Four Month Check-In

I was expecting the worst this morning when I stepped on the scale in the locker room of the community center.  (Apparently my home scale felt the need to encourage me not to weigh in more than once a month and broke.)  Luckily, I had used the locker room scale last month to compare it to what my bathroom scale said and they were the same.  I honestly thought I would be up a couple pounds because of my crazy month of June and was ready to accept it.  So you can imagine my surprise when it said I was only up 0.5 pounds!  How fantastic!  While eating what I wanted for almost a month, I had only gone up half a pound...and that could be water weight, really.  So I've maintained.  Hurrah.

But, I knew I felt different, so then I got out the measuring tape. (Back at home...not in the locker room.  Embarrassing!)  And the proof was shown in my middle.  The part of my body I am struggling the most with when it comes to 'self love'.  We all have those places on ourselves; thighs, arms, etc.  Mine is my middle.  It didn't feel as great as it did last month and my suspicions were correct.  I have gain 1.5" there and 1" in my hips.  Everywhere else remained the same, though I did lose 0.25" in my thighs.

So there you have it.  In a month where I have eaten what I wanted, but not exercised as I should, I lost muscle mass it seems.  Blerg.

This morning I struggled to get out of bed and made it to aquatics.  I was glad I did because it felt good to be moving after a rather inactive weekend and the instructor incorporated a lot of strength training today.  Tomorrow I plan to make it back up to Red Rocks for my dance with the stairs, ramp, and bleachers.

On another note, I have really enjoyed cooking again this week and can't help but compliment myself on my creations because they are so darn good.  And Joe agrees.  I stayed away from cheese all week and have started to not think about it.  Actually, Joe and I went to the nearby Farmer's Market yesterday (which was awesome and I bought lots of great things for the week) and they had a number of food vendors there as well.  We decided to have lunch and I went to this booth that served...well, I don't remember the name of the item.  But it was Mexican and a corn fritter with a filling served with cabbage and salsa and guacamole.  So delicious.  So anyway, I went to that booth because it looked interesting and all but one item had cheese included.  Reading the menu, I actually started to think the word 'BAD' every time I saw the word cheese.  So I really think I am starting to associate cheese with bad feelings (mucus <---That's for you, Ellie), which is awesome.  The longer I practice not eating it, the easier and more of a habit it will be to find cheese-less items.  I ended up getting the black bean and sweet corn filing for my corn fritter thingy and it was fantastic.  I think I may have it again next Sunday!