hharris9's Journal

August Update
Aug 01 2008 13:06

Darn it!!!

I had done pretty well - not stellar, but pretty well. I started July at 129.5 and was down to 126.0 in 3 weeks... until my little sister's birthday. I was working out 3x per week pretty regularly, and then that one weekend just  completely threw my progress and confidence. Of course, I'm sure that that weekend wasn't all of it... my daily caloric average was 1400 this month. I knew I was getting close to the point of maintenance, so I decided to up the cals in order to get more used to what I'd be doing. Way to jump the gun on that one, Heather.

But still.. it was really that weekend that killed me. What bugs me most was that I didn't think that it was THAT bad. We went to outback, and I managed to stay away from the cheese fries and limit myself to 2 slices of bread, no butter. Then I had a shrimp/scallop griller, no rice, extra veg, no salad. I'd only had 400 cal before that, so I probably went right up to about my burn (1650ish). Then... I had dairy queen cake. A 500cal slice of it. Yikes. That was bad, yeah, but that's like what... 1/7th of a pound? No big deal. Saturday, I ate up to maintenance, including another piece of that cake. Sunday, I was pretty good. So I MIGHT have gained a pound at MOST but Monday morning... my weight was at 129.0! YIKES. All of my progress GONE. I knew a lot of it was just water retention, so I tried to chill out... As the week has worn on, though, i'm back down to 127.5... still, I don't know how I gained 1.5lbs on not that much extra. I might've had an extra 2000cals. Though I'm doubtful it was even that much, and that'd still be just over 1/2lb. That kind of worries me about maintaining. =/ Maybe my metabolism has slowed a little and I'm not really burning in the 1600's. Maybe it's closer to 1500 =( I guess I'm be sure to actually MAKE it to my goal before deciding to move into maintenance mode again.

Still... just 2 and a half pounds away! And the "please, god, let me be there.." goal is August 18th, when I move back into my dorm at shcool. So I've got 2.5weeks. 1lb per week and I could be maintaining by the time a get to school. That'd be awesome because I'm right across the street from the gym and all of that. I'm thinking about taking a pilates class and maybe this one called "Butts and Guts" but we'll just see what I have time for =) If I don't take them, i'll make sure I'm getting a workout a few days a week one way or another! :)

So that was July. Really depressing, defeating July. But even when it gets like that, you can't let yourself backslide. You've just got to get it together and come back stronger! And that's what August will be all about! :D