Truth

My goal with this blog is to be completely honest about my weight loss issues. So in all honesty I am ridiculously frustrated. I got so excited to be down to 213 only to be disappointed when I woke up and weighed 214. I did nothing different but still gained a pound. I thought it was not a big deal, that I would be back down the next day. Didn't happen. Three days in a row I was at 214. So in my fury and rage against my body that was protesting my healthy changes, I protested back. Dumb, right? Definitely. For an entire day I pretty much ate whatever I wanted. It was absolutely ridiculous and I felt so disgusting but as a newbie to this whole thing I honestly didn't know how to react to over a week of 213 and then gaining a pound. I recognize now that what I did was an idiot move. Especially since I gained up to 217. How does that happen? It takes me nearly 2 weeks to lose three pounds but I can gain it over night?!? INSANE!!! Anyways, I am currently back down to 215 and I just got home from the gym. I spent about an hour and a half on the elliptical and I'm definitely feeling it. I'm hoping and praying that God will show me the increase in this and I will see a drop on the scale in the morning.

Also I got some great advice from a new "Twitter friend" that I randomly started following because she was friends with a former Biggest Loser contestant. This girl is legit, let me just say. Anyways, said girl was tweeting about  struggling with losing weight slowly so I had to message her to see what she was doing about it and how she was staying so motivated. (Once again, this girl is legit. She posts her workout pics and sister sweats it out!) So Twitter friend's advice was: count calories! I know this sounds like a duh but since I was sticking almost exactly to the diet the trainer gave me I just didn't worry about it. I didn't realize that at my weight I might have to start out eating more calories than, say, someone who is 150. Basically she said that under-eating can be just as harmful to weight loss as over-eating. Something I had never really thought about outside of the obvious eating disorder of under-eating.

Anyways, I'm going to continue to pray this thing out and stick to my workouts and meal plan just altered a tad. I know this is not going to be a fast, easy journey because if it was I would have been healthy and slimmer oh about 10 years ago.