Seriously...I did not think I would be on this diet 30 weeks later.
But I am. And it's okay. I'm super close to being at goal. So close....5 lbs away.
Saturday's weigh in showed a .6 lb of fat gone. BUT....I was up 1 lbs from the previous week. Turns out, it was all water. I have a nasty cold so I'm drinking a ton of water. I guess that's what that was all about so my coach was really happy that I was so hydrated.
I'm still a little pissy that I have 5 lbs to go. I've tried to cut most of my coffee out which means most of the coconut creamer is too. My friend Patty turned me on to roasted cocoa beans. Basically it's like drinking chocolate without the sugar or caffeine. You brew these roasted ground cocoa beans just like coffee. It's absolutely amazing! You can add milk and sugar if you're so inclined but being on this low carb/no sugar diet I can't. Luckily, it doesn't need anything!
So...I'm hovering at 150.5 lbs. Got to get to 145. Would love 143 but I'll take 145!!!! Please God.... :-)
So....here's to hoping that cutting out that extra fat and caffeine will help. I'm sure my cold is affecting my loss a little but I am trying to really eat clean and lose this last 5 lbs as quickly as possible!
I just got an order from Old Navy and I tried on my clothes. Looks like Size medium works really well and is almost loose and one of my pairs of pants was almost a little too loose in the waist but I think I'll keep them anyway! I think they'll shrink in the wash..... what a nice problem to have...something being a little 'too big'? No regrets....trying to stay patient....staying the course. I've got this. These last 5 lbs WILL BE GONE. SOON.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Week 28 done and Week 29 continues
Well.....
the weight loss is definitely SLOWING down. I've been battling hormonal stuff for 19 days and that makes it impossible to get an accurate BF reading. I am getting pretty tired of it actually.
One good thing is that I've been steady and wearing the same size clothing so at least I've been able to buy things and not have them be too big in a month! That's a positive way of looking at this stall!
The pic to the left is a Squirrel print (yes, you read that right) dress I got from PinUpGirlClothing.com for my opening night of Willy Wonka. I couldn't resist. I mean, how often do you find anything with squirrels on them? For those of you that don't know the story of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, the Veruca Salt scene actually takes place in the 'Nut Room' as opposed to the "Geese That Lay the Golden Egg" room in the 1971 movie. Anyway, I have 6 adorable little girls in my show that play squirrels and this was for them as much as it was for me!
I was super proud to be able to fit into this dress. Six months ago I would have been 4 sizes bigger!
So at my last weigh in I managed to lose the water weight I gained from PMS. I always weigh a little more at my official weigh in since I've managed to eat and drink a lot just prior and it's weighing my clothing too. If I take into consideration all the excess, I have at least 2 extra lbs at the clinic. So I look at my weight as being 151 that particular day. Not bad! That's 52 lbs!!!!!
I had a long chat with my coach about my goal. I am finally at the point where I'm comfortable so I decided to phase off. I still have to lose 5-7 lbs so that when I start eating regular foods (meaning carbs) I will actually gain that extra weight back so I need to be a little lighter than my actual goal. I think I really need to get into exercise now so that I can build up muscle and keep burning more fat. Now that I have my food intake under control I think this will be pretty easy for me to handle. I am planning to go gluten free or mostly GF as well as sugar free and consciously eat less carbs so I can have the occasional binge days to enjoy pasta, rice, potatoes, etc. I don't miss them now so I want to be sure I stay that way. But I do want to enjoy sushi again as well as some good Mexican food now and then.
So....IF all goes according to plan and this cold that I have doesn't screw up my fat burning, I should be done with Phase 1 in 2 weeks. I am really trying to stay 'clean' and avoid fats at all cost (except for the alloted amounts) so we'll see what happens! I'd like to see a 5 lb drop like I've had a few times before but I think I'll be lucky to see 1 or 2 lbs!
Keeping my fingers crossed!!!!
the weight loss is definitely SLOWING down. I've been battling hormonal stuff for 19 days and that makes it impossible to get an accurate BF reading. I am getting pretty tired of it actually.
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| Willy Wonka Opening Night 2/14/2014 |
The pic to the left is a Squirrel print (yes, you read that right) dress I got from PinUpGirlClothing.com for my opening night of Willy Wonka. I couldn't resist. I mean, how often do you find anything with squirrels on them? For those of you that don't know the story of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, the Veruca Salt scene actually takes place in the 'Nut Room' as opposed to the "Geese That Lay the Golden Egg" room in the 1971 movie. Anyway, I have 6 adorable little girls in my show that play squirrels and this was for them as much as it was for me!
I was super proud to be able to fit into this dress. Six months ago I would have been 4 sizes bigger!
So at my last weigh in I managed to lose the water weight I gained from PMS. I always weigh a little more at my official weigh in since I've managed to eat and drink a lot just prior and it's weighing my clothing too. If I take into consideration all the excess, I have at least 2 extra lbs at the clinic. So I look at my weight as being 151 that particular day. Not bad! That's 52 lbs!!!!!
I had a long chat with my coach about my goal. I am finally at the point where I'm comfortable so I decided to phase off. I still have to lose 5-7 lbs so that when I start eating regular foods (meaning carbs) I will actually gain that extra weight back so I need to be a little lighter than my actual goal. I think I really need to get into exercise now so that I can build up muscle and keep burning more fat. Now that I have my food intake under control I think this will be pretty easy for me to handle. I am planning to go gluten free or mostly GF as well as sugar free and consciously eat less carbs so I can have the occasional binge days to enjoy pasta, rice, potatoes, etc. I don't miss them now so I want to be sure I stay that way. But I do want to enjoy sushi again as well as some good Mexican food now and then.
So....IF all goes according to plan and this cold that I have doesn't screw up my fat burning, I should be done with Phase 1 in 2 weeks. I am really trying to stay 'clean' and avoid fats at all cost (except for the alloted amounts) so we'll see what happens! I'd like to see a 5 lb drop like I've had a few times before but I think I'll be lucky to see 1 or 2 lbs!
Keeping my fingers crossed!!!!
Friday, February 7, 2014
More ups and downs
It's Friday and it's the day before my 27th weigh in. I've been at this for almost 7 months. I'm not complaining about that part of it at all. I'm grateful that I have learned that I can eat to live and still be a cook. I love to bake desserts. I love to create fantastic meals whether they are exotic, old school, fresh or rich. I am trying to figure out how to make dishes low carb and somewhat low fat but still have lots of flavor. I'm trying to avoid any and all added sugar. So far, so good. I don't miss starchy foods at all and I'm even cool not having wine or any other form of alcohol for these past 27 weeks.
What's killing me today is that after a couple of days of finally hitting what has been the lowest weight (my barrier has been 152) I finally started hovering around 151. I was in shock that I was slowly coming down and getting closer to 150. But then..... sure enough, my weight decided to go back up and I'm back to 152 yet AGAIN.
I ate hamburger two days ago plus some slices of pickle which always make me retain water/gain. I figured that out after I saw a 1.1 lb gain overnight. I was okay because I assumed this morning I would be down to my lower weight again. Well.... I have lost .6 of it as of this morning. I really expected all of it to be gone but I guess I shouldn't complain. I have managed to get rid of a little more than half of the gain. And yet I want to complain. I'm tired of yo-yoing back and forth. I'm tired of being less than 10 lbs from my goal but not having the scale go down these past 2 months.
I'm burning out. I can sense it. But the odd thing is that I'm not wanting to start eating all the bad foods again. Far from it. I want to continue to eat low carb forever. I was to include some paleo too. I'm excited about the future in terms of my cooking style. I can't wait to try more things and start full out exercising.
The main problem.... my body fat is still too high for my liking. I'm not even in the 29% range yet. I want to be 27% at the highest and work toward 23%. My TOM affects body fat so much that I jump up to 32% and it makes any reading of my actual weight and BF impossible. I have been having 10-21 day periods too so it's been virtually impossible to get a clear reading more than 2x a month on the body fat. I'm ready to wage an all out war with my body because this seems ridiculous that my hormones would affect my success. But it does and I have to learn to be patient. I'm seeing others who started after me already finishing their phase 1 part of the plan and I'm still sitting here doing NOTHING but yoyo-ing. I'm so ticked off.
I'll be okay.... I just needed to whine and gripe about this. I know I don't eat 100% clean. I have permission to eat a little bacon and to add coconut milk to my coffee. Maybe that's finally affecting it. I don't know for sure. I'm going to try to avoid some of these extras this week and see what it does. I'll also eat a LOT of lettuce and greens to see if it helps at all.
I just want to move on to phase 2. So I'm putting that out there into the universe. I'm telling my body to let go of the body fat so I can go on and live my life as a phase 4 IP graduate. Please body..... let go of these last 6-10 lbs of fat that are so stubbornly holding on? Please??????
What's killing me today is that after a couple of days of finally hitting what has been the lowest weight (my barrier has been 152) I finally started hovering around 151. I was in shock that I was slowly coming down and getting closer to 150. But then..... sure enough, my weight decided to go back up and I'm back to 152 yet AGAIN.
I ate hamburger two days ago plus some slices of pickle which always make me retain water/gain. I figured that out after I saw a 1.1 lb gain overnight. I was okay because I assumed this morning I would be down to my lower weight again. Well.... I have lost .6 of it as of this morning. I really expected all of it to be gone but I guess I shouldn't complain. I have managed to get rid of a little more than half of the gain. And yet I want to complain. I'm tired of yo-yoing back and forth. I'm tired of being less than 10 lbs from my goal but not having the scale go down these past 2 months.
I'm burning out. I can sense it. But the odd thing is that I'm not wanting to start eating all the bad foods again. Far from it. I want to continue to eat low carb forever. I was to include some paleo too. I'm excited about the future in terms of my cooking style. I can't wait to try more things and start full out exercising.
The main problem.... my body fat is still too high for my liking. I'm not even in the 29% range yet. I want to be 27% at the highest and work toward 23%. My TOM affects body fat so much that I jump up to 32% and it makes any reading of my actual weight and BF impossible. I have been having 10-21 day periods too so it's been virtually impossible to get a clear reading more than 2x a month on the body fat. I'm ready to wage an all out war with my body because this seems ridiculous that my hormones would affect my success. But it does and I have to learn to be patient. I'm seeing others who started after me already finishing their phase 1 part of the plan and I'm still sitting here doing NOTHING but yoyo-ing. I'm so ticked off.
I'll be okay.... I just needed to whine and gripe about this. I know I don't eat 100% clean. I have permission to eat a little bacon and to add coconut milk to my coffee. Maybe that's finally affecting it. I don't know for sure. I'm going to try to avoid some of these extras this week and see what it does. I'll also eat a LOT of lettuce and greens to see if it helps at all.
I just want to move on to phase 2. So I'm putting that out there into the universe. I'm telling my body to let go of the body fat so I can go on and live my life as a phase 4 IP graduate. Please body..... let go of these last 6-10 lbs of fat that are so stubbornly holding on? Please??????
Monday, February 3, 2014
Week 25/Week 26 weigh ins & Week 27 begins
Whoops.....
I obviously ignored my poor blog for a couple of weeks. I've been incredibly distracted. My weight has been staying with me. It hasn't been coming off for the last couple of weeks. I've actually gone up and down and it's been really annoying. I truly thought I would be DONE with phase 1 at the end of January.
I'm still 7-10 lbs away. This is where I was at the beginning of the month! What the what?????
Okay.....I've been eating strangely. I have added Quest bars into the mix as they are very satisfying and have little to no carbs/sugar (even compared to IP product). I have been starving the last 2 weeks (which I now see was symptoms of my TOM) and possibly knocking myself out of ketosis. I also was exercising the entire month and that's when my weight really stalled.
Go figure. I was doing great on my planks (3.5 minutes people!) and my squats but I wasn't eating enough to lose weight. I sabotaged my own losses by trying to exercise. Damn.....
So I stopped about 3-4 days ago. I started cutting back on my coffee and upped my water. I started chowing down on lots of lettuce.
My weigh in a week ago showed a gain and a skyrocketing BF% (TOM is coming - warning, warning) but it was obvious I hadn't lost any muscle so I was doing okay. This past weigh in (#26 on Feb. 1) showed a .8 LOSS and an even higher BF%. What the what???? So after looking at my food journal, Rochall said I was NOT eating enough protein. She said my exercise was burning up too much fuel and I was going into starvation mode. ARGH....... but the good news was I hadn't burned up my muscle....YET. But that would be next if I didn't up my food intake.
I swear, I'm always learning on this plan. I really thought I would have everything under control and I would be at my goal weight having finished all my phases. WRONG, kiddo...... you are still NOT in control just yet. That's okay though. I am now staying away from any vigorous training and eating as cleanly as I possibly can and drinking a ton of water. I can't cut the coffee though.... I love it too much so I up the water to make up for it. I seem to be handling that part okay. :-)
Today I started at 152.5 which is pretty darn close to the lowest I've seen on the scale (I believe I had a 151.9 back in December) so I know the plan is now working again. I could not escape past 153 for a long time. I have got to get down to 140-145 before I call phase 1 quits and move into the world of eating real foods again. I feel like I finally have control over what I eat and what I want to eat for the first time ever so I know I can do this. I really need to get down to 25-27% body fat. It's a health thing for me, not about sizes, pounds or inches. I don't care what the numbers are actually. I just want the doctor to see normal levels on everything although I doubt my blood pressure will ever be normal without meds. That's okay though.....just keep me healthy and away from diabetes and heart problems! I'll take meds for BP! That's easy!
I obviously ignored my poor blog for a couple of weeks. I've been incredibly distracted. My weight has been staying with me. It hasn't been coming off for the last couple of weeks. I've actually gone up and down and it's been really annoying. I truly thought I would be DONE with phase 1 at the end of January.
I'm still 7-10 lbs away. This is where I was at the beginning of the month! What the what?????
Okay.....I've been eating strangely. I have added Quest bars into the mix as they are very satisfying and have little to no carbs/sugar (even compared to IP product). I have been starving the last 2 weeks (which I now see was symptoms of my TOM) and possibly knocking myself out of ketosis. I also was exercising the entire month and that's when my weight really stalled.
Go figure. I was doing great on my planks (3.5 minutes people!) and my squats but I wasn't eating enough to lose weight. I sabotaged my own losses by trying to exercise. Damn.....
So I stopped about 3-4 days ago. I started cutting back on my coffee and upped my water. I started chowing down on lots of lettuce.
My weigh in a week ago showed a gain and a skyrocketing BF% (TOM is coming - warning, warning) but it was obvious I hadn't lost any muscle so I was doing okay. This past weigh in (#26 on Feb. 1) showed a .8 LOSS and an even higher BF%. What the what???? So after looking at my food journal, Rochall said I was NOT eating enough protein. She said my exercise was burning up too much fuel and I was going into starvation mode. ARGH....... but the good news was I hadn't burned up my muscle....YET. But that would be next if I didn't up my food intake.
I swear, I'm always learning on this plan. I really thought I would have everything under control and I would be at my goal weight having finished all my phases. WRONG, kiddo...... you are still NOT in control just yet. That's okay though. I am now staying away from any vigorous training and eating as cleanly as I possibly can and drinking a ton of water. I can't cut the coffee though.... I love it too much so I up the water to make up for it. I seem to be handling that part okay. :-)
Today I started at 152.5 which is pretty darn close to the lowest I've seen on the scale (I believe I had a 151.9 back in December) so I know the plan is now working again. I could not escape past 153 for a long time. I have got to get down to 140-145 before I call phase 1 quits and move into the world of eating real foods again. I feel like I finally have control over what I eat and what I want to eat for the first time ever so I know I can do this. I really need to get down to 25-27% body fat. It's a health thing for me, not about sizes, pounds or inches. I don't care what the numbers are actually. I just want the doctor to see normal levels on everything although I doubt my blood pressure will ever be normal without meds. That's okay though.....just keep me healthy and away from diabetes and heart problems! I'll take meds for BP! That's easy!
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