Erase all the evidence

I've power walked and simply...walked before but never did much jogging! Going to try today!

The beginning of November I managed to get my weight down to nearly 150! I was so excited because that, in some sense, was my goal weight. Then I started my move to a new state, I dropped quite a few days of exercising, I felt stressed and I tried to limit my caffeine intake. One day, exactly 3 days into all this, I stepped on the scale to a surprising 160 lbs! I expected to go up 3-5 lbs...that's expected..but 10?!?!?!?! I cut pop out completely then, started forcing myself to walk every day that I could and worked on trying to watch what foods I was eating again. My gf claims its my cycle weight (since that started this week) and stress Thats made me this weight and that when I get settled I will go down again...but I'm unconvinced. My ultimate fear was being 160 again, and now, I am that! Today, and the past few days, I've fortunately been hitting 157 area..but it still completely sucks. I worked so hard for 150! I absolutely have to get it back now.

Bad bad bad past month. I went from being 2-3 lbs away from my goal weight and cutting out all forms of pop to now being 100% reliant on pop again as well. My weight fluctuates between 155-156 and other days 154-155. Just staying at the 155 area! This month has been shaky with changes, trials and frustrating ordeals...instead of tackling them head on, I made excuses for myself and slowly got out of my exercising that I normally do. NO MORE EXCUSES! Starting back over and working to lose those last five lbs I've wanted to get rid of for months now! I CAN DO THIS!

So I've been consistently weighing now between 155 to 158 all July long! Very exhausting and very frustrating considering I've worked my butt off to stay at the consistent weight of 155. DX I struggled some days because I brought myself back into pop. I attended a wedding and wanted to treat myself to some mello yellow, hardly paying attention to the fact I was downing those empty calories like crazy all evening! I managed to break it after a painful week of headache and stress only to get back on the pop again! It's my current struggle, one I'm not kicking myself on, but one I will need to work on for September to break completely. I enjoy treating myself to coffee, ice cream and other treats every now and then..but pop is way too difficult to break at times, I'll have to really work hard!! I started to add some weights to my exercising, just 5 lbs. I used to do my popsugar fitness exercises with no weights or water bottles, but then I noticed it wasn't feeling like an actual exercise anymore and more like a motion I was going through. The nice thing about popsugar and riding my bike is that I've always felt challenged but good after the workout! So I added 5 lbs and WOW it was such a difference! It left me quite sore for a few days but gradually I started to see and feel my training! I looked in the mirror the other day and actually found MUSCLE on my arms instead of flab XD So it's been a good month overall, weight numbers wise it hasn't been the best but it also has been so rewarding exercise wise and weight training wise!

Wow I haven't logged on since June....now it's August! Since starting my new life I've lost a total of 25 lbs. I weighed in this morning at 158 and hopefully I'll go down some more...but I have been staggering at the 160 line for a few weeks. My goal is to reach 155 but I'd really like to be less and do 150 or even lower. But like I said when I started this journey, I'm not in this for numbers..just to be healthy! Exercise wise...I've been really into bike riding for 30 mins and doing 10 min pop sugar core workouts every day. I'm going to try and bump that up to 30 mins in the morning of bike riding and 45 mins of exercise in the evening..whether that be bike riding again or something else :) I also started eating two eggs for breakfast occasionally, hearing that it helps with weight loss! We'll have to see how well I do in the next coming weeks!

After a very difficult week of dieting and stress on the scale I measured in today (27th) at 165! I started my cycle this past week and jumped from being 168-170 to being 178-180. I was very surprised by the jump but I also had an idea that this would happen from online research and other helpful advice from my friends and family. So I worked hard all week, kept up with it and exercised every day for 45 mins or more, resulting in my drop in weight once my cycle came to an end. (Thank goodness!) I actually scaled in at 165 yesterday too so hopefully it stays consistent now or goes down!

So today and yesterday were not good diet wise. I got off schedule with my exercising! Monday was great, Tuesday was good too but after that it down spiraled. Wednesday morning I weighed in at 175, big jump! The night before I forgot to eat dinner and managed to get a meal in at like 9:30 at night, resulting in a very sick tummy the next day and a very off and grumpy day for me. I went to donate blood that evening, feeling miserable, and ended up feeling worse since my blood thing messed up. My right arm bruised terribly, my left was sore from the two hour process that followed. I ate late again and was even more miserable this morning when I scaled in at almost 180 UGHHH I stayed over at work late, got at least a ten minute walk in before I ate and now I'm in class till 9ish so I won't be able to exercise again till tomorrow DX booooo So tomorrow should be a normal day and thankfully my schedule is changing at work so I'll be able to figure out a more precise workout time in the morning or afternoon that's a bit more effective! I CAN DO THIS!

Weighed in at 168 today! Breakfast- life cereal Lunch- very disgusting chicken, pico and tortilla with a few almonds Dinner- tacos! I exercised with my sister for 40ish mins, not the best exercise but decent!