Yo-Yo

I have not decided if I will keep it up, but I am still weighing myself every day. This morning it was back down again. I wish weightloss was made easy, and by that I do not mean 'take a pill and magically wake up with my perfect body', I mean that I had a actual plan that if I did exactly that, I know it would work.

Sure, many diets are just fad diets....but there is also a lot of actual scientific studies that show many different things about losing weight. On Biggest Loser severely obese people can lose many pounds a week through a low-calorie diet and 4 hours of exercise a day. Many others follow a point system (tied to calories). Some say calories in, calories out, sinple equation. Yet there are others who say it has SO much more to do with diet than exercise (80-20 is a figure I hear a lot). Then there's the whole concern about eating too few calories that your body will go into 'starvation' mode and thwart all your efforts.

Which really stinks for me because I have always been an athlete. I can do cardio for days. And I have, in the last few years, gotten slightly better (on and off) about the weights. But it has always been the food that was my issue. I may blog about my food issues later, but for now I don't want to write a novel tonight.

Though, I am writing this at night, and I think that will help. One - I will stop doing it in the morning instead of work. If I do this at night, it will keep me far more mindful of my evening eating and - especially - drinking. I have gotten very bad about drinking. Wine is cheap and good in CA. And at the end of the day when I am tired and just want to watch TV, it has gotten way too easy to just always have a glass of wine. And then, I'll be down to having just a glass left in the bottle and I think "well, I might as well just finish it off."

It's terrible. So, between SparkPeople and this blog in the evenings...perhaps tonight will now be my only drink for the evening.

As an aside, even though I usually put the wine into SparkPeople, until tonight, I had NEVER actually measured out a 'glass', 3.5 ounces by their calculation. Let me tell you, the amount I used to drink and count as 1 glass used to be far, far more than that. Reality has set in.

It's a learning process.

Weight: 153
Physical Activity: 4-mile round-trip commute on bike, 2-miles of walking the dog, 5-mile run (45 minutes)
Calories: 1350