Well, I weighed in this morning & it wasn't good news!   I gained back 1.2 lbs of what I had lost.  I'm really not sure why other than we only went to the gym one time this week.  Other than that, I stayed under my calories everyday this week.  Oh well, I'll try harder next week!  It will be kinda difficult being out of town away from home (being in IL) for my sister's wedding.  We will be in a hotel for 3 days/nights so we will be eating out most of that time.  It will be difficult to manage my meals!  This will be my challenge!!

Last week was okay.  Lost 2.2 lbs which I was excited about! :)  We went to a Valentine's party at church on Saturday of last week & lasagna was served.  I was pleased with how I ate.  I did have some lasagna, but I had very little dessert, which for me is VERY good!! :)  Also, I had saved most of my calories for dinner that night!! :)  But we are headed back to the gym this week to work very hard to drop some weight!! :)  I have less than 2 weeks before my younger sister's wedding & I would like to drop a little bit more weight!!   So more water, veggies, & lots of exercise!!!!!!

I'm a bad boy.  Last night at a church social, I had big piece of lasagna and some dessert.  Very bad for my low-carb diet.  I'm going to have to go back on induction for the next 10 days to atone for my dietary sin.  Hopefully it won't make me gain for this next week.  At least I still lost for this week.  Oh Sheila, it's time to go back to the gym!!!

I forgot until today to post a blog about last week.  Wow!! I lost 5 lbs last week!! I am SO excited about that!  Last week was pretty much normal regarding food & journaling, etc.  We did not get to the gym last week, unfortunately.  In about 2 weeks, my younger sister is getting married in IL & I will be traveling there for the wedding and seeing my best friend who I have not seen in a long time.  I can't wait to see what her reaction will be to the weight that I have lost !! :)

Yeah!  Even with this eating of extra meals because of my medicine, I still lost 4.7 pounds this week!  I believe it is because of the hard work we've put in at the gym...we are still reaping the benefits of higher metabolism.

Late last week I went back to the doctor about my pinched nerve.  He took me off of the medicine that had been sustaining me (making the pain tolerable) and put me on pair of different medicines, neither of which is specifically for "pain".  The first med (to shrink the discs and take pressure off my spinal cord) required a few days to build up in the body before it would start working--it has finally kicked in resulting in some pain relief.  The second med is for nerve repair and is apparently what is administered to patients who are in the late stages of diabetes.

The reason I mention all this is because how it has impacted my diet and weight loss.  I think on the next weigh-in (in two days) I will be significantly heavier.  I haven't been able to exercise because of the pain (although Sheila didn't want to go to the gym either).  Also, I am required to take food with one of the new meds, and the regimen requires me to take the doses throughout the day.  That means, I have been eating more (up to five times a day instead of my normal two times a day).

I have eaten a few things I shouldn't have according to my low-carb diet.  Tonight, my best friend and his wife came to dinner because it was her birthday.  They brought birthday cake.  So as not to be rude, I ate a tiny piece with my strawberries and cool-whip.  Also, last week I bought some Atkins breakfast bars, intending to eat only one once in a while.  On one day, I ate one as a sweet snack, not as a meal substitute.  Earlier this week, I heated a can of hominy for Sheila's dinner, and it looked so good, I ate a few bites of it and drank the liquid from the can...I know it must have been loaded with carbs, but gosh I miss corn on this diet.

Well, this week was not that great!   I only lost .4 lb, but we didn't go to the gym this week due to not feeling well so I did not expect to lose much.  I did try to keep to my food journaling & drinking my water.  One good thing about this week was that I bought a pair of jeans that were one size smaller that I normally wear & they actually fit when I tried them on today!!!!!   I was very excited about that!  I hope that next week goes better as far as the weight loss.  I will try to work as hard as I can! :)

I threw the weigh-in on Saturday morning.  I got out of bed a few hours before Sheila did, and I didn't remember to get on the scales before breakfast.  So, I was 3.3 pounds heavier than last week.

Wow!  This week was interesting and full of challenges!! :)  On Tuesday of this last week, we had really dangerous ice!  Because of my work's attendance policy, I attempted to try to drive on the ice.  Not a good idea!   My car slid off the road!  Thank God I'm okay & the car is okay!  I ended up staying home all day from work because of it. Oh, and me and hubby got to walk about 1/4 of a mile through a field to get back to our house!!   What a cardio workout that was!! :)  But I did have to stay home all day & normally in the past, I would have ate all day if I was at home, but I did not that day.  I stuck to my normal meals & snacks.  Because of the weather, however, we only made it to the gym once.  Another highlight from the week was on Saturday.  Me and hubby went to a Healthy Living Expo.  We picked up lots of interesting information!! :)  We also signed up for lots of prizes!!  Hopefully we will win something!  All in all it was a pretty good week & I lost 2.3 lbs on top of all that!!!!! 

Oh yeah.  I forgot.  Scale says I lost 1.6 lb this week.

I have found that returning to the gym has increased my appetite a little.  I give my body some extra carbohydrates when this happens.  Like today, we went to Ryan's restaurant for lunch after church.  Usually, I would only eat the meat with no breading, because the breading adds a lot of carbohydrates to an entrée.  Also, I wouldn't eat any barbeque because most of the varieties of barbeque sauce is loaded with sugar.  On the buffet, I did take some of the catfish and shrimp even though it has some breading.  Also, I found some boneless barbeque pork ribs that had only a tiny amount of sauce on them, and I put a few of those on my plate as well.

We went to the gym twice this week, once on Thursday and again on Saturday.  Both times I was able to finish my full workout, which is 8 minutes cardio warm-up on the treadmill, 3 sets of 12 reps on 4 different upper body machines (biceps, triceps, and two machines for the pectorals), and 30 more minutes of cardio.  On Saturday, I must've caught a second wind, because at the end of my 30 minutes, I felt like I could go another hour.  There was a good movie playing, so that helps.

It has been a great week for me! :)  First of all, I lost 3.7 lbs this week which I thought was great!  That is a total of just a little over 10 lbs so far!  I did really well again this week journaling & staying under my daily calorie limit each day!!  My only challenge this week was going out to Chinese w/my husband.  But I didn't eat much & I tried to eat the foods that I knew would be lower in calories.  I did okay drinking my water this week, but probably not quite the amount that I should so I will try harder next week to accomplish that goal.  We did get to the gym 2 times this week, not quite the 3 times I had planned.  I am going to work on making that 3 times next week.  I am SORE tonight after going to the gym today! :)  But I am motivated to lose this weight!!!! :)

I'm on a low-carbohydrate diet, which means that my blood sugar stays pretty constant and I don't feel hunger very often.  On Wednesday and Thursday that effect was more apparent than on any other days that I've been dieting.  On Wednesday, all I had to eat was a handful of peanuts and about a cup of cantaloupe.  I didn't eat any more than that because I just didn't feel any hunger.  After work I went straight to church, and afterwards I came straight home. I wasn't hungry for dinner and just went to bed.  On Thursday, I drank a little bit of soy milk at breakfast time, had some more peanuts for lunch, and then ate a small dinner, which consisted of two baked chicken breasts and some mashed cauliflower.  The reason I chose this diet is because you don't stay hungry all the time.  Wonderful--I lost eight pounds this week!