It's that time of the week again. Monday morning, time for the dreaded weigh-in. After last week's inexplicable gain, I was extremely nervous about this week's results. It wasn't a gain, thankfully. I lost 3 pounds. It's not much of a loss, but anything is better than gaining again! That makes a grand total of 10 pounds for my first month, which is rather disappointing. Certainly it's better than not having lost anything, but 2.5% of my body weight in a whole month isn't much progress. I know I'm doing something wrong, but I haven't the foggiest idea what it is. Anyway, my intake for the last two days...
Saturday
Breakfast: 1 egg, scrambled, 3 pieces bacon - 1.55g
Lunch: None
Snack: Cheese stick, 1 oz almonds, hard-boiled egg - 3.56g
Dinner: 6 oz ham steak, 1 1/3 cup frozen green beans - 12g
Dessert: None
Total: 17.11g
Sunday
Breakfast: 1 egg, scrambled, 3 pieces bacon - 1.55g
Lunch: Salad - 5.74g
Snack: None
Dinner: 6 oz ham steak, 1 cup frozen green beans - 10.5g
Dessert: 1/2 cup sugar-free Jell-O, 2 tbsp cream, whipped - .8g
Total: 18.59g
So I obviously didn't come within a mile of my goal for this month. The goal was to reach 375 lbs by today's weigh-in, and I'm currently at 387. Based on my personal history with Atkins, it was a reasonable goal, but this time around my weight is definitely not dropping as quickly or easily as it did before. I've decided to change the types of short-term goals I'm setting. My first two goals were based solely on pounds lost, and that's really not something that's directly in my control. All I can do is to stay on my diet and do my exercising, and the loss will be whatever my body determines it's going to be. Or not be...
I think that my goals need to be things that are under my direct control, like not cheating, exercising, meeting my carb total, and so on. There's certainly no reason that I can't celebrate milestone numbers of weight loss, but I'm not going to put them on a specific schedule any more, because they're simply not something that I can schedule. Therefore, this month's goal is going to be something completely different. My goal for October will be to walk twice a day, every single day. No getting out of it because I fell asleep, no getting out of it because it's raining, no getting out of it period. It's something that's completely in my control, definitely a goal that I can accomplish, but certainly not easy...especially when it's cold and raining, which it's likely to be. I'll continue to increase my time by a minute per week as well. This week is 7 minutes, and I've survived the first walk at the increased time already this morning!
I am thinking that maybe, doing this diet 'cold-turkey' had an affect on your body, but maybe having started by getting your body use to eating less then just jumping in. *shrug* I dont know. :( I am not much help as to why your body is not letting you go as fast as it had before. :( Either way I would gladly accept that loss... I have gained weight but lost inches. Hope you are noticing inches lost.
ReplyDeleteI'm just not too sure if the Adkins thing is working for you this time. We all know as we get older our bodies change. Do a little research into some different, I don't want to say diets because we all know diets don't work, eating programs. Maybe at this time of your life a low fat diet might be the way to go. I also think you should challenge yourself a little more on your exercise. Try for 10 minutes this week. 2 minutes of slower pace 6 minutes of faster then back to 2 minutes of slower pace. That way you have a warm up and a cool down in there. I'm definetly pulling for you and want to see you succeed!
ReplyDeleteBecky, I think that is great... thats how we are taught to exercise in school.
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