Thursday, January 10, 2013

Inches gone, but scale not moving

I made the mistake of weighing this morning and the 2 pounds that were gone last week are back this week.  Kind of a bummer, but there is some good news.  It seems as though  4 inches have disappeared off my booty, thighs and waist.  So take THAT scale.  So glad that I did some measurements as well.  The scale has never been my friend.  I think the conclusion I have made is just go with how the clothes fit and to heck with the scale.

Exercise for the day:  1 hour of weights and conditioning with the 5:30 AM group.
Lots of housecleaning as well.

Eating:
Breakfast:  2 eggs, sausage, Advocare Spark, and coffee.  Carbs:  17
Snack:  Coffee, nuts, cheese, blueberries and more cheese:  Carbs:  18
Lunch:  Chili, 4 crackers, carrots, celery, cookie.  Carbs:  18
Snack:  Spark and nuts.  Carbs:  16
Dinner:  Steak and an orange and carrots.  Carbs:  15

Carbs for the day:  84

This seems low to me, but I felt good last night.  I have continued to go to bed really early.  I just feel hungry and am ready to call it a day.  The mental side of cutting back on food has always been the hardest for me.  So sometimes going to sleep is just the best thing to do.  I am hoping that my fat burners are turned on for the evening if I go to bed a little hungry.

I do feel much better overall without eating all of those bad carbs that I used to enjoy. I am sleeping like a rock and have a better mood overall.  When I do feel hungry it is a different kind of hungry.  It isn't like a craving hunger, just a time to eat hunger.  I passed up pasta last night and didn't even miss it.  I am thinking that at the two week point I might be getting over some of the crazy cravings of bad carbs.  By bad carbs I mean sugar carbs or refined carbs or anything out of a bag or box carbs.

Show up and make it count!

2 comments:

Runner Susan said...

maybe throw in some greens like sauteed spinach or something. make sure you don't turn it into an atkins diet.

cindylouwho said...

Thanks Suz. Yes this is a struggle.