Weight loss journey - Week 5

Week 5! C'mon this has to be better... I can do it! 

Wow, what a disappointing week 4...  You know what? I could spend my time complaining but I won't! Despite the fact that I gained 0.3 kg last week, I can actually feel a positive change in myself. My belly has shrunk quite a bit. You know that "pouch" that women tend to have? It's perfectly normal and nothing to be ashamed of, but as somebody who has endometriosis, it can get quite prominent to the point that it makes me look borderline pregnant. 🤦‍♀️ It's an actual nightmare for me so it became one of my biggest insecurities. Luckily, in my situation, the pouch is caused by a bloat, which can easily be fixed by finding the right diet, and doing this for the past 4 weeks has definitely helped a lot. My legs seems to be looking pretty decent too but I'm not sure whether it's a change in my body or my black leggings giving me a false sign lol. But then again, my jeans are loose again which is amazing news. Before I started this, most of my jeans were pretty tight. Not to the point that I can't fit in them, but definitely tighter than before. That has changed now! So the moral of the story is, even if you're not seeing desired numbers on your scale screen, take a look at what you're seeing in the mirror and overall wellbeing. I know I'm definitely changing for the better! 

Week 4 weight loss chart

Just looking at the chart above frustrates me a little bit not gonna lie lol. Look at this flat line! Frustrating as heck. I'm hoping that this week will be better. As mentioned at the end of the previous week's post, I've spoken to my friend about my lack bad habits of not drinking enough water and she gave me some advice on how to work on that. Throughout the day, as we do bits and bobs, maybe working or doing chores, it's a great habit to get into by drinking water between the little jobs that you do. So if you finished washing dishes - drink some water. You just folded the laundry - drink some water. And so on. I only just stated doing it so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully this will help the water retention that my body is dealing with right now. Contrary to what people might think, water retention doesn't happen when you drink a lot of water. Quite the opposite actually. When you don't drink enough water, your body panics and starts retaining it. So interesting! Also, contrary to popular belief, your body does not go into starvation mode and start retaining calories if you eat less calories than you normally do. As long as you cut your calories in a healthy way and still eat enough to get all your recommended minimum caloric intake you'll be perfectly fine!

Monthly weight loss chart

I have started this weight loss journey on the 8th November, so it's now been a month and it's interesting to look back on the monthly chart. It's been a pretty stable downwards line except for last week when it sort of went up a bit and now back down. It's still not back to the lowest point, which happened at the end of week 3 but hopefully the downwards line will continue steadily from now on, otherwise I'll lose my 💩.

 Week 5 Day 1

Weight: -0.2 kg (-0.2 kg weekly weight loss; -2.6 kg total weight loss).

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with 2 pork sausages, leftover pasta, broccoli, cherry tomatoes. 

Snack: 3 mini macarons. 

Lunch: homemade soup with a dollop of high protein greek yoghurt and soft boiled egg. 

Snack: 5 mini macarons. 

Dinner: mushroom gnocchi with preserved truffles and a glass of sauvignon blanc.

Total calories: ~1826 kcal.

Workout: no workout today.

 Week 5 Day 2

Weight: +0.6 kg (+0.4 kg weekly weight gain; -2 kg total weight loss).

Breakfast: high protein granola with half banana, dried cranberries and oat milk.

Lunch: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, tomato and red bell pepper.

Week 5 Day 2 dinner

Dinner: mushroom noodles with sriracha peanut sauce and soft boiled eggs.

Snack: lobster cocktail crisps. 

Total calories: ~1549 kcal.

Workout: 50 minute workout session at the gym (elliptical, bench press, pec deck machine, chest press machine) ~197 kcal burned.

 Week 5 Day 3

Weight: +0.1 kg (+0.5 kg weekly weight gain; -1.9 kg total weight loss).

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with onion, mushrooms, tomato, 2 pork sausages and a little bit of ketchup.

Lunch: homemade veggie soup with fried egg.

Snack: a few mini macarons. 

Dinner: peanut butter noodles.

Total calories: ~1432 kcal.

Workout: no workout today.

 Week 5 Day 4

Weight: +0.5 kg (+1 kg weekly weight gain; -1.4 kg total weight loss).

Breakfast: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, tomato, red bell pepper.

Lunch: a few goats cheese bonbons, 2 roasted potatoes and custard.

So I was once again running a private dinner event with my husband so all of those things mentioned above weren't actually consumed at the same time, okay? I wasn't dipping my potatoes into custard. 🤣🤣

Dinner: peanut butter noodles.

Total calories: ~1106 kcal.

Workout: no workout today but I walked a lot due to work.

 Week 5 Day 5

Weight: 0 kg (+1 kg weekly weight gain; -1.4 kg total weight loss).

Breakfast: leftover peanut butter noodles.

Snack: a few glasses of beer.

I ended up skipping lunch as I wasn't hungry at all and went to meet my friend at the pub instead lol. 

Dinner: spaghetti bolognese.

Total calories: ~1271 kcal.

Workout: no workout today.

 Week 5 Day 6

Weight: 0 kg (+1 kg weekly weight gain; -1.4 kg total weight loss).

Breakfast: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of high protein yoghurt. 

Lunch: 2 eggs, 2 pork sausages, sautéed mushrooms, tomato.

Week 5 Day 6 Dinner

Dinner: surf and turf rice bowl (white sushi rice, pan seared salmon, ribeye steak, pak choi, radish, avocado).

Total calories: ~1374 kcal.

Workout: 40 minute workout session at the gym (10 minutes on elliptical, pull ups, lat pulldowns).

 Week 5 Day 7

Weight: -0.4 kg (+0.6 kg weekly weight gain; -1.8 kg total weight loss).

Snack: 2 digestive biscuits. 

Breakfast: leftover cooked pasta stirred fried with 2 pigs in blankets, mushrooms, green beans and 2 eggs.

Snack: 1 banana with peanut butter, apple cider at the pub. 

Lunch: Burrata with pigs in blankets, sautéed oyster mushrooms and 1/4 avocado.

Can you tell I'm eating leftovers? Lol. 

Dinner: homemade wonton soup.

Total calories:  ~1371 kcal

Workout: no workout today.

Week 5 weight chart

What can I say? It hasn't been the best week and I don't really know why. There were days when I wasn't eating the healthiest way and I did have a few beers but I've always stayed within my calorie range ~1850 kcal (+whatever burned during workout if needed). My husband says that it could be muscle. Because I'm definitely seeing my belly much smaller so there's no way that I have put on fat while living and eating like this. Once again, I'm thinking that it could be water issue? I haven't been drinking enough water which has been causing me some headaches. I have nobody else to blame but myself for that lol. But in the past few days I have been walking around with a pint of water in my hand while I'm around the house lol. Let's hope this helps?

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Lina (Rinatsu)