Hello hello. Sorry I'm a day late in posting, but I did weigh in yesterday.

kerdil08
Sunday
PW 184.4
CW 181.7

Steps:
4/11 - 17,349
4/12 - 23,009
4/13 - 18,103
4/14 - 18,895
4/15 - 21,088
4/16 - 23,809
4/17 - 23,628
4/18 - 15,379

Planning to post my usual lengthy update from my week when I get home from work

My update is a day late just like my weigh-in lol.

Yesterday when I was about to leave work a friend from my last job texted to ask if I wanted to go to a happy hour with her and her coworkers and the answer to that is always a YES from me haha. So I did have two drinks. It got tricky because there was a Chinese place right next door...all her coworkers got massive takeout meals, and it smelled amazing, but I managed to abstain. We talked until 10:45, so not a very productive night for me in the week when I need to prep for moving, but it was great to see her and I clearly wanted an excuse to not pack anyway.

Sunday after I weigh-in is always my big ol' takeout/cheat day. I ended up going with steak and potatoes and drank buckets and buckets of water/lemonade (though still no soda at least). I got on the scale Monday morning and weight was up 4 lbs, yikes, but that's usually how it goes after my big indulgence when the food is yet to be digested. It definitely helps me to have Sunday as a "day off" because then I can usually temper cravings I have during the week with a 'wait til Sunday and see what you want then' mentality. It was why I didn't cave to the Chinese last night! And even though I did obviously go all out on Sunday steak, a cool thing I *didn't* do was have ice cream. I'd been putting off ice cream all week, and then when Sunday night came I was like "okay it's ice cream time," but I wasn't that excited for it. So I asked myself, do you really want it, or do you just 'want' it because you've been telling yourself all week you were going to have it. And it turns out I didn't really want it that night so...I didn't have it. Taking this as a sizable victory bc in the past I would have eaten the whole pint just out of habit.

Relating to what @CharmingPassion went through last week with a gain prior to a great loss this week (and back under 300!), I do want to say that it's always possible that your weigh-in for the week just comes on a super bad day. Last week I weighed in pretty much every day (remember two weeks ago when I said I need to stick to only getting on the scale once a week? That's not happening. Oops.) and was reading a pretty large gain 5/7 days of the week until things finally came unstuck and I ended up with a good drop. Not to be gross, but this is especially relevant if you're not regular in the bathroom. So if you are honest with yourself and truly feel that things were on track that week (or in my case, 90% of the week lol), it's always possible that your last meal is just camping out in your stomach and hasn't passed through yet. Track the trends. I've been super lucky with Sundays so far, and I'm thankful for that, but do need to help myself out with more fiber. As much as there are things I 'know' about normal weight swings and variability from water retention/digestion, it's still definitely jarring and upsetting to see and accept gains when they actually happen, which is where this group setting to talk things out definitely helps
All that being said, I have already had two cheats this week, so it's realistically very possible/likely I'll see a true gain next Sunday. Especially since it's supposed to rain on Saturday so I don't think I'll get my long walk/jog in before weighing in...nervous already But it is kind of cool to be disappointed about a number that previously was exciting, because at least that means progress was made!

On to steps/movement. I'm grateful @izzyred9400 is on this team because I would like to win a month, and there's a lot to try to keep up with when there have now been MULTIPLE ~40k step days! It definitely motivates me to try to do a little extra or add another loop onto my walk home from work. My Saturday "running" (running still in quotations because it remains quite a slow jog lol) success was doing a total of 3 miles (ooh, ahh), although not consecutively. The breakdown was 1.0, 0.5, 0.25, 0.25, 0.75, 0.25 miles of uninterrupted jogging with plenty of lengthy walk breaks in between. I did cheat a bit by selecting for some of the gentle downslopes to start my 'run' stretches, but I'm still going to take it as a win I did love the quote @shnerb00 shared about comparison being the thief of joy; it's one I have heard before but I'm not always good at listening to it! I do think I'm doing better than previous loss attempts at trying to keep more practical expectations...but there's still a long way to go, so we'll see how I'm doing a few months from now haha.

This was long as usual, so congrats to anyone who made it this far! I treat this a bit like a journal. Maybe I should just post in smaller chunks more frequently...or actually get a journal...hmm. Anyway.

~go team~