Over the last couple weeks my weight has seriously fluctuated. I thought some of it might have been pms, but then my period came and went and the weight did not. Then to add insult to injury, I had a weekend of not being careful. It was an awesome weekend, but did not help my weight gain/loss situation.
My sister and I try to get together for a girls weekend every few months and it had definitely been awhile since we've been able to spend more than a few minutes together. So, I got off work a little early and we did some errands and then came back to my place. We chatted and just had a good time. I had gotten a coupon for a free pizza from Papa John's, so that began my weekend of junk food. We then stayed up til almost 3 in the morning and got up close to 10, so not a horrible night's sleep, but not great. Saturday we started off eating ok, but then she had to bake cookies and of course we had to eat some cookie dough and a cookie or two. No real activitiy at all on Saturday, just sisterly bonding time. She had to leave around 5 and then a close friend that now lives out of state came to stay through Monday morning. We headed to another friend's house for a pizza party. His pizza parties are always unique. He is a master chef when it comes to pizza. The piece I tried was his version of a MonteCristo-swiss cheese, french toast, ham, jelly and plain or vanilla yogurt drizzled over top. The initial flavor was too sweet, but then it actually tasted pretty good. I'm not sure it would be a flavor I would order in a restaurant, but still pretty good. My friend and I, I'll call her C, stayed up til 1 on Saturday, but then I had to get up at 8 Sunday. Lack of sleep really screws with my weight. I had a meeting at church, but then headed home around 11:30. The rest of the day C and I relaxed and ate fairly healthy, minus the small pumpkin pie blizzard. I stayed up til after 11 on Sunday which was great to spend a little more time with C, but horrible for my body. Overall I put weight back on and am now struggling to take it off. C met me on my break and we went for a walk. So far this week I have tried to be very careful and I know I took some of it off, but I didn't weight the last two days. I officially weigh myself on Thur. a.m.'s, so hopefully I will be close to where I was the middle of last week. I'm just hoping to even out. Starting Monday I'm going ultra conservative with my weight-although I'm working my way into that ultra conservative and would have gone full fledged right away, but life is too busy and I am not going to stress completely over it. It may take me a little longer, but I refuse to obsess and continue to keep my weight as an idol in my life. I have to find a balance between eating healthy, with an occasional treat. I decided to try a new "diet"-Chris Powell's Reshape the Nation and I will talk about that in a new entry (once I get it figured out a little more) rather than make this extremely long. Needless to say, I'm having to go back to being considerably more structured with my eating and preparations for my eating. Trying to be more relaxed about it is only causing me to gain weight or stay stagnant at a weight I do not want to be at. I cannot keep going up and with the holidays just around the corner, I need to have my body in burn mode and my mind in a place where I can enjoy the holidays, but still be careful throughout those candy and cookie filled days. I'm still hoping to be down to 155 by Christmas. The last 20 I'll worry about in January.
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