ABBAgirl's Diary

Really? I find my weight is higher a few days before AF and then lower the last few days of it.

I guess every woman is different.
 
Hi ya! Aunt Flow still visiting, so not weighing in just yet. However, I have been keeping up with my workouts and today did a KILLER one on my abs! It felt so good :biggrinjester: and also still tracking my food. It feels like for all of my hard work I should be 10 lbs lighter already, but aggravatingly, it does not work that way; especially the closer a woman gets to her "ideal" body weight.

Tomorrow night is the first practice with my band, and I AM STOKED!!!:party:I am so ready for this. I love my life! And I expect my finances to start turning around any day now.

Hope all is well with you
ABBA
 
Okay, did my workout and still tracking with my food. So WHY does the scale still read 154 lbs:toetap05: I am consuming more calories - and not from junk - than I was before, and I am still working out. It is somewhat frustrating and makes me want to :puke:.

However, I REFUSE to give up!!! I am going to have the body that I want, whether my body makes it easy or hard. We are going to work together, do you hear me?:gnorsi:

Looking forward to our first practice tonight! :party:

stickin' with it,
ABBA
 
:party:It was a PARTY, people! What a blessing, what a privilege to jam with my old pals again! The chemistry is still there, and WE ARE GOING TO ROCK!!!

This morning I did my full workout again. Hot and sweaty, feeling good. Haven't weighed myself today. It's so weird how torturing my abs can actually feel good after! Go figure.

So I will keep it up.

cheers
ABA:biggrinjester:
 
Took yesterday and today off from working out, will be back at it tomorrow. I am considering shocking my system by upping to 1800-2000 calories for a couple of days to see if it jolts me to losing again. I currently consume 27 WW pts daily, which actually is only1350 calories, and that is on days I work out. :toetap05:

So if I up it to 35-40 pts I will be eating significantly more. I think I will find this hard to do, as I am NEVER hungry with just eating 1350. I am nervous that I will gain, but I just have to try. :willy_nilly:

I will weigh myself tomorrow morning after my workout.

Cheers
ABBA
 
So here I am at Day 3 of consuming more. It is much harder than I even thought it would be, because I am just plain not hungry!!! While I am hoping for immediate WL, I don't expect it. My body will take a bit to readjust to this extra caloric intake, I think. Trying not to panic,:willy_nilly: but cannot guarantee I will stick with the extra calories if the scale starts creeping up.

I am still doing my workout, but am now going for just 5x weekly rather than 6. I am trying to be kind to myself and my body and not demand so much of it.:grouphug:

I have made an appointment to get my eyes checked on Monday to see if I am a candidate for Lasik surgery. I have no idea how I would pay for the surgery, but since things generally work out for me, I'm sure the $ will be forthcoming! Every day when I check my mail I am SURE there will be some kind of extra money in it...hee hee Why not?

Cheers
ABBA
 
:nopity:NOT a great start to my day having stepped very gingerly onto the *&%$ scale and watched it go UP to 157. This after a mere 3 days of increased caloric intake, while still doing my workouts. WTF?!

I am trying not to panic, but dang I am nervous! How long do I keep eating more in an attempt to reboot my metabolism? It sounds crazy! I will tell you one thing, there is NO FREAKING WAY that I am getting back up into the 160s. Absolutely not. I will take serious measures before I let that happen.

After working soooo hard to lose and then being stuck on this *&^^%%$## plateau for half a year (at least), I am feeling mighty frustrated! :banghead:

Anyway, I am just about to go do my workout. Then I think some meditation (and maybe medication) is in order so my whole day is not ruined by what the ********** scale says.:dupe:

No cheers here
ABBA
 
Hi LFM, my Canuck buddy :Angel_anim:
I feel better post workout, thanks to those blessed endorphins. I was seriously in panic mode.

I have asked for some more info from knowledgeable folk on this forum, and will see what they suggest.

I know my weight gain is not PMS, as I just finished that part of my month. There is a question of whether I raised my calorie intake too quickly? I am really going to try and keep my focus on all that is good and positive, all of the healthy changes I have made, and how this last half year certainly indicates that I will be able to keep the weight off for the rest of my life. For me it mainly seems to be a matter of DAILY exercise, or 5 x weekly at the least. And I do enjoy it, so that's great.

Thanks for stopping by with some encouragement. Now it is time for a healthy lunch and then off to work for 8 hours. I am very thankful to have a job that I like! :biggrinjester:

Cheers again
ABBA
 
a few more! GO GIRL!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!

I am so proud of you, I loved your comment on my diary so I thought I see yours and OMG you've gone so far! besides I am at the start of exactly what you started with.. and we have almost the same goal.. so u kindda inspire me hehehe. a few pounds can't get you that frustrated :) its the last push! go for it :) You will see everything is going to turn on great 4 u

kisses!


"Be more stubborn than the scale."
 
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:seeya:Hi! Thanks for stopping by my diary! Thanks also for your words of encouragement. I LOVE your tag:"BE MORE STUBBORN THAN THE SCALE!"

Well, I managed to go just one day without working out. I feel like such a lazy tool when I don't work out, and my mood stinks to boot. So I had to decide whether I would be better off going a whole week without working out or not. I have made my decision (and my family is very, very glad!). :smash:

I am also putting my WW points at 30 for the time being, which will have me at 1500 calories. I'll see how this works out. I apparently jumped up my calories too high too fast, which likely accounted for my weight gain. :cuss:

So here we go, hoping for and expecting even greater things to come!:auto:

Cheers
ABBA
 
Hmmm...I made an interesting discovery today. It seems that in the summer was the last time I was down below 150, and at that time I was using my pedometer and shooting for at least 10,000 steps daily. It is amazing how hard it is to get in that many steps when one has a sedentary job! Even doing my regular hour long workouts only counts for 4-5,000 steps! And that is with me running!

At any rate, I am wearing my pedometer today and aiming for that 10,000 steps. I will keep this up and see if it starts my WL again. However, I will still be taking in about 1500 calories per day. I read somewhere that I should be eating 10% of my goal weight, which would be 1350, but I think with my working out I should keep it no lower than 1500 daily. We shall see.

I remain pleased with my decision not to lay off my workouts, though I know a certain someone on this forum (who is certainly more knowledgeable than I am!) would not be pleased! Oh well, in the end, we are responsible for ourselves - and no one else. I do appreciate how learned health & fitness buffs are so kind as to help us out for free on this forum! :beating:

Hope you are all well
ABBA
 
I find it takes me between an hour and a half to two hours to make my 10,000 steps a day. It may be easier for me bein someone with short legs to get that amount though. Just test it out, I'm sure you'll be making 10k steps in no time.
 
:waving: Did my steps today and consumed about 1600 calories. I had to work hard to get in that many, but I am going to keep it up for a while.

I have some exciting news - I AM GOING TO GET EYE SURGERY SO I CAN DITCH MY GLASSES!!! I am going to get it done either in April or May of THIS YEAR! I first went to get a free consultation to see if I qualify, knowing that somehow the $ would come to me.

I am very open about how money can come to me, so it didn't bother me that I have none to spare just now. I found a company that would set up a payment plan for me, which I thought was cool. Then, when I was discussing it with someone (OK - it was my MUM!:biggrinjester:), she said, "Why on earth would you borrow money from some place that will charge you interest? Borrow it from me!"
:beating::beating::beating: have i mentioned that i love my mummy?

This is so typical of how my AWESOME life works! When I decided a couple of weeks ago to concentrate not on my debt but on how there is enough $ in the world for everyone (including me), 3 things happened in one day:
1. My husband was finally paid for a job that was long past due!
2. I got my share of some lottery $ at work, which has never happened before!
3. This one is really incredible - our landlords called and told us that instead of raising our rent in May, which they were going to do, that if we would stay here for another year, THEY WOULD LOWER OUR RENT!!! Immediately!!!:svengo:

So I know that, with all these other good things happening to me, my extra weight will come off, too.

Cheers:waving:
ABBA
 
:waving:Very tired, long shift at work. Total steps today = 12225, including sweaty hard workout.

Calories today equal about 1650.

Had coffee with a dear friend who is also a personal trainer. She seemed to think that my calories are low, too. So I will keep around the 1600 mark for a while and see what happens, as it is up from what I had been on for the majority of the last 6 months.

Excited about eye surgery, hope to set the date within the next week. Life is good!

ABBA
 
Today was Day 6 of what will be an 8 day work week for me. I am very tired, but the next two days I will get paid double time :sifone: which makes up for my exhaustion.

Part of the reason I am so tired today, I suspect, is that my pedometer reads 22,142 !!! Oy! That certainly represents a lot of steps taken today...

Anyhoo, still working to reach 1500-1600 lbs per day. I am hopeful that when I get on the scale next, I will be lighter.

Cheers
ABBA
 
Hey Janice/jABBA!

Hey Janice,
this is natalie jo...
I lose my password and figured I would start a whole new part of my journey. I have gained weight, but I am pumpped and ready to go and yes I have .5 over you lmao

hope to hear from you soon

always
love yas
natalie jo :party:
 
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