Happy Halloween, and then some
I was going to post a picture of the pumpkin Matt and I carved and lit up with tea candles. He’s sitting outside our door, in fact, glowing brightly in the wet October evening. Truth is, I didn’t get him downloaded off the camera in time, so a couple shadows against leaves will have to do. We’ve not had many trick or treaters show up tonight. I guess I’ll have to give away the four bags of candy we purchased in hopes of a good turn out. Any takers?
Other than Halloween, tonight marked my second weigh-in, and I have to say, I’m pretty surprised with the results. Before I launch into the details, there are a couple of things I want to throw out there. I am a scale junky. These last four days, I’ve weighed myself literally four or five times per day, stressing about the weight that may onset over the day, wondering where it came from. I need to stop. I need to accept that weight will fluctuate, and because of all this and the onset of Auntie Flo, I pretty much banked on gaining nearly all the weight back that I had lost this last week. I had gotten into a routine of adding a pound and a half to whatever my scale said, since that had proved to be the accurate picture last time. This morning, I weighed myself, and it showed I’d already gained weight. Great, I thought. I don’t even need to throw on the other pound and a half; it’s already over for this week. May as well concentrate on next week and write ‘er off as rag week. So that’s what I had intended to do. I started mentally planning my workout routines, what I would fix for meals, etc. Because I had decided to track my weight each and every Monday right before a workout, I bounced on the gym scale. To my surprise, I hadn’t gained, I’d lost. Two pounds. Somehow. Somewhere. I guess it pays to not stress over where your number will be each week. Some weeks, I suppose, will be up and some will be down. I just have to learn to accept that, and I think that’s going to be a really hard hurdle for me. Either way, I’ll try hard to keep it in mind. So, with that, here the results for this week:
Start Weight as of 10/17/05: 288 lbs
Weight as of 10/31/05: 282 lbs
Lost: -2 lbs
Total loss to date: 6 lbs
November 1st, 2005 at 4:41 am
you are doing awesome. i hate weigh-ins because i am always afraid i will get bad news and lose my motivation.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:55 am
We got a fair number of trick-or-treaters, but we still have half our candy left. For the first half of the night, all the kids were saying, “How many, how many?” and I told them one. I should have just let them take as many as they wanted. =)
November 1st, 2005 at 2:51 pm
My sister managed to eat more candy than was given out. Big surprise.