Never gonna be satisfied, am I? or, Shrinking into Summer Weigh In 4
I have this very bad habit of stepping on the scale multiple times throughout the week. I know it’s bad, but I can’t help myself. I would hide my scale, but I need it for these weekly weigh ins (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!)
So on Monday morning when I stepped on the scale I was down four pounds. I know, right!? So I decided I would step up my game big time and try to make it another four before today. I was setting myself up.
On the other hand, it did motivate me to work out, even when I really didn’t want to. I did two times around the circuit at our gym (it’s a huge circuit, takes 30 minutes to do it once) on Monday, as well as my 30 minutes on the bike. Tuesday I hopped on the elliptical twice for a total of an hour.
And today I hopped on the scale with my fingers crossed…and I was UP a pound since Monday morning. D’oh!
Even with the change, I’m still down three overall for this week. Which in three weeks puts me at almost 9 pounds for this challenge. You know what, I’ll take that. And keep hoping for Biggest Loseresque drops next week…
bah
Weight Watchers is SO different from Sure Slim.
As I mentioned in my last posting, I like the freedom of being able to eat all the foods that I love (in reasonable quantities etc. of course!) And I feel like it’s a better lifestyle choice for me. In other words, I could live like this. I couldn’t live like SS forever.
That said, the results I got on SS were spectacular. 60 pounds in less than 3 months and that with me cheating fairly often the last six weeks. If only I could find the willpower to do that again for five or six months. Then I could segue over to WW and learn how to live the rest of my life.
It’s not to be. And I’ve resolved to be happy with any losses because a loss is better than a gain (and hey, it’s better than a plateau too!) So this week I lost another 2 pounds for a total of 8.something in three weeks. Not as dramatic as SS, but I’ll take it.
I bet you all think I’ve fallen off the wagon, don’t you? Hmn, yeah I would too.
Here’s the thing. We’re moving in a month and trying to build a house and money is tight. And that’s embarassing. But I was thinking about it last night and hey, if I’m going to blog about everything else, well then there’s no shame in saying we’re broke. You’ve all been there. Right?
Between buying tile and mirrors and driving back and forth between home and the new home 7 days a week (that’s a lot of gas people!) there isn’t a lot of money left for groceries. So Sure Slim is kind of not happening right now. Which is too bad because it is a sure fire plan to lose the weight quickly.
After we move our builder will give us back all the money we’ve fronted. And then we can buy groceries again. So until then we’re living off veggies and potatoes, because hey…those are cheap. So…no dramatically huge weight losses to report. But no huge gains either. In fact, my jeans were decidedly loose when I put them on yesterday. So that’s a small success right there!
In other news though, ten days ago I had an attack which is becoming a little too familiar to me. I’ve had to give up coffee and I’m having to be very careful about the foods I’m eating. My mum told me that my attacks sounded like gall stones so I googled it and that’s exactly what my symptoms sound like. And let me tell you…more painful than child birth people! I don’t like that kind of pain, and I’d prefer to keep my gall bladder. So I will be watching what goes in my mouth very carefully from now on!!
