Miss Princess's diary

Hey there! Just checking in on ya! Hope you get to feeling better!
 
Good morning! I do feel marginally better, still waiting for the sinus medicine to kick in. I lost that mystery pound though, but that just means that my ticker isn't lying. I'm still in the "trial period" on another pound as of this morning. I'm not believing the 209 just yet. That scale has been bouncing around just too much. I suppose that's the price I pay for weighing myself every day, but I have to, or I'll ignore it totally and that's always how I end up fearing the scale and gaining weight as a result. So I just give any possible weight loss a minimum of 2 days in a row before I believe it.

I did exercise this weekend, and as much as I really wanted to eat more on Saturday, I stuck to my calorie budget (that was hard!). Anyway, I'll write more later, I have to get some stuff done now!
 
Hey there! I hope you get to feeling better! Hopefully in 3 weeks or so I'll be caught up with ya!! lol..I still have 9 lbs to go as of right now! Anyhow.. I hope you have a great week!!
 
Thanks ladies, I'm feelin' pretty good, but the rest of my food today looks a little bleak. I bought pizza & ice cream cake for a girl's birthday in the office (It's been a tradition for years, and they wouldn't understand not buying it because I'm on a diet), but I bought the extra extra thin crust cheese pizza for me and the non-meat eaters. I had 2 pieces of that for about 350 cal total, plus I had a 3/4" x 2" x however tall it is - piece of the icecream cake (yum). I think it was about 1/3 of what they call the normal "portion" of the cake, and all I could find online was about 300 cal for a "regular size" piece of ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. The piece I ate was about 1/20th or less of the cake which is supposed to serve 6-8 people. So I guessed 120 cal, because 1/6 to 1/8 of the cake would be maybe 350 cal. (maybe?) It seemed like a really small piece, but am I totally lying to myself about those calories? I can't find any reliable info on this. It was strawberry ice cream with chocolate cake, and my best guess is that I ate approximately 3 tablespoons of ice cream and 3 tablespoons of cake (if you can measure it that way!) So now I only have 500 cal left for the day since 1pm! I'll be hungry, I'm sure, but that's what I get for eating the low nutritional value high calorie foods!
 
hey, its ok, it was a birthday after all, not like you just decided to do that for no reason.

Anyways, your still w/i you calorie range! I'm proud of you!!
 
Oh, please don't go hungry! It won't hurt to go a little over your calories this once. You are doing the 1500, right? If you have been really good on other days, you should be able to go a little bit over that with no problem.
 
BOO :D Just checkin on ya!!! No worries,it's a piece of cake, Literally :D Just do some sit ups or jumpin jacks. You'll be fine. Well, hope you had a good day and stay POSITIVE
 
You girls are the best, thanks for the encouragement. I ended up with about 1565 cal. yesterday, but I was too tired to really exercise, I only did 15 minutes of my mini trampoline jumping. I did go to bed early, and I will exercise today for sure. I feel really sluggish lately, and I wonder if it's just a combination of all the things going on right now (reduced calories, maybe not quite as much sleep as I would like, a little cold that I can't really get rid of, plus a drastic reduction in my caffeine intake). I'm sure these things are all working together to make me sleepy all the time. I just feel like when I'm so sluggish that my metabolism can't possibly be humming along. I'll have to figure out some way to rev it up! I've been pretty good today so far, and I'm not starving yet, but I had to slap myself on the hand for picking up that full-fat cheese stick when I had just eaten breakfast and knew damn well I wasn't hungry. I put it back down, so I guess there's no harm done, but sometimes my snacking can be so automatic that I nearly don't notice it!

So I'm still in denial about losing another pound, it's got to be that I'm dehydrated. Plus I think I like to stand in the spot on my scale where the number is the lowest. I don't have a digital scale, I have the kind with the dial and the needle, so it can fluctuate more than a pound depending on how I shift my weight on my feet. I try to make it read the heaviest number that holds steady, and that's what I record, but I can't help feeling like I'm somehow going to wake up and be 20 pounds heavier again. It's completely irrational, and I understand where these fears come from, but even though I can see it for what it is, I can't make it stop. What a weird feeling. So tentatively I might be down to 209, and if I still am tomorrow after properly hydrating myself today, then I'll change my ticker.

I want to be excited about it, but I don't want to be disappointed if it doesn't stick. I'm trying to lose weight the healthy, slow, maintainable way, so I'm OK being hesitant at first to believe a new, lower number than yo-yoing again like I used to. Slow & steady, and GONE FOR GOOD! That's my new motto.

Take care, I'll try to check in later.
 
Thanks! I did lose that pound, I'm convinced now, so I changed my ticker. I didn't, however, have a chance to exercise yesterday, I've been so busy. I'm going to work some exercise in today though, I promise! I don't know how much I ate yesterday, but I had only eaten 575 cal by 7pm, and then I had 2 brownies, 2 vegetable egg rolls, some green tea and one serving of smoked almonds. That could be 900 cal, but I doubt it. The brownies weren't huge, but those things can have lots of calories anyway. Plus egg rolls, small as these seemed, are still fried. So I'm hoping I didn't actually OVER eat yesterday. I just couldn't count it, I had no idea how to, I wasn't home, no food scale, no calorie counters, nothing. Oh, and I ate a hard boiled egg with mustard when I finally got home at 10pm. It's a little late for eating, I know, but I was really lacking protein.

That's all for now, tight schedule today, I'll have to check in later.
 
Good morning! My new schedule is a little crazy, and it's not allowing me to eat at regular intervals, so I've been pretty hungry mid day, but I had a pretty big breakfast (hard boiled egg w/ mustard, apple, south beach bar, a yogurt w/ ground flax seeds) and I've got a healthy snack with me today (wasa crackers and laughing cow lite cheese) so I won't die. Plus I'm having lunch out w/ my best friend today, so we'll have to really be good. I have a little extra motivation though, This morning the scale said 208 so I would like to repeat that tomorrow and then start believing it!

I get a little nervous as I approach 200 because I've never been able to break through that barrier before. Every time I've gotten hung up at 205, 206, 202, and I don't want to lose this momentum. So I'm formulating a plan of action. I know I've been pretty tired and sometimes a little lazy, but I manage to work out at least 4 days a week. I'm going to keep up that pace for now, but if I get stuck at the same weight for more than 5 days, I'll step it up to daily workouts. Right now I could use the breaks and the extra sleep, but I don't want to get stuck. I have also been a little lax about my water. I'm trying, and I think I usually manage to get in 50+ ounces (especially on workout days) but I drink almost all of it at night between 7 and 10 pm. I'll try to start drinking more during the day, but it's tough.

So that's my plan, for now. Simple as it is, I think it helps if I just write it down. If anyone has any recommendations of how to bust a plateau before it starts, I'm interested. I want to blaze through these 10 pounds (to get me to 199) because that's the magic number. That's the number I've never been able to hit in my entire adult life. If I can get to 199, I can get to 195, and then decide how much farther I want to go. The BMI charts say I should weigh 184-186 max, but that seems really light for me personally. I'm not exactly a body builder, but I'm a very muscular 6'2" and I like it that way. I'm not interested in being a waif. I guess I can make that decision when I'm at 195, but I want to have a clearly defined path laid out. I'm determined to make this work this time, and the difference is that I'm spelling out the steps to get there. I've never done that before.

Anyway, have a great day, ladies. I hope to pop in to your journals sometime today, but it may be this afternoon before I get another chance.
 
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