Yep, I gained 20 pounds. There, I said it. I haven't been trying very hard for about two months, and just totally fell off the wagon about a month ago. How in the world do you gain 10 pounds a month?!!! I'll tell you how - you medicate yourself with food and eat huge amounts of ice cream before bed, that's how! And I was even exercising everyday. How pathetic is that?! That's one downside to knowing how to lose weight: it's too easy to tell yourself, "Hey, I can drop this weight any time I feel like it, so let's go have an extra ice cream cone, how about 2 or 3!" You do that enough days in a row, and boom, here comes 10, 20 pounds.
Well, I have a new goal now: Zen is out-of-town for about six more weeks with his training in Houston, Texas, but I'm going to visit him in two-and-a-half weeks. I ballooned right out of my size 16 pants, so I'm going to try to dump 10 pounds in the next few weeks and get back into my size 16's. Wish me luck!
Yesterday: 1515 calories, 30 min. on my Gazelle strider. I really, really want to utilitze the trick of eating top-down. That means the most calories get eaten first thing in the day, then taper off to late afternoon, early evening. Plus, plenty of water to flush things through. No more than say, 400 calories for dinner/dessert, and be done eating by 6pm. Plus, no more than 2000 per day, and I'd like to do 200 to 300 less than that. But the top-down is going to be the most important.
