Sunday Weigh-in

I know. I just weighed in on Thursday. But I just wanted to see how I was doing, especially after yesterday. I had an off day yesterday and doubled my carb intake. It's still probably nowhere near the carb intake of people not on diets.. but it was double for me. I had a cup of all-bran flakes in the morning, and then for dinner I had 2 pieces of multi-grain toast and a small potato. Granted these were all healthy carbs, it's still double the amount I'd usually eat. I also didn't eat many veggies - I just wasn't feeling them yesterday. I've been having a weird couple days, and yesterday was the worst. I still ate well and didn't exceed 1300 calories, but not as healthy as I should have. I'm going to blame this, and the fact that I've been really depressed all week on PMS'ing. It's a little early to be PMS'ing.. but that's my excuse.

Anyways, my weight is now 192.4lbs! I've lost 2lbs since Thursday. It's funny because Amanda lost 2lbs this week and I said to her "I wish I could lose 2lbs in a week" and my body listened and did it in 3 days. So I'm officially down 7.6lbs from May 1st. I'm so close to my goal of 8lbs this month! And I'm getting so close to the first 10lbs. I know my 10lb reward was to buy a new book, but I've changed that to buying a new iPhone case. The ones on ebay are cheaper than a book, and plus... I really want a new case. The day I got my iPhone I was looking on ebay and almost bought one but I was like nope! I have to wait to reward myself. And it's getting so close and now I'm excited.

I've been pretty active the past few days which is probably why I saw this big drop. I spent 6 hours cleaning my room yesterday... and no, it wasn't THAT messy. I literally cleaned all my dressers and everything on them, organized a bunch of dresser drawers, moved all the furniture around and vacuumed, dusted everything... I even cleaned the walls. I don't even know how many calories I burned doing that. Then I also did p90x and worked on my legs. I can't really do that video properly though because a lot of it is pullups, and I don't have a pullup bar or anywhere to hang bands to simulate pullups. So I end up just doing the leg routines. Not that I could do a pullup anyway...

I'd also like to complain a little about my skin care regimen. My body brush hasn't come in yet, so I've been using an exfoliant on my arms and I've gone back to exfoliating my face. There's no change in my arms, except that they're a bit softer from the lotion, but I've only done it twice so I don't expect a change yet. But my face?! Guess what I woke up with?! A blemish on my forehead! I have literally not had a blemish for about a year and 9 months, thanks to Accutane. It was a year of complete and utter HELL being on that medication, but it was so worth it for the clear skin. I've never really put anything on my face since I've been off the medication except for moisturizer everyday. And the minute I decide to start exfoliating, I get a blemish. Yeah, okay, it's one mark on my face but that's one mark too many. It's so annoying and I don't know if it's just because you tend to get worse at the beginning when exfoliating or if my skin just doesn't like the product (although I've used it before) or if it's just a coincidence. So I'm not sure I'll continue doing it - I guess I'll give it another week or so and if I get no more breakouts then I'll continue it. But grrrr. It's been so long since I've had to deal with any sort of pimple or breakout on my face and I don't plan on dealing with them ever again, so it needs to go away soon.

Today I'm going to make sure I get my veggies in. I'm going to study for a little bit and then do Kenpo X (which is one of my favourites. Yayyyy kickboxing). Then I'll probably wander into the kitchen and whip something up since I am out of leftovers to warm up (except for the chicken salad but I'll save that for tomorrow). Other than that I'm just going to relax today and try to cheer up and get out of this funk I've been in. It's a brand new week so.. hopefully I can start the week off right.

-Monica