Weight: 115.8

Workouts – 2 plus 4 performances

It’s been a crazy week.  Started a new job and did four runs of a dance performance.  phew! I’m tired. 

Sure – it’s Sunday and I should have posted this on Thursday…but sometimes life gets in the way.  I’ve been overwelmed with school, quitting my job and performing.  I did however weight in on Thursday.  The scale said I am 116.  I worked out about 4 times last week.  My current focus is “sculpting” my body – so I have been trying to lift weights at least three times a week.  So far I have hit my goals for the week. 

Forgot to post this yesterday. Scale is at 117lbs now. I’ve only run 6 miles (2 miles, 3 days) and did a tone and sculpt class. I’m eating everything in sight these days due to stress and my moods.

Tiny had her last day of work on Wednesday and starts at a new job on Monday so I know she’ll be busy. I saw her yesterday though and she looks skinny-mini. She has 3 dance performances this weekend, too, so she’ll likely lose weight from all the activity. Good luck, bestest!

I read this article in the March 2008 issue of Self magazine yesterday while I was at the salon and wish I could’ve taken it home with me! I’m going to look for it at Borders this weekend and maybe ask at the grocery store since it’s last month’s issue. This meal plan suggestion looked delicious, easy-to-make and easy to follow. Here’s the link to the online version. The magazine one is much more detailed though and even has this whole “food color block” explanation to help you eat healthy, balanced meals and feel full all day.

Interesting tips from Michael Pollan, author and hero of the organic food movement. Found these via MSN.com today:  

1. Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
2. Avoid foods containing ingredients you can’t pronounce.
3. Don’t eat anything that wouldn’t eventually rot.
4. Avoid food products that carry health claims.
5. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.
6. Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the farmer’s market or CSA.
7. Pay more, eat less.
8. Eat a wide diversity of species.
9. Eat food from animals that eat grass.
10. Cook and, if you can, grow some of your own food.
11. Eat meals and eat them only at tables.
12. Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

I’ll be perfectly honest: I’m pretty gross and dirty right now. I missed my morning workout so I decided to workout during my lunch break. It’s not my favorite thing to do since I hate taking showers at the gym (with the exception of Spectrum Health Clubs showers where I learned to swim — they are so much cleaner and fancy than my regular Ballys). I did my best not to exercise too hard so I wouldn’t sweat profusely, but you have to generate a little sweat in order to make a workout count, right?

Worse than sitting at my desk all dirty from my workout is the fact that I’m still wearing my gym clothes — and I came to work in my gym clothes, too. Luckily, I don’t get in trouble for wearing sweats now and then but I’ve read a few articles recently about how what you wear to work affects your productivity and how people treat you, and they also reflect your personal brand. Currently, my personal brand is dirty and gross. Thankfully, I have no meetings or anything today in which I have to be taken seriously.

I know a lot of people probably workout and return to the office without rinsing off… they just don’t tell anyone.

Been meaning to post all week but I’ve been seriously on the brink of losing my job. To hell and back and back and forth all in the past two weeks. I’m surprised I haven’t packed on the pounds from emotional eating and not sleeping enough.

Scale says: 115.2 lbs

Workouts since last Friday: run 3 days (9 miles total), 1 tone and sculpt class (we have a new instructor who KICKS butt!), and 1 hand-washing and drying of my car. It totally counts!

Weight: 116 pounds – I’m blaming it on eatting all that rich food and 2 donuts for today’s breakfast!  I’ve definately fallen off the health band wagon. 

Public declaration of my recent bad eatting habits is making me re-consider how I’ve been eatting. :)

On the usual Thursday check in day I flew to visit family.  Being technically on vacation I didn’t check email, voicemail or log into our blog. 

As best friends, Lady J and I are in unison.  I remember vaguely leaving for vacation and getting on the scale.  It was at 116.5.  Little heaiver then I’m use to considering the previous week was at 114. 

Then, I spent all weekend with my newphews having cake, fancy dinners, endless cups of coffee and heart filled conversations.  I had forgotten how comforting food can be.  The fresh baked cookies, yummy cheese enchiladas, decedant cheese and birthday cake – my personal favorite. 

Of course vacations always come to end and one gets smacked with reality.  Technically I should have weighted myself this morning to find out the damage.  Instead I just stared at the scale and said to myself it can wait till Thursday…why ruin my wonderful weekend with my family? I can “weight” a few days…

I know we’re supposed to do a weekly weigh-in on this blog but this was a bad week for me on the scale. I realize, however, that fluctuating numbers are just one of the realities of weight loss (hitting a plateau is another), so I’m just going to live honestly and put my number out there: 119.5 lbs.

That’s definitely on the high end of my weight range and four whole pounds up from last week. My jeans have felt a little tighter around the thighs and my tummy has felt more jiggly. Have I really just been eating more, exercising less? I worked out four days this week (in total: ran 8 1/2 miles, walked 5 miles, and took my tone and sculpt class). My diet hasn’t been that great (mostly because of my alcohell night) but I tried to eat healthy during the day and cooked dinner most nights.

So what else can I blame it on? I’ve thought about water weight, excess sodium (I’ve been really heavy on the salt lately) and my body readjusting post-cleanse. I thought about blaming my tighter jeans on my tone and sculpt class — maybe I’m just building up my glutes and thigh muscles? It doesn’t explain my tummy though.

Anyways, like I said, it’s just part of the reality of weight loss… and one of the most frustrating. For whatever reason, your weight fluctuates five pounds or so, which is why the scale is the enemy. If my clothes didn’t feel tighter, I might not be so obsessed. We’ll see what happens next week.