I can't count how many times I have been asked "Are you maintaining your weight?" To that question, I say "Yeah, sure." When in reality, that is partial truth. The holidays came and went, I already talked about the holiday pounds though. Then, I found myself swimming in hormonal treatments in preparation for fertility treatment, all of those medications I had to inject myself with, or ingest listed weight gain as a side effect. Lovely, right?
The treatment came and gone, and I weighed myself when we got word that it failed (I didn't weigh myself during the shots) and I saw the numbers 154 appear... Crap.... According to the government, that means that I was now, once again, overweight. I decided not to care for a while. For nearly 3 months I tried not to care, but my clothes were fitting tighter and tighter, and I was forced to care. I hid the scale, but I could literally feel the extra poundage on me, I felt like a marshmallow, or like I had been wrapped in bubble wrap (which might not be a bad idea for me, but ya know, not totally plausible)
Dean's work is having a weight loss competition (the winner wins 1,000 bucks... that's a lot for us puny little folks!) So he decided to order another order of Medifast, in order to (attempt) to win the competition. I had been wanting to go back on MediFast, as I still had a good month of food left over from Round 1 of losing the weight. Since he decided to go back on plan, I decided to join him. I have now completed the first week back on plan!
Last Monday when I weighed myself, the numbers 154 appeared again, so I guess that does technically mean that I did maintain those holiday-mixed with hormones- pounds. But I didn't want to. I want to maintain my 100 pound weight loss. Yes, yes I do. So, I rejoined the medifast program, and this will be my last month ever on the program (there prices skyrocketed as of March 1, and they sent us food that expired within 2 weeks of our order, I am so not happy with them right now). Today, I weighed in at 147. I lost a measly 7 pounds last week, but I will take it. I want to hit 143 again, and that shouldn't be too far off. Once I hit that weight, I will go back to eating normal people food, minus all the sugar, greasy, carby crap that I ate while while mourning our attempt at parenthood. I also plan on revisiting my old friend, the swimming pool in the gym at UNLV. I paid for it with part of my tuition, might as well use it, right? I also plan on staying out of the candy bowl, and away from the ice cream machine at the institute. :)
Dean also lost 7 pounds last week, so we are the tortoise and the hare, slowing getting back down to a healthy weight, for each of us. I think it will only take a couple of more weeks for me to get back down to my "target weight" of 143, and then I will be in transition all over again, in which I will continue to eat the medifast foods that I currently have, since they are super easy to take with me to school, but I will once again re-add all fruits and vegetables. Having the on-the-go-medifast stuff makes life so much cheaper and healthier when I am at school 12 hours a day. I can eat those instead of dining at the food court, food out is very expensive. I got a salad last Friday for my lean and green meal from a place on campus, and they have 5 dollar specials each day, but there special that day had Parmesan cheese with it (and you can't substitute items on the specials) so I literally paid 2 bucks extra for my salad in order to avoid the Parmesan cheese! LOL.. Yes, I have problems. I know it.
Yes, you can say that a 10 pound weight gain back isn't all that bad, but when you put it into perspective that means that I gained 10% back, and I REALLY don't want those pounds. Nope. Nope. Nope. I have scene many people lose weight, just to add it back again, and I don't want to be in those statistics. I really don't.
Oh, and I do think that I have somewhat of an issue with gluten, since the second I started eating bread again my bile reflux made sure to let me know that it exists.... So, if anyone would be willing to share tricks or recipes of how to live gluten free, I'd welcome them! I'll check back in next week!
Considering women in general can fluctuate 10 lbs just in a regular monthly cycle due to hormones... and you had a GINORMOUS extra dose of hormones, the 10lbs aren't bad considering everything you have been through.
ReplyDeleteBut, it is good you are getting yourself back on track. Gluten free is much more expensive, but it is plausible... Once you start eating real food again, you could sign up for this meal plan (http://bikinibodymommy.com/meal-plan/)... I know how you feel about the whole naming thing, but her meal plan is gluten & dairy free and is very very healthy. Most of the recipes are good, but they are all good for you. I couldn't justify spending 200 a week on food (this included 2 sets of meals because my husband & kids are picky)... and it provides you with 3 meals and 2 snacks a day that are nutritious and the plan laid out makes it easy to follow.