Weekend Update (+Weigh In)

As you know by now I'm terrible with my weekend blog posts so I'm going to summarize my weekend here and talk a little about my latest weigh-in.

Friday:
This was a busy day all around- dentist visits, shopping, chores.  Lots of running around, plus I did housework and installed shelves in the boys' closets.  I forgot to wear my HRM all weekend (I remember it when it comes to doing actual 'work outs' but never think to put it on when I'm doing anything else labour-intensive.  Should work on that!) but MFP gave me an estimate of 389 calories burned.  I think that's a little on the conservative side but, hey, works for me (would rather under-estimate calories burned than over-estimate!). 

I didn't eat very good foods Friday (or all weekend for that matter!) but I kept my calories at a pretty good level.  Sodium was a touch on the high side.  I had a bacon cheeseburger from McDonalds for lunch- which is SUPER salty.  But I counted the calories and didn't go over (also didn't get pop or fries with the burger, so that's an accomplishment in itself!), so that's fine.  Also, I made homemade cinnamon rolls!  Which is very exciting for me because it's the first time making anything with active yeast since Home Ec. when I was 13.  Go me!  (BTW- they were delicious, though I only had one.)  Total calories for the day were about 1571 (I love when cookbooks include nutritional information for their recipes!

Consumed: 1571kcal (-200 nursing calories)
Burned: 389kcal
Total deficit: 1054kcal
Target deficit: 811kcal

Overall not too bad numbers for the day.  My target for the day may be 811, but bigger deficits just mean I'll hit my target faster.  Provided, of course, I don't have deficits bigger than 1000 for too many days in a row....

Saturday:
I had energy to burn this day (I'm thinking it's the Ritalin) so I decided to attack our storage room.  Long story short, when we first moved into our house, Steve shoved a bunch of boxes (mostly seasonal items and keepsakes, plus items I'd planned on giving/throwing away) into the pantry, which is a big storage room just off our porch.  He didn't even clean it, first, so there were mason jars and paint cans from the previous owner in there.  We had a mouse problem for a while (since taken care of) and mice ran rampant through there, making nests.  Because of a severe mouse phobia, I wouldn't go back there and organize the room.  So it's been a completely non-functional area for 4 years now.  The mess started spilling to our porch, which also because largely non-functional.  Imagine Hoarders.  Seriously.  It was that bad.

Well, Steve is on Graveyard Shift right now, which meant hanging shelves and pictures (which was my ultimate goal) was not an option.  I thought, "I'll start tidying this back room," and began moving boxes around.  I thought, hey, if I just do a couple of boxes a day, the room will be cleaned within a month.  Ha.  Well, the Ritalin makes me more focused than I thought because once I started, I just couldn't stop.  I spent over eight hours straight in that back room, hauling boxes and sweeping and sorting.  I was EXHAUSTED when I was done- and MFP estimates I burned about 1731 calories.  Holy crap.  Sounds high but is actually very realistic- works out to about 216 calories per hour.  I burn more than that just going for a walk around the neighbourhood (confirmed via HRM), so if anything, I burned more than that.  Yikes!

At the time (before I'd sat down to calculate calories burned) I THOUGHT I'd done a pretty good job of eating.  Again, I didn't eat the best foods (because I was so busy I spend much of the day snacking on fruits, but I had a turkey stuffed pita with lettuce and pickles for lunch and didn't eat any junk other than a small cinnamon roll so it wasn't a total write-off) but I stayed within my calorie range.

Consumed: 1560kcal (-200 nursing calories)
Burned: 1731kcal
Total deficit: 2407kcal
Target deficit: 811kcal

So, holy cow, what a crazy deficit!  This isn't something I'd want to do every day, of course, but a few times a month won't kill me or affect my metabolism too badly.  I really did eat plenty of food- it's just that, when you're burning that many calories, it's very very difficult to eat them all back.  My sodium consumption for this day was ok (not great, but didn't consume more than my 2500mg limit) and I THINK my water consumption was OK.  I chugged water constantly.  But it's hard to say if you're getting enough water when you're working that hard because the standard 8 cups a day rule goes out the window.

Sunday:
This day was pretty much about finishing what I started on Saturday.  I completely gutted the porch, and worked for about six hours straight (at least!) doing this.  After I was done I folded laundry, vacuumed, did dishes, and made dinner.  Estimated calories burned were 1298 but that calculation is based off of the 6 hours spent doing hard labour (and not off of the light housework).  I probably burned more than that, to be honest.  Again, 1298/6= 216kcal/hr which isn't that unrealistic.

Food-wise, I didn't eat well all day.  Nibbled here and there.  Actually made myself eat a bowl of ice cream after all my chores were done, just to TRY and consume extra calories.  Even after that, when I added everything up, it turns out I'd only had about 1380kcal through the whole day!  That really shocked me because I was actually FULL most of the day, and had no desire to eat.  DEF. should have eaten more yesterday.

Consumed: 1380kcal (-200 nursing calories)
Burned: 1298kcal
Total deficit: 2154kcal
Target deficit: 811kcal

ANOTHER ridiculous deficit.  I'm going to spend the rest of this week making sure to eat every calorie allotted to me so that my metabolism doesn't hit 'starvation' mode and start storing fat.  One weekend of intense activity like this shouldn't do too much harm but it's def. not something to keep up long-term. 

Between Friday-Sunday, my net deficit was somewhere in the range of 5615kcal, or 1.6 pounds.  It will take a day or two for that to show up on the scales, so today's weigh-in didn't reflect that.  Also, I'm retaining quite a bit of water right now (I always can tell- I always wear my watch at the same position.  When I look at it today, it's creating an indent on my arm that isn't usually there, telling me that I'm puffier than usual) and my period is due to start ANY SECOND.  This means I'm carrying at least two or three pounds of water weight, which will drop off as soon as I start my period.

That being said, I weighed in at 144 pounds today, which is a one-pound drop from last time and a 4.4lb drop overall (well, since March 22/10).  Not too shabby.  Not TERRIFIC (it averages out to less than a pound per week) but it's too be expected since I'm so close to my goal weight. 

Start weight: 148.4lbs
LW Weight: 145lbs
Current Weight: 144lbs

Anyways, I've made sure to pack a bigger lunch today!  It's full of fruits and veggies, and I've been drinking lots of water.  Impatiently waiting for my period to kick in so I can shed this water weight!

Will post again tomorrow to let you know how today has gone. 

Ja ne!