Weight Loss

As I mentioned last week, the scale was just plain weird. And while I wasn’t thrilled to see that overnight 5+ pound gain, I’m happy to report that the scale is moving in the right direction…even after a weekend of celebrating my birthday, my husband’s birthday, our family reunion, and a wedding. It was a great weekend, but I definitely wasn’t in my normal routine. On a positive note, I got in 14,700 steps and 7.51 miles on my birthday, so that definitely helped. 🙂

So one of the goals I had set for myself  was to be under 200 pounds by my birthday.  It didn’t happen, but I’m OK with it.  I think I’ll hit it within the next few weeks.  I’m not going to lie, I’m super excited and eager to see the day where the number on the scale starts with a 1 instead of a 2.   I think I’ll definitely be there before the end of August…maybe even sooner.

Today I weighed in at 213.4.  Since we’ve pretty much been out of town and eating differently for the past week, I would have been happy with staying the same, but I’m absolutely thrilled with a loss.  My back is starting to feel better, but I’m still not 100% and am a little worried about starting 21 Day Fix again or doing another program with weights.  I need to figure out what exercise is going to look like while I try to get my back rehabbed and back to normal.

Last Week’s Weight:  216.7
Today’s Weight: 213.4
Weight Lost This Week: 3.3
Total Weight Loss:  54.3 

I planned to take a ton of pictures on vacation, but only managed to take a few…and most of them are of other people.  Here’s one my husband took of me wearing one of my newest Stitch Fix outfits.  My Stitch Fix boxes make me seriously happy! 🙂  It’s like a gift I give myself on a regular basis. If you haven’t tried Stitch Fix yet, you seriously need to try it.

Hopefully we’ll have another amazing week next week! 🙂

Last week I threw out my back which means I stopped my 21 Day Fix workouts. I could barely walk, stand, or sit, so working out was totally out of the question. After multiple visits to the massage therapist, I’m feeling human again, but think I’m going to wait another week or two to pick up the workouts again.

So something totally weird happened this week. My husband moved the scale. He didn’t do it on purpose…it sits on the floor of our closet in a certain spot and he was going through his stuff in the closet and the scale got moved. While that shouldn’t be a big deal, when I stood on the scale to weigh myself, I weighed 6 pounds more than the day before. Yep…I thought maybe I could reposition it, but no matter what I’ve done, it hasn’t changed. So either moving the scale is making a huge difference or I’m retaining water like crazy. Either way, I’ll live, but it’s totally weird. I know I haven’t eaten 6 pounds worth of extra food, so I’m going to chalk it up to something weird. It could also be my thyroid freaking out. My thyroid has been weigh off lately and I can totally tell by the way I’m feeling. I’m going to make an appointment with the endocrinologist after my kids go back to school and life slows down a little.

 

So while I probably should be more concerned about a 5.7 pound gain, I’m not. I figure it will come off eventually.  My clothes aren’t fitting differently…if anything, they’re getting looser, so it’s all good.

I’m heading out of town tonight to go to a family reunion and a wedding.  I’ll also be celebrating my birthday and my husband’s birthday.  It should be a great long weekend, but it will be totally busy and filled with delicious (but not necessarily healthy) food!

Last Week’s Weight: 211.0
Today’s Weight:  216.7 
Weight Lost This Week:  Gained 5.7 pounds 
Total Weight Loss:  51 pounds

Hopefully next week, the scale will be my friend again! 🙂

Happy 4th of July! I have the morning off of work and am planning on spending time with my kiddos this morning while my hubby does an open house. I have all the makings for a fabulous American Flag fruit pizza. It’s not at all healthy, but it’s totally delicious and the kids are super excited about it!

I finally started 21 Day Fix….and oh. my. word!  I have sore muscles in places that I didn’t even know had muscles.  I’m really enjoying it so far.  I love the little containers and did a great job planning in the beginning, but have been a total slacker the last 2 days.  When I’m a slacker, I tend to do a lot more snacking throughout the day and yesterday, I found myself munching on Ritz crackers and drinking a Coke.  Not a good combination for weight loss.  I won’t even tell you how many crackers I consumed.

If I would have brought my lunch to work and eaten something healthy, I probably would have had a much bigger loss this week.  With the extra exercise I’m getting, I should have seen more of a difference and the reason I didn’t can be summed up in two words…eating junk!  And that’s OK.

Last Week’s Weight: 212.8
Today’s Weight: 211.0
Weight Lost This Week: -1.8
Total Weight Loss:  56.7

Life is about balance.  I’ve always been an all or nothing person and this time around, I’m trying to have a better approach to weight loss. So today, I’m going to eat fruit pizza with my kids, swim in the pool, get some housework done, go to work and have an all around enjoyable day!

In case you missed it on my Instagram, my friend Katherine gave me the most adorable shirt from Justice. If you move the sequins one way it says “Believe In Yourself”.  If you move it the other way, it says “Believe In Unicorns”.

My mom arrived in town yesterday and I am soooo thrilled that she is here! It’s been so fun to work on the boutique with my sister and my mom and it’s been great having my cousin here working in the boutique with me. Last week, I worked a lot less hours, got more consistent sleep and I’m starting to feel human again. Oh…and I lost weight again. That always makes me feel better about life. And while it’s not much more than what I gained last week, it’s still a loss and I’ll take it. It’s also the lowest weight I’ve been in over 5 years!

 So I’ve completely failed at exercise this past week.  I didn’t exercise a single day.  UGH!  In order to make it to the boxing gym and still have enough time to get ready and be at work on time, I have to go at either 5 am or 6am.  I also still have a lot of work I need to do for my social media manager job and I typically do that from 4:30 am to 8:30 am.  In order to do the gym and get the social media work done, I’d need to basically get up in the middle of the night…and that’s not happening.

I’m going to still try to figure out an exercise plan.  There’s got to be something I can do from home that I can make work with my schedule. In the meantime…I’m going to try to make it to another class at Jabz.

Last Week’s Weight:  216.4
Today’s Weight: 214.8
Weight Lost This Week:  1.6 pounds
Total Weight Loss:  52.9 pounds

In random news, I’ve always liked the way white dresses looked, but tend to go with black because they hide a multitude of sins.  This week I rocked a white dress and I really felt good about myself in it!!!  Isn’t this dress the cutest?!?