I'm Home, somewhat lighter

Hello, hello, I've been gone 2 weeks and now I'm back.  Hello

I took an impromptu trip up north (Milwaukee) to help my MIL with household projects and now I'm back.  It's so good to be home.  I missed ya'll.  I couldn't do much on-line at her house because she has the slowest internet service (or computer, I don't know which) on earth.  Also, part of the reason behind the trip was also to get out from in front of the computer and get myself moving more.

So, I stripped wallpaper, painted the bathroom, patched holes and painted them, cleaned the basement, painted the basement, balanced her checkbook, and a thousand other little tasks.  She's still nowhere near ready to put the house on the market.  I could have worked another month on the house, but alas, I ran out of time (and patience).

Also, it was so cold there.  I am more and more committed to staying SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line.  Honestly, one morning I ran outside doing my c25k training and my hair froze on my head.  Today I ran uptown and even though it's "cold" for Charlotte, it was a sunny, breezy, 55 degrees.  Glorious.

Being gone from the familiar, and away from my scale, I was curious as to how much my increased activity netted me in weight loss.  Well, it wasn't that much different from the pace I was at before I left.  I lost about 5 pounds in two weeks.  I don't know what I expected, but I thought it would be more.  I stuck to my sensible eating plan, except for yesterday on the drive home where I chowed down on horrible road food to keep myself awake.  So, I guess, the rate of loss is not significantly influenced by my activities.  That said, I'm still going to keep up my exercise program, because it does make me feel good, and I can control it, whereas, I can't control the rate of weight loss.

I'm looking forward to reading all, ya'll's older posts and find out what's been going on.

Cheryl  l

Happy to see you back here -- I wondered where you were!

Sounds like you had a BUSY trip -- now, when can I schedule you to come to my house and paint???  LOL

Keep on movin'!!!!

I come with baggage, three dogs and an attitude.  So unless you can afford the price, your house isn't getting any paint.

Sounds like it was a good trip overall.  Hope you got to see Tracey before you left.

When I am gone for weekends and am doing what I can but not tracking my food daily, I have figured out I have to just accept whatever I get when I get home.  Sometime the same, sometimes loss, but I never can really figure it out.  Just makes me more committeed to tracking onces I am back home.  At least if I know I have eatten on plan, I don't worry if I am up or down.

Welcome back Cheryl!  My rate of loss averages 2.5 per week too... so that's just got to be perfect! 

If I didn't like you, I'd hate you.
2.5 lbs a week?  Whaaaa.....

Here's my weekly weight loss.
pre-surg week 11.0 lbs
post surg wk1    7.0 lbs
wk2                       6.0 lbs                    
wk3                       2.0 lbs
wk4                       1.5 lbs
wk5                       2.0 lbs
wk6                       0.5 lbs
wk 7                      1.5 lbs    

just so if there's anyone else like me, they won't feel like they're abnormal.  In the past 5 weeks, I've averaged 1.5 lb loss a week. 

And the surgeon said that was a good weigh to lose the wait. Or was it a good way to lose the weight?  And the nutritionist told me to ADD 200 calories a day to my food plan.  I started looking for a snowball that wasn't melting in the heat.

tracey

I had a whole post about this prepared when my internet went down earlier.  BOO!

I imagine you get email notices, and if not, I replied to your 2nd post on my NSV thread.  TTYL!!

I got your PM and saw your other post.  I like your math, and I still like you the same.  Once the "like meter" is pegged, it's hard to move it down.  (smile)
tracey

2.5 lbs a week of fat is a LOT !! if Ure preserving muscle and really losing excess fat .... Ure losing dress sizes like gangbusters at that rate .

I definitely wouldn't be complaining .... Im in like literally a year long stall Cheryl lol . And U know what ? I'm perfectly OK with it . Its nowhere near my goal weight and that gets me concerned and a little PO ed ... but

building fat burning muscle through daily exercise really IS the key to dropping the body's setpoint permanently .

So when I'm ready to concentrate on losing weight I will run and lift weights every day ...and the weight will come off and stay off even when I stop running that much .

Personally I'm just really pleased that I weighed ( exactly the same as always ) ... that my stomach's flat , my arms look strong and my posture's improving ( yay) from all the physical WORK I've been doing. I figure Its just like lifting free weights lol !

Ava,
Hus come you aren't posting photos of this gorgeous gardening and landscaping work????
We want photos!!
tracey