Holiday Gain

Fat doesn't take a holiday.

I said this MONTHS ago and learned the hard way by a 4 pound gain. It is incredible to me how it can take weeks to lose 4 pounds and 4 days to gain it back. I haven't logged on to Myfitnesspal in God knows how long and just worked out for the first time in over a week today. I felt it too.

My wonderful mother got me Dance Central 2 for Christmas and I played a 50 minute workout mode today. Holy carp. By the end of it, I felt like I ws going to die. Either this game grossly underestimates calories burned or Just Dance exaggerates it because it said I only burned 186 calories whereas after 50 minutes of Just Dance, I would have burned at least 300. Moral of the story: I need an HRM so I can just calculate it myself. Likely not going to happen for some time.

After this gain, I came to the realization that in order to hit my Comicon 2013 goal of the end of January, I'd have to lose weight at an unhealthy rate at this point. Also, I've been thinking that I have become obsessed with the food thing to the point that it was all I could think about. What's the point of becoming physically healthy if your mind is gone? So I told Nick that Comicon wasn't worth my mental and physical health, so he asked me what would be healthy. About 2 pounds a week makes around 18.5 weeks. So we made a new goal.

Star Wars Day, May 4, if I hit my ultimate goal of 150, we will go to Comicon 2013. I feel this is doable and I am excited to get back on track in the morning.

Here we go again!

Weigh-In 12/17/11

This is going to be awesome! I've worked out so hard this week!

0...0...0...0...187.6.

What?!? A 3.2 pound GAIN?!?

Well...you didn't exactly eat like a champ, did you?

No...

Uncountable number of cookies and Italian food eaten with reckless abandonment...lesson learned?

It doesn't matter how much you workout if you're still going to binge on everything in sight...

Weigh-In 12/12/2011

Weigh-In Monday will from now on be Weigh-In Saturday.  It was originally Saturday and I changed it to Monday, but I think I want for it to be Saturday again.

Last week was mixed...The beginning of the week sucked.  There were 2 batches of brownies made (and I consumed MOST of the first one) and a package of Aplets and Cotlets was mostly consumed by me.  I kicked my butt hard on Thursday and Friday and it paid off.  Weigh-In shows another loss of 3.8 lbs!  I'm down to 184.4  Nearly 10 lbs since I started in the middle of November.  In order to make it to Comicon 2013, I'll need to lose 3.2 lbs per week.  I have 7.5 weeks to lose 24.4 lbs.  Going a little insane, but at least it's temporary insanity.  lol.

Nick and I went shopping and out to Macaroni Grill last night.  I was quite hungry, so I did splurge on an Aunt Anne's Pretzel.  (Seriously...who can go shopping without a pretzel?)  I was good at Macaroni Grill (ate under 600 calories if you can believe it) and shopping was SO much fun!  I'm fitting into a Medium shirt now, which is amazing!  I haven't fit into a Medium since Master's Commission.  AND I had a fun experience.  I accidentally picked up a plus-sized item and the cashier was like "You know this is plus-sized, right?  There's no way you need this size..."  It felt so good, I almost cried.

You are doing a GREAT job!

I know!  I know!  This week is going to be great, too!

Imagine what the scale would have said if you hadn't eaten those brownies and Aplets and Cotlets earlier this week!

Ugh...you just HAD to bring that up, didn't you?  I've been kicking my butt for the last couple days!  Can't you just give it a break?

Fat doesn't take a break...don't get comfortable in your loss.  You have a goal to reach.  You can do it.

I can!  Thanks.

Now, get off your butt and start cleaning your house!

Ugh...ok.

Weigh-In 12/5/2011

Thanksgiving was NO problem for me, surprisingly enough...but Post-Thanksgiving killed me.  My family was visiting and Mom wanted to go out to eat practically every night.  After they all went home, I did good on Thursday and Friday, but on Saturday, I gorged myself on pizza and chicken fettuccine alfredo.  And yesterday, I had fast-food twice.  There was no quarrel in my head.  I think my will-power went on vacation after Thanksgiving.  Brat.

Stepping on the scale this morning, I knew I wasn't going to have a loss.  I just prayed I wouldn't have a gain.  0...0...0...0...0...188.2.

Whew!

What do you mean "Whew"?!?  I leave for 1 week and look at all you ate!


I thought working out a ton would even it out.


Well, it DID even it out, but you didn't get a loss.  Do you know what this means?  This means we now have to lose a 3.5 lbs per week to hit the Comicon 2013 goal!


!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yeah!


We may as well kiss THAT reward good-bye...


No.  Don't even start the self-pity trip.  No time or energy for that crap.  Self-pity just leads you to food for comfort and we don't want that, do we, Eeyore?


No, but thanks for noticing me.


Ugh.  At least we didn't gain while I was gone.


Where did you go anyway?


Will-Power Anger Management Camp.  


Yeah...really seemed to help...


So.  I'm still at the same stats, only now I have to lose 3.5 lbs per week to make it to Comicon 2013.  I have no idea how I'm going to accomplish this, but I'm not giving up.  Just glad will-power decided to come home today.