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Fat Flinging Friday 1

I lost 5 pounds!

woot!

When I delivered my surrogate baby, I dropped a bunch in that first week and then it’s held steady ever since.  He was born about 13 weeks ago.  I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to think you are doing pretty good with your diet and exercise and not see any results on your scale.  I’m so happy that it’s finally starting to go down.

Exercise:

I only got one 5 mile walk in this week.  Now my foot is giving me grief so I was hoping to let it rest some.

Diet:

I drink a protein shake for  most breakfasts and some lunches.  If I don’t make a shake I try to pick something out of my Hungry Girl Cookbook.  I will generally eat dinner with the family.  Dinner isn’t usually “diet” friendly, but I try to be careful with portions.

Holy cow, portions are VERY SMALL.  I am so used to eating giant amounts of food and the portion control has been hard.  No wonder the country is so fat, we eat triple what we should.  This has been the hardest thing for me to get used to and I’m still working on it.  Lucky for me, I received an EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Food Scale in my Bloggers on Bourbon gift bag.  You can get your own at Amazon and then you can see just exactly what 4 ounces of chicken looks like.  It’s not much.

So, anyhow.  I’m happy to at least be going down and not up.  And thank goodness the scale is moving because seeing the same exact number for 12 weeks was annoying, too.

Now I want you to link up your health, fitness and diet posts so I can come check them out.  Losing weight is hard, we need all the support we can get!

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Fat Flinging Friday ~ Week 9

HEY!  Happy Friday!  Welcome to my weekly weight loss meme.  I am actually typing this up Thursday night.  So I haven’t weighed in yet.  I usually do it Friday morning.  But I have to be on the road at O’dark:thirty (well…7am…guess it’s not that early) to go with DH to a doctor appointment.  Then I have to spend my day at the DMV.  SOoooooo….I am writing this up now and will come back tomorrow (today) to weigh in.  Okay?

I do have a good feeling about this week.  I only had 2 beers at my bros house.  Of course, my mom was serving up some Lemon Chello things earlier in the week.  But all in all, I didn’t drink much.  AND I went walking last night.  YAY me!

However….I will begin taking steroids on Saturday in preparation for the surrogacy.  If you have taken steroids before you will know that they tend in increase your appetite.  They increase my appetite a LOT.  I just want to eat eat eat, it’s crazy!  So I will be working my ass off just to hold steady and I don’t really expect to lose anything in the next few weeks….nothing new there anyways, huh?

I’m going to be rethinking even posting Fat Flinging Friday past the next few weeks.  I mean, if all goes as expected, I am going to be pregnant by the end of August and pregnancy + dieting don’t mix.  Of course it will probably be back in FULL FORCE come next…oh…Mayish after I deliver and need to lose baby weight. :)   K?

Did anyone have any success this week?  It seems we’ve all been in a bit of a slump.  I wish I could come up with something super inspirational to motivate everyone.  But instead, I’ll just say “HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!”

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Fat Flinging Friday ~ Week 7

Well, shit.  I didn’t lose anything this week.  Did you?  I’m really getting frustrated.  I don’t usually have a hard time losing weight.   I gain and lose, gain and lose, my whole life.  I am one of those chronic dieters.  I have been making better food choices, eating less, not snacking on crap.  I don’t get it.

I do have to admit that I did not exercise this week.  It was a weird week.  The Fourth of July holiday, then going to Orange County on Tuesday, the week breezed by.  I know it’s not a great excuse, but it’s all I got.

If you are losing, what are you doing??  Tell me!!

So how did you do this week?  Tell me in comments or write your own blog post linking up here.  I’m looking for some inspiration!