Mon 29 Mar 2010
From the time I booked the vacation cruise (the day I decided on a 10lb weight loss goal) till a week after, I dropped 5 lbs. Most of that was likely water weight, it was just how timing worked out with my usual hormonal fluxes. Now the second week has gone by, and I’d lost…1. 🙁 That’s pretty discouraging, but I tell myself I still have 32 days from today to lose the final 4. (Now I sound like the Bruins the last time we made it to NCAA. =P)
I’ve been doing some pretty clean eating and stepping up the frequency of exercise. This weekend, I stopped by the mall just for something to do after I visited the dealership to get my car’s navigation system updated (hooray, I see streets again!), since Mr. W was off mountain biking in some local terrain. I tried on two pairs of nice work-friendly trousers in what I figured my size was, size 4. They both fit comfortably, and one was a little TOO comfortable. When I leaned forward, I could see straight down my butt. So I swapped it out for a size 2, which was still comfortable, and this time not so baggy. I went home elated, thinking I dropped down a size. 😀
When I hung up these new pants in the closet later, I casually checked the size tags of some other pairs of similar pants I had purchased years ago from this same clothing store. Those were all size 2! Did I then go UP a size to be comfortable in a pair of size 4?! 🙁
I wish I’d taken fat percentage measurements two weeks ago so I can tell progress for sure. I’m okay not losing 10 lbs on the scale if I’ve carved out 10 lbs of fat. It’s supposed to rain again Wednesday and Thursday, and Wednesday is one of my usual running days (M, W, F). Now I’ll have to run today, Tuesday and Friday to make up for the loss of Wednesday and Thursday, in addition to the gym at lunchtime. Another wrench in the gears right now is that I appear to be going through my third allergy attack, ever. My throat’s itchy and scratchy, I’m hacking out a lung, I’m dehydrated from the loss of fluid out my nose. Thank you, Santa Ana Winds and all the rain this year that has fed weeds and created pollen to be lifted from all the plants out there straight into my nostrils.
This creates a challenge, but this challenge will not be a blockade! I WILL run! I WILL strive! I will lose to win! *raising both fists triumphantly in the air* 😀
…I think I’m a little high from Claritin.
apartment balcony over an open field = my allergies sympathize with your allergies
and i have 1 gym visit to go before my bikini showdown. my butt may protest anymore squats.
I don’t know how people in “The Sound of Music” frolic over wide fields singing. That’s why I don’t like musicals. I have a hard time suspending disbelief.
Re 1 more gym before bikini showdown…ALREADY?! Really? =( I feel so abandoned! haha
You can drop the weight, I have no doubt. You have more determination than anyone I know when it comes to goal setting. High-fiving you all the way!!
Don’t feel bad about the pants. Some companies engage in an awful practice called “vanity sizing”. My friend A…. swore up and down that she was a size 6 since that’s what the Gap said she was when she was in reality about a size 14.
If it makes you feel any better, I gave up sugar and snack foods for lent and didn’t lose much. Then I realized I was compensating by eating more food at dinner….
Flat Coke – thanks! I’m actually getting results this time (slowly, but steadily); this morning the scale showed another .6 lb drop, and I finally took body fat percentage. 23.6%. It’s always been so impossible for me to budge the scale, the only thing that changed that I can think of is that I’ve cut crappy food (fried stuff, refined carbs, fast food) completely out of my diet.
Erin – a size 14 is a 6 at Gap?! Holy crap! I’m well aware of vanity sizing, that’s why I’m a size 2/4 at this store instead of a 6, where I should be. But My upset is that I’m talking about pant sizes all at the same store.
i think julie andrews was on sudafed … and maybe crack.
when i get back let’s do my fave beach spot. perhaps a picnic dinner? we’re so romantic.
I’m on Zyrtec-D today. I’m liking it so much better than Claritin; it’s more effective AND has no Claritin side-effects (medicine-head, overdry sinus in spite of still runny nose). The active ingredient is pseudoephedrine, and I had hubby run out last nite to get it for me. He said they made him sign something, show his driver’s license, etc, before they’d release it to him. No wonder it’s good stuff.
Okay, hopefully the weather is nicer when you get back. I’ll bring wine! Altho… then neither of us could drive.