Its Tuesday and time for a Healthy You Challenge check in! I posted three weeks ago about a new system I was trying called Calorie Cycling or Zigzag Eating. I had reached a serious level of frustration because I had been bouncing between 360 and 365 and even 370 pounds for four months.
On April 14th, I peeked at the scale early and was shocked to see that my previous weight of 360 pounds had climbed once again up to 365.5 pounds. I knew I had to act and quick or 370 would be the next number I saw on the scale. After quite a bit of research I realized I wasn't eating enough. Its so hard to believe that I gained weight from eating 1400 calories or less a day but I did. I also read that by varying your calorie intake from day to day the metabolism is not able to adapt to a fixed set reduction. You can read all about it here
I’m happy to report that during the past three weeks of trying this way of eating, my weight has gone from 365.5 pounds down to 355 pounds, a loss of 10.5 pounds in three weeks!! I won’t consider this plateau completely broken until I’m under the 350 pound mark but I feel as though I’m well on my way there. Thank you all for your support, advice and encouragement!
In case you missed yesterday’s post, Lipton Tea has asked me to give one of my readers a new bike in conjunction with a promotion they are running called Free Your Y.
Coming Soon….
I love giving away prizes and making this journey FUN; fun for me and fun for you. So I started thinking of ways to do just that. I know that staying on plan and staying motivated can be such a challenge so I’m planning a Summer Blog Party to give us motivation and you’re all invited! It will start on Memorial Day Monday May 26, 2008 and run through Labor Day Monday September 1, 2008, I'm hoping to have at least one event per week. There will be lots of prizes, contests, scavenger hunts and a virtual 5K walk & run challenge! If anyone wants to host a giveaway during the summer blog party, let me know what you have in mind and I’d be happy to promote it as part of Summer Blog Party 2008 and send some traffic to your blog in the process!
Get ready; we’re going to have some fun this summer!
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27 comments:
With rising gas prices, a blog party sounds like a great way to have fun this summer! I can't wait!
congrats on the loss. You are doing great!
YAY and CONGRATS, SJ!
Im so excited and happy for you.
M.
OMGOSH that is A W E S O M E!!!! YOU GO GIRL!! I am so dang proud of you!!!
Keep it up!!
*huggles*
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Congrats!
I'm so glad it's working!!!!
Summer Blog Party sounds super fun, I'm excited :)
Wow, that is so fantastic. Well done and thanks for sharing all your experiences and info with us.
Rock on!!
I just found your blog under the "Discover" button of my RSS feed, and I'm so glad. I've been reading a bunch of it, and really like it.
I'm so glad the calorie cycling is working for you! The blog party sounds like fun!
Way to go on your loss! You'll be under that mark in no time! The summer party sounds great!
You are a rock star. I am SOOO happy for you. You are going to break 350 any minute now! I have been struggling with gaining, and I wonder if it is because I am not eating enough calories, you give me food for thought, and hope! Congratulations!
That's such wonderful news! A big loss like that sure feels great!!!
I think your Blog Party sounds awesome! I definately want to be involved!
Congratulations for the 10 lbs.!
I can't wait for the party to begin.
SHUT UP! I totally "WOOT"ed you at my desk at work and people are now looking at me thinking I am strange. You go girl! :)
I am ready to BLOG party it up!
You are amazing! Instead of throwing in the towel when the scale stood still, you shook things up and tried something different - and it worked! Woo Hoo! THAT is what making a lifestyle changes is all about.
I'm SO happy for you!
Count me in for the blog party this summer. :-)
Congratulations! (it's kind of nice when eating a little bit extra food is the solution!).
Also great idea for the blog party! It sounds like tons of fun.
Way to go with that 10+ pound loss!!!! I figured you were probably consuming too few calories. And count me in on the blog party!
btw - I mentioned your bike giveaway on my blog *
Congrats on your loss! More to come!
Great going!!! Thanks for sharing the info on the calorie/metablism game and I love that you get to eat more. Nice little trick isn't it?
I'm totally in for your summer Blog Party, I'd love to "host" part of it...keep me posted.
Once again, congrats on the weight loss!!!
OH MY GOD >> WHAT A WONDERFUL WEIGHT LOSS YAY FOR YOU.. that is super..
This sounds like a blast! Count me in -- and I'll totally host a giveaway during that time too!
GENIUS!
hooray!!! I am soooo sooo happy for you. you have been working hard for that loss and Im glad it finally happened. its funny isnt it that eating more (of the right things of course), will actually help you lose weight. that is what happened for me. I eat so much more than I used to and have lost so much more weight than I used to. I am so excited for you! so do you plan on keeping this up?
I have heard about the zig-zag eating approach before... I'm SO HAPPY it's working for you!
SUPER!
Awesome job!! I am so excited about the summer blog party!! Sounds like fun!!
I think I should change the Biggest Loser Challenge to coincide with the dates of yours. What do you think?
Congrats on your great loss!! Keep up the good work, you can do it. I'll have to look into varying my calories, I haven't been able to get out of the 270's and it's starting to really tick me off!
Diana congratulations on your great weight loss. Woo Hoo!!!!
WOOHOO in the loss, that is great! I wonder if my latest eating extravaganza can be considered cycling. It's definitely been UP and down. A girl can dream right?
The not enough food thing is weird but that was part of the reason I had gained AND stopped losing when I joined WW. I just wasn't eating enough. I hope your great losses continue!!! :)
I think the Summer Blog Parties sound like fun! Can't wait.
That is awesome!
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