Power 90 Day 20 – The Questions Continue

A little over one year ago I realized a need to lose weight, and I started this journey.  When I started keeping tract with daily weigh-ins is was September 2011.  From September 2011- December 2011, I worked out three times a week and used My Fitness Pal daily, keeping my carbs in check and my calories in the loss zone.  During that time I didn’t have a single week where I didn’t drop any weight.  Now that I am back on the train 6 months later, I have had my first week.  Its true tomorrow is my official weigh in day, but I just felt the need to vent now.  Week 1: 9 pounds, Week 2: 1 pound, and now for week 3 I am looking at .2 pounds.  This, as every good math teacher knows, rounds down to nothing.

I have had a number of guesses as to why this is happening, all I know is I want it to stop.  There is nothing more discouraging then to work your butt off every morning and to pass on most of the junk food that comes your way the rest of the day and have nothing to show for it.  It seems just by doing the math that if I continue to burn more calories each day then I take in, (and significantly so) then I should be losing weight.  I would worry my body is in shut down, starvation mode, but I do not feel any more tired or lethargic than usual.  If anything I have more energy, and am finding it harder to sleep at night.  

If there is a positive thing about the lack of weight loss, it continues to make me push myself harder and harder to see some results.  I pushed hard through today’s workout, even doing 100 of the 100 crunches.  Although I still can’t do all the styles (like the bicycles and the full body crunches) I replaced them with others I could do and did all 100.  I still don’t have washboard abs though…maybe next week J. 

Here is my Food Journal for today:

Post Workout:  Protein Drink with Strawberries (1.5 scoops protein powder, 12 oz skim milk ) (394 Calories)

                        Breakfast:  Kashi cereal, milk (276 Calories)

Lunch: 2 medium scrambled eggs, blueberries & Milk  (248 Calories)

Afternoon Snack: Popcorn(330 Calories)

Dinner: Chef Salad (Mixed Greens, 2 oz Deli Ham, Croutons, bacon bits, mushrooms , 3 cheese ranch) (546 Calories)

As far as the popcorn goes, you probably guessed I went to the movies.  Usually I see movies in my little theater, where I know they use coconut oil for the popcorn, and I know the calorie count in the small box.  This trip, I made the mistake ordering the bigger popcorn to split with my son, I figured I could just eat a small’s worth and then let him have the rest.  Well when I have that much extra popcorn sitting in front of me, I have trouble not eating it, and although I did keep my calories where they needed to be for the day, I did go over on my popcorn calories for the day.  That being said, I really enjoyed Men in Black III.