Losing, gaining, rinse, repeat

Ugh. I seem to be losing and regaining the same 3 lbs over and over again. I either have really good days, or totally off days. I may need to stop allowing myself cheat days, as I seem to have a very hard time recovering from them. Yesterday was a very good day. Today is going well too. The weekend sucked though. Fri, Sat, Sun, and Monday were high carb/junk days. I need to concentrate on having more good days than bad days in a given week.

Can I use yesterday's numbe for this weeks weigh in?

I had a pretty good primal week this week. Yesterday I weighed in at 151.2. Yay!

Starting Weight: 156
Previous Weigh-in: 152.4
This Weeks Weigh-in: 151.2

Last night was my Grandparents 60th annaversary, and we went out to dinner. Tonight is my first date night with my husband in what feels like forever, and I want Spagio's Lobster Bisque and Brie Pizza, so it's not going to be a very primal day either. So I'm just going to use Friday's number, since I like it.

I'm getting better at eating my salad. Not enjoying it really yet, but doing better. Also my carb cravings are diminishing. Not gone, but getting less. And I felt like crap after eating out last night, I had some bread before dinner, and there was cake and ice cream. I think the grains do me in more than sugar does though, because I don't feel that way after eating chocolate. Maybe I just never eat that much chocolate in a sitting.

Last week kicked my butt

I don't even think I broke even last week. I'm pretty sure I'm up a pound. I didn't even weigh myself this morning. Today is my guilt free cheat day, but I'm going to try to take it easy on the cheating. Tomorrow and Tuesday I'm going to try to make ketosis days (under 50 grams carbs) and then go back to my 100/day plan starting Wednesday. Hopefully I can get back on track. Again, it's dinner that's kicking my butt. I'm going to the grocery today and I'll get stuff for beef jerky. And I have chicken defrosting in the fridge, I'll cook that up to have on hand for easy quick dinners. And I need to make myself eat salad. I just really don't like it very much. Tuesday I'm going to try to get to Costco for spinich and blueberries and some stuff for the kids. Berries make great smoothies and are a lot lower carb than other fruits. If I can convince myself to ditch the banana I think my smoothies would be a lot better for me.

End of Week 2

Today was day 14, the end of my second week. All in all I feel like this is going well and is something I can keep up with. I do like allowing myself one cheat day a week, and hopefully as time goes by I won't feel the need to cheat as much or as badly. Today we went out to eat and had wings and french fries. Not exactly healthy, but at least it was grain free. And delish! Tomorrow is a work day, and I'm pretty sure I'll end up ordering pizza. That only happens twice a month, so it can't be that bad. You gotta do what you gotta do.

Starting Weight: 156
Previous weight: 153.4
Current Weight: 152.4

I'm down 1 lb since last week, and 3.6 lbs total. As long as I keep seeing progress, I'm not going to stress too much about how fast it's coming off. I am only 12 weeks post partum anyway. You know what they say, 9 months up, 9 months down. I guess we'll see. I'm going to try to get to yoga again this week.

Good news

My kefir grains are not dead!!! They took a couple of cycles to revive, but now they're going strong. Gotta have my kefir.

So I've been slacking a little with the daily updates, but not on my diet. Official weigh in is tomorrow, but so far things are looking really good. If I can keep this up for one more week I'll be at my lowest weight post baby. 3 more weeks should have me at my pre(Aria)pregnancy weight. I've been eating a lot of the same things, so it's not been a big deal to keep track. Breakfast is still green smoothies. Lunch is usually some meat and some cheese, and sometimes some salad. Dinners have been harder, but I've been trying to do chicken and salad. Last night I had chicken soup with rice which made for a higher carb day, but I still lost weight.

I'll try to find a 'before' picture to post, so I have a frame of reference. It's hard though, since I'm usually the one behind the camera, or I'm sitting on the couch covered in kids. We'll see what I can dig up.

Girl Scout Cookies = Evil

I was completely derailed yesterday by the arrival of my previously ordered Girl Scout Cookies. Pure evil delivered in a scruptious package by cute little girls. I also severly mismanaged an IF, and ended up out of the house when I got hungry, so by the time I got home I was famished and the cookies were right there. So I ate about 2/3 a box of Somoas. Then had a very fruit heavy green smoothie, and since my day was a bust anyway, a Reeces egg. And Brad brought home frozen yogurt. Yum. I have no idea how many carbs I had yesterday, but it was probably my whole weeks worth.

And I think I killed my kefir grains :(

Today is starting out much better. I did IF until noon, but I made a sensable smoothie and some beef jerky. I need to quit obsessively counting my carbs. Brad thinks we should concentrate on one thing at a time, and really cut out the grains, and work on sugar later.