lionpaw's Journal

Plateau
Oct 25 2008 11:10

Wow, been a while since I posted a journal entry.

Been busy with volunteering.  A lot of get-out-the-vote effort, registering people to vote, distributing flyers, a little canvassing.  Also doing lots of projects at work.  I'm now the radiology go-to person as well as the lab test equipment person, and I just took on the job of writing new pamphlets for us too.  Fun!

Anyway, still at a plateau.  Got 241.5 today, of course that was after breakfast, but still, it's probably mostly correct (and I don't want to quibble over a pound or two here or there).  But I'm logging again, which is a good first step I think.  I think I know what the problems were.  In addition to eating too little for a little while, we then ended up with LOTS of candy in the house - gee, is there some candy-related holiday coming up? - and I was very bad about the candy.  I am actually planning to go pick up some of those candy pumpkins today - lots and lots and lots of them! - but I will limit myself.  They are SO good; I really should savor them, and only eat a few at a time.  But anyhow, being better about the candy will hopefully lead to me being better about the carbs generally, which should get me back on track.

I'm also scheduled to talk to a nutritionist on the 17th of November, and I have all kinds of questions lined up.  I really want to do this right.  If I can get back on track I might even make it under 220 by the end of the year, which would be nice.  My original dream of being my goal weight by my next birthday is pretty much out the window at this point, but no biggy; the *important* thing is that by my next birthday I will be timmer than I have been for at *least* ... gosh, probably 17 or 18 years!  Incredible.  I already weigh less than I did when I was 15.  How sad is THAT?

Well, off to work.  Not sure about lunch today.  Not hungry right now.  Will probably down a fiber bar to keep me until after work (4 pm) and then hop over to the grocery store and pick up a really late lunch.