9 weigh ins completed for the year 2025! I have to be honest though and say that I have mixed feelings about it though! It's kinda like the common thoughts that wow it's been 9 weeks already, where has time gone but in the same breath thinking 9 weeks, it seems like a lifetime ago! That is how I feel about the weigh in. I have two totally conflicting emotions in regards to my weigh in.
Let me just put it out there right now. I lost 0.4 pounds this week. I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth. A half of a pound is fantastic! It's a loss. It's incredible. But....shouldn't it be more. I mean, I am working my tail end off with exercise. I have tracked my food religiously and kept within my set boundaries. I have drank my water. I have done incredible (Thank you 75 Hard)!
And that is where the divide lays. I am tickled. I have lost just about 10 pounds this year. Yay. 10 pounds gone! I am all about celebrating the loss of those 10 pounds. That turns out to be just over a pound a week. I'll take it! Gladly! Any loss is a win. But at my weight, which is currently at 264 pounds, I should be dropping weight like mad! It should be a whole lot more than this weeks measly half pound. It should even be more than the 1 pound average that I have been posting. It should be flying off of me so fast that people around me should be ducking to avoid it! But it's not.
I had recently talked about adding more protein into my daily diet. Protein is more difficult for me because I am not a huge fan of meat. I don't really like eggs. (Well, I like eggs...but they have to be hidden within a delicious cake or a soft gooey cookie!) Protein is difficult for me. In a quest to add more, I turned to 'products. One of those products was a protein pancake mix. Great option, right? Except that I was forgetting that carbs are a kryptonite for me. I love them....once I start I can't stop! And even worse, I know for my body that I can't indulge complex carbs (pastas, white potatoes and breads.....including pancakes) more than one time a day. I loved every last morsel of that box of pancake mix. And when it was done, I still had some pancake syrup here at the house so I just made my own from scratch. Bad bad bad. I recognized the pitfall and didn't buy another box of pancake mix nor did I buy more maple syrup!
So where does that leave me? I need to get back to basics. I need to get my calories back down to the level where I know I lose. I need to limit my carbs (goodbye pancakes). And for my body and for my AGE, I need to keep my protein levels higher. I will keep the protein higher by adding in protein bars (which I had already started) but also by doing something I swore off years ago. What am I talking about? I am talking about yogurt. Years ago (wow I was still at the bank so more than 10 years ago) I wrote about how I was not going to eat foods that I don't really like simply because they are 'good for me'. I can't find the post at the moment, but I remember sitting eating a cup of yogurt. (It was a weight watchers brand yogurt that I had picked up at the grocery store....do they even still make those things?) As I shoveled the yogurt into my mouth I thought to myself "man, I really don't like this" and at that moment I made a decision to stop eating something that I don't really like just because it is 'good for you'. Well, I am backtracking. I would rather eat some yogurt versus meat! So Yogurt it is! I will be buying a weeks worth of yogurt and seeing how that goes. Will it last more than a week? I am not sure, but I'm going to give it a go!
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Ratio has a decent high protein yogurt. What do you think about cottage cheese? I take it you do not like hard boiled eggs? Seafood? Any meat that you like that you are willing to eat more of (baccooonnnn lol ok i know counter productive) Tofu? I am not a fan of soybean but if you like it and it helps then more power to you! One thing you can do if you can tolerate and like skinny syrup- greek yogurt and add vanilla sf syrup. Makes it sweet and gives it flavor. Some people mix greek yogurt and sf pudding too.
Congratulations on 10 pounds gone this year so far! Keep it up!
10 pounds, wow that’s awesome. 🤩
Yeah, I have the palate of a toddler! Cottage cheese is ok (with toppings), hard boiled eggs not so much but I will crave some egg salad on occaision. Meat, not really. A few weeks ago I was craving some sweet bologna but for the most part meat is edible but not something i like. Well, as you said bacon...oh and lets not forget pepperoni, that's yum too!. I will have to try some of the skinny syrup and the pudding trick sounds interesting. Just this morning I was adding copious amounts of fruit to my yogurt (that i'm forcing myself to eat) to make it edible and thought about adding a squirt of whipped topping....So I need to buy some!
Thanks!
I weighed today and I wasn't pleased what the scale readed.
10 lbs though. Yeahhhhhh
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