It’s been quite a while, I know. But rather than give you constant updates on my plateau, I thought I’d just suffer in silence. But that’s silly, because didn’t I create this blog to give myself a place to voice my woes?
But alas, this post is not filled with suffering or woes. I’m doing great! I fit into my size 8 jeans. In fact there is only one pair of jeans in my collection that I can’t fit into (I didn’t say I fit into all of them well, but I can put them on and button them up.) … the crown jewel, the Gap size 6. But I’m working my way down and I’m totally pumped about it.
So what am I doing? It’s the simplest thing in the world, it’s what I learned in 7th grade health class. I feel like a total idiot for not trying this ALL THESE YEARS….
Energy Consumed vs. Energy Burned.
That’s it, I’m counting calories. In all fairness though, I have a helpful friend that’s making this so easy for me. The Lose It! app on my new iPhone. I saw this on an Apple commercial, and decided to give it a try. The first few days were hard, I am restricting the net total of calories I can have in a day, which was weird and a little frustrating, but now that my body has become accustomed to it, it’s no sweat.
I can have 1,362 net calories a day. That doesn’t seem like a lot, especially when I was snacking all day long and was probably above the 2,000/day range. But now, I’m always at the perfect level of satisfaction. I’m not starving, because I have healthy snacks throughout the day. But I’m never stuffed, which to me is worse than being hungry. I’m falling asleep quicker and sleeping better throughout the night, and I attribute this to not completely gorging myself at dinner.
My goal is to lose about a pound a week. I originally started with the intent to lose 1.5 pounds a week, but that lowers my daily budget to 1,100 calories, which was not enough for me. Another reason the first few days were difficult.
So, here’s an average day for me, yesterday.
Breakfast: 1 C. Special K w/ berries, 1 C. Silk Soymilk, 1 apple and 1 Yoplus yogurt.
Lunch: 1 Lean Pockets garlic chicken pizza thingy. Very tasty.
Dinner: 2 slices of Little Ceasar’s cheese pizza
Snacks: 1 bag of freeze dried apple crisps, one fruit leather, 1 C. Crispix and 1 C. Silk Soymilk. Yes, I wanted another bowl of cereal for my snack, and it doesn’t get any better than Crispix. Even if it’s the cheap Kroger imitation, it’s still my favorite cereal.
So in total that was 1,478 calories that I’d consumed yesterday. But I burned off 152 calories just by walking, making my calories 36 below my daily budget. If I’d wanted to, I could try to use up those calories, with like, 1.5 tater tots or something. But if I’m under my calorie budget each day it gives me more wiggle room at the end of the week, so that on Saturdays or Sundays I don’t have to be so strict.
But I still want to be, is the thing. I still want to be under my limits. You know that saying “Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels?” Yeah, I’ve never really been thin long enough to enjoy how it feels, but for me now, nothing tastes as good as getting thinner feels.
I am LOVING wearing my old jeans. I get such a kick out of it, every time I put them on. I have officially put away all maternity clothes and size 12′s. And not only jeans and other pants, but my shirts are fitting better as well. I have a whole new wardrobe, my old wardrobe. It’s so exciting! It feels amazing to be making progress, instead of whining and moaning about how unhappy I am with my body. Oh, it’s refreshing, and it just makes me want to be even more diligent.
I won’t tell you my weight now, because even though the Lose It app needs to know my goal weight, you don’t need to know my goal weight. That’s not the most important thing to me now anyway, I just want to feel Awesome about myself. But I have lost three pounds in the last few weeks, and I weigh less than I did before I was pregnant. So not only am I back to my pre-Vienne body, I’m better. 
