Monday, September 20, 2010

The Two-Week Weigh-In

Hey guys...sorry about the lack of posts the last few days, it's not been a good week for me. Not in a going-off-my-diet kind of way, although I was very tempted a few times, but in my mental/emotional condition. It was apparently time for me to have one of my really severe, debilitating depressive episodes, and there's not a whole lot I can do when that happens. I think it may be over now, because although I was sick as a dog when I got up this morning, I'm feeling better now and I think my mood is up. Sick or not, I did force myself to go in and weigh this morning, and I lost another measly 4 lbs. I really don't understand it, because instead of eating constantly as I usually do when I'm having one of my bad times, there were several days when I ate very, very little. I was certainly well under my daily carb limits every day...so very frustrating. I'm not going to give up, because not only am I determined to actually stick to a diet this time, I also think that all of you would rise up in a mass and murder me. So the intake for the days I didn't make a blog entry was as follows...

Thursday
Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled, 5 slices bacon - 3.25g
Lunch: String cheese - .8g
Snack: None
Dinner: 7.5 oz ham steak, 1/2 cup peas - 14.37g
Dessert: None
Total: 18.42g

Friday
Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled, 5 slices bacon - 3.25g
Lunch: String cheese - .8g
Snack: None
Dinner: Bacon & cheese omelette - 5.2g
Dessert: None
Total: 9.17g

Saturday
Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled, 5 slices bacon - 3.25g
Lunch: None
Snack: 1 oz pepperoni slices - 0g
Dinner: 8 oz ham steak, 1/2 cup peas - 14.88g
Dessert: None
Total: 18.13g

Sunday
Breakfast: None
Lunch: 4 oz deli ham, string cheese - 2.58g
Snack: None
Dinner: Bacon, mushroom, and cheese omelette - 7.37g
Dessert: None
Total: 9.95g

Based on those numbers, I really don't get the low weight-loss. I know some of you are going to say that 4 lbs is a good amount, but please remember at my weight that's only 1% of my body weight. Even if I go by calorie counting instead of carb counting, my highest day last week was 1288 calories, and three days I was well under 1000. SO frustrating! I've had a couple of friends prodding me about exercise, so I guess that unappealing and exhausting as it sounds, I'm going to try to do some exercise every day this week and see what happens. Please, anybody who has any other suggestions or any ideas as to why I'm having so much trouble, let me know! Any and all constructive suggestions are welcome, and I've already gotten a lot of good advice from several of you. Thanks, guys!

2 comments:

  1. I know 4 lbs just doesn't sound like much, but you've now lost 8 pounds. If you hadn't been doing this, you'd be 8 lbs heavier than you are now! Keep chipping away at it.

    Go pick up eight pounds of anything... potatoes, apples... and see how heavy that is. You're not carrying that weight around on your body anymore!

    I really admire what you're doing. I don't seem to be ready to do it yet, but I really need to.

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  2. I just wanted to let you know I'm reading your blog.

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