, my belly is totally melting away.

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?

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!