So a few girls from work are using MFP and of course we are all friends on there so we can cheer each other on. It seems like Mondays are weigh-in day for most of us (for me it keeps me from going crazy over the weekend). So people are logging 3 pounds lost here, 1.2 pounds lost there-and then my measly .2 pounds joins the ranks. 0.2 for a total of 0.6 over two weeks.
My first thought was.....seriously? I have done all this work for .2 pounds?
My second thought was......I worked really hard for those .2 pounds! And this is an example of my metabolism and I realize this and I know that I have to work harder than the average person.
My third thought was......where can I improve? Rather than get down on myself and give up because "it's not going to work anyway", I decided to do some tweaking.
A lot of research on weight loss talks about not eating too few calories. I've been eating 1500 a day. I did some calculating on my insurance's Healthy Living website, as well as a couple of other websites I found that deal with building muscle, and I settled on 1960 calories a day, which, because of my weight, still puts me in a calorie deficit. Then I changed around the percentage of protein/carbs/fats for my diet. To start out I'm going to go for 40/30/30 of carbs/protein/fats. My plan is to really home in on my proteins and make sure that I have no more than 11grams of saturated fat ins diet (I reds somewhere that was the limit you should have). I also don't want to allow myself to eat more on days I exercise because I have "banked" those calories. I'm sure it's ok once in awhile, but not on a daily basis.
My work week starts tomorrow so I have done some food prep with healthy snacks. I are smaller more nutrient packed meals today, and when evening came-aka my high calorie snack time- I wasn't craving anything. So I think this may be the way to go.
All in all I think this will be a better week and hopefully I can lose an actual pound next Monday. But if not I will just carry on and keep plugging away.
