Well, it is week 1 and I'm down 2 pounds?! Honestly, its the water and the fact that I'm over PMS. Also, since I'm weighing myself I can tell you the scale showed no weight loss yesterday after my Outback meal. This morning I was down 3 pounds when I woke up. The 2 pounds is today after a pretty clean eating day and lots of water. Does anyone else fluctuate that much?! No changes in my body- my pants fit a little snug like always.
Pop challenges have been good. No cheese was easy - I ate soup all day! But my calorie intake was also low that day - so says myfitnesspal, it actually yelled at me I wasn't eating enough.
Water has also been good. I measured and all my cups are 16 oz, I can guzzle one pretty quick if I'm behind but keeping up during the day is better. The hardest is when I'm at work - I rarely buy bottled water, its not enough anyway, and its taken me some mental strength to drink from the work water cooler again (GERMS?!?)
Not snacking is killer, especially around the kids. I'm eating all my calories in 3 meals. I think I'd rather be on Weight Watchers then daily calorie counting because there are days, like today - I'd love a banana but I don't have 100 calories left to spare since I go day to day rather then weekly. I'll have to work it into breakfast tomorrow.
So hit all my days except Saturday - splurged and a big ol thing of icecream and that put me over 155 calories for the week in total. Not bad I don't think?
Must move more. The day I did stretching I worked in some outdoor fun with the kids to get the 30 minutes point. I got more calories added back in that way. I see lots of tweaking to this here diet of mine over the next 11 weeks... maybe smaller meals more often and I'm also running out of meal ideas so looking forward to that pop challenge to share some recipes!
I seriously fluctuate 3-5 pounds on average per week. I am hoping through our challenge I can start to see that decrease, but I have in the last 6 months or so, consistently ranged between 3-5 pounds. As long as I am looking to maintain, it's great and I don't stress it. But since I want to lose, it's kind of irritating! lol. Great job on finding things to do to fit in some activities and getting your water.
ReplyDeleteGreat job Jill! I have also found that just sticking to a calorie counting diet didn't work for me either. To you point, the banana is a good calorie and your body needs it, which is why the Weight Watchers seems to work for me. I can eat tons of veggies and not rack up the points. For your water, since you don't like the water cooler at work (totally with you on that one) what about bringing in a 1/2 gallon or gallon jug from home each day? Just save one of your milk cartons, rinse it out, and voila! :) I can't wait to hear how this week goes.
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