Well I went up 0.6lbs today and have no clue why. I'm sure its just water retention as when I weighed myself first thing this morning I was down to 170.6lbs on my home scale (which is exactly 2 lbs higher than the scale at the clinic) and by the time I got to the clinic, I was up to 172 lbs. I think that TOTM is coming so that may have something to do with it. I don't cheat and I've done everything right so that has to be the only explanation. It seems to be a trend that as soon as my weight gets to the lower part of the 10 lb increment that my body struggles to get to the next 10 lb incremenet. This happened when I was in the 200's, 190's, 180's, and now its happening in the 170's. Its quite annoying I must say as I work so hard and do everything right and sometimes my weight doesn't budge for a week. Argghhh! Frustrating!
I decided to try something new so I bought some of their protein bars and protein shakes. I bought the peanut butter and jam protein bar to have on the weekends when I'm out doing stuff and am too busy to make lunch. The vanilla protein shakes I bought to have for lunch a few days a week instead of my usual boring old lunch. They say if you change a little bit in what you eat that that sometimes helps with weight loss. I don't know if I agree with that but its worth a try!
The weekend is here now and it seems I do my best weight loss over the weekend. However, we will see as I can feel my body resisting right now as it nears the 160's!!!
I went shopping lastnight and decided to try some clothes on at some stores I never used to shop in. Le Chateau and Winners were some of them. I did establish that I'm a size medium in tops at most stores now (it depends on the store) and a size 12 at most stores now but again, it varies. At ricki's I got into a size 8 top which I NEVER thought would happen! Size 12 blouses seem to be a little on the loose side for me now so I think I will be venturing into the size 10's in the next week or 2. I tried on a size 12 in a brand of jeans I haven't heard of before at Winners and just barely got them done up. But at Ricki's, a size 12 jean fit me just perfect. I also got a size 10 done up in a pair of dress pants at Rickis, however, I didn't buy them as I'm waiting to next month as I'm sure I will be a perfect size 10 by then. It's so weird how clothing sizes varies so much! I wish that all women's clothing was made the same b/c how else do you know what size you are???
My numbers are below. The nurses were not angry at me at all for going up a bit. I think this must happen and be quite common for people.
I really hope that this diet will be done by July - I'm not sure what's going to happen as whenever I near the end of my 10 lb increment, it slows for a week or 2 and then my body starts losing again. This has really slowed me down and I was expecting to be done this diet by June at the latest!! If the diet wasn't so expensive I wouldn't care but I really cannot afford to go on it longer than July so I will be praying that my body stops being so stubborn and continues to lose.
Current weight as of April 16/10: 172.0
Starting Weight as of Jan 5/10: 218.4
Total lbs lost: 46.4 lbs
Lbs to go: 42
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