Well ..I haven't posted in a long time..time to write. Doing the blog keeps me in check with myself and sharing with you all somehow keeps me in check also!:-) so thank you for taking the time to read!
On June 15th I met with the dietician for a maintenance plan. My total weight loss was 78 pounds and my goal was to maintain and hopefully lose another 15 pounds or so. So I met with Becky and she told me 2200 calories to maintain without exercise. That is really a lot of calories. I struggled at first and went up and down and decided maybe 2200 was too many and should stick to 1500 to 1800. That seemed to work much better along with exercise . I truly believe exercise is key to any type of weight loss. I had my days of splurges here and there...getting the GiGis cupcakes off my bucket list was a biggie. That place is killer and with each cupcake at 750 calories each...doesn't leave much for the rest of the day .but I did manage to try a few different cupcakes and get that out of my system....funny thing is before I went on this diet, I never seemed to care much for cakes and cupcakes. NOW I feel obsessed over-this darn store. I took a night out and had several drinks and shots;-) ( thanks mike and Darcie ) after that weekend I Freaked out because I gained 4 pounds! I quickly got back to the grind And got the 4 pounds off again..must have been a Lot of water and sodium my body hadn't seen in a long time. It was fun to let lose and live a little although. I really learned though that this is a TOTAL lifestyle change and that any disruption will totally change the results.
So for the past almost 2 months I have been living a pretty normal diet. Like I had mentioned..trying a few flavors of cupCakes, going out to dinner..ect ect. Just 2 weeks ago I totally got offtrack as we took a tripTo North Carolina and we ate out everyday and I did no exercise at all..one day I did runaround the block 2 times, but almost died in the humidity And heat of NC...I decided that I wasn't going to count calories and just have a vacation frOm everything! ..well...BIG MISTAKE! I was in denial from stepping on the scale when i returned home , I just knew I blew it..but then I just hopped on and my intuition was right.. I gained 6 pounds! :-( so I am defiantly back to the grind this week ...sweating my butt of in this heat to get back to where I was at least! On Sunday I took off on my 5 mile path and got about half way through and had to call Gerry to come get me. I didn't realize the heat index was over 100 and I had left with no water. Not smart! I certainly wasn't feeling so good! But anyway, so far so good and the scale is moving back down to the right direction. With my trip to MexIco coming up i November, this scares me At how quickly you can go backwards. I will have to starve for a month afterwards!:-)
Just a side note about our vacation. We had a wonderful time visiting with Josh and Deanna and Reagan in NC. On our way home, we stopped in Pigeon Forge..where Dollywood is. We didn't get to go to Dollywood as we were just passing through. We did manage to see a country show in the evening called country tonite which was pretty neat.Genna met a little cutie in the show that could sing like no other. His mom asked if she could take gennas picture with Skyler for his fan page on facebook. She is on there so if your bored check out Skyler McAllister fan page on facebook. Pigeon forge is like a Dells x 20. Tons todo I want to go back someday. I don't think Gerry feels the same. :-p maybe girls trip in store.
So in closing... I am back to my low calorie days and 5 mile walks! Just another speed bump..but we are back on track!
Hope you all are enjoying what is left of the summer....I sure am! Stay cool!
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