Less Fat

This hasn’t been a great start.  Last week was great until Saturday, then I ate everything in sight for the rest of the weekend.  This week had been mediocre. Ugh.  I don’t know.  It’s all my choice, right?  If I want to exercise, I will.  If I want to eat right, I...

I have been back on track for four days.  That is a good thing.  Since December, I haven’t had more than one day on “program”.  To be specific, my first step is to start counting all my calories again, which I’ve been doing.  I have started exercising and I am not...

I am back.  And I have decided to link my fitblr with my old domain name.  From now on posts from there will automatically link back here with a read more link.  I will also still use tumblr for some things like reblogs.

http://www.skinnification.com

Last week I weighed 189.6 lb.  Woo, exciting right? So what did I do to celebrate? I ate everything.

This week I gained 5.5 lb, putting me at at 195.1 lb.  I know that some of this has to be water weight.  It has to be... right?  Anyway, this is is just a quick check-in post, so I don't disappear.  I just joined this dietbet: http://bit.ly/TAMYUC, for some holiday motivation.

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 193.1 lb Today: 191.8 lb (-1.3 lb) Total Loss: 53.2 lb

I'm happy with the loss, but I'll be honest and say that I purposely waited to weigh myself until after I ran in the morning.  Speaking of running, I'm now on week five of the couch to 5K.  If you know the program, you know that this week ends with a 20 minute run -- no walking intervals! I'm a bit nervous.

I decided to make a little mini-challenge for myself.  I'd like to lose 10 lb and exercise 35 times by my last weigh-in of the year on December 29th.  I think it's a super realistic goal.

My shoulder is still hurting.  I am going to try icing and heating it. Luckily, it doesn't hurt when I run.

Have I mentioned that I don't remember ever weighing this much? I feel like I remember being in the 160s in middle school and then around 200-220 lb all through high school.  I feel like I'm really accomplishing something this time.  I'm happy about it, but at the same time I'm super nervous that I am going to fuck it all up like I usually do.

I'm still in my calorie range goal though, haha!

This week's weigh in:

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 194.0 lb Today: 193.1 lb (-0.9 lb) Total Loss: 51.9 lb

I would have been happier if I could have just lost a whole pound, but a loss is a loss.  Running has been going well.  I just did W4D1 of the Couch to 5K, and it was definitely the hardest run yet.  I'll run W4D2 on Tuesday.

Weigh-in results for the week:

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 194.4 lb Today: 194.0 lb (-0.4 lb) Total Loss: 51.0 lb

Not a gain, but I still feel a bit disappointed.  I worked out six times this week, but only on five days.  My calories were pretty much perfect.  I didn't reduce my sugar intake, so that will be my goal for next week as well.

My birthday is on Halloween and I'd like to lose at least 2 lb by then.  I don't usually do date specific weight loss goals (other than for the dietbets), but I just need the extra motivation.

Also, I'm going to buy a kettlebell tomorrow! Exciting, haha. And maybe a cold weather running shirt.

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 195.8 Today: 194.4 lb (-1.4 lb) Total Loss: 50.6 lb

So, that means I have officially lost 50 lb from my highest weight.  I'll be honest and say I'm underwhelmed about it.  I honestly don't see any difference in my pictures and my measurements have not changed much.  Hopefully the increase in exercise will help with that.  I will say that I am a bit nervous that I am going to just... stop.  Right now, I'm really motivated.  What if it goes away?  I don't know.  I think I'm just in a bad mood.

Apparently, I'm only going to remember to photograph lunch -- sesame leaves, tofu, kimchi, and rice.

I was planning to photograph my food today.  For some reason, I thought that would be interesting... yeah.  Well, I forgot about everything except lunch.  What we have here is some incredibly boney mackerel, rice that I put in my mystery soup, and some cucumber muchim, which was my favorite part.  Lunch at school is definitely my hardest meal to track properly.  Luckily My Fitness Pal has a surprising amount of Korean food in their database.

In other news, I got my new scale and found out it only measures in kilograms.  Which is fine.  It will just take some getting used to.  And I signed up for SarahFit's diet bet.  My starting weight for that (which I just checked at 8:30 pm) is 89.2 kg or 196.6 lb.

So, after some calculations, I'm upping my calorie goal to about 1700 calories a day.  I am also going to start exercising again, but I won't be eating back my calories unless I feel like I need to. This is going to be a bit difficult for me, because I'll need to pack snacks for work... but I'm so very lazy.

I think I have officially hit a bit of a plateau.  My calories have been good the last two weeks but I have only lost 0.4 lb.  That puts me at a total loss of 49.2 lb, which is great, but I'm really hoping to get to 50 lb lost soon.

In other news, I have decided I am ready to exercise again.  I still have some pain from surgery, but not enough that it hinders me.  Yesterday I ordered a new scale (mine has been jankity) and a running belt.  I have really been in the mood to start running again, so I am going to start the couch to 5k programs before it gets too cold outside.  I'll have to wake up before work to do it... so we'll see if it actually happens.

Speaking of my new scale, I'm a bit worried that when it gets here, and I use it for the first time, it will be like, "You are totally not really in Onederland, fuck you!" I haven't stayed under 200 lb for more than a week or two ever.  Hmm. I'll just have to wait and see.

Okay, so I haven't been around.  I've still been reading posts, but not posting anything myself.  However... I have a good reason this time!  A few weeks ago, after days of horrendous pain and doctor visits that didn't help, I became super jaundiced because a gallstone in my bile duct was hindering my liver function.

So, I ended up needing to get the stone removed through a horrible oral endoscopy that I was completely awake for.  Then I needed my gallbladder out.  Then I had some hemoglobin related complications. Then I finally got to go home after a week in a South Korean hospital.  It was a great hospital and the staff was awesome, however staying in a Korean hospital when you don't speak Korean... is not rad.  Not rad at all. I guess staying in hospitals in general is not rad.

Yeah, fun stuff.

Anyway, I have been doing very well eating wise.  At first because I was afraid of food, but now it's because I'm just on the ball.  Exercise had not been great, because I was healing.  I exercised two times this week, but then I started getting some rib pain, which is bothersome.  I will wait until it goes away to exercise again. Anyway here is my weigh-in:

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 208.2 Today: 196.2 lb (-12.0 lb) Total Loss: 48.8 lb

I am planning a fresh start today.  Actually it's 5:26 AM in Korea, so I will go to sleep before the fresh start begins.  The reason I'm posting this late? I just joined a diet bet at dietbet.com.  There are about ten hours left to join, so I thought I would post the link in case anyone else is interested. Here it is!  The bet is $15 and right now there are only six players.

If you don't know what dietbet.com is you can find all the rules here. What I like about it is that everyone can win.

Here are my starting stats:

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 210.0 lb Today: 208.2 lb (-1.8 lb) Total Loss: 36.8 lb

I am writing this quickly, so I don't have an excuse to disappear. I went to the United States and I am back.  I ate everything there with wild abandon.  The results of that are obvious:

Highest: 245 lb Last Time: 204.2 lb Today: 210.0 lb (+5.8 lb) Total Loss: 35.0 lb

I'm getting back on track today.  I also forgot to do my end of the month measurements, so I am going to just skip that this month.