cremorna1 wrote: »

Another idea is to put the tracker in your sock or somehow attach it to your foot or ankle. That way it would count the steps. I've had to do that a couple of times myself.

I would but then it wouldn't catch my heart rate - its got a heart rate monitor on it too. I do have a regular run of the mill pedometer which I have used to compare to this one in the past. It would start the day out counting under the one on my wrist, but by the end of the day, it would be over by a couple of hundred.

Of course, all those trackers are estimates anyway.

finally - the lawn mowing is finished! I riding mow most of the yard and the neighbor's. I then spent at least 45 minutes weed eating, which takes time because the stupid weedeater wont' bump so whenever the string gets low, I have to stop and manually add more string. THen I push-mowed for at least an hour. The GPS thing using hike mode worked, (I found the map it gave me amusing lol) says I did 1.3 miles in 1 hour 40 minutes I was out for over 3 hours, but even only counting 100 minutes of that time, I still ended up with a whopping 900 extra calories today! And with the heat and the way I was sweating and wielding that weedeater and pushing that mower up and down hills, I counted it all, though there is no way I'm going to get all my protein in today.

And now I'm glad to go back inside, in my air conditioning, and finish out my work day at home!

I'll let things cool down, then go out this evening and spray weed killer and maybe load some more blocks - we'll see.

I HATE humidity, but I also hate the heat, too! Truly, give me January and near 0 temperatures over August and near 100's with 90% humidity!

I got the pushmowers cleaned (mine and the neighbors), the windows sprayed (I will attest that the water hose window cleaner doesn't work ), got weed killer sprayed all up and down my driveway, another 72 cinder blocks loaded (though not unloaded), and got to go swimming (well, for me its more just treading water) for around an hour before we ate our picnic dinner and came home in time for me to pull my garbage and water all my plants. I'm over my calorie limit and will likely be even more over before the day is out, but I don't care. My cousin is here for the night, and house guests always lead to temptation, and I'm really wanting more fruit and some chocolate ice cream.

But one day, even over maintenance, will not kill me, so I'm going to enjoy it and get back to it tomorrow!

I'm am absolutely dragging this morning

We're into the dog days of summer and this is the time of year I absolutely hate. It's hot, its humid and its just sapping me of energy. On top of that, I'm trying to get up early so I can get a walk in before work because it will be too hot to do so afterwards, but that means setting my alarm for 5 AM. I am not a morning person, I have never been able to train myself to BE a morning person, and I detest getting up that early, but I'm trying (set the alarm for 5 AM; finally roll out at 5:30). Another reason I'm up that early in addition to trying to walk at least 5 miles is that my garden plants need watered before the sun comes up. It's so hot and dry - we haven't had a good rain in over a week now - that I'm watering evening and morning now. So its get up early, get dressed, feed the cats, water the plants, get a walk in.

I had jiu-jitsu yesterday and got a pretty good workout in, but that made me sore. So there's another reason why I'm lethargic today. I did get my walk in, but I was moving slower than normal - instead of my typical 3.3 mph, I was going 3.26 mph, and it took everything I had in the tank to get myself to get the distance I went, and that was less than I typically get in. And that was this morning - the day has just started and I feel ready to just go back to bed!

This evening I have to unload a wagon of cinder blocks and try to get one more load in because dad will be needing his wagon pretty soon. And at some point this week, I need to clean house, mow the grass, and I really need to hit my bank and the neighbor's with the hedge trimmer. I should be working on the chicken house, I need to make the cushions for the camper booth, my aunt just brought me a bunch of flower bulbs that really need to be put into the ground (though I don't know if I'll be able to get them in since its so dry and the ground is rock hard). Not to mention the guilt that I feel because I know I really, really need to wash my house down and spring clean - the walls needs washed down, the furniture needs moved and cleaned, etc, but I just don't have the time or energy to do it.

Water weight is killing me; the scale is staying up and its actually got my trend weight up on HappyScale Its very frustrating because I wanted to be at 220 the first of October when I see my GP, but it looks like my loss is stalling out like it usually does this time of year. My loss since I came off diet break has been extremely slow compared to before diet break - in 6 weeks, I've lost 5 lbs which is less than 1 lb/wk even though I was shooting for 1.5 lbs a week, so I"m at half of what I had wanted to be. I'm having will power issues in not snacking, my activity levels are down, and I'm just fatigued. Have I mentioned that I HATE this time of year? lol

I'd drop activity for a while to try to help with the fatigue but I can't - I live alone and there isn't anyone else to pick up the slack and the chores that must be done. I'm having trouble sleeping - I'll be sleepy all day and dragging but when I finally hit the bed I'm wide awake, so even when I try to go to bed early, unless I'm completely dead exhausted like last night, I"ll toss and turn for over an hour. I've had to resort to an over the counter sleep aid several nights in the last 2 weeks. My house is air conditioned so it's not like its overly hot in here so I'm not sure what the problem is. Thyroid levels were just checked and are fine - I'm still very low on TSH so that's not the problem.

And dropping the activity I know will also make things worse because I won't be getting those extra calories back each day and I need those to buffer the snack drive. I don't want to drop my loss rate down because right now, I need a big buffer in my deficit to make up for the will power issues. If I drop my deficit to 1 lb/wk, that's 500 calories which is much easier to accidentally wipe out in a day than 750 or more. I"m set right now for a 750 deficit but am apparently only getting in half that as it is since my loss rate is half of what I expected; if I add those back in and purposely set myself to a 0.75 lb/wk loss rate I know myself well enough to know that I'll end up stalling out completely because right now my will power to stick to my deficit religiously is very low; making my deficit smaller would mean I'd need to be even tighter in maintaining that deficit and I know that right now, I can't be that vigilant. So I need to leave things where they are right now.

I've a vacation coming in 3 weeks and I hope that will help, but I'm not too sure about it since its going to be a vacation with my parents and my sister, and my sister and father bring stress with them wherever they go. And next weekend I will be helping a friend move, and since she's messed up her knee, I"ll be the one doing the heavy lifting and carrying (thankfully, she's single and lives frugally with little furniture; the boxes of books will be what kills me!)

Oh well - perhaps I should have just put this in the whine thread instead lol Carry on!

emmyjaykay wrote: »

@bmeadows380 I used to be a book designer so I have a ton of books lying around and have a little hack for moving them—ask your friend if she'd mind packing them in a rolling suitcase. Not as much of a calorie burn but it's definitely a back saver!

thanks! I'd use that in a heart beat, but she doesn't own a suitcase......

@NovusDies

Part of my frustration is also dread because this is the time of year that everything started unraveling in both of my past weight loss successes. I'll get started well in the winter, do fantastic during the spring, but when summer hits, my resolve just starts to dwindle and the weight loss stalls then turns into a long term plateau, and in each of the last 2 attempts (2012 and 2017), that's when the regain starts. IN 2012, I ended up regaining 90 of the 95 lbs I lost; in 2017 I regained 30 (though I figure that's a success since at least the 2nd time in, I didn't regain all 100 that I had lost, right?)

I hope things can be better this time around since I'm more aware of it starting to happen, but being aware of it is one thing; winning the willpower battle with snack drive and mental hunger is quite another.

I know mentally that even if I just stabilize for the next couple of months and pick back up after the holidays, that would be okay and be a win; giving myself permission to do that? Not so easy lol But that's the highly self-critical part of me talking; the part that won't consider that I've lost 140 lbs as success but just wants to focus on "if you don't reach 180 lbs, then you didn't succeed no matter how much you lost because its the goal that counts." And yes, I know that is ridiculous and I'm working on trying to ignore that little voice and I have to ignore it because trying to reason with it is impossible! But its there in the back of my head nevertheless.