6th weigh in results!

I lost -.2.

I wish those 2 ounces came straight from what appears to be a bunion on my left foot. Check it out. Nasty.

Total lost in 6 weeks is an even 6 lbs.

I am on day 3 of my period and I feel very bloated and disgusting. I definitely don't feel lighter today even though I had a very good week eating with 4 workouts.

At this point I am just glad it is not a gain and I am not back in the 180's. Really don't want to ever see that decade again. Hoping for a big loss next Tuesday. I am on track to hit my goal for my 40th in September so I won't complain even though I feel like I have put my life on hold for 6 weeks and it has felt like an eternity and I still look like I'm covered in pizza dough.

I am also trying not to spend any money and succeeded in achieving the lowest monthly Amex bill we have ever had this past month. It was half our average monthly Amex bill. I am very proud that I cut my spending that hard core but it comes at a price! Believe me I felt it. I have cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for 6 weeks. No takeout. No going out. I went out to eat once with some neighbors but still cooked for Matt and the girls that night. It means I have spent a lot of time entertaining the kids myself. Did not sign the 4 year old up for ANYTHING over school vacation week. My life has been going to the Y and staying home cooking healthy meals, smack talking with my weight loss buddies on the computer and keeping my 18 month old alive, fed and unsoiled.

Between the strict diet and the strict spending cuts I feel 1/2 proud and 1/2 like I am going insane. Add some gray weather, snow and a leaking furnace to that and it gets more grim. Discipline is back in the Givney house but this tubster has no life as a result.

I do need to plan some fun rewards for some big weight loss milestones to keep my morale up because Lord knows I am not going to get the support from my husband. He has been losing weight also and this morning asked me how I will feel when he "catches up to me". If he weighs less than I do, I am going to send myself to a luxury fat camp.  My ego could not take that kind of hit.

6lb loss before and afters. I really don't see any differences yet:

FRONT 1/15 185:

FRONT 2/26 179

SIDE 1/15 185

SIDE 2/26 179

BACK 1/15 185

BACK 2/26 179

One of these days I need to decide if I will put up some pictures of my "flap" on this blog. The crime scene located under my belly button. I am not ready to do that yet but I do have some flaptastic photos in my archives. Let's put it this way, It will most definitely be the first area to fall victim to "loose skin". I don't know what is worse: a flap full of fat or a loose flap that used to have fat but can't bounce back. 

27 weeks until I turn 40.

Later Tubsters. Keep truckin'. 

5th weigh in Goodbye 180's!!!

I lost 4.8 pounds!

THANK GOD. I was beginning to doubt all science and conventional wisdom. 

That's 5.8 pounds in 5 weeks.

Here's a recap of my 5 weigh ins:

STARTING WEIGHT ON 1/15: 185 (after a 36 hour stomach bug)

1) 1/22 187 - gained 2 by not logging food this week and look what happened

2) 1/29 185.2 - lost 1.8 by logging food and staying within calories

3) 2/05 182.2 - lost 3 pounds by logging food and staying within calories

4) 2/12 184 - gained 1.8 by logging food & adding 4 workouts: 2 Zumba, one treadmill, one yoga

5) 2/19 179.2 - lost 4.8 by logging food & 4 workouts: 2 Zumba, 2 treadmill

Week 4 is still so bizarre to me and I can only explain that adding workouts caused my muscles to retain water that week and reflected as a gain on the scale. This one was very tough to take. I was perfect all week!

While I still feel like 5.8 pounds for 5 weeks is slow and stingy it is in the right direction and it does feel good to be in the 170's. Now I just have to never allow the 180s to creep back onto the scale. 

If I stay at this pace every 5 weeks I will hit my goal of at least 30 pounds by age 40 in September. 

I must admit I was very discouraged and bummed out this past week. I bitched a lot about the scale. Didn't help that I had a cold, a hemorrhoid, a stiff neck and an 18 month old (who is like a hemorrhoid in human form). I stuck with it and was determined that the scale would change for my 5th weigh in. 

I also felt lighter.

 I know it's only 5.8 pounds but my body feels a little different. Less puffy or something. My stomach and thighs just feel a little different in my clothes which is always a sign. 

I do secretly wish that the total pounds for 5 weeks was higher because I am completely hunkered down and not eating out or going out socially in order to get off to a good start with this weight loss while it is still winter and it might be a lot slower once life picks up and there are more social engagements. Oh well. A loss is a loss.

As far as hunger goes, I am pretty satisfied and not dying of hunger all day. I am not craving my crunchy snacks like I used to. I am most hungry at lunch and I try to save my calories and eat a bigger lunch. I have eliminated the morning snack and now eat Breakfast, lunch 3pmish snack and dinner. I am more motivated to eat protein because I really don't crave snacks when I eat enough protein. I still eat some dark chocolate almost every day.

Ok Biggest Loser 5 weeks progression pics:

BACK Jan 15 185lbs

BACK Feb 19 179.2 lbs

FRONT Jan 15 185 lbs

FRONT Feb 19 179.2 lbs

SIDE Jan 15 185 lbs

SIDE Feb 19 179.2 lbs

Ok it just took me about 4 hours to write this post because my 4 year old has a friend over and there was a "teaparty" on a beach towel on the kitchen floor involving a lot of water and soggy goldfish and then my daughter's friend slipped on the wet floor from the tea party water that was everywhere and she cried and I had to make sure she was ok and then have them help me clean up the crime scene. 

KEEP EATING NEXT TO NOTHING!!!

Later Tubsters. 

4th weigh in WTF?????

I gained 1.8 lbs.

I can't believe it. I am very pissed. I ate under my calories EVERY SINGLE DAY. It is religiously documented in my myfitnesspal account. I also worked out for the first time.  I had 4 workouts!!!! I don't understand how it is scientifically possible that I GAINED weight! It makes no sense to me and I am pissed. Hoping for a big one next Tuesday.

Total lost in first 4 weeks of operation starvation: 1.8. I have made MAJOR changes in my eating for 4 weeks religiously and have lost only 1.8. I could scream. 2 of the 4 weigh ins were GAINS!!! WTF??? This is not how it is supposed to work the first month.

Too pissed to write anymore. Didn't even want to update this post. Also have a raging roid that is making me ornery as hell. Wake me up when this diet ends!!!!!!

FATSO pics AGAIN:

3rd weigh in

I lost 3 pounds this week! Wahoo! 

182.2

Down a total of 4.8 over 3 weeks.

I am happy with the outcome.

That was with counting every calorie, didn't go out to eat once and zero alcohol. WORKED OUT ONE DAY ONLY.

Now if I could just tackle the cankles,  hammertoes and lack of pedicure.

Would LOVE to get to the 170's next weigh in. I AM VERY MOTIVATED.

Obligatory biggest loser pics so I don't get cocky:

DUMPY!!

Think it's time to take down the wreath in the window...

I am actually cold at home today. Does that mean I am a cold skinny bitch? Some day...

Plan for today:

Keep at it Tubsters!

3rd weigh in tomorrow!

Tomorrow is a big weigh in day for me. It is my 3rd weigh in. The first weigh in I gained, the second I was down 1.8 and I have been very strict this week and did not eat out once so I am praying for a loss. Had my period for the last weigh in and curious to see how that may have affected things. Here's how today went down:

Day 12 Superbowl Sunday

No Superbowl Sunday food for me today. NOT EVEN A BEER. I don't have a horse in this race so I am going to strictly adhere to my plan today as follows:

Day 11

I have started to do my food tracking online at www.myfitnesspal.com. I will paste the daily logs here for your reference. Was below goal today!