Happy Wednesday Girls!
It's been a rough week, not even gonna lie.
Friday night, I was really emotional and overly sensitive about always being at home and never doing anything. I picked a fight. It wasn't a bad fight, but more like "Hey, look at me! I want attention!" fight. It worked though, that "sometimes I'm a selfish douchebag and sometimes I'm wonderful" man of mine spent the next day shopping with me. Hardcore shopping too - T.J. MAXX, Target, Hobby Lobby and took me to a japanese steakhouse for lunch. I HEART FRIED RICE!
Sunday, Don was outside when I came flying down the muddy dirtroad in my pretty little silver car, radio blarin, mud flying, slippin and slidin. When I pulled in the yard, he got own to me like I was a little kid. My rationale was "I'm right down the road from the house, we own a tow truck. No big deal if I slide off in the ditch." Obviously we were not on the same page. He was so calm and patient about it but he was like "Are you crazy? Honey, that's not your truck, and you can't give that car hell. You're still paying for it!" And then it happened. I cried. WTF? I cried over that. I miss my truck yall. My pretty black ford f150, jacked up with mud tires and a brush guard and a pink salt life sticker on the back glass.
Later that day, I shrank my favorite aqua tank top and gray cardigan. Oh man, that was the softest thing I've ever put on! But then I realized that all is not lost, I'm losing weight and I'll be able to wear it again soon!
On the same day, I started the "kitchen part" of supper and went to sit on the front porch with Don while he grilled his famous ribs! I scorched the baked beans and ruined one of my new TFAL pans that the potatoes and eggs were boiling in. I make a mean 'tater salad but not that night. That night they had ribs and cookies.
See??? Rough! It would have been so easy to drown my sorrows in bacon and milk shakes and peanut m&ms! But somehow, I kept my shit together enough to not eat everything I saw because I was sad, upset, pissed off, heartbroken or bored.
I haven't got the exercise part down pat yet, but I did try to make healthy choices when I was eating and I was more mindful of how much I was eating and that helped alot with eating less.
All in all, this week was a success!
This week!
Last week!
That's a loss of 4.8lbs yall!
Whether you worked out more, or ate less, or ate better, or whatever your goal for this week was, I hope everybody had a successful week! I know if I can do this, anyone can. If you need some support, or accountability, or just a friend, come see me (at the blog of course) or email me. I'll be whatever you need on this journey. Lord knows, I need somebody every now and then to give me that extra push!
Awesome progress, girl!!!
ReplyDeleteAs for the crying part, there may be an actual reason behind the emotions and losing the weight. I started doing that mess. When I began researching I found out that our bodies store estrogen in the excess fat as we gain weight. When we start to lose that weight, the extra estrogen is released and your hormones can go all kinds of nuts! So, you aren't going crazy!
I had no idea! It has been a hormone rollercoaster over here! Happy one minute, cranky the next, then we circle back around to sad and crying. It's really good to know there is an actual reason for it! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAmazing Job!!! That's amazing! How tall are you? Keep it up! You're doing great.
ReplyDeleteThank you KellyAnne! I'm 5'3" on a good day!
DeleteUghh, what a tough week emotionally... sounds like a rough one! SO proud of you though for sticking with it and almost a 5 lbs. loss?! Incredible!!
ReplyDeleteI could hardly believe it myself and it's completely worth it!
DeleteGreat Job Amber!! You really picked a bad week to start, huh!! LOL I have those days, weeks, months!! Keep at it and it will get better. But on the bright side, you lost a crap ton of weight in a week!! WHOA!!! And yeah keep that shirt and cardigan, you will be wearing it again soon and it is good to have stuff to wear once you loss weight, take it from me, I am walking around in the baggiest pants right now :(
ReplyDeleteThanks Jessica! Every day this past week, I seemed to be at war with myself. Who knows, maybe it kept me distracted and away from the food! I'm a clothes hoarder - whether I can wear it or not. I'm ALWAYS like "I'll be able to wear that again one day!"
DeleteWhat a fantastic weight loss week!!! Sometimes it's funny to me how we can have such a rough week health wise and it end up being a HUGE weight loss. Silly bodies, way to go!!
ReplyDeleteI know Jenny! It makes absolute no sense! and Thank you!
DeleteAwesome loss! I had a hard time not eating my emotions away this week too! Way to go for staying strong! Hope you have another good week!
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Thank you Brandi! It's so easy to just say screw it and eat EVERYTHING and use the emotions and situations as an excuse. That's a hard habit to break for anyone. I look at it like this, as long as your trying, you're not failing so congratulations! I'm gonna work hard this week because I know I'm gonna be heartbroken if I gain this next week!
DeleteGood luck to you!
Great job girlfriend!! We are in the same boat weight wise. Yuck I hate these 230s!! We will hey out of them ASAP!! :)
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