Weekly summary

Hey, yeah, I didn't forget about today's weigh-in. I was just busy with errands and suchlike. Today I weigh 162.4 and 36.1% body fat.

Quick stats: average kcals/day 1861, 6 cardio, 2 strength workouts, 2 yoga classes, -0.4 lbs.

Now admittedly, this was not the best week in terms of diet. Still, I have been doing cardio workouts almost every day - 1861 average should still be in the vicinity of 500 deficit. There is some serious WTF going on and this can be clearly seen by looking at my weight graph this week:

For perspective, the gray lines that these dots lie inside are the 160 and 170 lines on my graph. In two days I went from 162.2 to 166.6. Sure, 2400 was an intentional booster day and 2210 was an unintentional disaster, but 600 or 800 excess calories or even the whole 4610 total do not weigh 4.4 lbs. Nor does extra bulk of the food they come in. By Wednesday or Thursday morning, I should have been clean of the extra food weight and back to null calorie difference relative to my low weight, but that was not reflected in my weight as you can see. Since certain timing and certain physical signs occurred right about at the time I had those two high calorie days, I'm going to blame the discrepancy on hormonally induced water retention.

In other news, I am a B-cup again! I bought a new bra today and it is a 36B. The 34B of this brand is a little small in the cup, and the 34C is too big in the cup. I tried another brand, in which the 34C was too big in the cup and the 36B was too big in the band, but I couldn't find any 34Bs of that brand on clearance, so I just got the one 36B of the first kind. I'm lucky too that this particular bra is super cute, red with little black rosettes, and it happens to be a push-up bra. So I'm feeling really lovely after being basically used to band size 38, "large" "barely-there" bras that accommodated a 20 pound weight gain. Now I just need to lose about 3 more pounds to get comfy in the free-box 8's, and then ask someone how to take in the sides of that cute sweater from last winter, and then...

... and then post my food journal to round this whole thing off:

Friday 9/10

Oil-fried eggs, toast, and coffee with cream and sugar (20+140+100+35=295)
Peach (100)
PBJ sandwich and string cheese (200+190+50+60=500)
Bite-size Baby Ruth (50)
Ice cream and seasoned popcorn (70+165=235)
Rice, beans, and a quesadilla with salsa (230+120+80+20=450)
San Pellegrino Aranciata (80)

295+100+500+50+235+450+80=1710

Thursday 9/9

Yogurt and granola (335)
String cheese and coffee with skim (60+20=80)
Cheese sandwich, apple, and Coke Zero (420+100=520)
Coffee with skim (10)
Tangelo (60)
Tofu, rice, green vegetables, and miso broth (135+115+50+120+20=440)
Ice cream and espresso (140)

335+80+520+10+60+440+140=1585

Wednesday 9/8

Scrambled eggs with sauteed onions, cheese, and toast (140+20+20+110+100=390)
Banana (100)
Werther's candies (40)
TOC sandwich (470)
Latte (160)
String cheese and pretzels (60+20=80)
Coffee with skim milk (10)
Minestrone soup, ice cream, and port (350+140+185=675)

390+100+40+470+160+80+1+675=1925

Tuesday 9/7

Banana, soaked almonds, and coffee (100+100=200)
Plum (40)
Mint rosemary chocolate (270)
Minestrone soup, 1/2 cheese sandwich, and coffee with skim milk (350+220+10=580)
Yogurt (85+25=110)
Tabouli, assorted vegetables and tofu (325)

200+40+270+580+110+325=1525

Monday 9/6

Banana and coffee (100)
Oil-fried egg on toast (80+110=190)
Ice cream (380)
PBJ sandwich (220+190+96+25=435)
1 bowl minestrone soup (350)
2 string cheese (120)
Coffee with cream (20)
Lentils and rice (230)
Espresso with cream and sugar (55)
2 string cheese (120)
Bread and butter (210)

100+190+380+435+350+120+20+230+55+120+210=2210

Sunday 9/5

Yogurt and granola and a pear (85+250+100=435)
Tofu, sweet potatoes, and peas tikka masala over rice (495)
2 toast with butter and jam (220+100+50=370)
String cheese (60)
Espresso with cream (40)
Spoonful of crunchy peanut butter (95)
1.5 bowls minestrone soup and ice cream (525+380=905)

435+495+370+60+40+95+905=2400

Saturday 9/4

Breakfast out (710)
-Blue cheese and caramelized onion quiche (500)
-Salad with vinaigrette and baguette slices (100)
-Coffee with cream and sugar (90)
-Andes mint (20)
Apple, string cheese and bread (100+60+110=270)
Milk chocolate (200)
Tofu and sweet potatoes tikka masala over rice (230+175+90=495)

710+270+200+495=1675