Weight Loss Wednesday - 2/20/13

Start Date: 1/3/13

Today's Date: 2/20/13

Weight Lost / Gained This Week: +0.3

Total February Loss (so far): +2.5

Total January Loss: 2

This week's weigh in wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  I'm actually pretty amazed that all I gained was less than half a pound.  I've found that I'm not packing enough good food for work on days I workout.  Yesterday morning by the time I got to work I was STARVING!  I ate two packets of instant oatmeal and not long after that I bought two candy bars (I couldn't make change out of the envelope for just one because there wasn't enough) and I ate one right away.  I made it a couple of hours then and ate my cheese and sandwich around 1pm.  Probably by 1:30 I was already looking for something else to eat which led me to the vending machine for a bag of Cheetos.  I stopped eating after that, regardless of how I felt because I was mentally feeling disgusted with myself for putting all of that crap into my mouth.  My next meal would be dinner at home and I had no idea what we would be having.

Turns out it was pizza, frozen pizza to be exact.  Looking back on it now I realized I kind of stuffed my face then too.  Why?  It seems pretty obvious to me that my body was craving fuel that I didn't give it.

I mentioned what I was eating, and how much, to Lex yesterday afternoon because I was looking for some support and/or advice.  So what does Lex do? Challenges me!  She challenged me to pack 2 snacks and some fruit to go with my lunch.  It's exactly what I needed.  I used to pack snacks for work but then I got lazy and I just haven't been.  When I wasn't working out it was okay because I wasn't really hungry between my main meals.  But that's all changed which means I need to adapt my food to properly fuel my body for the work I'm making it do.

Looking at the stats at the beginning of this post I have a lot of work to do because I've gained back the 2 pounds I lost in January plus an extra half of a pound.  Ugh!  How frustrating is that?!  Seems like I can't get over this hurdle of losing 5 pounds.  I lose it but then I gain it back and lose it again.  I need to break through that!  I'm not going to push myself farther than I can handle but I think I can lose the 2.5 pounds in a week to be back to where I started the month at.  Last month I had a big loss after TOM so I'm hoping that will be the case again this month.  Plus, I'm working out now so that should help too.

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