Up and down

So I have been weighing my self too much!!

I was up at one point to 197.6, which I was really not liking the idea of....So I have been a little bummed....yesterday I did pretty good considering everything that's been happening and I have been doing! Just a little stressed about the gain, but knowing it shouldn't last...So even with watching another 1 year old yesterday and cleaning and stuff. I sat down 3 times alone, I know with 4 kids in the house I was surprised to be able to do that and drink a lot of water. I think that is why my weight has gone up in some ways, I am not getting enough, even though I love to drink it, I just forget. So today I was back to 195.6 still up from my last weigh in, but down so that made me happy since we went out for dinner last night...I was really not expecting to see those #'s. Happy I did, and it got me back to the motivation that I needed. I was on the elliptical this morning, had a great breakfast and is ready for the day!

Water is so important in your diet, no matter what you need to drink it! And get enough of it.

I got this from an article

Why Drink More When Dieting?

• Drinking a big glass of water whenever you feel hungry and before a meal or snack fills the stomach briefly and makes you feel fuller and stop eating sooner.
• Breaking down body fat and body muscle during weight loss produces wastes that must be eliminated through the kidneys. Drinking enough water is important to keep the kidneys functioning to remove these wastes.
• Popular high-protein diets produce more waste products from digestion, let alone from breaking down stored fat. Kidney function is even more important when on a high-protein diet.
• Drinking more water does not "flush fat."
• If the dieter is drinking plain water, he/she is less likely to be drinking something with calories in it.

• Drinking Water Briefly Increases Metabolism

  Drinking 500 mL of water (a half-liter or about a pint) increased the study participants' metabolism briefly - for about a half hour. In that time they burned an extra 25 calories. That's about a quarter of a piece of sliced bread, or 5 M&Ms. The researchers theorized that most of the effect comes from warming the water in the stomach. In the male participants the calories came mostly from stored fat, in the women it came from stored carbohydrates. The paper was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, December, 2003. It was conducted by researchers in Berlin.

So water has become a good friend of mine these last few days, since I forgot to post this. I am sick again, didn't run this morning and am hoping to feel up to it again tomorrow....

Thanks!!

~T