After nearly a month of bouncing between 13 and 15, this morning, I woke to discover I had broken the barrier to 12! Yay! I realize this would go faster if I exercise, but I have been really focused on finding food I can eat that won't break the caloric bank. And, it's hot as blazes out there.
Using Fit Day, I have been tracking my intake and have been AMAZED at how many calories are lurking in nearly everything. It really is my snacking that's putting me over the top. Once I dropped snacks and started spreading out meals so I am eating every 3 hours or so, I have started losing again-today is the first day I have been lower than I have previously reported. I think it must have taken a couple weeks on my lower calorie intake before my body was ready to start letting any reserves go.
I cut out about 300 calories a day until I am around 1500 calories most days, my basal metabolism just sitting still runs around 2600 calories (based on their formula using height, weight, age and so on), I SHOULD be dropping pounds left and right, but it does not work that way. Maybe it will now that things are in downward motion again.
I had hoped to be through the full 20 (well, 23) pounds by my birthday, which is the 31st. Then I started wondering if I would be through the first 10 pounds by then! That is my new goal, to only have 10 pounds left by my birthday. I think it will be doable, especially if I kick in some exercising now that my body is functioning on fewer calories.
If nothing else, I FEEL better. Moving things around to consume less and still hit the nutrient levels I need has taken some doing! Matt is still losing much faster than I am and he eats about twice what I do. It's not fair, especially since his daily activities mostly involve sitting at a desk. Darn men anyway. But I like that my jeans are loose and even though I don't really look thinner, I FEEL thinner, it makes a difference in how I feel about everything else, too. Though there are days when I get dressed and there's that belly, same as always and I get irritated because it should just go away already, I have created a hostile environment, can't it take a hint? LOL
