I have had this weird cycle thing going with my weight. It has been going on for months. I talked about it in Late summer of last year!!! I mentioned it throughout the winter. And it is still going on! I spent some time thinking (in the shower of course) and talking to a friend about it (Thanks Julie) and I believe that I may have found some clarity to my issues
The cycle is that I am in goes something like this…..
On my official weekend weigh in day, my weight is nice and low! Hurray for me! I don’t pig out over the weekend, but on Monday or Tuesday my weight pops up about 2 pounds! Booo for me!!! I sent my Wednesday morning weigh in results to my friend Julie and they usually are a bit lower each week…which gives me SOME hope, but it is still annoying to see my weight jump up each mid-week, even though it does go down again on the weekend.
For example……..a typical two week period (totally made up numbers, because quite frankly, I am feeling lazy and it would have been way too much work to go get real numbers……but I will say that the first two numbers were real)
Saturday 250.0
Wednesday 251.4
Saturday 249.6
Wednesday 251.0
Saturday 249.2
You see….painstakingly slow! So the other morning in the shower I really spent some time thinking about it. I can’t help but wonder what results I would be getting weekly if I didn’t have that pop on the scales. (I have lost 2.8 pounds for January as of last weekend’s official weigh in, so I am losing…just SLOOOOOW). So I decided to really try to keep that weight from popping this upcoming weekend.
I immediately said to myself. WATER. I need to make sure that I’m drinking lots of water on the weekend. I know that my water intake is a whole lot less on the weekends. I try, but it gets away from me. I was easily on board with that plan. But if I was going into the weekend and really try, I also knew that I had to really watch my caloric intake. No, if you remember, my goal for January is NOT to watch my caloric intake, but to simply track. (the side benefit is that if I’m tracking, I’m usually eating within my goal range of calories!) Ok, ok ok….I grudgingly agreed to actually restrict and make sure that I was in the lower realm of calories for each weekend day.
But then at work that day, I was writing an email to my friend Julie…and this is what I wrote…….and it brought clarity to my weekend weight woes.
My weight is down from where it was last Wednesday…like a pound down. So that is good. I’m up from the weekend weigh in though. GRRRR it is crazy but my weight does the exact same thing each week. It pops up on Monday or Tuesday and sits high all week long and then Saturday or Sunday it drops to a new low….(last Saturday I was down to 250.0…..which is a 2.8 pound loss for January……today I’m back up to 251.2) I was thinking in the shower this morning. I am going to work really hard….drink TONS of water this weekend and really watch my food intake and see if I can break this cycle. The odd thing is that I don’t really eat all that differently over the weekend. Actually probably less…hmmmm thinking back though…not as much fruit as normal…and probably less veggies too since we usually get subs one night and pizza or Chinese another night. HMMMM
Jason doesn’t eat unless he is really hungry. (REALLY HANGRY) I can’t even fathom why food has no pull on him! It is insanely odd to me! Ohh and he doesn’t like bread. Who in their right mind doesn’t like bread????? In some regards that is good for me…because if we are out and about we very rarely say “lets pick up lunch” so it forces me to actually sit back and say “I’m hungry….really hungry” before I say “lets stop and grab something for me to eat”. (Closet eater and all that…I have to be REALLY hungry before I will make us stop because, well that’s not closet eating!) But it’s bad on the other hand because since we don’t eat regularly when we are together there is a very good chance that I will end up eating a snack/something non-nutritious when I do get hungry!
CLARITY! The light bulb went off! Yeah, my calories are in my range over the weekend…BUT I’m not eating as nutritiously as I do on the weekdays. Add that to the high sodium of Chinese, subs and pizza (which I am eating in moderation!) and I have stirred up the perfect recipe for disaster!
So with that said, it helped me cement a weekend plan to break this weigh in cycle that I am in. 1. DRINK DRINK DRINK…..Water…hahaha but then you knew that because I don’t drink too much alcohol! 2. Really watch my food intake….I haven’t been trying to stay beneath a certain calorie count, but this weekend I am going to do it! And 3….and maybe the most important one…….eat nutritiously. Turn to fruit versus un-nutritious snacks!
So I’m ready to head into the weekend! I’m waiting for my weight to go back down and then I’m ready to implement these three things!!! It is time to smash this cycle!!!!
