Jericho: Back under 500.
Normally, when I diet I avoid the scale for everything I'm worth - like I did last week.
However, this week, Steph has kept encouraging me to step on the scale. Monday I was 507, Tuesday I was 505. Today I was 498. I re-weighed with the same results. It's a big drop, but not unexpected. I have so much weight to lose and it takes so much for this body to do anything resembling movement, thousands of calories going out the door in a short time frame isn't unimaginable.
Most likely a lot of that was just water. I have indeed been peeing like mad recently. I've also been fairly active, so maybe some of the fluid the docs said was around my heart is circulating out and some of the fluid around my ankles and legs is gone, too. Either way, I don't care - I'm just glad it's going.
I'm still eating, no sweat there. I'm doing about 2000 to 2500 calories a day. Sunday we spent several hours in the pool, nothing too stressful, but, I wasn't sitting on the couch eating chips, either. Monday morning I got on the treadmill for 30 minutes. I was hoping to repeat that several times this week and haven't managed to - it's a process. I'll get there.
This time, I plan to stay under 500 permenantly. Wish me luck.
However, this week, Steph has kept encouraging me to step on the scale. Monday I was 507, Tuesday I was 505. Today I was 498. I re-weighed with the same results. It's a big drop, but not unexpected. I have so much weight to lose and it takes so much for this body to do anything resembling movement, thousands of calories going out the door in a short time frame isn't unimaginable.
Most likely a lot of that was just water. I have indeed been peeing like mad recently. I've also been fairly active, so maybe some of the fluid the docs said was around my heart is circulating out and some of the fluid around my ankles and legs is gone, too. Either way, I don't care - I'm just glad it's going.
I'm still eating, no sweat there. I'm doing about 2000 to 2500 calories a day. Sunday we spent several hours in the pool, nothing too stressful, but, I wasn't sitting on the couch eating chips, either. Monday morning I got on the treadmill for 30 minutes. I was hoping to repeat that several times this week and haven't managed to - it's a process. I'll get there.
This time, I plan to stay under 500 permenantly. Wish me luck.
posted by Jericho Brown at 7/19/2007 03:54:00 PM
6 Comments:
That's great news, Jer! I'm glad to hear it. I think spending time in the pool is the perfect exercise for you. It doesn't stress any joints, you have more mobility freedom and it's fun. You should think about joining the Y or getting some of those resistance weights to use in your apartment complex pool.
Keep up the good work, hun.
I have a gym membership I pay for every month - I should use it now and then ...
I know someone else with that same problem. 8-|
Still dieting.
Got on the scale today.
502.
Ima go have a donut.
Chocolate Milk.
A pound of Butterfinger.
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