Weigh in Day and Motivated Again

I woke up this morning feeling MUCH better than yesterday. My body felt rested and not so sore and tired. I was glad to have my motivation back!

As I’ve been indicating was going to happen for a few days, the scale was up this morning for weigh in day. I weighed in at 206, which is a 2.1 lb. gain for the week.

I did the math and I had a deficit of 4,972 calories this week. One thing I don’t like about Lose It is that you cannot set your weeks, only M-F, when my weeks run Wed.-Tues. So it kind of slipped by me that I ate 278 more calories within that time because it always showed a deficit. But regardless of that, it would still equate to a 1.4 lb. loss for the week, had my body cooperated!

In summary, I did the right thing this week. My FitBit only gave me calories for which I burned over and above my BMR and some days I didn’t even burn that much WITH exercise, so I didn’t get to eat those extra calories. I did, however, eat my exercise calories, above my BMR rate, in addition to the 278 mistaken calories. So I think I will need to find the balance of how many exercise calories I can eat and still lose weight. Obviously, I should not eat mistaken calories and will do a better job tracking the week as I go. I have submitted feedback to Lose It to offer the option to change weeks based on weigh in days. Hopefully the weight comes off quickly now that I’m feeling better physically too! Maybe my body is just holding on to fluid. I’m hoping! We will find out next week!

For breakfast, I ate an egg along with 1/2 cup oatmeal with strawberries and a glass of milk.

After hubby left for work, I hopped on the treadmill for my planned run. Today I needed to complete 25-30 minutes. I ran 1.36 miles and had to stop to use the bathroom (how inconvenient), but got right back on and ran 2 miles total in a little over 25 minutes. I walked the rest for 30 minutes total- 2.2 miles. I burned 411 calories. Running on the treadmill is SO tough. I would much rather go outside! But I did it. Mission accomplished.

I forgot how good it feels to workout first thing in the morning. Well, when I’m DONE working out that is. It’s a bit brutal WHILE working out in the morning.

I had my usual coffee and creamer.

On my first break, I ate 1/2 serving of raw pecans.

For lunch, I made a pizza with a Flat Out topped with turkey, spinach and onions. WOW. This was SOOOO good.

I also had a side salad with lettuce, tomato and light Caesar dressing.

And finished it up with FF/SF chocolate pudding.

I was craving a little something sweet on my break, so I ate an Adora Dark Chocolate calcium supplement.

I ended up working late tonight, on a night where we are rushed for time anyways to get to our weekly bible study. Hubby had supper ready for us when I finally signed out. What a LIFESAVER! I am so lucky to have a hubby like him!

He made his famous creamed beef over toast and even scooped out the squash I had in the oven!

Mmmm! Comfort food!

I actually have 451 calories left for the day. I still need to burn 75 calories before any exercise calories will be applicable. That will definitely happen by just normal movements throughout the rest of the evening so it will be nice to have a deficit for the day! But it doesn’t look like I’ll be needing those extra calories to eat today!

I’m so happy to be feeling better! Something just hasn’t been right the past few days and it’s good to be feeling good again!