Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 244

SW 152.4 RND 244
GW 135

12/8 152.4 🧘‍♀️📝
12/9 152.3 🧘‍♀️📝
12/10 152.6 📝
12/11 152.6 Birthday dinner out, tracked food but salt always gets me. I expect to be up tomorrow but back at it and hoping to be back down on 12/13
12/12 152.2 Nice! Tracking worked
12/13 151.6 🧘‍♀️📝
12/14 151.6 🧘‍♀️📝
12/15 152.4 went out to happy hour with friends. Enjoyed myself but will pay with tomorrow’s weight. No worries, back at it tomorrow
12/16 151.6 🧘‍♀️📝
12/17 151.6 🧘‍♀️📝 yay!

Jen; 47; 5'4"

About Me:
Previous Rounds:
Goals:
* track food every day
* walk or go to the HOA gym on my days off (Wed/Thur)

Round 243
heaviest: 294 (7/4/23)
SW: 213.6
GW (short term): 200
RGW: 211.0

UGH, I had filled all of these out but hadn't posted it yet and then my computer restarted so I lost all of my comments. It's been a long few days.

12/8 - 211.2 - 9526 steps

12/9 - 212.4 - 8652 steps

12/10 - 213.0 - 8633 steps

12/11 - 212.6 - 8365 steps - This week has been ugh. I think part of the reason my weight keeps fluctuating so much during my work weeks is my legs--especially my knee--get very sore and swelled up from being on my feet all day. So I start retaining water. On top of that, I'm just super hungry when I get home so I just munch on anything I can find which has been screwing everything up. I know I'll eventually figure out something that works with my new schedule, but it's hard. I feel like I'm doing so much more during the day, but I'm not really doing much more steps than I did walking for an hour and a half each day. But I'm on my feet for 7.5 hours/day now. Today was absolute chaos at work. I was on my own starting at 3:30 and I did not slow down at all, not even for a moment to catch my breath or get a drink--until my co-worker called me at 5:30 (a half hour past my lunch break) to say she probably wasn't going to make it in. I told her I would close early and get to lunch at 5:45. That did not happen because as soon as I hung up, there were people waiting at the counter. It was 6:21 when I finally closed the department and clocked out for lunch. And even after I closed, people kept coming up to the counter wanting stuff despite seeing the lights off and that I'm cleaning. Ugh. At least I ate all the Veggie Straws yesterday so I was not tempted to stuff my face from the stress when I got home.

12/12 - 212.6 - 8243 steps - I finally gave into my cravings for chips and dip as an early birthday gift to myself. It was a stressful week already and I was tired of counting calories and always ignoring my cravings. It tasted so good, I don't even care what my weight is tomorrow. It's probably going to be up and all over the place the next few weeks as I start baking before Christmas but then I should get back on track. If I can figure out how to get my calories in while working and not feel so hungry when I get home at the end of the day.

12/13 - 214.6 - no exercise - Happy Birthday to me! I ate all of my dip I made and most of the two bags of Ruffles I bought. I also made steak and mashed potatoes for my dinner (after making burgers, fries and mac & cheese for everyone else). Then my husband brought home these cupcakes and a piece of carrot cake for me. Each cupcake was different and I just needed to try the raspberry one which had raspberry filling and also the icing (which was taller than the cupcake itself) was raspberry flavored. It was delicious. I only ate a quarter of it then the my carrot cake. I didn't care my weight was up 2lbs from yesterday and I don't care that it will be up tomorrow. It's my birthday so I get to eat whatever I want.

12/14 - 216.4 - no exercise - And my weight was up 2lbs again. Oh well. I enjoyed my pig-out days. I finished off the chips I bought and had a bit of cupcake earlier. Then I made meatloaf for dinner and had half a meatloaf sandwich and another slice of it with mashed potatoes, gravy and a bunch of veggies. I also finished off the bits of fries leftover from last night. I didn't really measure anything the last few days. I just don't care right now. But it's back to work tomorrow. I'm going to experiment with having a very light lunch before work. Just enough to hold me over until dinner time then I can eat something more substantial when I get home since I'm always so hungry at 9. We'll see how it goes.

12/15 - 213.6 - 9875 steps - Aaaand I'm back at my start weight for this round. This last week has been very crazy with food. And I know it's going to continue into this next week. I plan to do a bunch of baking on my next day off which means the house will be full of cookies through the new year. But, I tried something new with my meals today. I had a very small salad of mostly lettuce and grape tomatoes for lunch before work. Then had a dinner of meatloaf, mashed potatoes and veggies at work. And then I had 3oz of steak, mashed potatoes and broccoli after work since I always seem to be famished when I get off and want to eat anything I see. I still appeared to be under my calories for the day so hopefully this doesn't mess things up too much. I normally only eat 2 meals a day so redistributing those calories to 3 meals is going to be a pain I think, but I'm going to try to stick with it for a week. We'll see how it goes.

12/16 - 213.0 - 8411 steps - Okay, eating a very small lunch before I leave for work then leaving a bigger meal for when I get home at 9 something feels much better. I don't actually feel hungry the first 3 1/2 hours I'm there and then when I do start feeling hungry, it's just 30 minutes until lunch. Then my lunch (dinner) isn't super big otherwise I feel way too full and sleepy after eating when I have another 4 hours to go. So eating my big meal when I get home makes more sense even though it's a bit too close to bedtime. But I feel less likely to munch on other stuff when I'm eating a full meal at night. I guess I'll give it some time. I don't think I'll really be able to judge in the next week because of the holidays so I'll reevaluate after Christmas to see how it's working.

12/17 - 211.2 - 7629 steps - Eating these three meals a day seems to be working, although I might have eaten a bit too much tonight. Oh well. I definitely feel fuller and less likely to snack. I don't like working when I'm overly full so eating a small meal just before work seems to be the way to go. Next week, I start baking, though, so it's all out the window anyway, lol.

End Round 244 Fri Dec 08 2023 ~ Sun Dec 17 2023 ~

Round 244
Dec 8 2023 ~ Dec 17 2023

My name is Tish.
Age: 67
Height: 5'7.5"
USW: 260
2023 Start Wgt:Don't know(Jan1)
CW: 199
RG: 80ozs to 96ozs water

●Thu▪︎12/07-∆199●
▪︎Day1▪Fr•Dec 08-¤199
(Th•57g Prot; 60ozs water)Well, I'm going to be here until I let "keto friendly" bread and cookies alone.

▪︎Day2▪Sa•Nov 09-DNW
(Fr•87g Prot; 60ozs water)

▪︎Day3•Su•Nov 10- ¤DNW
(Sa•60g Prot; 48ozs water)

▪︎Day4•Mo•Dec 11-¤
(Su•80g Prot; 64ozs water) I

▪︎Day5•Tu•Dec 12-
(Mo•64g Prot; 64ozs water)

▪︎Day6▪We•Dec 13- ¤
(Tu•43g Prot; 48ozs water)

▪︎Day7▪Th•Dec 14-¤
(We•71g Prot; 48ozs water)

▪︎Day8▪Fr•Dec 15-¤
(Th•71g Prot; 32ozs water)

▪︎Day9▪Sa•Dec 16-¤
(Fr•99g Prot; 64ozs water)

■Day10▪Su•Dec 17-¤DNW
(Sa•68g Prot; 48ozs water) I have not been weighing myself. Mainly because I don't think about it until after I've eaten. When I do step on the scale, I won't be surprised if it reads over 200lbs again and I wont be angry with myself. I still have some underlying stress, but it is subsiding now and my appetite is moving away from eating "foods" that are detrimental to me.
*Round End Weights*