So, these past few days I was away from home (visiting Kay, attending a wedding, etc). I decided that it would be difficult to count calories and difficult to control what kinds of things I would be eating.
As a result, I stopped counting and just tried to listen to what my body was saying.
I ate a cupcake, I had pizza and fries, and more. I was not as restrictive and it paid off!!!
I think often I give my self a decent amount of set calories (1200-1500), buuuuut I think counting causes me to focus to much on weight loss and not on enjoying the food or just living a healthy lifestyle. As a result, even though I was eating a healthy amount of calories, I still felt restricted by what kinds of foods I could eat and how much of them as well. So, these past few days, if I was hungry I ate, if I wasn’t I didn’t.
I weighed in and voila 148 pounds :)
(and with 2 weeks till the beach, so when I keep this up I could reach 145 or less!)
So, I plan to continue eating intuitively as best I can, unless I hit a plateau or something, then I will re-evaluate…but I think what is wonderful about this is that it is teaching me to listen to my body and how to eat in a way that is maintainable!
All you guys who’ve been complaining about it, I feel your pain. I really do.
I’ve been a bit worried about how far I can run and I’ll be able to do the full 5k. I realised I’ve been including my 5 minute warm up walk in my timings. So today I did my 5 minute warm up and then I ran for an extra 40 minutes on top of that. 40 minutes!
Go me!
It’s not almost 7:30 pm. I had my meal exactly 12 hours ago. I’m stopping, I’m making myself something healthy to eat now. I hate feeling weak because I’m restricting myself.
I ran last night! For the first time in, like, a month. I ran close to 1.5 miles, maybe 1.2 miles. At any rate, I ran! It was almost easy, too, which freaked me out a little bit. I wasn’t timing myself too seriously, but I knew that for having run as far as I had at that particular point, I should have been breathing a little heavier. It was probably because I took my asthma meds prior to running (the asthma meds I’ve been without for nearly as long as I haven’t been running. Connection, maybe?!). Maybe it’s because I don’t weigh as much as I did when I was running before. I don’t know how I did it, but I shed another 5-8 pounds (depending on the scale, of course). Probably has to do with me participating in this “No Junk Food for the Month of June” challenge on Facebook. It’s done me some good; I can’t even fathom eating a bag of chips or anything without true nutritional value. Even now when I am DEAD BROKE, a bag of chips would be cheap and quick and filling for a time. But, a banana from the fruit guy is the same amount of change, and even more filling and nutritious. I guess this is what boyfriend was always talking about when he’d say, “Eat real food.” Had to figure it out the hard way.
Yeah, so I ran last night, and I’ll probably do so again tonight or tomorrow morning.
That’s all.
serendipitybabyy said: - We probably know more about the scientific weight loss aspects than any normal person would.
THIS IS SO TRUE. I think that’s one of the biggest myths about those with eating disorders- that our actions are due to ignorance about nutrition. I’ve read both diet books and medical textbooks extensively in an attempt to known as much possible about weight loss. I also had a nutritionist after I was diagnosed last year, so I know how I’m affecting my body.
So, I haven’t done a GPOYW or a progress picture in a while, it took me a couple of pages on my blog even to find a recent picture.
ANYWAY, yesterday I was (and still am) running low on clothes, so I decided to just grab this gray shirt that I normally don’t wear because it’s a little too tight and too short. Well, I pulled it on and holy baggy-ness batman! This is NOT the same shirt I used to wear!
Let us all ignore my insane face in the first picture. I know they are taken at different angles, but you can even see how much baggier the shirt is on my now. Not to mention how much smaller my upper arms look and can I mention that my boobs look a lot bigger too (you can’t realllly tell that in this picture thought….)? tmi? AND LOOK AT MY FINGERS! They are soooo much less sausagey now! HURRAH!
Could I be dorkier though? No? I didn’t think so….
Oh my gosh I hurt. Such a good day at the gym.
First I walked for like 10 minutes on the treadmill. I almost forgot to stop, since I was just warming up. My body was ready to keep going!
Then I did the whole line of machines, 20 reps on each. I did as much weight as I could, which was 50 or 70 on the leg machines and 20 or 30 on the arm ones.
After that, I tried the elliptical again. It kicked my ass, seriously! I loved it.
According to my Lose It! App, I burned 500 calories today. I definitely feel like it. I love the feeling of pushing myself just the right amount!
So one suggests that weight loss is specific to blood type and the other notes that weight loss is possible with the elimination of grains. If I follow both books, I need to eliminate my grains that I love so much!
Anyone think there’s any truth to these statements in Dr Peter J.D’Adamo’s Eat Right 4 Your Type& Gary Taubes’ Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It?
I really saw a slight difference here from the side. kinda happy about that :)
look! my nasty fat rolls got less nasty and fat! yay!