Battle of the Bloat

Well, I'm up from last week, but I'm pretty sure that it's bloating. My numbers have been all.over.the.place this week, but I ended up being up just over a pound from last Wednesday. However, I'm still down some from my peak, so it's not as bad as it could be. And I'm pretty sure that my hormones have been doing things this week. Not that I could tell you what: still no cycles after the baby, probably because we still nurse a lot. Plus, getting enough water is a constant battle.

Turns out that Kris, of Eclipsed, is following a meme from a blog called Confessions of a Snowflake. So I'll be linking up there. This week, they're supporting each other with posting recipes. The recipe  made most recently was cupcakes with pudding in the middle... think I'll blog about that on the other blog, rather than here. Seems sort of out of place... but I will be browsing their recipes to see if any of them would please my family.

Sidebar Update

I've been updating our sidebar. This evening I re-did the blog links, including all the family blogs, plus Eclipsed, which hosts the weigh-in I'll be participating in. If anyone else has a blog they'd like to see on there, particularly a fitness or weight-loss blog, I'm happy to put it in. Can't remember what kind of permissions we did when we set this up. Anyway, I also re-did my "goal" thingy on the sidebar. Thought I'd mention it so that if you girls want to update your stuff you can.

Working Together

I am trying to lose weight also. I peaked about a month ago. I am down 5 now. Very slow. But constant and in the right direction. I am doing the same thing - trying to eat better - doing fruit for snacks and drinking more water. Writing down everything I eat to keep me focused. I also added walking - this last weeks heat sabotaged the walking a bit. I will get back to it on Monday.

Maybe we can work together on this and help each other out. :)

Setting Some Goals

I'm going to set some goals, and I found a new weigh-in meme that I'm going to use. She weighs-in on Wednesday,  and that works fine for me. My weight peaked again last week - this whole house thing has been rough on my husband and I in the weight department. And I've decided to do something about it. My body doesn't like to be this big, and when I eat halfway decent it drops down from where I'm currently at with very little further effort. But I've been so good at sabotaging myself that I still haven't gone anywhere.

This week, I decided that I'd had enough. I bought fruit, and that's what I ate when I had the munchies. I drank my water like I know I ought to. Well, not as much as I'd like, but more than I had been. And it made a great difference. I'm down 2.5 pounds for the week, and as long as I keep from over-doing it on the bread, I'm confident that I can keep it up for a while.

My goal? I want to be down 15 pounds from my peak by September 22. That's 2 months from now, and should be pretty do-able. 15 pounds isn't tons, but it's enough to make a very nice difference in how my clothes fit me. Not enough to make me need new clothes. But the next goal after that will  probably allow me to get out the things I have packed away right now because they're too small. And this time I'm going to get rid of the big stuff when it doesn't fit anymore. I'm not going to make it easy to come back to this place. I want to loose enough that even when I get pregnant next I don't come all the way back to where I am right now. The long-term goal is to loose 60-70 pounds. It's ambitious. I'll almost certainly find that I have body-image issues that I have to work through in the process. If I can keep the progress steady at 1-2 pounds a week, it can be done in a year, but I suspect that it'll take a little longer than that. And I'm OK with that. I'm just setting a small goal for right now. I'll be back for more after I get there.

Eye Rolling Moment

So, I've been doing this WeightWatchers thing for about 7wks. Several of my friends swear by it and I thought I'd give it a go. So I signed up and set up my online profile, etc etc. I've been being really good and following the plan, but so far I haven't lost any weight.. so, before I gave up on this completely and unsubscribed, I went into my profile to see if I could tweak the settings.

Initially, I had 36points a day to work with, which seemed reasonable and workable. After about a week or so it hopped up to 40. I thought that was kind of weird, but figured maybe since I'd been working out, it didn't want me to loose weight too quickly.. or something. Still, after another week or two, I wasn't loosing weight. So I worked out harder, and the next week the number hopped up to 42.

Finally, now being at 7wks and no change, I was feeling rather frustrated. Last night I went in to tweak the settings and I realized that (for some inexplicable reason) somewhere along the line, I had put the settings at "maintain" rather than "lose weight".

D'oh!

Mortification and eye rolling ensued. However, I'm working to see the up-side with this... I have gotten very good at following the plan.. and working out is becoming an established pattern to my week... I *am* feeling like my body is changing shapes (even if no weight is being lost), so at least my clothes are fitting better - and the hope is that'll be a precursor to actual weight loss, now that I've got the silly program back to the proper setting.

New Bathroom Scales

We bought a new bathroom scale, and I was pleased with what it said Sunday morning. Of course, Sunday afternoon I went to my first Superbowl party, and there was some good food. MMMMMM. Especially that chocolate thing... yeah, I indulged. But it's not an everyday thing, so it shouldn't be a huge setback. And, now I have the means to keep an eye on things!

Also, I set up my ticker again. I forgot my pin, so I had to make an entirely new one.

Good Workout Tonight

I'm feeling mighty good right now! A bit dead and ready for bed - which is a good thing considering the hour - but mighty good. I just got done at the gym and I rode the bike for an hour, went 30 miles, and burned 535 calories. Very satisfying.

Maybe that'll make up for having just a cupcake for breakfast! :)

Woot!!!

I'm down another 2 pounds today, at 188, putting me a couple pounds below what I was when Monkey was born. I'm about 27 pounds away from where I was when we got married! Gotta keep up the streak; this is feeling good!

I sent a whole big box of clothes to Goodwill yesterday, and I need to pick up a ball-point needle for my sewing machine so I can alter my tshirts to my new size. I am so NOT going back to where I was. I also can't afford to replace EVERYTHING right now. But more and more of my clothes don't fit - in a good way!

Interestingly, I find that there is an awkward spot between large and medium. The sizes can't seem to make up their minds: some of the mediums fit, some of them I've still got quite a ways to go. And of course, as long as I'm nursing I'll be a bit top-heavy, which makes things even more interesting. Once I get those needles I have some fabric that I need to make into shirts, which will actually fit and that will be exciting.