Weekly Weigh-In: It’s All Good
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Happy Wednesday! You know what that means – it’s weigh-in time.
I confess: I peeked at the scale a few times in the last week and I knew I was up. I was up pretty bad on Monday, so when the scale settled on a 0.4 lb. gain yesterday, I was rather relieved.
I’m not quite sure what caused the gain. It could have been one of three or four things:
1) I added in more structured strength-training, so I could have gained some muscle. I seriously doubt it since I don’t feel like I’ve been doing much challenging lifting yet, but it’s possible.
2) I started drinking protein shakes, which increased my calorie consumption a bit. However, most days I stayed pretty close to my normal calorie intake, so I’m not stressing over the protein shakes yet.
3) Outside of my workout time, I was fairly sedentary last week, so I might not have burned as many calories as I should have.
4) Female hormone water retention stuff.
I’m leaning toward #3 and #4 or a combination of the two. I’m not stressing it since my loss rate has been fairly steady the last few weeks. I said I’d give the lifting/protein shakes a month before I made any judgments or changes there, so I’ll stick to that. For now, it is what it is.
One of my favorite healthy snacks is fruit. I never knew how many different fruits I – or my kids – enjoyed. A particular favorite right now is pineapple – not the canned junk, though. Fresh pineapple. Yum.
I love mixing together a bunch of fruits in my fruit salad, too.
Another one that I’ve enjoyed lately is a chocolate-covered frozen banana – that one comes with a caveat, though. I remembered reading about them in the Self magazine with Jillian Michaels a while back.
I was craving them really bad last week, so I went out and bought some chocolate almond bark and and bananas. I froze the bananas then dipped them in the almond bark and froze that.
Then, I found the magazine.
You’re supposed to drizzle – and the exact amount escapes me right now…something like an ounce or half-an-ounce – of dark chocolate on the banana and freeze it.
Drizzle, not coat.
Healthy dark chocolate, not chocolate almond bark.
So, if you decide to try the frozen bananas – which are delicious because the frozen banana tastes just like a banana split – do it the healthy, low-calorie, right way.
For the record, I’ve been picking off most of the chocolate when I eat them.
Do or do not. There is no try.
Kris Bales is a newly-retired homeschool mom and the quirky, Christ-following, painfully honest founder (and former owner) of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. She has a pretty serious addiction to sweet tea and Words with Friends. Kris and her husband of over 30 years are parents to three amazing homeschool grads. They share their home with three dogs, two cats, a ball python, a bearded dragon, and seven birds.
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