Well, this is quite a roller-coaster ride I am on - hopefully things will settle back down for me, now that I seem (fingers crossed!) to be healthy again.
And while this week, and last week, and the week before that all seem ridiculous weight-loss wise, consider this: I am down 7 pounds from 4 weeks ago, which is just about what I would expect in normal times. So one way or another, things seem to work out as they should, once the rest of the noise is taken out of the equation.
I have a couple of things I want to explore here - but no time tonight. I hope to get back to them later in the week. In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed for me: tomorrow is my first attempt at walk 4, run 4. Eek!
Loss this week: 8.7
Lost so far: 62.2
Still remaining: 37.8
Activity points earned this week: 20
Weeks to go: 27
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Annie: weigh-in week 15
This is a week for me to take my own advice and put my GAIN behind me.
I followed the program like a good little disciple, I had 43 bonus points left on the table at the end of the week (in ADDITION to the 25 activity points I earned and didn't use), and I gained 0.2 pounds. It's proof positive that the scale isn't the be-all-and-end-all; I'm not going to get uptight about it.
Though it does piss me off.
Good news from this week: on my last three treadmill sessions, I actually felt like my body was finding a rhythm on my running minutes. Not that it was easy or that I felt like I could run a 5K tomorrow (not entirely sure I'll ever feel that way!), but it seemed like somehow my body figured out when and how each part was supposed to move to make running work efficiently. I increased my speed a tiny bit, to 4.5 mph, and am not sure whether that had anything to do with it -- it might have. But whatever it is, I'll take it. It felt good.
I've discovered two additional advantages of my double-accountability program these days (in which I have to report in to this blog on Mondays but then weigh in again at a meeting on Wednesdays):
1 - I don't feel like all is lost with a nonsensical gain on Monday - I have a second chance for a result I'll like on Wednesday. And if I don't get a loss on Wednesday, I'll only have 5 more days to go until I weigh on Monday.
2 - It keeps me a little more honest. I'm less apt to give myself more rope on Monday because my next weigh-in is so far away - because it isn't anymore. Ditto on Wednesday; I could give myself some slack on Thursday, but then it's the weekend and I don't dare use any unnecessary points that I might need if something fun comes up (which I never allow it to, because I weigh again on Monday!).
Ain't that grand?
You're up, Mae - I hope you got the loss you deserved this week!
Change this week: UP 0.2
Lost so far: 41.3
Still remaining: 58.7
Activity points earned this week: 25
Weeks to go: 37
I followed the program like a good little disciple, I had 43 bonus points left on the table at the end of the week (in ADDITION to the 25 activity points I earned and didn't use), and I gained 0.2 pounds. It's proof positive that the scale isn't the be-all-and-end-all; I'm not going to get uptight about it.
Though it does piss me off.
Good news from this week: on my last three treadmill sessions, I actually felt like my body was finding a rhythm on my running minutes. Not that it was easy or that I felt like I could run a 5K tomorrow (not entirely sure I'll ever feel that way!), but it seemed like somehow my body figured out when and how each part was supposed to move to make running work efficiently. I increased my speed a tiny bit, to 4.5 mph, and am not sure whether that had anything to do with it -- it might have. But whatever it is, I'll take it. It felt good.
I've discovered two additional advantages of my double-accountability program these days (in which I have to report in to this blog on Mondays but then weigh in again at a meeting on Wednesdays):
1 - I don't feel like all is lost with a nonsensical gain on Monday - I have a second chance for a result I'll like on Wednesday. And if I don't get a loss on Wednesday, I'll only have 5 more days to go until I weigh on Monday.
2 - It keeps me a little more honest. I'm less apt to give myself more rope on Monday because my next weigh-in is so far away - because it isn't anymore. Ditto on Wednesday; I could give myself some slack on Thursday, but then it's the weekend and I don't dare use any unnecessary points that I might need if something fun comes up (which I never allow it to, because I weigh again on Monday!).
Ain't that grand?
You're up, Mae - I hope you got the loss you deserved this week!
Change this week: UP 0.2
Lost so far: 41.3
Still remaining: 58.7
Activity points earned this week: 25
Weeks to go: 37
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