I suppose I should be happy I've lost 40 lbs. 40 lbs in about 40 days is pretty amazing. But I'm kind of sad that it's not continuing to come off. I've been on maintenance for about 2 weeks now. 1100-1300 calories a day with no sugar, breads, pasta, rice, corn, or potatoes. I thought it would be super hard to calorie count. I remember my mom doing calorie counting and it was an awful lot of brain power involved. I definitely do not have that right now. I downloaded an app on my phone called My Fitness Pal and it's kind of the greatest thing since sliced bread. For real. It has a barcode scanner and every food imaginable. The only thing I couldn't find was a barcode on a container of cherry tomatoes from Aldi. Really really impressive! And it has a bunch of restaurant meals. Today I got a salad at Panera without dressing and it had exactly how many calories it was. Seriously, it's kind of the best app ever. Zero thinking required. I'm a big fan! AND you can import online recipes. So if you're Pinterest obsessed, you can just zoink the recipe right from the internet into your program and BOOM! All the nutrition information! I couldn't do it without this app. So here's kind of a fluffy glowing review! If you even think you might want to calorie count, go get it now.
With the weight loss, I generally go up and down by a lb or two but don't consistently lose like I was on the second phase. I guess that's why they call it maintenance. I started doing the walking you're supposed to do now. Hopefully I can do it consistently over the winter and I'll see the weight continue to go down.
My thyroid has been jumpy too. I've gotten a few mild depressive episodes but I don't know what's going on with me anymore. Hubs swears that exercise will help me feel better and kind of pushes me. But I haven't really been sleeping well at night. Last night I got about 4 hours of sleep. Then today I went walking with Babes. We walked about 45 min. I can't really tell how fast I'm walking though. I felt like I was walking like "walking the dog" on the app but he says it was a leisurely pace. So I have no idea. Sometimes I wonder if a fit bit would be a good idea. But I want something that just zoinks to My Fitness Pal because it's really fantastic. The only thing I don't use it for is the water intake because I don't always drink 8 oz portions. And my water app is pretty and sloshy.
I've been still feeling like a whirlwind with Hubs religious thing. He said he doesn't want me to be involved in church because he doesn't want me to do it for the wrong reasons. He doesn't want me to do it just for him because he doesn't want me to be resentful. But I feel like if I don't go, how am I going to understand this thing that is suddenly so super important to him? I feel like he doesn't really put any weight to what I say religiously speaking because I'm not "one of them" I don't know. It's hard to explain. Still lots of turmoil in my life. Add to that us trying to rent out the house in PA so that we can actually live together. It's going to be an insane squeeze, all of us living in a tiny house in MD. But the public school has therapy services our son really needs from Hopkins right there on site. That's kind of huge. But that's a big big change. Between everything else that's been a big change, my mind can't keep up, so I'm getting random depressive bouts. And then my huge physical change is also messing with my head. Not necessarily in a bad way but it's too much all at once.
I'm hopeful tonight will be low key and I'll be able to stare into space until bed time. Then I"ll have to skip talking to Hubs most likely because I'm going to collapse into bed and not sleep. I mean....sleep.....yeah.
With the weight loss, I generally go up and down by a lb or two but don't consistently lose like I was on the second phase. I guess that's why they call it maintenance. I started doing the walking you're supposed to do now. Hopefully I can do it consistently over the winter and I'll see the weight continue to go down.
My thyroid has been jumpy too. I've gotten a few mild depressive episodes but I don't know what's going on with me anymore. Hubs swears that exercise will help me feel better and kind of pushes me. But I haven't really been sleeping well at night. Last night I got about 4 hours of sleep. Then today I went walking with Babes. We walked about 45 min. I can't really tell how fast I'm walking though. I felt like I was walking like "walking the dog" on the app but he says it was a leisurely pace. So I have no idea. Sometimes I wonder if a fit bit would be a good idea. But I want something that just zoinks to My Fitness Pal because it's really fantastic. The only thing I don't use it for is the water intake because I don't always drink 8 oz portions. And my water app is pretty and sloshy.
I've been still feeling like a whirlwind with Hubs religious thing. He said he doesn't want me to be involved in church because he doesn't want me to do it for the wrong reasons. He doesn't want me to do it just for him because he doesn't want me to be resentful. But I feel like if I don't go, how am I going to understand this thing that is suddenly so super important to him? I feel like he doesn't really put any weight to what I say religiously speaking because I'm not "one of them" I don't know. It's hard to explain. Still lots of turmoil in my life. Add to that us trying to rent out the house in PA so that we can actually live together. It's going to be an insane squeeze, all of us living in a tiny house in MD. But the public school has therapy services our son really needs from Hopkins right there on site. That's kind of huge. But that's a big big change. Between everything else that's been a big change, my mind can't keep up, so I'm getting random depressive bouts. And then my huge physical change is also messing with my head. Not necessarily in a bad way but it's too much all at once.
I'm hopeful tonight will be low key and I'll be able to stare into space until bed time. Then I"ll have to skip talking to Hubs most likely because I'm going to collapse into bed and not sleep. I mean....sleep.....yeah.
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