The Scale Hates Me
My blender does, too...
Date: 6/27/2007 9:40:09 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 3212 times This morning my blender committed hara kiri
before my very eyes. No more smoothies until payday. Maybe that set
me up for the annoying day I had: annoyance that I'm not losing any
weight. Some days I don't think about the weight too much, while on
days like today I feel like I'm failing. I would have loved to be
approaching a 10-lb loss by my mid-July trip to San Diego, but no way
is that going to happen now. My friends tell me I'm probably gaining
muscle, or I'm probably getting smaller without it showing on the
scale. Yes, those things happen but they aren't happening to me. My
clothes don't feel any looser, and I don't see any evidence that I'm
packing on muscle from walking, nor am I retaining fluid now. The
bottom line is that I would like to combine the rate of weight loss I
experienced from eating raw with the benefits I get from eating
protein. If I don't start losing weight soon I'm gonna have to do
something differently, and it might just be tweaking my diet to see if
a diet like raw + fish would work. Maybe raw + fish + fruit/whey
protein shakes.
Another tack I could take is to increase my
exercise. Thing is, I think I'm doing enough at my current level of
fitness. My goal is to burn no fewer than 1000 calories a week right
now. The easiest way to do that is on the treadmill, but I have to
admit I am getting bored. Interspersing racquetball helps, but I'm out
of shape so racquetball is too tiring to completely replace the
treadmill. I haven't tried the elliptical trainers yet, so maybe that
would help. Swimming? Maybe sometimes. At night when no one can see
me! It's 100 degrees at night here sometimes but walking outdoors is
another option. Unfortunately, sparkpeople.com
says I only burn 225 calories for 45 minutes of walking using a
21-minutes-per-mile pace. I wish I could burn more in that amount of
time. I think I need ideas. Or maybe an exercise partner.
OK enough whining for the day!
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