I thought this article might be of some interest to the P2G folks!

Why The Scale Lies

Take care!

I have my “bare essentials” list for my gym bag, things I need for a good workout: 

Water bottle–I use Britta’s filtered water bottle (since our city water can smell like a well-chlorinated pool at times).  I like plenty of ice to keep the water chilled. 

Hand towel–ok, so it’s gym policy, but great for when you work up a sweat  

Good tunes–right now, I’m using a CD player, but I’m saving up for an MP3 player 

Protein bar–I tend to battle with low blood sugar, and this makes sure I eat something healthy and don’t grab the first food my eyes see when I get home. 

Comfy shoes and socks–If the feet ain’t happy, neither am I LOL.  Right now I wear men’s Nike (I have wide feet). I have some hemp socks, but just found some by Danskin that are awesome–really cushy with arch support.  Sometimes I need to add an ankle brace, but lately I haven’t had to dig it out of my bag :::knock wood::::. 

I missed yesterday’s workout because of a tiring day at the allergist’s for my son (full story over at Give Me something to Sing About).  I really hated missing it (especially after indulging in a luscious bowl of ice cream), but I was just worn out. 

So I added an extra quarter mile to my workout today, for a total of 2 1/4 miles, and despite an unrelenting headache, I felt energized.  Losing another pound didn’t hurt either

Weight lost: 28 (-5) 

Pounds2Go: 157 

I’m not feeling that good about this week, which is why I haven’t blogged on here the past few days. I’m not getting to work out to the level I was this week and I haven’t eaten as well either. I’ve snuck little bites here and there, I have been 1-2 points over my target most days, and I’m just not with my game like I was last week.

 I am dreading weighing in, to be honest. I’m also retaining water (my T.O.M.) and I may be weighing in 2 days earlier and at midday instead of early morning because I’m switching locations.

I may end up weighing in again at my old location on Saturday, because we have painters coming to our house tomorrow and the next day. This is the one thing right now I’m chipper about–the painting!

Tonight must be a no snacks after dinner night to redeem today. And, tomorrow must be a low, low point day to hopefully get me back on track. I think my biggest problem is that when I’m bored or stressed, I nibble. I’ve got to learn not to do that!

Any tips? Yes, I have tons of hobbies I could do, but I have these two little things called an almost 2 year old and a 61/2 year old that seem to keep me from doing that during the day. Any other ideas or motivational words?

So. This afternoon I have a hankering for something sweet (told you I was on a sugar binge…which I usually don’t crave). I figured I’d bake something. Let’s see. ::tapping chin:: I took a quick inventory of what I had on hand and decided that something with blueberries would be good, but not muffins. Cookies! That’s it…blueberry cookies, if I could find a recipe. And I did. I mean, how many calories could blueberry cookies have in them? And blueberries are GOOD for you! Well! I cut the recipe down so that I only got about 6 good sized cookies. After I’d eaten two of them with coffee, I decide to figure out exactly how many calories I’d have to [willingly] give up for them. By my calculations, looking up the calorie content for all the ingredients, EACH cookie would be 160 calories! :jawdrop: Argghhh! Well, that’ll teach me, won’t it? S-I-G-H. But, I did write them down as a snack and spent 300 calories of my daily 1200. Waaaaah!

I’m sorry I haven’t been around real life got in the way. I did weigh in with WW on Monday and lost 4 pounds! However I have been eating everything in sight for the last 2 days. I have already decided I have to stop and get back on track so tomorrows food is already in the fridge. I only have to put it in my bag on the way out the door. I hope my mini binge doesn’t impact me to much. Hello to all the new people who have joined. Hopefully I will be less MIA soon.

I joined Nutrisystem again. I had done it before but they sent me so much food that I didn’t like, that it wasn’t good. This time, I made my own list and got what I wanted. Surprisingly, desert was the hardest. Not a lot of stuff.

So I am starting it on Feb 2nd. The beginning of my new year. The gym, food and starting a new job (at my old job)

I get weighed tomorrow. I’m a little nervous, but whatever happens, happens. I am going to wear the same clothes tomorrow that I wore last week. I figure that if I wear the same top, it will help with the weight. I am wearing jeans tomorrow, but next time I get weighed I will be in work clothes.

I hate weekends. Ok, not really because it’s a weekend and no work. The problem is that if I’m not home, I forget to write down what I ate. If I am home, I either eat everything or not at all and forget to write it down. And then when you forget one day, then the next, then Monday, it’s like why bother, I get weighed in two days, I can keep a mental track. I actually can, it’s not hard but I do better when I am accountable. That’s one of the other reasons I joined Nutra system again. I am hoping that with organized meals, with the nutritional value, I will keep better track even on weekends.

In a way, yes I did. I know it’s been entirely too long since my last post, but since then, I edited a 512-page user manual, rewrote a 45-page short story and submitted it to an e-publisher and went to Saint John, NB for a week on business.

We stayed in an adorable little b&b, where they fed us a rather healthy, (but missing protein) breakfast every morning. We ate out the rest of our meals – Thai, Italian, Mexican, Indian, Pub-style, you name it. But we walked everywhere. I had no idea Saint John had so many hills!!

But I came home sure that I had gained a tonne of weight. ‘Til I got on my crappy bathroom scale, which assured me I’d lost 2 lbs. But, it being crappy, I didn’t really believe it until I went to the doctor’s this morning. Turns out I actually lost 5 lbs. Yay me. (And that’s since BEFORE Christmas!)

So today is the first day of the rest of my diet *Grin* The kitchen is stocked with fruits, veggies, low-fat dairy and whole grains and I’m ready to go.

If I could just get my lazy butt on the treadmill