Slight gain over the weekend, but it feels good to come out of the weekend still in a postion of heading towards my 5 pound loss not having to lose more than 5 pounds now that I am out of the weekend.

I stayed on track with exercise and logging, although I did have a screw up on the logging on Saturday where I forgot to log an entire sandwich, that cost me Sunday morning on the scale.

I’m discovering that Saturday seems to be the day my body needs a rest. I’m much more interested in hitting the gym Sunday morning than Saturday morning.

That’s right, I broke even. I’m actually very excited about this. I really throught that breaking down and having that curry chicken for lunch before a banquet dinner would really screw things up, and just before a weekend to.

Got up an ran this morning, and now what I need to focus on is not allowing the weekend to get out of control.

Doing well today, althought I’m a bit nervous that I’m undoing it all right now. It’s freezing in our office, so I got curry for lunch… and I have a banquet dinner tonight….

Yesterday I proved that I can have dinner out at a restaurant, with alcohol and still lose weight. I need to make the moderation thing work or I will go insane.

Despite a dinner with wine (dieting makes me a light weight) I still got to bed, sort of slept (heat), and was up at 6:00 for my run. I’m supposed to go for a run with my work mates who are training for a 5K. I have brought my stuff, but I don’t really want to go. I’m finding that I really like solo-exercise more. I like to run, cycle, swim, kayak I’m not real big on the whole team thing.

Back on track, ate well yesterday, exercised and logged.

Today is a challenge. I had a press conference in the morning so I couldn’t go to the gym. I did however pack my bag and am heading there after work. So far eating is on track. Boring day really.

Sooo, the weekend… not so good for the weight loss.

The baby shower did me in on Saturday. I did go to the gym on Sunday and did my legs work out a day late, without nearly the post-workout drama or pain from last week. Sunday we had gaming, and I tried to be good. I had a grilled chicken burger, no bun, with a 1/4 cup of waldorf salad and a beer (okay the beer wasn’t so good), then I had another beer.

Dinner was left overs, too many left overs: bean salad, cheese, half grilled chicken sub… this is how you get fat on healthy food. That and the slice of chocolate cakce didn’t help.

Despite going to bed much too late I did manage to get up and do my run this morning. So… Onwards!

The baby shower was a weight loss mistake. It’s hard to say exactly what went wrong. I can start with the not exercising. Move onto having a lot of little bits of stuff that isn’t good for me, and continue with the stress of sick kitty.

But one bad day is not the end of the world. When I gained the 4 lbs in one day I lost them pretty quickly, so here is hoping.

Went to the gym today and did the legs workout that nearly killed me last week. Hoping that I am fairing better tomorrow for my run.

I am wondering how grief and crying affect my body. While my weight is down today all of my measurements are up over a cm from when I first started.

Skipping the gym today, which was planned before kitty news, because I have a baby shower that I am hosting and it is several hours there and back. Headed back to the gym tomorrow. Will likely give myself one day rest from now on.

I suck to my calorie counter last night with another round of more calorie dense jerk chicken than I had anticipated and it paid off. I’m on my way to loosing the 5 pounds.

There is a staff lunch today that I’m a bit worried about and a baby shower tomorrow that I’m more worried about.

I did drag my tired butt out of bed to run this morning.

Now to make it through the weekend.

Yesterday was my 10th day of:

- Logging my food
- Taking my weight
- Taking mesaurements
- Doing something active every day.

The results?

Most importantly I do have more energy and I want to continue this weight loss / fitness challenge. I’m sleeping better at night, not sleeping at my desk (as much — some very boring things at work this week) and I don’t feel like I’m dragging myself through my day.

I’m also getting up earlier. 6:00 am was really not something I wanted to commit to during the first week, I mainly planned my exercise after work and only got up early when I absolutely had to. Now I prefer to work our in the mornings and have it done with so that I have my day to myself.

I have lost 4 pounds even and 2.6 centimeters total. Since it is only the first 10 days I know that this kind of weight loss in 10 days is unsustainable and is generally water weight.

This is the next challenge: lose 5 pounds.

Not necessarily 5 pounds of fat (although I hope it will be), but 5 pounds. Doesn’t matter how long I take to do it, if I do it through diet or exercise, but lose 5 pounds.

The only thing I’m not allowed to do is starve it off me. I need to lose it through a good diet and exercise.