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Friday, February 04, 2005

What a week I'm having

I've been so focussed all week - counting points, weighing where necessary to keep me honest, drinking up to 3 litres of water and walking at least 11,000 steps - some days 13,300! It's good feeling when you know you're doing things right and with little or no alcohol I sleep so much better too. OK you ask so what's the catch? Well I'm one of those people who weight themselves every morning - the routine's the same - up go to the toilet, next into the bathroom and before jumping in the shower - stand on the scales. I know everybody who's anybody tells you, you should only weight once a week but I've been doing this for at least 30 years now. In fact the only time I don't is when I'm being really bad and then everything gets out of control and before I know it I'm 20kg overweight. Anyway the point of all this ramble is that I was down 400g yesterday but today I'm only down 200g and it's just kind of dumped me. I'm not one of those people who fluctuates unduly with fluid so when I start to see the scales going down they usually keep going down (or stay the same) provided I keep doing the right thing. I guess the curved ball in all of this is the HRT meds I'm taking - I've only been on it for 3 weeks and from my net research a side effect seems to be weight gain - DO NOT want that. I think I'd rather put up with hot flushes and night sweats and be a bad tempered bitch from hell then gete fat again. Going to watch things very carefully over the next 10 days before I go back to the doctors to check hom I'm going after a month on the HRT tabs. Have to go to work now. Toodles.