Um yeah... missed that 10 mth post...

Jan 17, 2010

And that's on purpose. Feeling a little discouraged this week. I'm in a big stall... not gaining but not losing either. Scale showed 212 this a.m. and I was 211 about 10 days ago and in between? Up & down from 213 to 211.5 or so. Four weeks of bouncing up & down.  And I want to be mildly delusional, I can say my lowest this month is 211 so a loss of 3 lbs since Dec 12th? Um... not happy with that at all.

I can put on my rose coloured glasses and say "Wow - you lost weight over the holidays!" and yes, I can look and say yes - for the first time in just about forever, I am not up 4-5+ lbs for the same time period. But I've made some major breath throughs this past month - or I thought I had and I think that's whats messing with my head right now.

I discovered over the Christmas break that when I was feeling overwhelmed or stressed, I would (if possible) take a time out and I was running on my treadmill. And it felt good... and helped me cope and feel good without the need to eat/binge for hours after too. I ran on Dec 23 and 26th... and I went to Good Life on the 28th to find out about a trial membership. Used their treadmill and ran again... and then I found IT... Wed the 30th of December, I discovered Zumba and that was it - I was hooked. The exercise bug had bitten and bitten hard. Thursday the 31st, I went back to the gym and did another C25K run (and found it so much easier!) and I joined the gym. I took Friday the 1st off but was back Saturday to do another C25K run and on Sunday, I got up early and went to the gym for a NewBody class (aerobics with hand weights) for an hour.  Took the Monday off and I was back C25K'ing on Tuesday, did Zumba Wed night and then AGAIN on Thursday. Yep - it's an illness!  Took the Friday off as I had registered Saturday for a Zumba Fiesta - a 2 hr Zumba "class" raising funds for Heart & Stroke. (Enjoyed it tremendously but didn't finish the full 2 hrs... at 90 min, I felt a little light headed and retired to have a protein bar & more water....)

Rested Sunday. Monday was 30 min of strength training (Nautilus), Tues was a rest day, Wed was Zumba, I did W4D1 on Thursday and I've taken the weekend off as my knees & shins were feeling "tender". Back at it today for sure once Maggie goes to school. :)

So I'm finally getting into the exercise bug and my net calories had dropped on exercise days, esp. Zumba days (I had a net cal of 500 on the 2 hr Zumba day and I really upped my calories - almost 1500 gross calories which is waaaay more than I normally eat).

So I don't know if my body thinks it's in starvation mode again or the stress of the holidays plus getting through Andrew's eye surgery last week? Might be the stress too... but I'm booked to see Shauna (the dietician) and Rob (the trainer) at BMI this week to come up with some strategies to get things moving again.

I had hoped to get to One-Derland well before my 1 yr surgiversary but that's 11-12 lbs in 8 weeks? Right now, that doesn't feel doable and that's depressing.  

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