Live and Learn

If you have been keeping up with mine and my husband's weight loss journey, you know that we have a free day on Sundays.  We are only suppose to eat 1,000 more calories than we normally do and watch our sodium intake.  Well come Monday morning when we weighed ourselves, we realized that the choices that we made for Sunday were poor choices.  We retained water weight for several days and for those several days, we became frustrated.  Even though we were the ones that made the decisions to eat what we ate.  No one else but us. 

The scale usually moves some on our low carb days and it wasn't moving at all.  Personally I was upset because I was so close to being under what is considered overweight on the high side for my age and height. We learned that we can't eat a meal that contains a lot of sodium with every meal that we have on our free day because we will be paying for it later.  We each carried about 3-4 pounds of water weight for 3-4 days.  Very frustrating but we made the decision to eat it so we have to live the
consequences.

Unfortunately for Brad, he had a weight loss but not as much as he would have if he had made better choices for Sunday.  I am still very proud of him.  He lost 20.6 pounds in 5 weeks which is amazing.  Every person is different with their weight loss journey so I know that there are some people that would love to lose the amount of weight and in the time that he has.  Below is an updated picture of him.

My weight loss for this week brought my total to 9.8 pounds. I know that is still awesome and I am very proud of the weight that has been coming off.  I guess in a way I was slightly disappointed. I am about 1/2 pound away from being below a number that I briefly stayed at while training for my first half marathon back in 2012!!  I am excited because I have noticed that I no longer have any love handles and my clothes are fitting looser.  I am determined to make better food choices for my free day tomorrow and maybe by the next blog post that I write I will be able to tell you that I met my first goal.  Below is an updated picture of me.

So the big lesson that we learned this week is while it is still ok to have a free day, we need to be more mindful of what we have because no one likes to keep loosing the same weight over and over again. If you are thinking about doing this, please keep that in mind.  We make mistakes and we have to learn from those mistakes.