March/April weight loss challenge

[gnat23]

Yeah, the guy who weighed me in at Weight Watchers was trying to be supportive about my gain, and I had to shuush him like, dude, it's ok, I was dehydrated after a bigass race, then I refed and prolly had a glycogen puff as well as a salt bloat, not to mention a few celebratory beers...

-- gnat! (SCIENCE!)

[limewave]

Okay, ready to start participating again. I'm at 150 as of today. I'll weigh-in again on Friday.

Don't really have a goal in mind for the end, just want to see continual improvement in firming up and slimming down. I have a huge training routine right now (for me). I'm simultaneously training for a mountain bike race and 25k run. Finding the proper balance between staying properly fueled and maintain a reasonable calorie deficit for weight loss is a continual challenge. But I'm figuring it out

[Tabby]

I always look to see total pounds lost on possegal's chart .... over the past couple years, there's been some great achievements, congrats to all!! think surgtech1956 could share her secret for loss between Mar 18-Mar25?
Yowzer!

[Tabby]

136 today ....

[limewave]

149 for me.

[azfiddle]

114.2 today. Better than yesterday.

[Catrin]

136 today, there has to be something off with my diet.

[channlluv]

227.0

I've been walking five miles a day on the treadmill for nearly two weeks - 90 minutes, so I know that's not a blistering pace, but it's good for me.

According to LoseIt!, I've had an average of 500-800 calorie deficit every day. I've nearly doubled my liquid (water/tea/EmergenC) intake and I've upped my fiber.

So, 227 every single morning this week.

Roxy, off to the treadmill (with the cushiness turned up so I don't hurt my MCL again - remember the "5K a Day in August" plan that crashed and burned on day five?)

[Possegal]

think surgtech1956 could share her secret for loss between Mar 18-Mar25?
Yowzer!

That may have been my fat fingers.

[Tri Girl]

thanks, Posse!!

[limewave]

I had a super-stressful week last week. I don't handle conflict/stress well. I ended up spending 3-4 days in bed eating everything in site. I haven't done that in a long, long time. I wish I could break that habit. I think in some ways I have, as I don't do that every time I get stressed out anymore. A more manageable level I can go for a walk/run/bike and help relieve some of that emotional baggage. This situation was too much and it left me paralyzed.

I don't even want to get on the scale after that mess. Yesterday I managed to get myself back on a reasonable diet. Not a weight-loss diet, but a balanced one anyways. That's my goal again today. I just need to get my feet back under me until I can focus again on weight loss.

Life. The never-ending roller-coaster.

[nolemom]

Here's hoping this is a much better week for you Limewave. I find that sometimes the best I can do during a very stressful period is to minimize the damage. I am 1 1/2 pounds away from reaching my "normal" weight after a very stressful last summer and fall. I hope that you can continue to focus on the positive on the progress you have made . The older I get the more I realize that I have very little control in my life but can only focus on my responses to the *%*% that happens.

[channlluv]

Muirenn and GLC, thank you for that input. Little bit of an eye-opener there, and I needed to see it. It makes total sense the way you put it, GLC. And Muirenn, thanks for the link. I'm going to go check it out now.

I can say that my husband says I'm a lot skinnier since walking five miles each day (even with the five days off because I felt like I was going to injure my calves). I'm back at it this weekend, and will walk tonight.

It's hard getting on the bike lately -- I'm trying to work on my writing during the afternoons when I used to bike (working on a couple of contracts), and I have my daughter at night, who does not have a bike that can keep up with mine, so she doesn't like to ride with me. I'm thinking I need to let her take the Ruby Comp and I'll ride the steel frame MTB, but I'm a little scared to let her get on the carbon bike. I'm afraid she'd get going really fast and lose control and get hurt. Like mother, like daughter, you know? And it goes fast. Still, she needs to learn sometime.

Her dad suggested I take her over to the grassy area at the park to let her get used to the posture and speed, and she said, full of exasperation, "WHY would I want to ride a ROAD bike on GRASS?" Like, really, geez, parents. Insert rolling her eyes here.

She's thirteen. Yeah.

So I'm enjoying the treadmill, especially since we got the Google TV set up and I can watch Netflix. I'm on episode 31 of Veronica Mars. Buffy is next. And then maybe Merlin. I can get caught up on the cool YA TV shows I always wanted to watch, but couldn't, and get in shape, too. Win-win.

The weight, I just don't know. My therapist says I need to release the emotional baggage from my childhood and the weight will just peel off. Has that ever worked for anyone?

Roxy

[Possegal]

I totally understand Limewave. I tell everyone that the way I've dealt with my nephew being killed is to 'take to my bed with chocolate', said like I'm joking but in reality, that is exactly what I did. I told my sister that I can hear him somewhere just laughing and saying - don't you go blaming your bad behavior on me. In reality I'm kind of thinking I may need to go find someone to talk to about all the things I'm dealing with, or not dealing with as it were. Just filed my taxes and for someone that usually files on Feb 1, that's a bit of a bad sign.

Today I packed my lunch for work for the first time since December. I wanted to shout it through the halls. Baby steps I guess.

Never-ending rollercoaster indeed.