Still here, still at 271(.5)

No excuses, I just haven't been around. I also haven't been watching what I was eating. Somewhere in there, I had a 6-day headache and was put on a beta blocker, which are notorious for causing weight gain. Sure enough, I gained 4 pounds in less than a month and was sitting at 275. ACK!! I am pleased to report that things seem to have stabalized, and I am back down to 271.5. Whew!!

I am also reasserting myself to work harder to lose some weight. Definitely need to do so before a big event in 2011 (someone else's big event, actually, but I get to participate). I'm not expecting miracles, but I do have a number in mind (and I'll keep it to myself for now). I've got almost a year exactly. Best get cracking!

Week 19: 271 lbs?!

Hello? Anyone still there? I am still here, believe it or not. It has been about 3 months since I last popped in. It has been quite the insane 3 months, to say the least. We've had the closing of the new house not go so smoothly, many innumerable thing go wrong with the new house and family and a bunch of other things, actual moving (which ironically went quite well), Thanksgiving, Christmas, putting old house on the market, being terribly sick for New Year's, and child sleep issues (still on-going). I am pleased to announce that we have accepted an offer on the old house, so hopefully that will be over by the end of February and we will once again have only *one* mortgage (won't that be nice? LOL).

Now here is the part that I just don't think can be right. I weighed myself yesterday morning. It said 271. I did it several times over the course of the next hour or so, and it kept saying 271. I just don't see how that can be right! Especially when I weighed myself sometime during the week of Christmas (for the first time since my last post in October, and for the first time since moving), and it said 276.5 lbs. Given all the leftovers I ate after everyone was gone the weekend after Christmas, I don't see how I managed to lose 5.5 pounds in the last 3 weeks. I find it hard to believe that I would be down 1.5 pounds from October as well. I really thought I would be 275-278. Something seems weird! But that's what it said, so I guess we'll go with it for now.

Still haven't unearthed my South Beach Diet book, and we have yet to establish any sort of cooking/grocery routine at the new house (hard to do with all of that crammed in there), so I'm still not sure when I will start that. From what I know of the program, the first two weeks are going to take a lot of work and dedication, and I need things to be a little less chaotic before I can focus like that. But I am trying to be aware of how much I am eating at any given time so I don't completely lose track of the calories I am consuming (and if the scale is right, it seems to be working). That's not to say there haven't been a few binge moments, but for the most part, I think I am doing well. Guess we'll see next week if the scale was just flaking out, or if that number is really accurate!

Week 6 Weigh In: 272.5

I forgot to weigh in Saturday morning this week, so I did it first thing Sunday morning instead. Looks like the half pound that had found its way back to me last week seems to be gone again this week. Then again, half a pound could just be due to this or that. Next week will be the key. Really trying to get back on track with eating less. My South Beach Diet book seems to have gotten packed in a box somewhere in preparation for moving, so I don't know when I'll get around to actually reading it, much less implementing it. But I will keep trying to do better about monitoring at least how much I am eating, if not so much what I am eating (though I am trying to be conscious of that as well). I hope things will settle after the move, but Thanksgiving and Christmas will follow up close behind, so who knows. At the very least, I don't want to gain any between now and January 1! We'll see how I manage.

Week 5 Weigh In: 273.0 lbs

Yeah, so you may have noticed that there is no week 4 weigh in (and that I am very late in posting week 5). Saturday of week 4 was the day of Luke's birthday party, and I hit the ground running the minute I woke up. The party went great! We had 14 people for the party itself and dinner afterward, and 10 people for breakfast the next morning. It wasn't until Tuesday or Wednesday that I realized I had never weighed on Saturday, so I just waited until the next Saturday.

And I did actually weigh myself this past Saturday morning of week 5! That 273.0 lbs is real and accurate from that morning, and you know what? I couldn't be more thrilled! Yes, it is up half a pound, but if that is all that cake, candy, and days of leftover bacon cheeseburger meatloaf (YUM!) cost me, then I am a happy girl. But why did it take me another 4-5 days to post the results? Because when I came downstairs to post my results to the blog, I instead was faced with a child with pink eye! So off to the doctor, then 3 days of fighting with him to take his drops (no school Monday due to the holiday), then my always-insane work day on Tuesday, and here we are on Wendesday. Man, this life thing is hard! LOL

Given how bonkers everything has been, plus TOTM, I'm not expecting a loss of any sort this coming Saturday either. In fact, there may be another gain, but if so, I hope it will be a small one. I finally feel like I am starting to get back on track after 1-2 weeks of craziness. We'll have to wait and see if the scale agrees.

Week 3 Weigh In: 272.5 lbs

Another pound? Really? I do not understand my body. This week has been insane, including my eating, and yet the scale seems to think I am down another pound. And it hasn't even been a whole week! (We won't be home tomorrow morning, so I went on and weighed this morning.) So why was this week so insane? Well, work was pretty nutty, but we also put an offer on a house! After a few offer/counter-offer cycles, we are officially under contract. And we are both so tired, it's not even funny. But hey, it's a pound, and I'll take it.

Week 2 Weigh In: 273.5 lbs

I had several things I intended to talk about this past week, but none of them happened. We've just been so busy with the house, both cleaning ours and looking at others. I don't know when I think I will actually have time to *read* the bloomin' South Beach Diet book. But I did remember to weigh myself this morning: 273.5 lbs (124.1 kg). That is down 1 lb (0.45 kg) from last week, though I have no idea how that happened. I have been horrible this week! Not only did I eat too many carbs, I ate too much of everything in general. I have to learn to get a grip on my hormonal eating. I feel hungry for 3-5 days pretty much no matter what or how much I eat. I need to try and figure out a strategy before next month. I hope this coming week will be better with the eating, even though my stress level will likely be out the roof. I think we might be putting in an offer on a house! Stay tuned.

Week 1 Weigh In: 274.5 lbs

I decided to go ahead and weigh myself this morning, just to see if anything had changed with me being a little more conscious of food and cutting out soda and tea. 274.5 lbs (124.5 kg)! Really? 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg) down already? That just seems a bit much, especially since I weighed for my "official starting weight" on Sept 1, then ate quite a bit Labor Day weekend when my parents were here (my final caloric hurrah, so to speak, though I did drink mostly water). Maybe I got dehydrated on Friday or something? Maybe it is the water weight that everyone talks about when you first start losing? I don't know, I'm just a bit suspicious. (ETA: I checked again Sunday morning, and it said the same thing, so I guess it's not a fluke.) But hey, that earns me a gold star in my sidebar, so I'll take it! I am now down to 98% of my starting weight. I know, it doesn't look like much when you put it that way, but every little bit helps.