Tracking
Let’s start with the victory first. I tracked every bite of food! I am proud of what I ate! My calories were in check! For the total calories you can see my weekend was over.
But when you add in my exercise (my bike rides and runs...not my lunchtime walks) I was totally perfect!
I do know my dinners had carbs. (Pasta a few nights). But that was my only carbs for the day so I should have been ok!
Weight
So with my food in check, let’s see how my weight stacks up this week. Grrrrr! Well...I’m up! I do know that I have this recurring pattern that has been going on for a while I am down on Friday and Saturday but then pop up through the work week. Yes I know that my higher eating on the weekends contribute...but look at the figures above...my net calories is lower...even though my intake is much higher. So this morning I sit at 250.0. 2 pounds up. Grrr! (The morning was off, in terms of my daily....ahem, routine so that affects the weight....so I do expect it to be lower shortly!)
Exercise
I kinda nailed this first week. Kinda! I ran twice in this last week, once after work! I rode my bike twice (hard rides over the weekend) and I walked every lunch break and every 15 minute break!
I did something once after work...but wimped our the other evenings!!!
So that is a total victory. The failure is the after work workouts. I need to get that into place!
So there you have it. My weight is up, and while I do expect it to drop back to the lower weight, it is still totally disheartening! But I did good for my body this week in my tracking and the movement that I did do! Maybe I’m grasping at straws but I’m hoping the higher weight/more of a maintain is also indicative of muscle growth...I know my muscles have had a workout and that they have been sore! It’s plausible. I did also have someone tell me yesterday that I looked like I was slimming down. Plausible again...but I don’t see it. Either way, I am going to continue pushing forward! I KNOW that I am making strides toward being healthier and that counts...even if my weight doesn’t!!!
