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!
