I know I have been failing at this blog...again!! And, truthfully, I don't really have a good reason this time....well, for last week, at least.
I didn't get to go to the meeting the week before last because I'd been dealing with a serious student issue. But, I wasn't exactly heartbroken because I knew it would be bad if I went anyway. Remember how I said before that PMS can typically add up to 5 pounds of water weight?? Yeah...that happened. I didn't actually go weigh in that week because 1. I was busy dealing with my student, and 2. even though I knew that it was water weight, I couldn't take seeing the scale tell me that I'd added on 5-6 pounds in one week.
Last week, I was home again for the lovely Thanksgiving break! One of my favorite things about working at this school is that we get the whole week of Thanksgiving off! The difficult part of Thanksgiving for me (and I'm sure many many other people in this country) is that we have TWO Thanksgivings...not even two in the same day...one on Thursday and one on Friday. We spend Thursday at my uncles house - which brings its own challenges since that means that I have zero control over how things are prepared. But, since that also means that we don't have any leftovers, we have a second Thanksgiving dinner at our house on Friday for just our immediate family. Which then means LOTS of leftovers!
All in all, I think I handled Thanksgiving (both) really well! I didn't deny myself of anything, but I didn't gorge myself on anything. I allowed myself to eat the turkey (white meat), mashed potatoes (only about 1/2 cup), dressing (again, 1/4 cup max), sweet potatoes (only one or two slices...no marshmallows, just some brown sugar...which prob isn't much better lol), and lots of veggies. And, of course, some pie!! But, instead of taking big pieces like I normally would have, I took just small slices. For the first time, maybe ever, there was actually still a significant amount of empty space on my plate! I was pretty proud of myself!! And then, when others were snacking on chips/dip or getting more dessert...I was eating all of the raw veggies! I think I may have eaten every single cucumber slice that was out on the veggie tray!
It probably also helped that I was able to get to one regular Zumba and one Aqua Zumba class while I was home. I almost forgot how much fun they were! However, my stupid hip was out again and was really killing my knee! But, I got myself to the chiropractor again on yesterday (Monday). He doesn't want me doing any running or major dancing for a few days until we're sure that it's going to stay this time, so that's a little frustrating, but I'd rather spend a few days not working out and getting it settled than have it go out again and spend even more time out of commission. I did do a little minor dancing around the apartment last night while I was getting ready for bed, but nothing that would have pushed me out again. I think I can give it another day and ease my way back into the running/dancing starting on Thursday. Next week, I'll tell you about my new activity motivation!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 44: no official weigh-in but it was a major water gain
Week 45: +2.0 (officially a gain, but actually lost 3-4 pounds from the unofficial gain the week before)
Week 46: -0.8 (hey...any loss over Thanksgiving is a MAJOR win!!)
Total weight loss: -54.8
Current weight: 202.4
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