19.5

That's what my scale says I've lost since the middle of July. 19.5 lbs. That puts me at 3.5 lbs from a healthy BMI. Next stop... 127.5 lbs!

Slowing Down

Well, school has started and with it comes a slow down in weight loss, an increase in comfort fooding, an increase in stress levels, and fewer trips to the gym. I've still lost another couple lbs and am down 17.4 lbs, but the slow down is a little bit frustrating. At the same time, though, the slow down isn't frustrating, because I know that my change in habits has been the culprit.

All the same, I'd like to get back on track. Mind you, I have been doing pretty well at not eating sugars or too many extra carbs, but I haven't been tracking, so I know I haven't been doing as well as I was. I'd say tracking is the answer, but that gets harder during the school year. Still, I should try to climb back on that bandwagon.

Leif is out of town this week, so getting to the gym will be limited to the mid-day break I have. I'm going to try to go 3 times. Not sure if I'll make it, but that's my aim.

9 week IR

About 9 weeks ago I was diagnosed with Insulin Resistance. I weighed 150.4 lbs. My doctor put me on Metformin and a low carb diet. The day after I was diagnosed, I wrote a post detailing my goals of losing 9 lbs in the next 9 weeks.

So... here we are 9 weeks later. My goal was to reach 141.4 lbs. I now weigh 134.6. I've lost 15.8 lbs!!

My bmi is 26.3, which is overweight, but not obese. The upper limit of a healthy bmi for me is 127.6 lbs. So my new goal is to lose 7 lbs, hopefully by the end of October.

I have an appointment with the endocrinologist this week on Wednesday, so I'll find out how my numbers look then.

Hooray for progress and new goals!!

7 lbs down!

So far I am 7 lbs down in the last 3.5 weeks. Yay!

Back on Track

Today was a much more balanced eating day. Hooray! I ended the day with 1,211 calories, 61g fat, 81g carb, 99g protein, 31g fiber.

I didn't feel well today, mostly sluggish and headachy. I ended up taking a nap this afternoon. I still don't feel like I've recovered from the high fat diet of the weekend, so perhaps that contributed to my malaise.

Weekend Eating

My eating this weekend has been sketchy. I've kept my calories low (today was the highest at a little over 1200) and my carbs low, but not a whole lot in the way of veggies or scheduled mealtimes with well thought out meals. I'm looking forward to returning to normal tomorrow.

That said, I did eat out successfully last night (at Sweet Chili's) and avoid carbiness. I also experimented with some recipes today (sugar free avocado pudding) and that was fun.

Normalcy tomorrow, though, will be nice!

Weigh In

When I weighed on my home scale a couple days ago, it said my weight was 150.4. I started using that as my official start weight on SparkPeople. This morning I got up (before 6 -- weird) and weighed and it said 148.8. Woohoo! I don't know if that is the result of the low carb IR plan, or just normal fluctuation, but it's exciting.

I haven't been exercising much the past few days, but am hoping to start incorporating that in this next week.

It's a new day, and a new week, and it's going to be a great one!