Stumbling To Bethlehem: Week 28 Weigh-In

Start: 154
Week 1: 150 (-4) - Week 2: 148.6 (-1.4)
Week 3: 146 (-2.6) - Week 4: 147.2 (+1.2)
Week 5: 145.6 (-1.6) - Week 6: 144 (-1.6)
Week 7: 143 (-1) - Week 8: 142.8 (-0.2)
Week 9: 143.6 (+0.8) - Week 10: 141.2 (-2.4)
Week 11: 143.8 (+2.6) (carbed up for the race)
Week 12: 142.4 (-1.4) - Week 13: 142.4 (-0)
Week 14: 141.6 (-0.8) - Week 15: 139.4 (-2.2)
Week 16: 140 (+0.6) - Week 17: 139.2 (-0.8)
Week 18: 139 (-0.2) - Week 19: 138 (-1)
Week 20: 135.4 (-2.6) - Week 21: 137.2 (+1.8)
Week 22: 139.6 (+2.4) - Week 23: 143.2 (+3.6)
Week 24: 143.6 (+0.4) - Week 25: 137.6 (-6)
Week 26: 139.6 (+2) - Week 27: 142 (+2.4)
Week 28: 137.2 (-4.8)
Total loss: -16.8

Ok, now to catch up on other numbers.
Calories eaten Thursday: 1442
Fat: 30g (19%)
Carbs: 107g (31%)
Protein: 139g (40%)
Weight Thursday morning: 132.6 (One week ago: 134.4)
Calories burned in exercise Thursday: 254

Calories eaten Friday: 1495
Fat: 31g (18%)
Carbs: 85g (23%)
Protein: 160g (42%)
Weight Friday morning: 132.6 (One week ago: 137)
Calories burned in exercise Friday: 251

Weight Saturday morning: 133.8 (One week ago: 137.4)
Calories burned in exercise Saturday: 0

Calories burned in exercise today: 276

Down 4.8 pounds this week! Yes! This is what happens when I cut the soy flour out of my diet. Just 0.2 above my goal - again.

Made it to the gym today and did some weight training pyramid work. I decided I needed to write down what weights I'm using for each exercise so I took my old exercise journal with me. My workout took longer than usual because of writing everything down, but now I have a record to follow.

I forgot to mention that I got a compliment at the gym on Thursday! One guy said he didn't know if I knew, but my back was getting some muscle. I needed to hear that because after seeing how bad I looked from the back I have been trying to do more exercises that target my back.

I won't have any trouble getting 140g of protein today and my calories were higher than I liked, so I skipped the extra scoop of whey protein that my trainer recommended. Tomorrow, though, instead of having an Atkins meal bar I will have a protein shake. Same number of calories, but the shake is much higher in protein. And I really should get over my fear of 1400+ calories on gym days.

I forgot my lunch today, but had a can of tuna in my locker so I grabbed that. There's no salsa at work so lunch was just plain tuna with a slice of fat free cheese melted over it. Oh well. I drained the water off into a separate container. The cats will love it.

As I have mentioned in the past, not only did I take photos at the September 13 staff dinner, but Lisa and our boss Jon did as well. I now have all the photos up and decided to make a photo set devoted just to staff dinners. Currently there are three dinners that I have photos of; these are the first four photos in the set. Photos five and on are all from the last dinner.

staff dinners photo set

Brad and I did the Tilden/Sibley parks trail on Friday. We didn't make it all the way because I just wasn't into it, but we did find out that though both parks are up in the hills, to get from one to the other you have to go down, across a valley, and back up the other side. So no matter which direction you come from you end up with uphill at the end. This Friday we started at Tilden. Next Friday we will start at Sibley and hopefully make it all the way.

On Saturday morning I had too much fruit for breakfast - two bananas and a large apple. Oh well, I guess cheating by eating too much fruit is better that cookies and cake!

On Saturday morning I had too much fruit for breakfast - two bananas and a large apple. Oh well, I guess cheating by eating too much fruit is better that cookies and cake!

After church, I cleaned up lunch all by myself while everyone else listened to a presentation from the Missionary Society. Due to my big breakfast and too many snacks, I wasn't hungry for lunch, but I snitched some of the food as I cleaned up, included two small slices of zucchini bread, one of my weaknesses. I also had one of Beck's homemade peanut butter cookies.

And now for a few photos I took over the weekend. Click any of them to enlarge.

views from the Tilden/Sibley parks trail