Week 21 - Lowest Weight Again

This week I've been busy with remodeling around the house, and living out of hotels recently makes it hard to stay on a diet. However, I did manage to get down to my lowest weight but perhaps having been sick and still having a loss of appetite has helped bring it back down. So although I haven't been able to really diet I did manage to get my weight back down so... not too shabby.

Week 20 - Extremely Sick

Last Tuesday was the first week I didn't do a post because I got extremely sick with a horrible case of Strep C. I had a fever over 100F for 5 days straight (it was a total killer!) which got up to 103.1F the 3rd day when I finally went to the ER. By the 5th day I was still miserable and I finally got a prescription for Amoxicillin (used to treat things like Anthrax) from Urgent Care which honestly helped out significantly by the next day. I am now doing much better although my tonsils are still swollen and the glands in my cheeks have some blockage or something going on (which is really weird feeling). That aside I did drop 2lb during that time, I got to where I felt starving but then would hardly eat, plus it hurt so much to swallow anything (like a burning dagger to the throat).

Hoping that the worst is now behind me in terms of being sick, my blood pressure reading was 127 (fair) right before I got sick, but by the time I went to the Urgent Care about a week after it was down to 101 (good). I really want to start losing weight again since I have been maintaining my weight within 5lb of the lowest weight I have reached so far this year (202lb). I feel like since I have maintained my weight under 207lb that it may help reduce any big weight gain spikes. Another challenge for me has been my parents going off of their strict diets, and with my dad gradually gaining weight my mom is still wanting to lose more weight. So, hopefully I can find the strength to get my healthy lifestyle back on track once again as I do want to lose another 20lb by August.

Week 18 - Friendly Competition

First off I did skip 'Week 17' as I had mentioned trying to maintain my weight for a bit, although I wasn't eating very healthy and I honestly starting feeling a bit 'blah', bloated, and having acid re-flux issues (probably from eating out a bit more than I should have). However, I did actually meet someone this past week and as it turns out he is also on the weight-loss bandwagon... although we both have a few slight differences in terms of how we go about losing weight as he tends to workout more, while I tend to diet more. We are both very close in terms of weight as he is currently 211lb at 5'9 in height and I'm 206.8lb at 5'4 in height, and we are only like a year apart in age. So while he claims his weight hasn't really changed in 3 months and I haven't been very strict on my dieting recently I feel like we are almost closely matched. So I asked him to a little friendly competition to see who could try and lose the most weight over the course of a week (woot, motivation!!) and he accepted my challenge.

Here's a rough idea of what my daily diet looked like this week...

Breakfast
Overnight Oats (Natural Oatmeal, Maca Powder, Ashwagandha Powder, Crazy Richards Peanut Butter, Golden Raisins, Organic Saigon Cinnamon, All-Bran Cereal, Organic Honey, and 1% Milk)

Lunch
Sweet Potato (Sweet Potato, Olivio Butter, and Pink Salt)
Ezekiel Bread (2 Slices)

Dinner
Salad (Baby Spinach, Bacon Ranch Dressing, Mozzarella Cheese, Avocado, Pink Salt, Chicken, and White Pepper)

Snacks
Choco Love Dark Chocolate (A few pieces)
Lite Chocolate Soy Milk (1/2 to 1 Cup)

After a week I still didn't eat overly healthy and in the end I had only lost like 0.3lb although after the first day of dieting I had dropped 2lb, and my friend maybe dropped a pound but it really didn't seem like either of us tried that hard. Always next week... but my blood pressure did go up to 127/76 so I really do need to get back on the healthy train.