Curvy Jones on: Hold Please

Quick and dirty, because it is FUN TUESDAY and so I have reports to get out. I did not do a Healthy You post today because I am on the tail end of girly time and I refuse to report an inflated number due to water weight gain. I am going to give myself a few days (or skip it altogether, this week) to adjust. I know it is inflated because it has been pretty low the last week and then suddenly jumped up 3 lbs over the last 2 days. I swear, my body knows when it is weigh in time. It always chooses Monday night to jump up!

[EDIT]: I am adding this here to expound on my methodology:

I do what I have to do make sure the pounds keep going in the downward direction. I have conditions that I have to take into consideration like sugars and starches in addition to fats. It’s not a matter of Put The Fork Down, Eat Less, Move More, no matter what “people” say, because when I track my calories I am barely reaching 1000. I have to TRY to hit 1200.

There is a delicate balance that I have to strike with near precision. My body is pretty sensitive to certain things. Sometimes I eat things and my body goes IN. SANE. I need to know what that something is when I eat it, not wonder a week or two later.

I have to weigh everyday. I don’t record it everyday, and if it’s up, it’s up. If it’s down, YAHOO! Extra pounds DO count if they don’t come off after Girly Time is over. That means that it’s not water, it’s actual poundage that I have to take back off. It’s easier for me to track how I am doing when I consider an average over X days than if I play Russian Roulette and hop on a scale once a week and not have ANY clue why that number is higher. Or lower! What did I do that week, so I can do it again!?

Certain foods affect my body in a certain way. If I am way up all of a sudden, I need to be able to go through my day and determine what it was that I ate to cause that to happen. For sure it is water fluctuation due to sodium or sugar, or working out. Or nothing. But I need to be able to analyze that with a controlled amount of data. If I am 2-3+ days past what I ate, I have NO IDEA what it was that made me fluctuate so wildly. Then I get overwhelmed and then I am DONE and I have a piece of cake.

For an official, weekly weigh in, a number that is going to stick somewhere for a week, I won’t use an inflated number. I maintain my weight best, EVEN during girly time (because I know what an average gain due to water weight looks like vs. a gain due to something that might have had sugar or sodium and I didn’t realize it), by weighing everyday.

Sorry if I was not clear as to why I do it the way I do it but it DOES work for me.

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Walk It Out is going superfantastically. I actually FEEL it in my body. WOO. My Sunday walk kind of still hurts. Yesterday we were having another Storm of the Century, with flooding and such, so I did a 15min Walk Away the Pounds program online. WHOA. I was actually dripping sweat when I finished! Didn’t walk this morning, will walk this afternoon. Want to shake it up a little bit I guess. Eating is fine, though I need to watch my carbs much MUCH closer. My goal is 60-100 carbs a day and I am eating almost twice that. UHM, could that be a reason I am not seeing as much of a loss as I want to see?

MAYBE.

I am using an app for the iPod/iPhone called LoseIt. Pretty neat, it lets me track my food and activity and compare it to my goal. My calories, etc adjust depending on how active I am and how much food I am taking in. At first it gave me like 1600 calories and I laughed. I can’t eat that much food! I get a daily and a weekly report, but it only really works if I track all my food, which I’m not all that good at, but I track enough to see that I am a bit too loose on my splurges and I need to pull it back some. I do subtract fiber from carbs to get net carbs. Even so, the count is too high.

Lifewise, things are good! I cannot complain a bit. I’ve been more social and am trying to take advantage of opportunities to get out of the house.  I’d love to get back to meetup but it seems every group I have interest in (book clubs and social groups, etc)  requires annual dues. It’s just such a turn off, to me. I’ve paid probably $20 in dues to groups I’m no longer a part of. If I decide to take on a Meetup group, that comes with full understanding that there is a fee to maintain it. I understand not everyone donates to defray the cost but… a fee to be a part of a group smacks of paying for friends and I just can’t do it. Okay, won’t do it.

So. Also. I think I am not going the roommate route. Becky came to stay with me last weekend and it was so awesomely fun– we had a great time being single girls- which was great because we love each other. I think I have discovered though that my apartment seems big but it may just be too small for two people. Especially two people that don’t really know each other, or might be uncomfy. In addition, there’s no provision in my lease for a short term sublet. Everytime someone moves in or out, I have to sign a new lease. For a $30 raise in rent? Pain in my patoot. I need another way to make a little cash. But I’m totally lazy, so that probably won’t happen either.

I feel like once I get a handle on things like my cell phone bill and my power bill and other stuff that totally inflated over the winter and I stop buying food out all the time, I will recoup some money. I dunno. Gotta do something. I make great money and always feel like I don’t have any.

That wasn’t quick OR dirty. Buh. Reports. I’m out like a light bulb,

Curvy Jones is a northerner playing a southerner who is living, working, playing in metro Atlanta.

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