momof8’s BodyBlog

When I started  doing this whole body changing thing back in Feb., I weighed 165 pounds. While I am not a slave to the scale, I usually weigh myself every two to three weeks. Well….got on and found myself weighing 131!!!! Yipee!!!! I was so excited and now have only 6 more pounds to go before I hit my target weight. I am so happy and excited. There were moments of difficulty and some not so bad. But overall and only hitting one plateau for a few weeks, I truly didn’t find it all that difficult. Pound or two a week and I was satisfied. Can’t even begin to describe how I feel. When I hit my goal weight….notice I said when not if….my only concern is trying to figure out how to maintain that weight and not drop down anymore. Well I’ll figure it out. I figured a lot of other things out before. Thanks greatly to all those that have encouraged me and I hope to continue to do so.

As a rule, if I have questions about diet, training etc. I usually research it myself from whatever sources are available..and there is a multitude including here on this site. However, I have asked a couple of women questions here and they were answered promptly and efficiently. I do hesitate to ask too often for fear I might be thought foolish or naive or any other choice of adjective you might think of even though a good majority of you are well versed and knowledgeable in the above areas. Even with all my reading, I am stumped on this one. I weighed 165 pounds back in February and went down steadily, pound or two a week until I hit 147. I stayed at that weight for whatever reasons for about three weeks and yet I didn’t panic. I went ahead and continued doing what I had been doing , or if I altered something I wasn’ too aware of it and the weight began dropping again, same pattern as before until last week when I reached 131. I did weigh myself today and by the way, I usually only do that every two weeks and the scale registered 133. Hmmm..so, I began evaluating why. I don’t have a cheat day even from the beginning. Sometimes I will have a cheat something..meaning a salad dressing I don’t ever use or maybe a half bowl of a cream soup that’s not very healthy..you get the picture. I had started carb cycling and didn’t do as much cardio recently as I should’ve, isn’t the TOM either. As far as training, I’ve been lifting a lot heavier, alternating heavy and moderate workouts depending on how I feel and so forth. I don’t believe I’m obsessing just questioning. Is a couple of pounds here and there like this considered normal? I basically only have ten more to lose so is this usual for those last few pounds?  Any ideas, suggestions, comments and yes…even constructive criticisms will do nicely please.