Most of October I was sick. Like REALLY sick- stuck in bed for a good 2 weeks, and basically in bed for the 3rd. Then the first week of November I was still feeling poorly- but thankfully I’ve had more energy and been a bit better- though I still have bad days. I certainly hope that this week I can get back into a routine. It’s been so very frustrating. There was a point early on in being sick that my weight dropped by about 10lbs, but in such a way that I felt horrible. Of course once I started eating it went back up- go figure. SO here is my current compared to last month. No pictures of me with this post, because I’m feeling grumpy and discouraged.
| Date | 9/27/2021 | 11/7/2021 | Difference |
| Weight | 247 | 245 | -2 |
| Neck | 14.625 | 14.625 | 0 |
| Bust | 51 | 50 | -1 |
| Under Bust | 41.5 | 42 | +0.5 |
| Left Bicep | 14 | 13.5 | -0.5 |
| Right Bicep | 14.5 | 14 | -0.5 |
| Left Wrist | 6.5 | 6.5 | 0 |
| Right Wrist | 6.5 | 6.5 | 0 |
| Waist | 51 | 50.0625 | almost -1 |
| Hips | 51.5 | 51 | -0.5 |
| Left Thigh | 27 | 26 | -1 |
| Right Thigh | 27.5 | 26.5 | -1 |
| Left Knee | 15 | 15.5 | +0.5 |
| Right Knee | 15 | 15.5 | +0.5 |
| Left Calf | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| Right Calf | 17 | 17.5 | -0.5 |
| Left Ankle | 10 | 9.5 | -0.5 |
| Right Ankle | 10 | 9.5 | -0.5 |
| Body Fat % | 62.80% | 61.5% | -1.3% |
| BMI | 39.9 | 39.5 | -0.4 |
My weight was down this morning when I weighed in, but only by 2lbs- so that could just be random fluctuation honestly, and of course since you use your weight to calculate both body fat and BMI- so as nice as it is to see both of those numbers go down a little; I don’t believe for a second I’ve actually lost anything significant.
On a good day where I haven’t been sick for the past several weeks, I have a limited amount of energy to get everything done in my life. On my best day- where I’ve been exercising and eating fairly well for the past week or more I have a lot more energy- but still limited. I think this is true of everyone, The only reason I’m even aware of it is because of how low my low energy days are. So I’ve paid attention to low and high energy days and have tried to figure out what other things in my life might have impacted it.
“SO if you pay attention,” you might ask, “Why haven’t you made these life changes?” The answer is both simple and complicated: the gist of it is- I get sick very easily, always have- if someone has a mild cough and I catch it, for me it blows up into a major cough and a sinus infection. Since I have kids that attend school, and a 5yo that I take to the library for activities- this means I’m exposed to ALL THE GERMS that one could be exposed to- slightly filtered through my kids. Also I’m really bad when my day gets thrown off- which it always does- unfortunately the impact this has on me is that I’ll often end up ditching my healthy-ish sounding dinner plan in favor of a faster dinner option. Regrettably this ends up being a faster meal through a drive through. I’ve basically let myself get into some horrible habits.
THIS I AIM TO CHANGE.
So my focus goal this next month is this: develop a habit of cooking at home. I imagine that there are many of you who will read that and have some judgmental thoughts, ‘wait that’s it?’ If you have been to my blog before you’ll have read my “I’m BaaaAAAcccckkkk!!!” post where I go over my very simple goals for the next year or so. I will of course continue to try to hit all 4 of those goals every day- I’m just going to make a special focus on just 1 of them. I’m VERY good at coming up with excuses as to why I should just go grab the food. I’m also good with coming up with reasons that the fast food should be a ‘reward’ of some sort. Like yesterday I was good and we did all homemade meals. Today my brain was like- hey! let’s go get a burger since we were good yesterday! Thankfully I was able to push that thought to the side- but there are so many times where I don’t- YEA I WAS GOOD YESTERDAY- I DESERVE A FAST FOOD BURGER. On top of that- I gather from everything I read online from other people- I must be in the minority here- but I actually LIKE and ENJOY fast food.
Seriously, like everyone is like ‘I don’t like it, but it is convenient so I eat it’ I’m going to take it in good faith that they are not lying, so I’m totally jealous! If I didn’t like it- I’d find another convenient solution. But I enjoy McDonalds Big Mac and Fries- I love soda from fast food soda fountains (somehow so much better than if I buy it at a store! Though canned isn’t bad). One my absolute favorite things to get from a fast food restaurant is a #1 combo at Wendy’s- with a chili and cheese baked potato and a Dr Pepper plus an extra side of chicken nuggets (4 or 6 depending on the day) with honey mustard. I bring that combo home- dollop some sour cream onto the potato, then layer the chicken nuggets on to the burger patty and dump the honey mustard on to the burger, then reassemble the sandwich. SO GOOD. This has been my favorite since back when I was a size 4 and only 115lbs. Ah old me… how I miss you’re skinny little butt. Back in those days I didn’t eat this very often- maybe once a week- AT THE MOST- and I ate sparse healthyish meals the rest of the time. I didn’t actually like any other fast food- so it was easy for me to be good. I’ll have to write up something that explains how I went from 115 to 245ish some time; it’s not as cut and dry as you’d think.
ANYWAY- my point; I certainly have an issue- possibly an addiction- to fast food. Considering the stress that I had in my early 20s that changed my approach and relationship to food- I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. SO I’m going to make a real effort for the next 30 days to have NO FAST FOOD, just for those 30 days. That’ll bring me to December 8th. If I make it I’ll technically be at 32 days fast food free because I was good yesterday and today. I both feel like this focus is really hard and way too easy- I mean conceptually- how hard could it possibly be to just NOT drive to a restaurant and spend money we shouldn’t be spending?? RIGHT???
We’ll see- I’m also going to try something I’ve 100% avoided so far and that is I’m going to be doing daily food posts on Instagram along with my exercise posts. Since tomorrow I’m planning on jumping back into posting on Instagram (there really hasn’t been much to post this last month unless you wanted a bunch of selfies of me complaining about being sick).
And that is the weight and measure post update for October- only posted in November… Yea I’m good at schedules and things.
~Nikkie
PS- The color guard flag I ordered arrived forever ago! It’s been chilling in my room because I cannot find my tape anywhere to tape it up and keep forgetting to order some.
Decidedly Nikkie 