Okay, so first the good stuff. I finally surpassed Louann (and almost everyone) on Fitbit. My average number of steps for the past week has been 17,500. Nice! I'm in 4th place on the leaderboards, and now I'm thinking how nice it would be to have one week where I'm in the lead. I would have to beat out the guy who averages 26,000 a day. (He's a cyclist, and I'm inclined to believe those aren't "steps," as much as they're pedal revolutions.) The #2 spot is occupied by a woman who gets in 22k a day. So it's possible.
The weight loss is stalled though. And this isn't just some "plateau" I've reached because my body's adjusting to the level of exercise I am doing. This is me "eating back my calories" after burning off quite a few. It needs to be changed. I burn about 3000 calories a day (including my BMR). There's no reason I shouldn't have a 1000 calorie deficit each day.
I've been experiencing a lot of fatigue and brain fog lately (I'm assuming related to the thyroid stuff.) It's really hard at the beginning of the day (getting out of bed, getting going, etc). Hopefully, I'll be able to get some of that straightened out with the doctor, because it really is a struggle to do most stuff. I keep up with the steps and such, because I'm afraid of falling into a huge rut. But I feel like 90% of what I call "motivation" is really just caffeine.
Okay...so I'm going to forget about trying to set a weight loss goal for the immediate future. What I'm going to focus on right now is getting the 20,000 steps a day for 7 straight days. Hopefully if I can stop having a ginormous bowl of cereal before I go to bed, I can get the calories under control, too.
It should be said that when we saw you, dang, you looked great and maybe are at the size your body wants to be...at least entertain the possibility...muah...
ReplyDeleteAww, thanks for the compliment!
ReplyDeleteAs I said above, I KNOW why I stalled. I stalled because I was eating twice the food I should have been eating.
I *get* the whole "listening to your body" thing. I really do. But the fact is, our bodies have been conditioned by decades of eating really terrible food to fight against healthy change. We can't trust these bodies, because they're addicts, and if they had their way, they'd sit on the couch and eat ice cream.
I still have unhealthy markers. I have a disproportionate amount of abdominal fat, which is a predictor of pretty much every cardiovascular problem you can name. And I have this thyroid problem, which will never go away, and will only stand in the way of losing weight as I get older if I don't deal with it now.