Hey everybody...yes, I know, I've been slacking on my posts badly this past week. My only excuse is how incredibly yucky I've been feeling with my medication withdrawal. It's been a little over a week now since I took my last dose of Effexor, and although I'm still having some background dizziness all the time and intermittent spells of worse dizziness, I'm doing much better than I was last Monday.
Anyway, today is Monday, and that means weigh-in day. As you've probably guessed from the title of this post, the result on the scale was a big, fat zero. So very, very frustrating! I stuck to my program like glue and did my walking twice a day every day except Thursday (I missed Thursday afternoon). Because I've got a week of meals to catch up on for the blog, I'm going to post just the carb totals today. I'm making a goal for this week to post every day, so tomorrow I'll be back to normal meal postings.
Tuesday - 23.80g
Wednesday - 23.43g
Thursday - 24.31g
Friday - 24.91g
Saturday - 24.40g
Sunday - 18.47g
So the results for the first two weeks of increasing to 25 grams per day are mixed. Last week, I lost 3 lbs, this week I lost nothing. I'm going to give the increased carbs one more week to stabilize, but if I don't lose next week, I guess it will be back to Induction for me. I really hope I do lose some. Well, I always hope I lose some, but it's been very nice to have those extra 5 carbs available, because it really increases my flexibility in food choices. Extra carbs or not, I'm really pretty surprised not to have lost any weight this week. In addition to my scheduled exercise, I've done my arm workout with my little 5-lb hand weight nearly every day.
I've also incorporated a lot more general movement into my day over the past week. Based on the article I linked the other day regarding spending most of your time sitting down being detrimental even with exercise as part of your life, I decided to start using a technique that's worked for me in the past to help get things done. I set my kitchen timer for 5 minutes, and work on whatever project or household chore needs to be done until the timer goes off. Then I set the timer for 10 minutes and rest/read/get on the computer/generally sit down until it starts beeping again, at which point I set it for 5 minutes and start the cycle over again. It's amazingly productive without making me feel overwhelmed or exhausted. I moved a lot more and got a lot of things done last week that I've been meaning to do for a long time...and I still didn't lose any weight. Frustrating!
Anyway, the timer's going to go off for my next 5-minute work session...I promise to post again tomorrow!
Try to increase your physical time a little more every day so your body doesn't get used to the same thing and not progress. Even if its just 2 more minutes of walking a day than you did the first it helps.
ReplyDeleteI do actually up my exercise on a regular basis...when I first started incorporating exercise into my day, it was 5 minutes once a day. I've increased that to twice a day, and added a minute to each session on a weekly basis. I'm up to 10 minutes twice a day now! I've also added in my arm workouts with a 5-pound hand weight and increased my general daily activity level. :)
ReplyDelete