March/April weight loss challenge

[azfiddle]

113.6
mostly on track....

[surgtech1956]

182.5

[gnat23]

141.0

-- gnat! (half-a-pound a week by my graph, ok, I guess that works)

[klesko]

141.0

-- gnat! (half-a-pound a week by my graph, ok, I guess that works)

I have been losing half a pound a week - it adds up

[channlluv]

Back up to 228.4.

I just don't get it. I have been doing a 5k on the treadmill every day this week because it's Spring Break and DD is home and doesn't like to ride for exercise, so my getting a workout in on the bike isn't going to happen unless I drop her off for a playdate somewhere.

So I've been walking on the treadmill. And I gained five pounds since last week.

Is is the bread, really?

Oy.

[Veronica]

Is is the bread, really?

Oy.

It could be. I am much leaner with a 1 to 1 ratio of protein to carbs.

Veronica

[channlluv]

I have to think there's something to it. I cut way, way back on bread last week and dropped about four pounds. I think partly because where I was eating a sandwich every day for lunch (whole grain bread and turkey with lettuce and cucumber, or almond butter and jelly, depending), I went to eating a head of celery with that almond butter instead, or leftovers from my breakfast scramble of spinach, onions, peppers and an egg. The fiber ratio went way, way up as the bread went way, way down.

This week I went back to my normal bread intake and ploomp...last night I was back up to 231.2. I feel like that blueberry girl in Willy Wonka.

I upped my water intake yesterday. I was feeling really dehydrated and constipated -- another bread-related issue? That helped, but I still feel bloated.

So, breakfast this morning is fat-free vanilla Greek yogurt and a half-cup or so of pomegranate seeds from Trader Joe's. Lunch will be an apple and a head of celery with some almond butter. That seemed to agree with me really well last week.

I'm about to go get back on the treadmill. I'm going to continue doing the 5ks because I like how my legs feel really muscular when I'm done, like after a hard bike ride.

I've also been told I need to do more weight-bearing exercise. I wonder if some of this bloated feeling is from inflammation because my body's not used to the pounding it's taking.

I dunno. Why, why, why does French bread have to taste so darn good when it's right out of the oven?

Sigh.

[klesko]

138.2 this morning.

[klesko]

I have been reading the above posts and thought I would chime in. My high weight was 184.6 in May of 2008. I am 5'4" so that registered obese. I lost about 15 pounds and then held for a long time. Then I just decided I would write down everything I ate and ramp up my exercise. I have tracked all my food intake and exercise on fitday.com for almost a year and a half. I gradually figured out that if I eat less than about 30% fat, I am STARVING. I try to eat healthy fats (almonds, avocados) and if I stay around 30% I can eat a lot less and not feel like I am so hungry I want to chew on my arm. I am down to about 22% body fat and feel great - I would like to lose about another 8 pounds. I have been losing about half a pound a week (lost over 46 pounds so far), and figure I will keep doing the same thing when I reach my goal - just eating a little bit more of the same ratio. My husband and sons all have raging metabolisms and it is disappointing to eat a tiny amount of food compared to them, but that is just the way it is.

[Tabby]

136 ....