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!