Fitness Blah-g

[threadwalker]

Update

I weighed myself 20 minutes ago. I'm down 0.5 lb from last week. I admit, I was hoping for something bigger. The last three weeks have been 0.5 lb drops. I was reviewing my daily exercise and eating log.

If you speak Weight Watchers, I earned 76 activity points last week. If you don't speak Weight Watchers, over the course of 1 week I ran 27.5 miles and burned 2500 calories on the elliptical.

I also ate like a football player last week. In Weight Watchers speak, I consumed 224 points in one week (approx 224X 1.5 = 3360 calories). However, between daily allowance, 35 flex points and activity points, I still have 27 points I didn't use.

So why didn't I see a bigger weight loss? (think, think, think)

I can't tell if I'm "starving" myself, or if it's because I'm fueling myself wrong (eg, I had half that Carrows sampler platter last Wednesday and yesterday I had a few slices of "victory" french bread and a chocolate croissant), or if my daily flux is high in the morning because I ate a big fruit smoothie before bed last night. Also, I don't digest carbs like a normal person; I bloat. It's possible that in 2 days I'll see a dramatic change as I recover from yesterday's victory carbs.

On the other hand, I'm not feeling disheartened and I'm not letting myself obsess over numbers. I feel great. I can feel my running legs getting stonger. My head wraps itself around a 1 hour run much better than it used.

I am using this as a wake-up tool to motivate myself to cut out white flour carbs. I'm looking at where my calories are coming from and I'm going to be diligent about "eating" my activity points so that I don't "starve" my body. I realized that because of the high-calorie bad choices I made last week, I ate as much as I burned, but if I hadn't done that, I would have come in really short. Therefore, I'm looking at how often I'm eating and figuring out what I need to change (without diving head-first into a pile of fries or doing the victory dance in a donut shop) to keep my calorie intake high enough.

But last night I whipped up one of my favorite chicken dishes (for tonight and tomorrow night). And I packed lunch today. nom nom nom. And all healthy. That way I won't have to face the boring salad bar at work this week.

Sigh. Food and I have such an angsty relationship.

I'm not sure. This is probably going to be one of those "get to know my own body" deals. Bleck. "Hello, universe? Please send email with answers. You have my addy."

Comments

Re: The food thing is confusing, to be sure.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

IMO, the "I'm gaining muscle, so I'm not losing weight" would be self-delusion for me. I'm doing tons of cardio. IMO, that situation only occurs in a woman when she's significantly closer to a lower body-fat ratio than I am AND is lifting a lot of weights to deliberately bulk up.

I blame the croissant, the French bread and the sampler platter. I'm can be weak in the face of carbs.

Re: The food thing is confusing, to be sure.

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

Carbs make me bloat too. And soy sauce. I can see a 3-pound spike overnight if I eat sushi, just from all the water my body hangs onto.
But, like you said, your body is doing what you want it too and you're in fantastic shape, so...rock on!

Re: The food thing is confusing, to be sure.

[beanolc.livejournal.com]

I hear you on the soy-sauce! I make sure I don't mentally hold on to the weigh in on soy days.