Happy Dance!!!

That is what I am doing right now. I'm down to 200 lbs again. My all time low and after a very crazy weekend, that is not over with yet. I do my weekly weighin tomorrow that I post on my blog and I hope its the same or lower tomorrow. It would be really nice to be below 200. Anyway, I really didn't do so good this weekend and I'm trying to figure out how I actually lost, but I'll take it and be happy. Let me tell you what I ate:

Friday (sleepover with 7 boys):
B= Espresso protein shake
L= 1/2 pastrami sandwich few bites potato salad
D= 2 slice pepperoni pizza
S= chips, candy, bite of cake

SAT (end of sleepover and another party)
B= Espresso, 3 sausage links
L= 1/2 pastrami sandwich few bites potato salad
D= 1 slice pepperoni pizza , chips
S= chips, candy, 3 mixed drinks at party (Cape cod with diet cranberry juice)

Sun (so far)
B= Espresso protein drink

So, as you can see, I've been bad, but tried to pay attention to how much I ate. I did do a 1 hour hike with the kids on Sat morning. I can't help buy wonder if I need to eat more calories to loose weight???? Of course, more healthier choices, but maybe I need to get in 1200 calories a day if I'm exercising to loose sufficient weight. HHMMMM something to think about and play around with. Anyway, I'm going to yet another birthday party this afternoon with my youngest son (Lazer Tag) and they are having pizza, but I think I'll try to pass on that and drink a protein shake and an apple before I leave for the party. I don't plan on eating cake either.

As far as restriction goes, I can definately feel it and some things kind of hurt a little when going down, but they don't hurt enough to make me stop eating whats hurting, it just reminds me to slow down and chew. I'm having to stop myself from eating when I think I've eaten more than a cup of food. That is very hard for me. I went to lunch with hubby at this great little sandwich place on Friday and got a delicious pastrami sandwich on sourdough. I ate half and could have finished the whole thing, but stopped myself. I felt very satisfied with I left the table, not stuffed, but satisfied and proud that I stopped myself. I ate the other half of the sanwich on Sat afternoon and this time I had a little trouble with the bread. It hurt a bit, so I took off the top slice and was stuffed after the 1/2 sandwich. I don't get that, because one day I had no trouble and the next it was a little more restricted. I am begining to think some of this is in my head.

Anyway, Have a great day!!

Down .7

Ok, so I'm down on the scales again. Another .7 of a pound yeah!!! I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing different. I've been putting in extra protein each day. I've also been exercising a ton. I'm going to try that again today and hope it changes again tomorrow.

This weekend will be tough for me though. I'm having 8 boys overnight at my house for my son's birthday. I have pizza, pazokie (warm cookie w/ice cream) and tonz of junk food and candy for the kids. I hope I can control myself. Then, we have another birthday party to attend on Sat. Pizza, cake, ice cream and acholoic beverages. Sun is another birthday party...Pizza and cake and Monday we are spending the day at Universal Studios for my son's real birthday and eating out. My hope is to not gain over the weekend and hope I'm so sick of looking at pizza that I never want to eat it again (probably not possible as I love pizza). My hubby is off work tomorrow and wants to go out to lunch and spend the day together since our weekend will be so busy.

Hope everyone has an awsome day.

Finally!!

Finally, the scale has moved in the right direction. I'm down one of the pounds I gained. I'm trying to think of what I did differently. I added extra protein, which is good for me, but does add more calories. I got about the same amount of calories 1,000. I don't know what I did differently, but I'm glad I'm headed in the right direction. I went to the gym last night and am going to try to go again this morning for some weights.

No Change!!

I tracked my calories yesterday and I ate about 1,000 calories and even took my kids on a 30 min hike and no change today. I'm going to get extra protein in today and I'm going to the gym and I'll see what happens. If I don't loose in the next wee, I'll call for another fill.

The Scale is not Cooperating!!!

UUUGGGG!!! I went up again!!! The scale has been going up steadily for the last 3-4 days. I know I haven't been making the best food choices lately, but I'm eating about 1/3 of what I used to eat. I'm hardly eating!! I'm exercising!! I don't get it!!! Sorry, I had to vent. I'm so frustrated.

I think I need to go back and track some of the food I ate the past few days and see if its too many calories or not enough or what?? I'm going to eat really healthy today and see what happens tomorrow. I hope the scale is going in the other direction tomorrow..

Hope your day starts off better than mine.

Daylight Savings Time Begins

I'm loving the whole Daylight Savings Time. I am loving the nice Spring weather as well. I did go to the gym on Sat and did about 1/2 hour eliptical on a high level and then did some weights. I was still too sore on my arms, so I just did my legs really good.

You know what is wierd?? In earlier posts, I commented that I felt some restriction since my last fill, but realize I will need another in a month or so. Well, that is still true, I know I will need more restriction, but I am really feeling my fill for the last few days. I still struggle with stopping eating when I feel full, but I'm feeling certain things going down and sometimes there is a slight pain and then I can feel it go down. I have not PB'd yet, thank goodness, but I've had some close calls. I have to say that I haven't been eating the best choices, but definatly much smaller portions. For example, we went out to pizza last night at this great italian resturant near us and I had one large slice and was stuffed and thought afterwards that I should not have eaten the whole piece and next time would cut it in half (I have a hard time leaving food on my plate, whatever I serve up, I usually finish, so I'm going to try to serve smaller portions and if I need more, I can always get seconds). Today, we had some pizza left over, so for lunch, I cut a slice in 1/2 and ate it and was actually satisfied, not stuffed, but satisfied. So, I'm finding that I am eating a lot less and didn't necessarily feel that way immediately after this fill. Wierd, does it get tighter after a few days??? or I wonder if it could be my cycle?? Anyhow, I'm glad to be feeling the band now. I'm going to work with this for a month and then go in for the next fill. I find myself a little nervous about the next fill because I know a lot of foods will be out after the next fill, but afterall, that is what I got this for. To loose weight Right?? Right.

I'm going on a gils weekend trip with two of my best friends who I have known since I was a young girl. We are going in the begining of april and then my kids have spring break and we might go camping with some close friends. None of these people know of my band, and I'm contemplating weather I should do my next fill right before (it would be 4 weeks from my last), or if I should wait until after spring break and be able to test my band without an audiance. Also, I'd love to enjoy these two outings and be able to go out to dinner without stress over what I can and can't eat. Anyway, I think I'll wait and see how the weight loss is going and as long as I am consistantly lossing, I'll wait until after. If I stand still or gain, I guess I'll go in before. Any suggestions???

I didn't weigh today!!! I know, what??? I am a scale-a-holic, but I had been gaining the last two times I got on and was really bad yesterday with a dessert and all, so I'm going to wait until Monday and then I can post it on my stats.

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Keep blogging.

My Stats

I posted my stats on the side of my blog. I went back into my Wii chart to see what my different weights/dates were and instead of listing them all. I tried to list week to week stats. On some occasions, I've been at lower weights, but tried to stick as close to each Monday as I could, so I could get a realistic idea of my progress.