Backsliding and other weight loss sins

Well, how are you doing? I owe you a few updates on what’s been going on, if I have made any progress losing weight, or if I make a magical breakthrough?

In short…Not really, but something is happening.

Let me explain.

By the end of March, I was showing some progress. I was moving more, actually getting up to workout, being mindful of (or at least I thought) of what was going into my mouth. I had hoped to see some movement at my first weigh-in on April 3rd but was disappointed that my weight was holding strong at 275.8.

For the month of April, my weight fluctuated between 275 and 279. My 9-5 got busier, people went on vacation and my exercising in the mornings suffered. I began to backslide…hard.

I went back to the comfortable me, eating 2 bags of snack chips daily just because I was bored and they were there. Eating more that I should in a sitting, or even a day. I stopped tracking what I ate because I didn’t see a point to log in that I had eaten more carbs or calories than I should have and be depressed by it. Hey if I don’t see it then it don’t count right?

WRONG!!!!!

I may not have wanted to note the damage I was doing, but the universe has a funny way of making you see what you try to avoid. For me, it was when nothing fit at all. What does that mean? Well in my last post about letting myself go and having to go out to dinner with my husband’s friends I mentioned not having anything to wear that really fit. I was able to squeeze into a pair of jeans but was not able to sit down. Well after a while those very jeans I was barely able to get into no longer fit. My 2X shirts no longer fit along with my already large underwear which now No…Longer…Fits.

I was officially a 3X and heading back to the land of 280. I don’t want to be there and I have no plans to see that number again.

So where am I?

I am heading in the right direction. Having to buy clothes in a bigger size was not in the plans or in the budget, but it may have been the shock I needed. I told myself that I wouldn’t buy any clothes until I lost weight, and ended up having to buy a larger size just be in the house.

I am making progress. I weighed in on May 3rd at 276.2 and well today May 16th I checked in at 272.2 so not bad.

Here is the goal for the end of May, I want to hit 269 I don’t want to see 270’s anymore. I will recap the month and let you know what worked and didn’t work, but for what it is worth May looks good.

Until next time my lovelies. Keep up the good work.