I'm still here, and still working on losing weight, I promise. It's been an interesting week. Monday I had a depressed day (of course...2 days after I say I haven't felt that way in AGES...) and then Tuesday I ate heavy-ish foods in the evening, so that when I weighed myself on Wednesday for the weigh-in I was disappointed to find that I weighed 169, so I was up a pound. On a rational, non-depressed day it would have been a bummer but not a big deal, but on a crummy day it resulted in adding to my Jonah day. I felt rebellious and was THIS CLOSE to baking something delectable, but somehow I made it through the day without caving.
Then on Thursday I meant to do the weigh-in but just didn't feel like it. Then Friday I was going to privatize my blog altogether, and Saturday I didn't have much time to do anything but clean, eat, feed Baby and run errands. I sat down for the first bit of 'me' time at 8:40pm, and felt so fried that I absentminded-ly read blogs and surfed pinterest for 2 hours.
And that brings us to today! I'm having a good day today. I don't know if it's because my hair is falling the right way, my make-up looks good, all my favourite tops are clean so I'm well-dressed, or that I weighed 167 on the scale this morning. Whatever it is, I'm in a good mood.
So in light of the fact that I didn't do a weigh-in this week, I'll do a bit of one now.
I weighed 167 this morning. Not sure why, I wasn't trying particularly hard yesterday, and I haven't worked out since Tuesday, but I'll take it. Mind you, it'll probably be higher tomorrow because I found this amazing muffin recipe (muffins so don't count as sweets. They're breakfast food in a way that donuts aren't.) and I might have eaten too many of them today. But! They're healthy. Well, healthy-ish. I need to try replacing the sugar with honey or that Agave nectar stuff next time, but for the first time I wanted to do the recipe exactly as it says. So it uses some whole wheat flour, and some white. Apple butter instead of regular butter (so it's Elijah-friendly! Yay!) and is packed with apple, raisins, carrot and walnuts. Can we say 'yum' all together now? Here's the link.
I completed all of my goals for last week, which I think is why I was upset to have gained a pound. I went for a jog, I did my Zumba intro dvd, I bought the water bottle, stopped eating sweets, and found a healthy recipe and made it. The recipe I found was for this broccoli quinoa casserole which is so very good that I offered to make it again tonight for dinner. A big concession in my household, just so you know. ;-) It's now a favourite recipe, but if you want to pair it with chicken, I recommend having the chicken on the side and not added in directly to the casserole like I did. It wasn't bad per se, but I preferred the chicken-free bites and regretted it.
So there, that's my summary of last week. Part of me just needed to take a step back this week. I have been trying to portion control and drink water, but really my goal this week has just been to survive. Get through the week. Don't eat sweets. And you know what? It's been good for me so far. I still feel quite motivated to continue, I just needed to regroup a little first. I guess something that could have gone on a goal list to do is to stock the downstairs bathroom so that I could shower there OR upstairs, because I have been finding that to be my biggest deterrent in working out during the day. If I work out then I want to shower, but to shower I needed to go through Elijah's room and wake him up from his nap, thus making a shower impossible, thus making working out impossible. So I went to Walmart and bought an extra razor, loofah, shampoo and soap for downstairs, and now there's nothing stopping me from Zumba-ing to my heart's content.
Anyway, that's all for now. The oven just beeped so my casserole is done. If I think of more to add I'll do up another post later, but I think that's it on the weight loss front, anyway.
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