Iwan's Weightloss Journal

Cool that you had such a good day. That's how I feel today! I have plenty I shoild be doing and haven't done it! I've just been relaxing! Good for you on the half a lb.! It all makes a difference! I'm very proud of you!!!
 
Okay, so to make a really really long story short a former friend of mine got violent with his own mother last night and kicked her out on her rear in the middle of the night with the clothes that she has on her back. She's in the middle of divorcing her husband, works a crap job and now doesn't even have a toothbrush to call her own. So I had to help her out today, including allowing her to move in to my house on a temp. basis. Poor lady. If my son ever tries to do that to me when hes an adult and I'm a poor old woman who spent her life raising him...I'd take him out myself. What a worthless POS. I can't believe someone would do that to their mom.
SO, I've been busy today. Some of my co workers are going to try and reason with the guy so she can go into the house and get her clothes and stuff, but its not looking good. He did physically assault her though so if he doesn't reconsider we'll press criminal assault charges against him, help her get a protective order and stipulate in the order that a peace officer can accompany her to the house to collect her undisputed belongings, clothes and stuff.
I still can't believe what a bastard that guy is.
Bad calorie day, I'm allowed 1600 max, I had 1500. Way too much food. And chocolate...bad girl!
 
Sorry about your friends mom! I hope that all works out. Don't beat yourself up over too many cal., we all do it once in a while. I've learned the ticket is to going back to your diet and fool your body into thinking that didn't happen!! (OK this don't work very often!) But I know you'll stay on track!
 
Yikes! What a butthole! How could someone do that to their own mom?? Hope everything turns out well, you're a good person for taking her in.

Don't beat yourself up about the cals. you were still within your limit so its ok.. right?
 
Another not good day today. I have a raging headache and I've only managed to get down 500 calories due to my workload today. I feel absolutly sick to my stomach because I've been chugging water to quiet my belly and in the hopes that this headache is somehow related to not drinking enough water over the last few days. But the tension in my head is phenomenal, I think if I move my neck wrong my head will go flying off into outerspace in a kind of slingshot fashion.
I did cardio this morning for 45 minutes, burned 580 something calories and went 3.87 miles. I was going pretty good for a while there but then speeded up because I wanted a really good hard workout. I was really sweating by the time I was finished. then I got on the scale and realized I've gained a half pound back since wednesday. I was 219.5 now I'm back at 220. Don't know what caused it, but what a let down. Just when I felt like I had hit my groove. I'm seriously afraid its because I havn't been doing herbalife and now I"m going to gain everything I've lost back. I hate that thought. I feel failure lurking in the darkness...where the hell did I put my flashlight!
 
aww.. hang in there. It's just a rough spot, things will get better. They always do. Feel better soon!
 
Alright, today should be a good one, I'm only about 1/4 into it yet but good still. One thing I think I've never mentioned about myself here is that in my spare time (what spare time?) I'm an artist, a painter to be exact. As such I'm also on our regions Arts council as the VP (the figure head, I don't do anything important). Well, tonight we have a coffee house and I love our coffee houses. We have two different musicians playing tonight and it should be a very enjoyable evening.
My headache finally went away last night after I went to bed at 9:30pm. I also was a baaaad girl and had a burger for dinner, no fries though, I fed those to my skinny son.
Oh, the icing on the cake of my crappy day yesterday was right before I went to bed. I checked my email and there was an itenerary for my ex mother in law, she's coming to visit her "only" grandson (not really her only grandson, just the only one she wants to acknowledge because she disowned her own daughter). This woman is a piece of work, she speaks english but won't speak anything but italian to my son, who speaks very little italian (she's italian obviously). Her itenerary says she'll be here for two weeks. Thats a week and 6 days to long if you ask me. She's very bossy and controlling. The typical italian mama I suppose. She's a fabulous cook though and her food probably has more calories and fat in it then a tub of lard. And she's a tiny woman too. maybe thats where my son gets skinny from...lol.
well, I guess the one good thing about that is that I'll have a free babysitter for two weeks. She does love her grandson and spoils him with attention and love. I'm just afraid she'll kidnap him while I'm at work and take him back to Trieste with her. Then I would be forced to take a vacation to Italy to retrieve my son. I just hope she's not bringing her good for nothing son with her.
 
Iwan: If you get a hamburger from the meat section in the grocery store they're only about 200 calories, add a wheat bun and some lettuce and tomato and you're lookin' at about 350-400 calories---not really that bad!!

Keep up the good work--and I'm glad that your headache has gone away!
 
you have a meat section at your store!?! j/k. my burger came from the restaurant across the street from me. The patty was pretty thick so when I entered it on spark I added it as a double and it came to about 460 cals. considering I had only managed to consume about 500 at that point I was not feeling too guilty...but afterwords I was just because I was grossley full and uncomfortable. Then around midnight I commited the cardinal sin. I had a pria bar, 110 cals. but when you wake up in the middle of the night with a chocolate craving...I didn't manage to fall back to sleep until 4:30am but I got some paperwork done for da boss lady.
today I'm at about 280 cals so far, its after the noon hour and lunch should be just around the corner...now if I could just find that corner.
 
Iwan, I know you've had a rough couple of days - but I just have to throw out some reminders...
1. Your headache could have been caused by lack of nutrition. You only had 500 calories or so by the time you were posting about the headache. You NEED to fuel your body for it to function properly!

2. Going from 219.5 to 220 in 24 hours is not abnormal. Day to day fluctuations ARE normal. You weren't here for my last camping fiasco - I gained 9, yes *9* pounds in 4 days. I lost *8* pounds over the next 3 days. There was no doubt that sodium and my TOM played a huge role.

Weight fluctuations happen, we can't look at the day to day ups and downs, it's the overall downward progression we look at.

Don't forget, eating too few calories will cause your body to go into starvation mode and you won't burn calories efficiently.

You are doing the right things. You ARE exercising. You don't need to go back to herbalife to continue to see results.

I've lost 58 pounds doing what you're doing - eating less and moving more. You CAN do it!

I feel failure lurking in the darkness...where the hell did I put my flashlight!
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We're right here - when you can't find your flashlight.
 
Thanks M2M, you never fail to motivate.
We're right here - when you can't find your flashlight.
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this place truely is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel for more then just me. and that light wouldn't be as bright without people like you on here. Thanks for the comments and the push.
 
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We're right here - when you can't find your flashlight.

this place truely is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel for more then just me. and that light wouldn't be as bright without people like you on here.
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Very true. I couldn't have lasted this long without everyone. LWMIV on the train!
 
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