177.0lbs this morning!!!! BACK ON TRACK (or so I hope......)

Went for, I guess you could call it a run, but it was a joke. Went to the river bottom and ran for a bit before I did the climb up the stairs. That was a workout!!! But then I went down the trails trying to run for 2 min, walk for 1 min. This whole block by block thing isn't doing me any favours as 2 min is almost ready to drop me. Plus a good chunk of the trails are washed out from the river flooding about 2 weeks ago. Almost lost my ankle a few times in the dirt and mud. I was out for 40 min but it was starting to get quite warm (around noon at this point coz I stayed in bed late!!)

Went home, showered, played some rock band, then headed out. Picked up yet another guitar. This one was cheep though. $200, just a cheep black Fender acoustic to take camping in a few weeks. Headed to the mall and grabbed some shorts for the first time in years, and a drum throne. Yup, not a stool, a throne.

Went home and played rock band on the drums. Ended up on medium and it was HARD!!! But fun! Ended the evening by playing the last challenge on Green Day Rock Band. I've got all the vidoes, but it's hard to say what my favourite one is. I like it when Billie Joe and Mike are in the bookmobile, cracks me up and they're sooo young!!! I like the Chump one as I've not seen that one live. She is a good one too, funny how they used the version where they're all so fucking high for the grand finale one!

Ah, Green Day. Still haven't done my write up, and it was now 2 weeks ago that I was there :( I wanna go to another concert.

Managed to eat around 650cals I think. Hopefully I can drop below this stinkin 177 curse. Hoping I can hit 175 by Sat.....

If I just take my base at 1900 approx, add in the 200 (maybe?) that I did for exercise, that's 2100 output. I've taken in lets say 700, so that's a 1400 defecit. will it be enough?

So I missed the goal.... by a whopping 2.8lbs. I was 177.8lbs this morning.

I can't seem to lose any more at the moment, whatever I do just isn't working. I had a peek online and found a bunch of stuff about plateaus, and despite I think it's too early for that, it's possible. Online theres a variety of different methods to overcome this issue, one of the top ones was zig zagging, or something like it. Basically suggesting that you boost your metabolism by relaxing the rules a little for a day...

I've been eating 1200 cals or less each day, with my minimum suggested daily intake averaging between 1400 and 1600/day. Since I got back from England a week and a bit ago, I've lost about 4lbs. Realisticaly that's not too bad, but I'm stressing out every day I don't get one number down. Especially when the past 2 days I've bounced between 177.8 and 176.8lbs. It's only 1lb so why am I stressed!!!!

Anyways, today I relaxed the rules a little. I've probably eaten 1600 to 1700 cals today. I didn't go too overboard despite the chocolate and ice cream craving I had a few hours ago. I made that chicken dish in the crock pot that I love so much, ate some rice cakes, bran flakes, salmon thai rice thing that had 200 cals. I even had a glass of wine that someone got me from work (but it didn't taste very good!)

The idea is that tomorrow I cut waaaaay back and exercise and then Tuesday I should see some results.

If this works, it could be kinda perfect. With my late shift on Mondays I generally eat less anyways, so I can have a good day on Sunday, do the boosting of the metabolism, then crack right down on Monday. Tuesday I generally go over to 'S's house and we eat there, another bad day (I can usually keep it below 1200 just by cutting back all day except last week where she brought BK home). That way I can have a very low cal day on Monday and Weds, slightly higer on Fri and Sat, then enjoy myself (to a point!) on Tues and Sundays...

So low cal.... 800? That's half of what the Sunday is, but it's a high day overall. Perhaps I'm being silly trying to do this as I know there's leftover dinner in the fridge for tomorrow nights dinner, and that it's probably 250 to 300 cals. If I did a 600 cal day, that would be over half of it. (but I'm thinking now, I've got yoghurt that's 35cals each, tons of fruit. Is it doable?)

Hopefully this will work. If not how extreme do I go? Should I try liquid fasting? Cleansing?

Wait and see....

I have to do the post on England. I will. Just not tonight (or probably tomorrow night coz I work late) but I have to before I begin to forget things.

I ended up searching the internet for holidays today. I want to go to San Fransisco, New Orleans, Miami, and I want to look GOOD while I'm there! Next summer? That's what all this is for.....

177.4lbs.

Can I do 2.4lbs in less than 3 days? Goal is 175 by Sunday....

Today was ok. By the time lunch hit, I'd eaten a yoghurt (35cals), a tea (10cals) and tons of water. The big boss insisted that lunch was mandatory but I managed to get by with only a soup (Italian wedding, probably one of the best soups around!!!) so 90 cals (if the website is to be believed.). Got home and went for a run, doing weights after. Ate dinner, (salmon and a pasta/veggie mix), 90cals worth of salsa and tortilla chips.... I think after all day it's at 800 cals or less, with the 300 or so I've burned, 500cals total? Minus the base rate, I'm at about -1500 for today.

Can I see 176 by the morning? I gotta if I want to hit 175.0.

178.6lbs this morning.

Too tired to drag my ass out at 6am for a run again. Figured I'd do it later.

Took all the candy to work and ate far more than my fair share. Came home and was so tired still so I played rock band for far too long. I've got to get up at 6am tomorrow and run.

I think I've had abot 1100 cals today. :(

Just keep thinking that last week I was at the concert...... I need another concert :(

So this morning I managed a 178.6lbs. That's 0.6lbs off my lowest.

Speaking of lowest etc, I've done some thinking. My highest was 191lbs. The lowest was somewhere around 140 or so but that was from when I was a teenager. There's not much point in using that as my lowest weight.

I've got goals, I've done them in previous posts, but I think for lowest weight I'll use the current lowest, meaning that it's right now 178lbs.

Today wasn't a bad day. Choked down most of the oatmeal, and slowly sipped my tea all the way to Calgary. Got to the meeting about 10 mins late. They served us lunch, but I'm not sure how much I ate, though I did manage to grab nutritional information for the rice crackers. (10 for 80 cals....) For dinner, a cup of tea and cup a soup for 80 cals. I think I'm under 1000....

Went for a run this morning, worked well enought I think I'll try it in the morning again.

Too tired to do a breakdown of last week. Maybe tomorrow.

Holy fuck. It only took this fucking computer about 20 minutes to log in, and then get to the create post page. Too pissed off to do a proper entry.

810 cals today
No exercise as it was pissing it down.

Going to bed coz this thing is PISSING ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

178.2lbs

I tried to eat so little yesterday but got dragged out for lunch. Managed to keep it under 1300 cals (hard at a pizza place!) and didn't eat again all day. Played Green Day Rockband!!!!

Tomorrow is the big day, the day I leave for England. I've been working myself up for this since October and now its finally here!!!

How is this going to work? Do I eat as much as I want (that chippy dinner is going to be demolished) or not? At the moment, I want the chips but the rest I'll buy and bring home for others. I'm not really craving anything yet, but we'll see how much the family tries to feed me.

Think I'm under 900 cals today. No exercise (which is becomming a horrible norm!!! No more of that when I get back!) but a lot of work!

179.0lbs this morning. That was awesome!!!! I managed to hit my goal yesterday, and still lose despite eating a bunch of bad stuff over inventory night.

I'm under 1200 cals for today, was aiming for right around 600 but there was candy in the office and chips in the lunch room so I may have done some light grazing. Maybe 7 or 8 chips and 3 pieces of candy, so I can't be over 900 cals.

One of the girls at work commented that I've lost weight and how much. She guessed 15lbs (I wish) and I didn't really respond. Now I don't know if she was making conversation or if it's noticable. Don't think it's noticable, she's just talking.

But bed time. It's late and I gotta get up early.

181.2

WTF!!!!

Not cool. I was a whole pound lighter 2 days ago!

So, today light on the calories. I'm unsure about the dinner I had, it's somewhere between 200 and 300 cals, most likely closer to the 200 cal mark. Meaning that if I just go straight to bed I've had less than 600 cals today (which seems a bit low so I'm not sure... even after I added it up several times)

Tomorrow morning, a nice long run! It should be fairly cool as it hailed like crazy earlier, for about 5 mins but it sounded really cool on the roof at work.

I MUST hit below 180 before I go to England... If possible get to 175 before I leave on FRIDAY!!! Despite inventory tomorrow night, I'm still very much in England mode. Just slightly stressed about how much weight I'm going to pack on, hence the 175. If I gain a measly 5lbs and am back to 180, I can catch up.

C'mon scales... be good to me in the morning.

So yesterday I managed a 180.2lbs!!!! Despite an evening out, ( I barely ate all day to make up for it) I clocked 180.8lbs this morning.

That's pretty fuckin good!!!!

I need to get 180.0 or lower to be at my goal by Sunday.

Today was a good day all around! The guitar was sent back to the shop today so I got a call to come pick it up. I figured I'd check the mail just in case and lo and behold the tickets were there!!!! I've started on my messenger bag so I can hopefully take that on the plane.

On a downer, the sink in the kitchen won't drain properly. It's quite gross. I can't do dishes or anything.....

Figure I've had close to 1000cals today, not too bad, but not as good as the 600 I was down to. With no exercise I'm not sure I'm going to crack that 180 tomorrow, but we'll see.

182.8this morning.

I'm clawing it back... didn't lose a fucking pound from yesterday to today. Same exact same damn numbers on the scale.

Which meant I wasn't exactly motivated to eat today. Tossed half my oatmeal and couldn't get most of my dinner soup down. I think i managed 700-800 cals.

I felt like shit today, don't think it has much to do with the eating thing. I was completely fine (if not a bit distracted) until I picked up the new glasses. I felt horribly motion sick and just messed up, like I was drunk or something. I left work an hour after I was done but still had a ton more stuff to do.

Soooo much work, so little time!! I can't believe inventory is only 3 days away!

EEK!